Love or Hate?

YorkeDaddy · 06-25-2015, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I have not heard it, nor do I intend to.

So you can slam him with all kinds of long, monotonous albums that he probably won't like on a weekly basis but you can't take one rec from him?

Machine · 06-25-2015, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Title: People that can eat people are the luckiest people in the world
Artiste: Andrew Jackson Jihad
Genre: Folk/Punk
Familiarity: I've heard one other album; it was ok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People...e_in_the_World

Track 1(Love) Good sort of bluegrass/rockabilly hybrid that rockets along with a lot of fun if not subtlety
Track 2It went by too fast and was too short for me to even remember what it was like.
Track 3(Love) Just a minute! This is ripping off the traditional song “Do-re-mi”! Good enough but a little disappointing that he doesn't admit it's a cover, at least partially.
Track 4(Love) Kind of a dark humour to this
Track 5(Love) Some of these tracks are almost too short to make a decision on before they're over!
Track 6 Yeah, again it's okay but so short it's hard to even take it in.
Track 7 Too short again.
Track 8(Love)Like the fact that this is almost all played on glockenspiel for about a minute, then some fairly sweet trumpet I think.
Track 9(Love) Like the melody and the idea behind this. The pastiche of “Mrs Robinson” is inspired! Paul Simon would not be impressed.
Track 10(Love) Yeah, this one is not bad.
Track 11(Love) Good closer, like it.

End result: It's fun, yeah, but a little bewildering the speed it runs at, and it's hard to take it all in in one sitting. I'm pretty sure I'd get into this, but it might take a few listens and a few more albums. Enjoyable, certainly.

So, Love or Hate? I'd put this down as a Love.

Chances of a full review: 2/10

Nice glad you liked this one a bit more than Can't Maintain. And regarding track three he totally admits that it is a cover, he says "and we totally ripped off a man named Woody Guthrie".

Josef K · 06-25-2015, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Machine

Nice glad you liked this one a bit more than Can't Maintain. And regarding track three he totally admits that it is a cover, he says "and we totally ripped off a man named Woody Guthrie".

Ahem.

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Originally Posted by Josef K

"And we totally ripped off a man named Woody Guthrie"

Trollheart · 06-25-2015, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Oh btw, don't want to be a pest but could you switch the order of my two recs? As in put Cocteau Twins first and A Sunny Day in Glasgow later

I just can't contain my excitement to hear your thoughts on Cocteau Twins :P

Um, didn't you just ask me a while ago to do the very opposite?

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Originally Posted by Josef K

"And we totally ripped off a man named Woody Guthrie"

Well, okay then. I wonder if he apologised to Simon?

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

So you can slam him with all kinds of long, monotonous albums that he probably won't like on a weekly basis but you can't take one rec from him?

Doesn't matter; it's not really a rec. I doubt it'd be up his alley. Too melodic. I just thought (to kind of paraphrase him) that the melding of the classic story, Burton's superlative voice and some electronic/proggy music, plus stars such as Lynott, David Essex and Justin Hayward might interest him. But it's fine. If he's too much of a wimp to attempt listening to it ...

Hey, I DID just listen to a ****ing hour of John bloody Cage, you know!

Machine · 06-25-2015, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Josef K

Ahem.

Sorry didn't see ya point that out.

YorkeDaddy · 06-25-2015, 04:31 PM

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Um, didn't you just ask me a while ago to do the very opposite?

No haha you must've just misread me or I made the post too confusing. I wanted Cocteau Twins first the whole time, so that's probably just my bad :P

Trollheart · 06-25-2015, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

No haha you must've just misread me or I made the post too confusing. I wanted Cocteau Twins first the whole time, so that's probably just my bad :P

Ok, done.
Also, Frown, can I assume Masada is not another album that's just going to leak out of my brain? There's only so much of this I can take. Is there a chance I may like it? If not, I may move it down a little, just to give my soul a chance to recover before I tackle it.

YorkeDaddy · 06-25-2015, 04:39 PM

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can I assume Masada is not another album that's just going to leak out of my brain?

I've actually heard some of that album, and while it's another extremely long one I think it's one you might actually appreciate. It's just a lot of really nice guitar playing

**Frownland** · 06-25-2015, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

So you can slam him with all kinds of long, monotonous albums that he probably won't like on a weekly basis but you can't take one rec from him?

It was a joke parodying Office Spacegate.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Ok, done.
Also, Frown, can I assume Masada is not another album that's just going to leak out of my brain? There's only so much of this I can take. Is there a chance I may like it? If not, I may move it down a little, just to give my soul a chance to recover before I tackle it.

It's a beautiful record. I'm recommending several different things as you can probably tell by now. It's nothing like Cage.

Justthefacts · 06-25-2015, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I've already explained what my approach to music was before, and why. I'm not going into it again. You're talking to the only person on the planet who never has heard Gnarls Barkley.

Geez, calm down their bud. And I guarantee you've heard this song