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It’s you.

It starts out nice enough, reminds me of early Queen but I can’t say why. A delicate build up in the middle. Which does not mold into a big bombast ending as one might expect but simply disintegrates. And funnily enough, at first full HMF run through that song pleased me the most.

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Finally got the vinyl. Oh it’s a beauty. Putting the scratch art not on side four is a nice move.

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second that.

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You’re right. Could very well be. The discipline of proper credit for each and every song on the sleeve has loosened up quite a bit.

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Actually I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be some jazzy loungy stuff like “This Otherness”, a song I really like btw, considering some of these elements are on HMF. At least in spirit. And I like COTF a lot! Ah well what do I not like anyway…. oh some stuff on LTEC/Phano never did it for me. Especially lenghty live jams over Walking with J and Song for a Bro’. There our relationship shimmied close to a risky edge.

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no, it was on DRS3 in the “rock special”

hard to believe nowadays.

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I consider Child of the Future very much a real album.

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I think there were never so many odd meter grooves on any MP record before. On HMF there’s lots of fivers, sevens and a great niner. Ehm… that one in X3’s chorus I think. Personally I love 7/4, they can roll in a very round fashion if you make it smart. And I think they’re big partly responsible for the massiveness of this album.

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Wasn’t there a different vinyl edition of Demon Box with sides 1 & 3 and 2 & 4 on each record?

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X-3 reminds me of ACDC’s Let There Be Rock:

Absolutely. And when Bent strays from singing to talking it reminds of Gillan here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0xHTszwbWk

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I wouldn’t mind less sonic expansions but more songs again. Starmelt, Hey jane, Serpentine, Nerve Tattoo, Hyena etc… Since the boys are so masterful at this.

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For PC composers: I found a quite decent plugin btw: http://free-plugin-list.com/plugin.php?id=37

(or did I get it thru here in the first place? )

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My bet’s on funked up Jazz. They might dive more and more into early 70ties Miles.

I wouldn’t call their first records metal at all though. It’s more some pyschedelic grunge. And Demon Box itself is a genre hopper like nothing else. But great analysis.

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Samples of it were reportedly broadcast on a Swiss radio special..

wow, where was I?

if it wasn’t some alternative local station, it must have been on couleur 3. the only big station that matters in switzerland.

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a 2 acoustic guitars only album with their classic songs would be quite a feat. it goes to show that a song works when it works on an acoustic guitar.

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