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Posted: 21 Jul 2005, 16:53
by timsinister
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.
Posted: 21 Jul 2005, 17:18
by Rosalie
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
Posted: 21 Jul 2005, 17:28
by culprit
James Blast wrote:Prog-rock Goth
Posted: 21 Jul 2005, 18:41
by eastmidswhizzkid
James Blast wrote:Prog-rock Goth
isn't that one of lovecraft's beasties?
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 00:09
by pikkrong
Do goths always have this kind of problems: Is it a goth album? Should I like it?
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 01:01
by Planet Dave
pikkrong wrote:Do goths always have this kind of problems: Is it a goth album? Should I like it?
Yes, no, and yes.
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 09:48
by markfiend
Good work Dave
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 10:36
by boudicca
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! 
Need you ask such a question?
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 10:58
by Quiff Boy
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 11:04
by Quiff Boy
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.
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 11:12
by culprit
Quiff Boy wrote: a massive pinch of salt
...a jugfull!
But it does raise interesting points, everyone should read it....ONCE.
Posted: 22 Jul 2005, 20:10
by canon docre
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.
