The Rotter’s Club!!
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Topic: The Rotter’s Club!!
Posted By: beterdedthnred4
Subject: The Rotter’s Club!!
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 18:47
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I just can't get enough of this album! At the risk of seeming
like a foaming at the mouth canterbury fanboy, everything about it is
almost perfect. Every band member's compositions are great in
different ways, the whimsy of Richard Sinclair's work, the jazzy
lyricism of Phil Miller's songs, the alternating beauty and violence of
Pip Pyle's pieces, and sheer mass, complexity, and (place own adjective
here) of Dave Stewert's epic "Mumps." Here are some random observations on one of my favorite albums that just does not get enough attention:
They have 3/4's of this lineup back together and are allegedly writing a third studio album. If it's half as good as this one, it'll be the album of the year, whether this year or next. |
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 19:02
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I agree I simply LOVE R. Sinclair's voice it's really a thing of beauty ------------- 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 19:05
| Great album! I especially like Fitter Stoke Has A Bath. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 19:24
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I love the album too, and "Fitter Stoke" is my fave track as well -- tres GROOVY! Sophisticated, cool, and with a sense of humour -- serious music that doesn't take itself too seriously! Have any of you Hatfield fans heard (modern American "Canterbury" outfit) Umphrey's Magee, and their excellent album Anchor Drops? If you like the above, you'll likely like it, too -- a superb disc and band that our Danbo turned me on to! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Moogtron III wrote:
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 19:25
| I adore Hatfield and this is their crowning glory to date! I too am very excited at the prospect of a new studio album. I saw the new lineup on it's first ever public gig and I can state with confidence that Stewart's replacement ROCKS. I'm not sure I can add any more to this... amazing group! Creative, original, complex, humourous, entertaining, musically superb... an all-round brilliant musical vision! No proggy home should be without a Hatfield album or two. |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 19:47
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They made two magnificent albums that I know of. the selftitled delicately played Hatfield and The North. and the even more lovely The Rotter's Club. If they really are working on a new album, I'm all excited,
------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 20:23
According to Sinclair they are... From his website: HATFIELD
AND THE NORTH
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 20:37
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If I didn't ate my blue bunnie on the latest barbeque, I'd put him up as my avatar again
this is a reason to cerebrate, sorry typo, i mean celebrate ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: illustrated
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 03:18
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I bought the first stuff, pretty awesome. How is 'The Rotters Club'? Better? |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 03:25
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this is the official website of Hatfield and the North: http://www.hatfieldandthenorth.co.uk/ - http://www.hatfieldandthenorth.co.uk/ check it out -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 03:49
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The Rotter's Club is sitting at the top of the best album list of Gnosis (always is among the top five) and has an average rate of almost 13 (out of 15). This alone is quite a feat . If there is one album best fit to describe typical Canterbury music, I would choose this one. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 06:39
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That's Rotters' Club, not Rotter's Club.
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 08:19
------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |