Frownland

We both know after the TMR ordeal that listening to an album he doesn't like (read: get) more than once is not TH's style.

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Trollheart

Look, I get a decent idea of whether or not I'm going to like an album first time round usually. I may not like it but I can hear something in it that may grow on me. In those cases I will give it a second or even third chance. With "New wave" I heard nothing special. Could have been any indie band. Nothing excited me about it --- not even the bloody cellos! --- and nothing made me hate it so much that I never wanted to hear it again. I just simply thought it was below average, and after the way you guys had hyped it I was expecting to feel, I don't know, something. And I didn't.

I have far too heavy a workload to listen to albums twice that I didn't like, so it won't be spinning again here. As for TMR, that's never coming near my poor ears again. I'd listen to Cryptopsy or Cannibal Corpse before I'd go through that again!

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Goofle

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't lose anything if you decided against listening to a few more prog/metal albums, and instead chose to give New Wave another few tries.

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Frownland

One day you'll see the light my friend, and on that day I will buy you a bottle of your choice of whiskey and a hooker.

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OccultHawk

I'll tell you what, someone with a Saint Coltrane avatar and a name taken from Beefheart, anything you recommend to me will get multiple listens until I get it.

Chula Vista

I'll pitch in.

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Title: Wanted dread and alive
Artiste: Peter Tosh
Year: 1981
Chronological position: Third album
Previous experience of this artiste?: Zero
Why is this considered a classic? ?

My thoughts
One minute (or thereabouts in) ---- Good, great, bad, meh, still waiting or other? Meh
One track in --- Meh
Halfway through --- Meh
Finished --- Meh

Comments: I’ve never been one to give reggae much of a chance, feeling that a lot of it sounds the same, but it’s always good to open your mind a little and my experience with Bob Marley was not the ordeal I had expected, so let’s see how this goes. Well it’s a slow, dare I say boring, opening with the first track, belying its title “Coming in hot”, though the next track kicks it up with a bit more soul. Still not too interested though. “Reggaemylitis” is mildly funny but again it doesn’t engage me. There’s just very little energy in this so far I feel.

Yeah, while I don’t want to dismiss all reggae as the same, the complaint seems justified with this album. I’d be hard-pressed to single out one song from another. Maybe that’s not fair: maybe it’s just not engaging me enough --- or at all --- for me to care. All I can say at this point is that I’m sort of listening on auto-pilot and waiting for it to be over, which is never something I want to be in a position to have to do. But there it is. I couldn’t be less interested in this album if it was a Cryptopsy double live effort.

Ok, eventually something makes me sit up a little. “Rastafari is” has a really nice guitar solo and it’s a decent song, but we’re getting close to the end of the album by now. The last track is really nice, but again it’s a little too late at this point. Still, at least it ends the album well. Actually no, let’s be honest here: it drags on way too long and that flute is damn annoying.

Favourite track(s): Rastafari is, Fools die
Least favourite track(s): Nothing bad as such, just all very dreary and boring to me.

Final impression --- Hasn’t done much to change my mind about reggae, though I’m aware I know virtually nothing about it. May be a while before I give it another chance though.

Do I feel, at the end, A) I wish I had listened to this sooner
B) I'm sorry I bothered
C) I might end up liking this
D) Have to wait and see
E) Bit underwhelmed; was ok but a classic?
F) Definitely enjoyed it, but again would I consider it a classic?
G) Enjoyed this album just purely on its own merits
H) Glad I listened to it

A big B here and a

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I didn't know that was a classic album.
From what I've read of Peter Tosh (which is only a little when I went through a reggae phase a few months back) people look at the album as a kind of indifferent attempt at him getting mainstream recognition and that Legalize It was his most famous album and Equal Rights was his best.

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Trollheart

Yeah, I think someone here (could be Surell, maybe not) suggested it. It didn't come across in anything I've read either as a classic album, but there you go. Have to give him props for learning, apparently, how to play guitar by watching a guy and memorising where his fingers went on the frets. That's pretty damn old school. Pity this was so boring.

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FRED HALE SR.

You may want to try Steel Pulse TH. They are a bit more accessible as Reggae goes. The rich vocals and great guitar work make it a treat. Just the right amount of horns and exceptional drum tracks. I've played them for people who don't ever stray into reggae and more often then not they appeal on a large scale.

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