Trollheart

Indeed. Why does everyone accidentally post their stuff in my thread?

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Title: Brighter Now
Artiste: The Legendary Pink Dots
Genre: Experimental
Familiarity: Zero
Recommended by: bob

Expectations: Oh I really hate it when I see experimental! Never mind; it's one of bob's. He'd never rec something he expected me to hate. Would he?

1. Red castles: Sounds a bit like early progressive rock to me. Not mad about the vocal to be honest. Meh, revise that: don't like anything about this.
2. Louder after 6: And this is more like psychedelia, though it's better than the first track. Still not gone on it though. The sped-up bit at the end is very annoying.
3. The wedding: Could be on to something here? Nice piano but again I hate his almost Thomas Dolbyesque vocal. Just sounds really stupid.Green for the music though.
4. Apocalypse then: This is better too. From now on, all songs will be rated exclusive of the vocal, which I officially hate. Bassline here is cool. Synth is great too. Now I'm liking it less as it goes along. That seldom if ever happens, but it's happening here. Switching from Green to Orange. The ending sucks. This almost went White. Way, way, way too long.
5. Legacy: Now let us rip off the main melody for Bowie's “China girl” in the hope we can make this song good. Hey, it's working. I think he's writing Green. He is! All praise the TWD!* And Iggy.
6. City ghosts: God I really hate this one. It just grates on me, and it seems to go on forever. Oh, a belch at the end. How appropriate.
7. Hanging gardens: Sampler/vocoder is nice, again the bass rules and the overall synth/choral vocal is really good. Okay, again they've overstayed their welcome. Song is once more too long and the sampler is getting on my nerves now. Don't these guys know the saying “less is more”???? Even when it seems it should be over it's back for another two frigging minutes!! GAAAHHHH!!!! Oh look: backwards masking. How original! Did they just sing the whole ****ing TRACK backwards to extend this to six effing minutes??? Right: changing to Red. **** you.
8. Soma bath: I don't think I'm going to like anything here now. I've just had enough of these guys and they're not getting any more tolerance from me. Sod this. One more track to go.
9. Premonition 4: Dear God almighty! Starting off with the nursery rhyme “Ring around the roses”! Okay the mood after that gets pretty dark and ominous, give it that. Maybe it's linked to something like The Shining, who knows? Maybe it'll be instrumental and save me that awful vocal. Think I'd be that lucky? Neither do I. You know, maybe I am. Why isn't the rest of the album like this? This is great. Too late though.

End result: Goddamn it bob! This was a cluster****! Awful album, awful band. Please do better next time. I don't expect this level of crap from you of all people.

So, Love or Hate? Well d'uh! A big, fat, sticky, smelly Hate.

* Note: This was written before the passing of Bowie, otherwise I would never have invoked his name.

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Title: Future Days
Artiste: Can
Genre: Krautrock/Progressive Rock
Familiarity: Heard one of their albums; think it was ok.
Recommended by: Plainview

Expectations: Not really sure. I like the prog rock tag but I think I remember the other one being quite psychedelic, so could go either way. Only four tracks, which is helpful, even if one is twenty minutes long...

1. Future days: Catchy and quite pleasant, low key with some nice soft guitar and a real samba style on the percussion, vocal is good, very relaxed. Enjoyed that a lot.
2. Spray: This has more the progressive/psychedelic feel to it from the off, nice jam, again very pleasant and not hard to listen to.
3. Moonshake: More uptempo with a sort of feel of Santana about it
4. Bel Air: This is really quite ambient and lovely. Longest track already and we're five minutes into its twenty, picking up a little now but still great. Nine minutes in and we've gone all nature sounds with birdsong, babbling brooks and soft breezes, then a sort of funky guitar begins to come through, and we're into a kind of progressive melody in the twelfth. Very relaxing album overall. Enjoyed it a lot.

End result: It would be hard not to like this, really, wouldn't it?

So, Love or Hate? Or give it a Love. Which I will.

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grindy

^Amazing album. One of my faves.
I was unsure whether you'd dig the long-form improvs, but glad to see you did.

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Plainview

Yeah glad you enjoyed it! You should give Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi a go too, they're probably closer to a progressive sound. I just love the Progressive/Ambient/Psychedelic blend of Future Days, great grooves and also some great pop melodies in there too.

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grindy

I could imagine that Peking O and Aumgn would annoy him.
If I remember correctly, he already listened to Ege Bamyasi and wasn't impressed.

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bob.

i would never suggest something i knew you would not like ....but i will attempt to stretch your general taste....and obviously failed on this one

also i'd like to point out that brighter Now came out 2 years before the release of David Bowie's Let's Dance

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Trollheart

Yes but that song was originally written by he and Iggy and appeared on one of Iggy's solo albums, 1977. Check and mate, my friend.

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grindy

"By he"?
Who are you and how did you hack Trollheart's account?

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Trollheart

That's correct usage. Not Iggy and him, not Iggy and he (well, maybe, but he and Iggy works fine.) Leave me alone, FrownBat!

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