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Ha! I've only been around here for a week and this is the second time a thread has turned into a discusson on the merits, or lack of, "Ocean Rain".
The last one made me realise I'd never updated me Bunnymen collection with the CD reissues, so they're on the way - well, the first three, couldn't get "OR" from the cheapo online store I used. Nevermind.
I thnk the problem is, as mentioned, it was trumpeted as "The Greatest Album Of All Time" by the band before it was released and patently wasn't. Strange to hear bad things about "The Killing Moon" though.
Timmac wrote:
I thnk the problem is, as mentioned, it was trumpeted as "The Greatest Album Of All Time" by the band before it was released and patently wasn't. Strange to hear bad things about "The Killing Moon" though.
As much as I love the records and enjoy seeing the Bunnymen live, I don't think it's any real secret that the default position for Mac's head is firmly up his arse. With an ego his size that's gotta hurt!
But really, would we want him any other way?
Clownpants wrote:
Its a bit like pxxn films, you get bored of em but the best ones will always be watched again and again (even if you have to watch them in a mirror to make them look different)
i know exactly what you mean.
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
While redecorating my house I have been on a total Sisters kick - wow, now I remember why I love them. I have been playing boots from every era and they all stand up on their own merits.
You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go
I haven't listen to the girls for quite a while now - I guess it's because the back catalogue is so tied to past - times have changed, the world has moved on and TSOM have stubbonly refused to create any musical background to the culture and society of the last few years, making them, in my opinion, artistically irelevant.
Until we get a new album - Eldritch is just trading on past glories, which is nostalgia touring by any other name - you're doing the work - you may as well have the job description.
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After all these years, I still can bearly go a week without listening to some snippet - Never Land full version particularly at the mo.
There is something about Floodland though that reaches into my guts and pulls out the soft gooey bits and drags me back to the first time I heard it - almost every time I have a whole body reaction to it..... Time and place I suppose (FYI in a studio painting with a bunch of art-school goffs, quaffing vodka and discussing the unquestionable worth of oil painting in the 20th Century... before just lying on the floor listening in awe... one of the best days of my life )
Prescott wrote:I have to admit that there are times of pure hatred for the lack of a new album that result in the current favorite of the month being The Merry Thoughts. Most unfortunately I must admit that Millennium Done I: Empire songs and especially Psychocult are the best Sisters albums that are not Sisters albums. Mr. Arkham even includes the obligatory references to T.S. Eliot. Too bad I can't persuade him to cover all the unreleased Sisters tracks. Imagine a tMt version of Crash And Burn?
It'd be a f*ck lot better than the 30th shoddy live bootleg version we have to look forward to otherwise.
Back to waiting I guess.
I think the Merry Thoughts are one of the absolute worst bands I have ever heard. They really are terrible. I can forgive sucking if they sucked in new or interesting ways, or even if they did it with a lot of passion, but the combination of lack of originality with utter mediocrity is actually WORSE than simply being a bad band.
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