The Album Club: "Release Me" by The Like

rubber soul · 01-12-2018, 07:24 AM

I'm usually like that too, Psy-Fi, but The Like, for the most part, seem to sound more authentic than most of the retro bands. I've heard bands maybe do a song or two that sounded authentic, but whole albums that sound mostly sixtyish are pretty rare. That's what I really like about this one. The Early Bangles (and I do mean early, like their first EP) might fall into this category and maybe so do the Pandoras. I still have to find a truly authentic sounding male retro group though

Oriphiel · 01-12-2018, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by rubber soul

The Early Bangles (and I do mean early, like their first EP) might fall into this category and maybe so do the Pandoras.

OccultHawk · 01-12-2018, 08:44 AM

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Not saying it was him who kept them proggy,

You’d be correct if you did say that so why not?

Trollheart · 01-12-2018, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You’d be correct if you did say that so why not?

Because I don't know that. Also I'm trying to avoid making Neapolitan cry again.

I'm not that familiar with Hackett's role inside the band. I know it was mostly Gabriel's baby and when he left things slid a little towards a more slightly accessible sound - still 1976 produced two of my favourite Genesis albums - and that Steve wasn't happy about the direction they were going in, but I don't know how much Rutherford or Banks had to say about that. I know the impetus for the change was almost all down to the bald one, so whether they just followed blindly or not I'm not sure. I know Banks' solo material is still very progressive rock, as well as classical, and of course Mike went on to get involved with a load of blokes in a garage, so I suppose we know where his intentions lay. Still, it's probably a fair point, as even now Hackett's solo albums are, generally, more like Genesis than Genesis after he left.

OccultHawk · 01-12-2018, 09:48 AM

Good point about Tony Banks solo career but We Can’t Dance and Invisible Touch.

Let’s let Chula decide.

Trollheart · 01-12-2018, 10:21 AM

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Good point about Tony Banks solo career but We Can’t Dance and Invisible Touch.

Let’s let Chula decide.

Yeah, I think they almost went back a little with the 1983 self-titled album (other than the awful "That's All" and the indescribably bad and racist "Illegal Alien" of course) but after that, more or less, set the controls for the heart of the charts, Mister Collins! Engage! Man overboard! Oh, there goes Trollheart!

TechnicLePanther · 01-12-2018, 07:14 PM

Troll, why'd you have to make this thread about Genesis?

Anyway, I voted "meh". This album has one great song in Narcissus in a Red Dress, mainly for the earworm of a chorus. The rest is mainly mediocre with a couple blips of good and a couple blips of bad.

Trollheart · 01-12-2018, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther

Troll, why'd you have to make this thread about Genesis?

Anyway, I voted "meh". This album has one great song in Narcissus in a Red Dress, mainly for the earworm of a chorus. The rest is mainly mediocre with a couple blips of good and a couple blips of bad.

I didn't intend to. If you look back, Nea started talking about Abacab, I responded to that and then Occult and I ended up in a conversation about the band. Threads go off-topic all the time. It just happens.

OccultHawk · 01-12-2018, 08:00 PM

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I didn't intend to. If you look back, Nea started talking about Abacab, I responded to that and then Occult and I ended up in a conversation about the band. Threads go off-topic all the time. It just happens.

I still wanna get Chula’s take on the SH thing.

Neapolitan · 01-12-2018, 08:23 PM

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I didn't intend to. If you look back, Nea started talking about Abacab, I responded to that and then Occult and I ended up in a conversation about the band. Threads go off-topic all the time. It just happens.

Release Me is on par with Abacab as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. It was only enviable that Abacab would be brought up. I was just using Abacab as example as an album people don't like for no logical reason. You were the one who blew it up into a full-blown conversation. It's not me, it's you.

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