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Been playing this record now for te past hour. I really really like it. At times it reminds me of an updated version of Barracuda. Lots of harmony vocals (Riding the tiger!), lots of meterchanges. Favorites so far: The Ozzylot (which has a kind of Uberwagner-feel to it), Riding The Tiger, Cornucopia and Child Of The Future.
The Eternal is definitely one of the best sounding rock albums of the year, I’ll give Sonic Youth that (the album itself is also really good, another quality SY-release).
But I’m willing to bet is was recorded completely digital, because it just sounds so crisp and precisely put together. I don’t know how how LLM was recorded but it sounds a lot more analog to me. It’s also mastered relatively soft and dynamic, you have to crank the volume a bit to make it sound better. This is something they must have done on purpose. As if they chose not to go with the ongoing loudness war. The Eternal is mastered in a much louder way.
I’m actually comparing them both as I’m typing this but I’m doing this on a laptop, so…
I have to agree with everything said regarding It’s A Love Cult. Though it got to number one in my personal end-of-year-list of 2002, simply becuase I still think there are a couple of songs that redeem the album (Uberwagner, This Otherness, Serpentine and One More Deamon). I hardly listen to it anymore.
To me BH/BC is an underrated album. Yes, you can hear that Geb’s missing, but the overall quality of most of the songs is overwhelming: Kill Devil Hills, Triggerman, Hyena, The Ace, No Evil, Trixeene, Devil Dog, all classics IMHO. I still play this one regularly.
In some previous polls Phanerothyme was voted as the most popular of the three pop-era albums, but I hardly ever listen to this one. I think it’s their most overproduced album, even though it has Slow Phase-Out and B/S to partly redeem it.
Personally, to me Demon Box is their most overrated album. It’s by all means not a bad album, but it is nowhere near the grandiosity of the four albums that followed it.
