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Next to Lobotomizer, Barracuda is the one I listen to the least. But it has Hi-Time and especially one of my top ten MP tunes ever, Glow. The latter’s head deep in Shangri-La.
Woah some people’s expectations are quite high. If I was in a band that wrote and played BOTH Trust Us and BhBc in their entirety (!), I could die a happy man. 8O
Its sudden fade out just strikes me as odd everytime. Feels kinda butchered, poor thing. Some Snah noodling and a suprising coda wouldn’t have hurt and people surely would like it more.
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Quote:the pop period in MP is the best, devoid of the screechiness and satanic idiocy.:lol:
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Composite Head is too short to dislike. It just wanted to be on that record so bad, poor little thing. Be nice to it. And it has cool lyrics btw.
So I’ve heard. I had plans to go to Snowdonia this summer, but they changed. Maybe next year. A must see for a Led Zeppelin nut.
I must correct myself, just listened to Beyond the Flood for the first time in years, I actually liked it to the end. I remember enjoying it up to the solo parts, but then… and now… hm… maybe it’s the rainy day outside. The stringed/mellotroned(?) fade out is especially beautiful.
NowItsTimeToSkate is my twin brother. 8O
A short note to In The Family, I agree the guitar/mellotron line really is very slick, but then…
I love Hyena. Such a fantastically positively naive energetic boy-girl-dream song. And that Immigrant Song groove and the ringing cordal descent in the bridge.
I can’t help picturing Slash in the Flood. No J for me there. I’d even rather hear J in Hyena, come to think of it. And btw You Lose, who got a lot of dirt here, is one of my faves on that record.
Some people critise the sound on BHBC but I prefer it to the one on LLM. That one is a bit too much on the murky side for me.
Phew, it’s difficult to point out an overrated album from the most underrated band ever (un)known to mankind.
I can only think of some songs that I don’t rate that high like others do. “Vortex Surfer” for example. I’d prefer Taifun by an ocean. But the album itself is my 90ties Physical Graffitti. And that’s a good thing. Also productionwise the best sounding MP record to me. On a sidenote, live versions of “Hey Jane” don’t move me nowhere as much as on record.
I don’t think Love Cult is overrated, because I don’t remember anyone praising it as his favourite. “Serpentine” of course woooohooooo is fantastic, that vocal line, those odd bass slurps into the chorus and that harmony instrumental middle part. But count me in on the “Neverland” bashers. Yes I know it’s a fun song.
And there’s a live bootie version with an awesome guitar solo part.BHBC gets my lovin’. The energy and the groove, almost only fast songs. I never thought it could work like this, since I had no idea about Bent’s drumming. It goes to show what happens when bass and drums are conceived in the same brain, felt in the same blood. But there’s “Beyond the Flood”, that one creeps me. I always see some Slash dude on a sunset lit monument valley rock noodling away. It’s “Year Zero”‘s evil twin.
Geez I have to find an overrated MP album….. So I go for Angels and Demons then. There’s a bunch of classics like Starmelt, Source, Passionplays, H-Mac und der Hund. I’d say it’s the least consistent (is that an english word?) of them all. With “In the Family” as the low point.
Blissard I could nominate as well. After “Manmower”, the experience is kinda gone, the music just drags on for 2 more ditties. It stumbles home, worn out and drunk. Nice image though. But leaves me somewhat unfulfilled.
Demon Box shines due to a bunch of mastodons-dancing-on-a-volcano numbers. But yes, there’s some rough edges, stuff that could have used more time maybe? Experimentation by a starting unit with a vision. Or not, actually. But that’s its appeal and I can’t think of anything bad there. Songs usually not on my A-list like Sun Child strike me breathless when I hear them once again.
Cake’n’Thyme… I like them. But there’s just a couple of songs on each that give me the bumps. Stained Glass, 30/30, Phaseout, For Free, Fool, NLMout. Other songs lie in the spaces between nice, impressive and bland.
Timothy, of course, is the one. Always will be.
