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sigod 
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Joined: September 17 2004 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 2779 |
 Topic: It Bites; they blew it didn’t they?Posted: October 21 2004 at 10:55 |
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Ooh, I'm Jelous. Holland seems to be the home of Prog at the moment. I mean, every live Prog DVD I own seems to have been filmed at in The Netherlands |
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emdiar
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Joined: June 05 2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 890 |
Posted: October 21 2004 at 08:15 |
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I don't know, Sigod. I'm English really. I moved here just as they split, 1990. |
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Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact.
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sigod
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Posted: October 21 2004 at 05:50 |
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That's guys for you emdair, always on the lookout for a new 'liason' BTW, did IB ever play in The Netherlands? |
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sigod
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Posted: October 21 2004 at 05:47 |
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Good point DH. It is an excellent album and many of the studio tracks have more 'balls' to them when played live. However, I truly believe that 'Once Around The World' was the prog high water mark of IB's short but illustrious career. |
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emdiar
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Posted: October 21 2004 at 05:36 |
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At the time I was a massive IB fan, even though Frank Dunnery tried to chat up my babelicious wife at a gig in Wolverhampton. I agree with Blacksword about their 3 albums. "Eat Me.." was a cynical record company driven attempt to crack the US market. Suck-up tracks like "People of America" made me cringe. All the American prog fans I know are pretty much musical anglophiles anyway, and know full well when they're being patronised. Why bother trying to sound American? Americans do it much better.
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: October 21 2004 at 04:59 |
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'Big lad' is very poppy in places, but quite infectous too. As an album its not that progressive on the whole, IMO, but tracks like 'Screaming on the beaches' and 'You'll never go to heaven' are brilliant and make up for the crap on the album like 'Whole new world' and 'Wanna shout' the latter sounds like something Duran Duran may have rejected even as a B-side. IB were sneaking their prog in through the back door at this point. Lulling the pop world into a false sense of security. They really progged out on 'Once around the world' 'Eat me..' has a few good tunes, but annoying production and more than its fair share of cliche. Their split was a msuical tragedy, when you consider what they were capable of. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Reed Lover
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Joined: July 16 2004 Location: Sao Tome and Pr Status: Offline Points: 5187 |
Posted: October 20 2004 at 14:32 |
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Wakey, Wakey! |
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 13:05 |
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Why haven't you guys mentioned It Bites' Live At Montreaux yet - don't you check their website? |
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sigod
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 11:59 |
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For your info danbo, the proggiest tracks on OATW are 'Old Man And The Angel' and the majestic 'Once Around...' As for the other two albums, Try 'Big Lad In The Windmill' before 'Eat Me In St Louis'. Proggiest track on 'Big Lad..' being 'Screaming On The Beaches' I think. 'Big Lad..' is poppier, 'Eat Me..' was produced by Mack (ELO, Queen) and REALLY sounds like it.
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Reed Lover
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Joined: July 16 2004 Location: Sao Tome and Pr Status: Offline Points: 5187 |
Posted: October 20 2004 at 11:55 |
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Go to: http://www.itbites.com/ Click downloads and then click on the "Once around The World" mp3 for a live performance of the title track. Eat Me in St Louis is not great-I think they were pulling apart by this time, maybe 2 1/2 stars. Big Lad is not bad- 3 stars. Edited by Reed Lover |
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 11:41 |
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It's only $7.71 on Amazon! Used is good. What about Eat Me and Windmill, are they comparable? I've seen yer arse, You need more roughage in your diet or maybe wet wipes. |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 11:38 |
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I'll show my backside on this forum if you genuinely dont like it!!!!!!! Oh I forgot,I already have-enjoy the album though |
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 11:34 |
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Okay, I'm sold. I'll order Once around the World on Friday.
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sigod
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 10:19 |
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One of the best gigs I ever saw was IB at the Astoria in London on the 'Once Around The World' tour. We got right down to the front before they came on stage and did not move for love 'nor money. When they hit the stage and opened up with 'Kiss Like Judas' the place just absolutely exploded. They played the track 'Once Around...' in it's entirety and at the end of the show the crowd made a noise that I'd never heard before or since, it was deafening. The guys in the band looked genuinely amazed at the reaction from the crowd and I felt so proud that we'd all helped this great band make it. It still remains in my top three favourite gigs. |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 09:48 |
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Come on Pixie it's not a battle it is a game! A bit of FUN! We all talk bollocks, me We will always be on the point of Apocalypse and man will always be inhumane to man-it's the nature of the beast.
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 09:10 |
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Thanks,Sigod. We'll see how the battle goes.
 And I agree with the list of It Bites favourites with the additions of "Calling All The Heroes" (album version of course) and the only two tracks I liked from "Eat Me In St.Louis", "When The Ice Melts Into Water" and the guitar extravaganza "Charlie".
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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sigod
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 08:15 |
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Yeah Pixel, stick with us. This forum would be a little less fun without your words
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
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sigod
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 08:10 |
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For me all of the above plus All In Red and Vampires |
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: October 20 2004 at 08:05 |
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sigod: I too, am a bitter thirty something who think they SHOULD have been huge 'Once around the world' best prog album of the 80's??? Not for me, to be honest, I could never rank it higher than 'Fugazi' By Marillion or 'Moving Pictures' and 'Grace under pressure' by Rush. However, rest assured it wouldn't be far behind them
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 08:04 |
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Keep the lighthouse dream burning! Btw,Terje Rypdal recently played a concert for guitar,keyboards,jet fighter planes (!) and....lighthouse! If you think that looks unbelievable on print you should have heard how it sounded! |
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emdiar wrote:
just realised it goes aff after 3 minutes.
(more than) most!
