Colin M
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I thought I would bump this thread after spending a most enjoyable few hours adding these albums into a Spotify playlist whilst reading Colin's reviews. (I did add Burial's first album as a personal highlight in place of Herbert which wasn't available)
I must agree with what most have said on this and the top 30 hip-hop thread that you have a real talent for reviews Colin, you owe it to yourself to try to pursue this further if you do enjoy it.
Thanks very much for your kind words
I have certainly enjoyed doing these two threads, although the pace at which the hip hop one is going indicates I don't have as much time for it as I did two years ago!0 -
Ok Chvrches are the best thing since sliced bread.
What I have been saying is the synth sound has been done to death especially pop synth for children who can only hear the basic chords that make up popular sound. This band might go three albums and then they will disappear. Then the wee lassie will start writing pop hits magazine or something..
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I like to see Scottish bands do well and bought this album when it first came out , played it around three times then field. I get young people will like it and anything that gets children listening to music is a good thing. Just stating for me I hear nothing new it's pop music played on basic common chords.
We get that you,don't like them. I don't particularly like them either, as stated previously.
The notion though that "the synth sound" has been done to death seems absurd - what are the sounds you're listening to that haven't been done to death?
I'd imagine part of the appeal of Chvrches is the simplicity. Some of the best and indeed most revolutionary popular music has been exceptionally simple. I take no issue with anyone who has an automatic preference for "complexity", and if that's your bag then that's fine. It's absolutely incredible though that you'd cite Disclosure as some sort of antidote to either simplicity or music that's been done before, given their entire shtick is to sound like decades worth of other music.
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Disclosure as "something new" is absolutely hilarious
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I felt much the same about Drive as I did The Virgin Suicides when I saw that for the first time - amazingly stylish film and soundtrack that fit it exactly, but ultimately there was just something hollow about it.
Which is kind of exactly how I feel about Chvrches music in general. I like the idea and sound of it but it leaves me cold. It feels too designed. I think they could get better though so I'm keen to hear them develop.
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Twin Peaks
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David Lynch brought the idea of a sequel 25 years later up before, did he not? I'm sure he's spoken about it, and it's been in the pipeline.
I think it's never really been ruled out, but it's not really until this year that it's seemed a distinct possibility (for various reasons). I think a lot of core Lynch fans will be surprised at the way it's gone, obviously delighted, not just because it's coming back but also because it indicates that Lynch too saw it as unfinished business. It's known that he and Frost weren't entirely happy with the direction it took, pressures from the network etc.
As a long time fan of the show I actually love all the shit bits too, it's as much a cult obsession as any sort of critical judgement that has kept people intrigued by the show. I wouldn't dress up as Johnny Horne and go to a convention or anything like that, but I've certainly wasted plenty of my life since seeing it as a kid wondering how things might be resolved or more likely, how they might be developed. Knowing that we're getting Lynch and Frost's take on that is very exciting, even though there's a high chance it won't live up to expectations.
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Twin Peaks
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It was a good show, but what is the point in "brining it back" 25 years later.
I suspect for many involved as well as most fans, there's a sense of it being unfinished.
There's also a pretty huge plot reference in the original finale to things being continued 25 years later.
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Twin Peaks
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OK, it's been confirmed, yaaaaaaas!
Interview with Mark Frost:
http://tvline.com/2014/10/06/twin-peaks-showtime-cast-new-episodes-spoilers/
It says spoilers in the link but there's nothing on new plot or anything.
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Twin Peaks
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Even though as with any such comeback there's a high chance it'll be shit, to have Lynch in particular on board hopefully means they would capture most of the things that people love it for.
Bit crap it wouldn't have Michael J Anderson or Frank Silva in it though.... maybe they could be CGI'd
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Anyone else been to this? I was there on Tuesday, it was fantastic. Ninth Wave part was mesmerising, second half with Sky Of Honey was a bit disjointed in comparison but still had some great bits. She sounded great vocally, and the Cloudbusting finale was the most enjoyable communal sing a long I've experienced since the "whoooa-oh-oh-oh" bit of Purple Rain in 2007.
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Setlist and some photos from opening gig last night, looks like quite a show.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/08/kate-bushs-first-concert-in-35-years-setlist-photos/
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A question that I think (hope) might be relevant to this thread - I've got a mp3 of 'Running' by The Pharcyde from feck knows where, but I think it's ace. Is this representative of their stuff generally (i.e. if I like this track, might I like other stuff they've done?) and if so, where do I start? Suggestions welcome.
It's not that representative to be honest, I suppose the album it's from called Labcabinacalifornia is most like it. They only really had two albums of note, that which was their second, and their debut Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde which is generally considered a classic and is a bit of a sprawling masterpiece. It's a bit goofy in parts but has some amazing tracks.
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There was a reissue program on a label called Original Dope 3 or 4 years ago where they released a handful of UK albums from that period (Blade, MC Duke, Silver Bullet, MC Mell'O', Ruthless Rap Assassins), would be great to see more of that stuff resurface. Unfortunately they never followed up with any more, not sure if the venture collapsed or whatever, it's probably not a real money maker
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Ghostface was pretty disappointing to be honest, I'd seen him twice before and both times it was amazing but the sound in the Arches was duff.
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Do not read the books unless you like graphic descriptions of food, incest, pedophilia and scat.
I love graphic descriptions of food. It's the main reason I enjoyed Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.
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I got a couple for 30th September. By that time I fully expect the 35 year old cobwebs to have been blown off and the show to be a fine tuned machine.
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Twin Peaks
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Won't give anything away but season 2 hits a climax about episode 15 (so the next few you watch will be good) and then it tails off a bit and becomes a bit silly for a while, but is great again by the end. The final episode with Lynch back directing is brilliant, it's classic and stereotypical Lynch.
James sub plot as season 2 progresses is dreadful, and the Major Briggs stuff is a bit X-Files for a while, but ties in with the finale.
I'm due a rewatch of the whole thing, this might well prompt me to start it again!
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Twin Peaks
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The Log Lady introductions are pointless, you won't miss anything by skipping them.
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Going to see Luke Vibert & Venetian Snares at the Scala in London in May. Anyone else into glitchcore/Electronic/Acid?
Never got into Snares but love a lot of Luke Vibert's stuff - the Wagon Christ albums, his stuff on Mo Wax, the Plug and Amen Andrews d'n'b stuff, etc. I've seen him DJ a few times and he's always been excellent. Not heard anything from him for a few years now though.
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I always avoid spoilers (very easy to do despite what many morons say) and when I say that episode I was shouting 'What the f**k?!" very loudly. When they stabbed Rob's wife (and baby) I was shocked but when it went on I was fucking stunned. Great episode mind. I had the same reaction to Ned Stark getting his head chopped off.
Can't wait to see what happens in episode 9 in the 4th series.
I always avoid spoilers and then I read this post.
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She wouldn't be in my top 5, but I actually root for Sansa and don't mind her despite her early stupidity.
I think she has it in her to become a player.
Bran (in the books especially) is fucking awful though, together with Jojen Reed. Catelyn was miserable as f**k, however her chapters were more interesting as they provided an insight into Robb's war. Jon Snow is fucking dull and pretty wooden in the TV show, but his storyline is fairly interesting.
Yeah, to be fair her chapters are usually among the most gripping* because of where she is placed throughout. And you can't help but root for her, if only because her plotlines have delivered relentless misery!
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although I'm sure we could all live without the bits about Tyrion's cock
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Sansa
said noone ever.
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They should definitely end it there. Third series was hit and miss, had some great bits, some really bad bits and some utterly pointless bits. Towards the end it got exciting and the way it ended was probably about right - we suspend disbelief regularly in these shows but given everything that had happened, it had to catch up with Brody eventually - there was no way out. They've more or less written Saul out of it as well IMO and Carrie must be about done too.
They could do something with underdeveloped characters like Quinn (although I found it annoying he went from anonymous assassin posing as analyst to all round CIA operative supreme involved in every single thing the agency was involved in!) and Dar Adal (who entered in season 2 as a mysterious head of black ops type but turned out to be little more than Saul's sounding board, even the hints that he was double crossing him didn't really amount to much) but I think making a season 4 is a mistake at this stage. The whole point of the show for me was about the moral ambiguity of Brody's position, his conflict between his family and his beliefs and missions, and a fairly constant "is he/isn't he a terrorist" that made it so thrilling at the start, and ultimately less so after the first season by which time we knew. While the ending of season 3 was exciting, they had established him as being "good" so that even the bluff that he was going to blow the whistle before killing Akbari was so obviously a bluff. They should let it lie now.
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Aah ok, wasn't sure if there was new material out that I'd missed! That's a great album, although all his stuff is great anyway.
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the new Arthur Russell comp thing is great.
New comp?
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I have certainly enjoyed doing these two threads, although the pace at which the hip hop one is going indicates I don't have as much time for it as I did two years ago!
Mount Rushmore of music
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