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"Also; musical taste is one of the most subjective things in the universe"
That's, why I pointed that out. I somehow don't understand how someone can "love" TDDU, but I don't have to and just because I don't like the recent albums doesn't mean anything.
@odindahle: I also think that Barleycorn ist the best song on this album, but it doesn't take me back to Trust Us AT ALL.
I know this is somehow difficult, I also wouldn't want just 3 Blissards in a row (althought I would take another Timothy!), but I just don't like what they evolved into. There are so many bands with 1-2 great albums in their beginning and then they "evolve" and it's just pure crap. Fortunately MP has made far more good records than A LOT of other bands in their whole career and they might have played some of the best gigs in the history of rock, but I just can't relate to this prog stuff. For example the "taking apart" of Live Hogwash in the recent years (Can and all that) really ruins this song for me. I like it as a rocker!
TDDU is really a record I would like to erase from their portfolio. I just can't listen to it and the concert I attended was maybe on of the fes concerts in my life, I left before it finished, because I was starting to fall asleep, being bored to death.
As I said in my previous post. It's just a matter of taste and it's useless to complain anyway, but I just miss the feeling to leave a MP gig stunned for quite some time after…
Hmm, I think my "relationship" with MP finally ended. This kind of music just means nothing to me any more. I mean, it's not as bad as the Unicorn (which would have been impossible anyway), but all the Kenneth era albums don't reach me in any way (set aside some songs). Maybe I'll go see a gig, just to hear the Blissard stuff, but I am not sure yet.
Danced to "Like always" at a party last week. Still the perfect Indie-Pop-Rock-Song for me. I just miss the mix of short, catchy songs with brilliant melodies and the epicness of The Wheel and the like. Maybe it's just me turning 40 this week…
To sum it up in the words of the german band Tocotronic: "Ich mag dich einfach nicht mehr so!"
plattentests.de also has a (german) review – I am afraid that this will be the next MP record, I don't like.
@BronYAur: I agree with you on the "over the top" drumming. Watching Kenneth drum is sometimes to much like a circus show. It's hard to believe, he can do these things, but in many – especially – older songs I would really prefer a more steady basic, but heavy drumbeat. I don't reacall exactly which song it was, but at a gig in Hamburg a couple of years ago during, maybe, Kill Some Day, I thought "He is playing about 3 times as many things than there are in the original."
I missed Geb quite a bit during these songs…
I also really hope that the Unicorn is buried in the deepest vaults of the ocean. I still hate it beyond belief and in almost 20 years of being a MP fan the Unicorn gig was the first MP gig ever, that I left before it finished.
So hoping for a concert with "songs" and not just "sounds". Still not sure, if I'll buy a ticket for Hamburg. I'd rather wait for the first setlists and the album, but then the venue might be sold out. Hmmm, difficult…
Stun (from Bremen). Brilliant new indie-rock cd "Ok Hunter"
http://www.tape.tv/musikvideos/Stun/Paris-Vegas
http://soundcloud.com/stun/sets/stun_ok_hunter/
(Check out "Hail will drum" and "Summer")
Yeah! And they lost to make things even worse! But usually I consider Xavi, Iniesta and Messi as the ultimate power trio, creating pieces of beautiful art! Just like MP can, if they want!
I am glad you could laugh, Alex. Unfortunately, I was dead serious! For me the evening was a waste of time! I will go see them again, when I can expect something like a regular song structure…
Hmm…
I am sorry to say that the gig was huge disappointment for me!
First of all: I arrived at the Schlachthof at about 5 minutes past 8 and the guys already played! When did concerts begin to start on time??
To all the people that wrote: "Go and see the Unicorn live, even if you don't like it on record!", I say, the thing is as boring and needless live as on CD. There were a couple of moments when I thought "Well, that band sometimes sounds like Motorpsycho!", but for the rest of the evening I was bored to death! I have seen maybe 30 MP gigs since 1995 and loads of them were majestic and moved me deeply, but this is as worse as some of cheesy-jazzy gigs around 2000.
And the encores? Arnie H? Another noodeling feast without a proper melody? And then a Deep Purple cover? I left while they still played Burn. Now I see, I missed Hogwash! If that was another deconstructed Hallewujah (or whatever) version, I don't care!
For me the evening was a waste of time an money and I wish I'd sold my ticket and watched Barcelona play instead!
In my opinion that was one of the worst gigs, MP ever played! I know that german TV broadcasted the whole set, so recordings should exist.
I was at the Hamburg gig, too, but I didn't think too much of it at that time. Reading the setlist now, I know why… Not my favourite collection of songs, although the Giftland beginning set a high mark.
I tried to listen to the album quite a lot of times, but every time it gives me a bad mood, because I really hate it! I bought a ticket for Bremen, but I really consider not going. I don't want to ruin my MP memory
Last post mentions Sonic Youth. I always had them in mind when thinking about a band that has a very distinctive sound and makes one beautiful record after the other without changing the style completely, like MP does. So there could be an evolution from Timmy without these wide gaps.
Another band that comes to mind is Radiohead. Ever developing and changing their style quite a lot, but still keeping that special something (although I have to admit that only some tracks on The King of Limbs are really getting close to me. But 'Codex'… what a song!). They are an absolute fantastic live band as well. I was at the Hurricane Festival 4 years ago and saw a lot of very good bands for 3 days, but when Radiohead closed the festival I had the impression I had seen only amateurs the whole time!
