Isn't Floodland one of the best albums ever?!

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Floodland is pretty good alright :wink:
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It's damn near perfect. :notworthy:

Even when the last track has faded out you still want more which is always the sign of a good album. How many of us here have bought albums over the years and been bored by the time it reaches the 4th or 5th song? :urff:
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Gimme_The_Ring wrote:It's damn near perfect. :notworthy:

Even when the last track has faded out you still want more which is always the sign of a good album. How many of us here have bought albums over the years and been bored by the time it reaches the 4th or 5th song? :urff:
In the case of Death Magnetic, I went deaf after the 4th or 5th song ;D

i'm lying, i'd never buy this overcompressed pile of junk

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Yeah! It`s a great album...but I think that "SGWBM" is way better....All the fine singles
compiled on a disc.....super!!
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James Blast wrote:aren't M&S curries just the best?
Dunno, can't afford them. Asda or Morrisons for me :(

Floodland? A fine album. Not one to skip from one track to another - must be played all the way through or not at all.
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It's been a week since I started this topic and here I am again (under the influence of two pints of Strongbow) and Flood 2 is playing - damn this song is fantastic!!!! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

I'm bobbing my head like a mad man to it. ;D
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Gimme_The_Ring wrote:under the influence of two pints of Strongbow
I'm bobbing my head like a mad man to it. ;D
Maybe you should try Adam's Apple instead then. It's smoother.

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
Gimme_The_Ring wrote:under the influence of two pints of Strongbow
I'm bobbing my head like a mad man to it. ;D
Maybe you should try Adam's Apple instead then. It's smoother.

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I tried Diamond White once, nasty stuff. :|
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I made my own 'edit' of Floodland ... I removed the original versions of 'Lucretia...' and 'This corrosion' and replaced them with the long versions from the CD singles, removed both 'Torch' and 'Colours' because I don't think they fit.

And when I acquired the full length version of 'Neverland', I modified my edit to include that too.

Oh, and I put a bit of 'Sandstorm' on at the start too, like in the 'Dominion' video.

So there you go...
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I think my Sisters "best of" tape opens with Sandstorm/Dominion.

I'm not so sure about Colours not fitting. It's essentially a demo of Flood I isn't it?
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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Floodland is brilliant. The only track I don't quite like is 1959, the cheap synthesizer etc. makes it a kinda musical greetings card like thing. I don't think this was intended.
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I love 1959, it's almost like it's the big build up to the epic This Corrosion.
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Usually records i listen to don't have "duff" tracks on them. Floodland is no exception.

Artistically it's very very high in a very very long list. (Which is to be understood poetically, since i don't like thinking hierarchically).
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dinky daisy wrote:
Norman Hunter wrote:
James Blast wrote:aren't M&S curries just the best?
Dunno, can't afford them. Asda or Morrisons for me :(

Floodland? A fine album. Not one to skip from one track to another - must be played all the way through or not at all.
maybe the most true thing ever stated in Rock history.
:oops: Thanks.

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nowayjose wrote:The only track I don't quite like is 1959, the cheap synthesizer etc.
I always though it was a piano? :|
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Nic wrote:
nowayjose wrote:The only track I don't quite like is 1959, the cheap synthesizer etc.
I always though it was a piano? :|
on video it was, even a grand piano :D
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lachert wrote:
Nic wrote:
nowayjose wrote:The only track I don't quite like is 1959, the cheap synthesizer etc.
I always though it was a piano? :|
on video it was, even a grand piano :D
Yes I know, so it's gotta be a real piano on the track too. :D
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I had a 5.1 surround mix from a torrent file-cannae find the bugger now...
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Nic wrote:
lachert wrote:
Nic wrote: I always though it was a piano? :|
on video it was, even a grand piano :D
Yes I know, so it's gotta be a real piano on the track too. :D
Um.. videos don't necessarily indicate what the actual instruments are. ;)
In before anyone says "Yes, Patricia's playing in the videos"
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and on dominion we don't hear doctor but gallop horses :lol:
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Dark wrote:In before anyone says "Yes, Patricia's playing in the videos"
In fairness, not even Eldritch is doing much of anything on the live Lucretia one ;)

Poor bastard deserved a rest after recording the album all on his lonesome
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Dark wrote:
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lachert wrote: on video it was, even a grand piano :D
Yes I know, so it's gotta be a real piano on the track too. :D
Um.. videos don't necessarily indicate what the actual instruments are. ;)
Duh! :P

I would've liked to see Patricia playing dead over a Yamaha synthesizer instead. ;D
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Nic wrote:
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Nic wrote: Yes I know, so it's gotta be a real piano on the track too. :D
Um.. videos don't necessarily indicate what the actual instruments are. ;)
Duh! :P

I would've liked to see Patricia playing dead over a Yamaha synthesizer instead. ;D
This is interesting. I always found the keyboard sounds so cheap. It's almost like the midi files you hear when entering a Chinese restaurant homepage with Comic Sans Fonts saying HAPPY CHRISTMAS 2005 with santa animations.
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