Shred Room III

MovingPictures07 wrote: James wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: The fact anyone would want to be 'more' of a fanboy than someone is sad. I don't. I actually criticise their music. Alex likes all of it, even the not so good stuff. All of it is good.

No it's not.

War is mediocre.  Dagmar can be often annoying.  Some of their tunes lack direction.

So I've mysteriously managed to hear a live version of Living in the Heart of the Beast that feature one Robert Wyatt.

Holy sh*t it brutally murders the studio version, then revives it just so it can kill it again because it didn't feel like it was brutal enough the first time.

Now if only I had $100 to drop on the box.

James wrote: You're not a Henry Cow fanboy. You don't own Henry Cow albums on CD. You haven't heard Desperate Straights. Therefore I'm arguably more of a fanboy than you.

I own hardly anything on CD.

I get MP3s and then burn them onto blank discs because I like having both the MP3 copy and a CD version.

James wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: James wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: The fact anyone would want to be 'more' of a fanboy than someone is sad. I don't. I actually criticise their music. Alex likes all of it, even the not so good stuff. All of it is good. No it's not. War is mediocre.  Dagmar can be often annoying.  Some of their tunes lack direction.

War is amazing.

None of their tunes lack direction, IMO.

Have you listen to Henry Cow yet, Hamish?  Just curious.

HughesJB4 wrote: The Mars Volta is better than Henry Cow. There, I said it.

Doesn't make it right.

James wrote: Have you listen to Henry Cow yet, Hamish?  Just curious.

Nope.
I will give them a proper try though, I wont dismiss them purely based on one song if I don't like it.
I'll listen to at least 2 albums before I decide I like it or not, considering the praise they get around these parts.

NaturalScience wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: The Mars Volta is better than Henry Cow. There, I said it. But Henry Cow had more than one great album.

All of TMV's albums are good (Frances being the worst).

Nonetheless, Henry Cow blows them out of the water.

This is INSANE.

I have no idea what Cutler is banging but it's intense.

Edit: It's marimbas


Edited by James - February 18 2009 at 22:28

NaturalScience wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: But you didn't answer my question about buying Concerts. Depends on your level of fanboy - the Hamburg and Oslo pieces are quite different, so there is something to be gained from acquiring each album.  But the track list of the "songs" is fairly similar, and you would get the feel of the tracks on Concerts from listening to Hamburg, I think.

Ok, I guess that 9 discs of live Henry Cow will be enough.

HughesJB4 wrote: The Mars Volta is better than Henry Cow. There, I said it.

OH MY GOD HARRY YOU ARE A DEAD MAN!

HughesJB4 wrote: Which Opeth album?

Ghost Reveries. I have it on Ruckus for another half hour, so I figured I might as well listen to it. I still think a lot of metal is silly (Leviathan doesn't even have growls but it still makes me laugh, I don't know why), but the Opeth growls are a lot less silly now.

Edited by Henry Plainview - February 18 2009 at 22:28