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Pet_Sounds · 11-23-2014, 07:52 PM

James really should start a journal.

**Goofle** · 11-23-2014, 08:01 PM

He has one. Or maybe two.

~~James~~ · 11-23-2014, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

James really should start a journal.

I have one hidden in the dark depths of the site. Haven't posted in a while, but I'll be doing a Bowie thing this week and should be posting more soon. Want to start writing about music again.

**Goofle** · 11-23-2014, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by James

Sun Oil Moon - Benji
One of my favourite records from this year! I'll be interested to hear you're take on it as it's not exactly a style you're averse to yet at the same time it's quite unconventional. Also as an older gentleman, you might appreciate some of the themes more than I can, and I love this album.

Well, I really don't like it much at all. It completely bored me both times I tried getting into it. Musically uninteresting and lyrically just meh. Like, I don't care what he has to say.

~~James~~ · 11-23-2014, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle

Well, I really don't like it much at all. It completely bored me both times I tried getting into it. Musically uninteresting and lyrically just meh. Like, I don't care what he has to say.

I could totally see why someone wouldn't like it. Kozelek is quite the awful human. Arrogance is rife. That stream of consciousness style is very love hate, same reason people either adore or despise writers like Joyce and Woolf.

Zhanteimi · 11-23-2014, 08:22 PM

When I played Benji for my darling, she said, "I don't want to know those things about a stranger".

Pet_Sounds · 11-23-2014, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by James

I have one hidden in the dark depths of the site. Haven't posted in a while, but I'll be doing a Bowie thing this week and should be posting more soon. Want to start writing about music again.

Ah, just dug it up and read through. You didn't post during my initial tenure back in February and March, and haven't posted since I returned - that's why I missed it.

WWWP · 11-23-2014, 09:42 PM

I recommend to you

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C

I honestly have no grasp whatsoever on your taste, but not for lack of trying. I suppose it actually may be more the fact that I don't know what grabs you when you listen to something new, but either way, this is a solid album that you may or may not have heard/reviewed before. If you have, then I'll quietly see my way out but if not I sincerely hope you enjoy.

Rexx Shredd · 11-23-2014, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I'm a big ELO fan, but I haven't reviewed this so I'll add it, unless you would prefer to suggest something I have not even heard. It's certainly not their strongest album, but I have reviewed the two on either side of it so it would make up the trio, as it were...

On the contrary: it is overshadowed by Eldorado, which is a timeless classic and considered by many to be "near-perfect" (even with the imperfections of Union session string players closing their instrument cases recorded on it

) but, as Prog as it is, Eldorado was also the beginning of the "pop sensibilities" that would consume Jeff Lynne by the end of the 70s...

However, On The Third Day is probably their most "Prog" album - literally a combination of Canterbury and Symphonic Prog -- and they explored these areas only once on this particular album and never again. I often wonder what ELO would have sounded like had they continued down this path

...so, Im curious about your review of it

Ho Ho Ho

Trollheart · 11-24-2014, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

I recommend to you

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C

I honestly have no grasp whatsoever on your taste, but not for lack of trying. I suppose it actually may be more the fact that I don't know what grabs you when you listen to something new, but either way, this is a solid album that you may or may not have heard/reviewed before. If you have, then I'll quietly see my way out but if not I sincerely hope you enjoy.

You should read my journals more!

Seriously, for someone who apparently has no grasp on my music taste you look like you've hit pretty close to the mark. I'll enjoy listening to and reviewing that. Thanks Steph!

As a matter of interest, what grabs me is melody (I keep telling her to leave me alone when I'm writing!), well-written songs, good lyrics, good instrumentation and the power to move me in either a positive way or a negative one that benefits me, eg something that makes me cry (Antlers). I'm not a fan of music I can't determine (black metal, grindcore, that sort of thing), that doesn't speak to me (hip hop? I'm a Dubliner, for Chrissakes!) or bland pop material. Generally. Though I'll always try to do my best to sample new stuff. If it clicks it clicks (Chvrches) if it doesn't it doesn't (Auteurs). I'm not too fond of moving beyond my comfort zone but I will if I find something I like.

Aren't you sorry you asked now?

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