Heartland

Instrumental beauty or aimless filler?
Discuss.

and I thought this was going to be a word-by-word dissection of the lyrics.

It has it's place, but shouldn't have been a b-side to Anaconda, something with vocals would've been much better. It sits fine on Alice 12" though.

Cowboy guitars and red indian drums.

i blame the parents.

actually, i blame this song for the nephilim's dumb-ass leone/morricone fixation. it gave them a blueprint for their awful dawnrazor singles...

"Que up Floorshow on the drum machine, I fancy an ambient widdle"

instrumental beauty... it should be played as an intro on live gigs, or in a medley.

hallucienate wrote:It has it's place, but shouldn't have been a b-side to Anaconda, something with vocals would've been much better.

Phantom itself with vocals would've been much better too, but it's ok without.

Quiff Boy wrote:i blame the parents.

actually, i blame this song for the nephilim's dumb-ass leone/morricone fixation. it gave them a blueprint for their awful dawnrazor singles...

I'd blame that fixation more on Theatre of Hate, a band who at the time probably had a bit more influence than TSOM.

claws wrote:instrumental beauty... it should be played as an intro on live gigs, or in a medley.

Perfect pre-show music, in extended extended version.

But yeah, you hear it and you wanna put on a pancho and a beat-up hat and walk off into the desert night...

Steve303 wrote:Instrumental beauty or aimless filler?
Discuss.

A song I rarely listen to anymore, but I wouldn't say it was bad

Quiff Boy wrote:i blame the parents.

actually, i blame this song for the nephilim's dumb-ass leone/morricone fixation. it gave them a blueprint for their awful dawnrazor singles...

What's wrong with Dawnrazor? Philistines!

Nuthin' wrong the Neph back in the day.

Phantom is an awesome track.

(and I don't want to be pedantic, but no singles were released from Dawnrazor (in its original form))

nodubmanshouts wrote:(and I don't want to be pedantic, but no singles were released from Dawnrazor (in its original form))

very true. i actually meant the dawnrazor-era singles

Well unless I am very much mistaken I recall buying Power as a single, and that was on the origianl dawnrazor lp, as was Preacher Man......

it was not all harmonica's and flour............

Neither of those was on the original LP .... CD reissue though, yeah.

Back on topic, I wonder if any lyrics were ever written for Phantom...

well, there are the lyrics on Gary Marx's version - don't know if they were "original" lyrics re-added or added by Mr Marx for his new version. (They seem to be the Floorshow lyrics combined with stuff about Saigon)

Actually, Mr Marx's new version (the Starsky & Hutch mix ) is far superior to the original in my humble opinion

Like the cowgoth vibe (see a chick in Glasgow with her jeans tucked into her cowboy boots, it's not gonna be anyone else ), but Avalanche is pants on it and it's too repetetive.

To pull it back off-topic again, I got Dawnrazor last summer, "sounds like the Sisters... alright then!", but Jesus it's bad.

Out of curiosity: what style of (cowboy)boots do you wear ?