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Post-Geb hits for me: The Alchemyst, Year Zero, possibly Hyena and The Promise. But that's it, really.
@ marc: I think I know what you mean by calling Geb's drumming melodic, though I wouldn't have used that word. The best word imho that describes his style is groovy. He was/is such a groovy drummer. A friend of mine put it this way: Geb groovt sogar beim Scheißen /Geb's even grooving when taking a crap.
@ grindove:
Quote:but they've never done an album that I think is brilliant from start to finish.Really? Not even Timothy's Monster? Trust us? Blissard?
Quote:What i always loved most about the band was that special Snah-kind of guitar playing on the verge between riffing and strumming, which leaves Bent just enough space to add melody, harmonic shifts or sheer sonic force.Couldn't agree more!
While there might be heavy songs on each album (except for the cake era, maybe) it's a certain 'simplicity' – in the best sense! – combined with that old heaviness that I miss. I thought Feedtime was the highlight of the 2016 shows, and I prefer songs like that over Hell anytime. Maybe it's an age thing that I've come to find those recent very complex song structures rather tiring.
Urgency is a great term indeed! And I just thought, that's something I miss with regard to another aspect – melody! Or maybe freshness/rawness would apply better here. On each record from the 90s there are melodies that I have completely absorbed and will stay with me and touch me till I'm dead. There are only very few tunes from the later eras that move me in the same way. Of course, that's highly subjective, but I still feel there was a different quality to those melodies back then. Or is that due to the guys being older and more settled? Or can't you assess that objectively at all? Or am I just a boring old fart that's stuck in the past? Help?
Great link, thanks, fillmore! And great that Deutschlandfunk does this! Check it out, folks, it says there it can only be listened to until Sunday afternoon.
Quote:Live and let live, that is my motto.I hope you do see the irony in that, given what you sometimes write here.
Say, Punj, have you gotten hold of all their studio albums yet? What do you make of Timothy's Monster? And what are your thoughts on Demon Box, I wonder… ?
@BronYAur: It's amazing how the tastes differ. I consider Year Zero one hell of a song and I'm also quite fond of Pacific Sonata. But I'm completely with you concerning BH/BC.
And my reading Ghost as Whip that Ghost was wishful thinking. I don't mind hearing only very few songs from the last ten years on this tour…
True, Karma, but the band does it as well, think of "You lied", "K9", or just recently, "Ship of Füüls". So I wanted to know where this one originated… I think "Schiff der Bekloppten" is really funny, and so is "Internet Explorer".
