Style of music on Vision Thing?

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Didn't this start out with Rosalie assessing VT on it's own? Now we're comparing it to other Merciful Releases, against which it doesn't stand as a Goth album...

My choices are well known; FALAA for the album, and most of the pre-album singles preferably.
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Is Floodland actually a concept album?

What's the concept?

Yeah, I do like the progness of it, but it doesn't have enough solos for a prog record. That's what happens when you don't have a band :P
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James Blast wrote:Prog-rock Goth
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James Blast wrote:Prog-rock Goth
isn't that one of lovecraft's beasties? :innocent:
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Do goths always have this kind of problems: Is it a goth album? Should I like it?
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pikkrong wrote:Do goths always have this kind of problems: Is it a goth album? Should I like it?
Yes, no, and yes. :wink:
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Good work Dave :notworthy:
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pikkrong wrote:Do goths always have this kind of problems: Is it a goth album? Should I like it?
As any American teenager would tell you...

DUH! :roll: :innocent:

Need you ask such a question? :lol:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:
James Blast wrote:Prog-rock Goth
isn't that one of lovecraft's beasties? :innocent:
i had to read that one out loud to get it :lol: :lol: :lol: :notworthy: :D
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Rosalie wrote:Is Floodland actually a concept album?

What's the concept?
ostensibly, its about water.

have a read of this, but take it all with a massive pinch of salt as the contributors get a bit giddy and seem to share verbal diuretics with each other. :roll:
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Quiff Boy wrote: a massive pinch of salt
...a jugfull!

But it does raise interesting points, everyone should read it....ONCE. :)
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The title of the album is probably influenced by T S Eliot's The Wasteland. The Flood (see also Flood I and Flood II) is obviously biblical in source, though it also refers to the possible fate of Hamburg (Eldritch's adopted home town) after a nuclear strike - such a blast could cause a massive tidal wave.
It doesn't really need a nuclear strike for flooding my ex-adopted home town:
Wikipedia wrote:February 16-17 1962 - Heavy storm flood on Germany's North Sea coast, mainly around Hamburg, more than 300 people die, thousands losing their homes
It happens quite often, not as fatal though, but the area of St. Pauli around the harbour gets evacuated every once in a while. :wink:
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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