There's hope for you yet with the KISS solo albums.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:24pmI've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
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There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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I'll leap from a great height should that come to pass.Heston wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:29pmThere's hope for you yet with the KISS solo albums.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:24pmI've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
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This is going to sound really cringe, but I think the works taken in aggregate form a kind of epic narrative, like a 19th century Russian novel or something. There's a real sense of adventure to their body of work. So this is like a chapter rather than a testament. I realize this all sounds pretentious as all fuck but i can't think of another way to couch it.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 3:40pmI've never fully cottoned to this album of Love of Life. They're good, don't get me wrong, but I have a hard time finding a hand hold. It's not the brutal minimalism of earlier albums and not the aggressive post rock they'd eventually become. It ain't commercial by any means, yet weirdly pretty. They're the most atypical Swans records, yet they're a sensible place to start, too.
It makes me want to look into their back story TBH
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Nick Soulsby published an oral history of the band last year, and there's a documentary making the rounds on the festival circuit (should be commercially released by the fall).IkarisOne wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:38pmThis is going to sound really cringe, but I think the works taken in aggregate form a kind of epic narrative, like a 19th century Russian novel or something. There's a real sense of adventure to their body of work. So this is like a chapter rather than a testament. I realize this all sounds pretentious as all fuck but i can't think of another way to couch it.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 3:40pmI've never fully cottoned to this album of Love of Life. They're good, don't get me wrong, but I have a hard time finding a hand hold. It's not the brutal minimalism of earlier albums and not the aggressive post rock they'd eventually become. It ain't commercial by any means, yet weirdly pretty. They're the most atypical Swans records, yet they're a sensible place to start, too.
It makes me want to look into their back story TBH
(If you do ebooks: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.ph ... &t=2732056)
There is something deliberate about what Gira does—he's an ultra-serious control freak who doesn't abide by happy accidents—but I'm not sure if there's some more meta to it all. Power and transcendence thru suffering are pretty standard themes throughout the Swans catalogue. He's a guy who has a deep need to find a meaning and purpose to human suffering. And as angry as he was in the 80s, he seems to have found some pleasure (if that's the word) in audience experiences now. A post-punk Jim Morrison maybe?
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"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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If Kory doesn't know this already, he'd probably give it support.
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Had Abbey Road and some Squeeze on tonight. Then dabbled with some Laurel Aitken. Finishing off with some 60s garage classics.
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I think I saw them open for Interpol. I don't remember what they sounded like.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:24pm
I've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
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I do know it, and will wholeheartedly recommend any one of their albums. Laika (along with Moloko, Sneaker Pimps, and Lamb) definitely found a way to escape the thrall of the main three and become something unique.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 Aug 2019, 6:15pm
If Kory doesn't know this already, he'd probably give it support.
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You sound like me talking about books. It's ridiculous how few books I can recall beyond vague impressions.Kory wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 12:51pmI think I saw them open for Interpol. I don't remember what they sounded like.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:24pm
I've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
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You should keep a book diary!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 1:02pmYou sound like me talking about books. It's ridiculous how few books I can recall beyond vague impressions.Kory wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 12:51pmI think I saw them open for Interpol. I don't remember what they sounded like.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:24pm
I've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
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Kory wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 2:03pmYou should keep a book diary!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 1:02pmYou sound like me talking about books. It's ridiculous how few books I can recall beyond vague impressions.Kory wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 12:51pmI think I saw them open for Interpol. I don't remember what they sounded like.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Aug 2019, 6:24pm
I've come to really like this record in spite of it. That is, it's basically a tribute to slick, generic 70s classic rock, which, as a rule, I detest. Yet I kept playing this album and I went from curiosity to grudging acknowledgement to genuinely liking. There's zilch about it that I can defend or recommend, but I still like it.
I still have my rough notes when I did my fields, "reading" roughly a book a day. And whenever I teach a book, I have very thorough summaries and observations to work from. But that's about it.
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I've heard this many times but never really listened to it. I love it. Any Paul Young recommendations anyone?
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That's a good cover and another one I like is "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down".
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia