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Bj-1 
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Posted: August 22 2009 at 08:58 |
I think it's a good album, and I can't say I dislke any of the songs featured on it. Standouts are Otis and Elephas Levi, though Do The Music is another personal favorite of mine.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Logan
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 15:03 |
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Magma is pretty funkin' good. It gets my groove-thing going.
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Posted: July 07 2009 at 13:00 |
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Well, I'm glad to see I'm not alone liking this album. Magma proves zeuhl is groovy !
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Logan
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 11:42 |
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I actually really like most of the tracks off Merci (even the first track I rather like, to be honest, and I'm glad it's there). I love Magma, and certainly would not place it as a favourite album, but it's different and refreshing. And playing "I Must Return" and "The Night We Died" back-to-back got the wife more interested in Magma (plus she likes the very good "Elephas Levi" -- which I voted for along with the majority). I really like how that, to me, beautiful theme repeats in both "I Must Return" and "The Night We Died" with different moods.
After hearing it panned so much, I was surprised just how very much I like it for what it is. It is an essential part of my Magma collection, but then so is every Magma album I have ... and that's a lot of Magma. Okay, I do have a couple of lives that are too similar to each other.
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 23:25 |
Levi, a creepy pseudo-epic to put a nice spin on an otherwise insane album that should have been aborted 
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 19:10 |
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I myself don't think that Merci is a bad album, it's a very solid album despite how different it is to other magma albums, but the soul is still there!
My favorite is Elephas Levi, amazing track by Stundehr!
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Logan
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Posted: June 18 2009 at 15:57 |
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Nice choice, I very nearly went that way myself. I find it a really beautiful track, and quite perfect in its way, and was the one that initially made the album pretty good for me. I found "Elephas Levi" to go on too long, though it had great parts, but it quickly grew on me. I'm glad to see "The Night we Died" get a vote.
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song_of_copper
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Posted: June 18 2009 at 15:38 |
My vote goes to 'The Night We Died'. For some reason it really freaked me out, in that spooky, uncanny way that Magma has sometimes.  Or maybe that's just me...  The rest of the album... it's not as awful as I was expecting it to be. But it didn't have any mad neurological effects. The 'nocebo' of Magma albums, perhaps.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 15:42 |
I voted for "Otis".
The album as a whole hasn't grown on me, but I've only had it for a year or so. "Otis" was on the Bobino 1981 live set, so I know that one better. Whatever happened to "Who's My Love"??
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Logan
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 15:36 |
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I went with "Elephas Levi", but I thought "The Night we Died" might have got a vote or two -- I find it simple and beautiful. I don't even mind the first track which is the obvious weakest point. It's so cheesy; it amuses me.
I originally had thought about making this poll Magma's Merci vs. Musique Noise's Fulmines Regularis.
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Syzygy
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 13:47 |
Eliphas Levi makes up for all the other shortcomings - the glossy 80s production, the Linn drums, the ill advised foray into Zeuhl euro disco.
Actually I agree that, once you're past the first track, it's actually a pretty good album which explores some of the ideas on Attahk a bit further. Otis is particularly effective, especially once the bass kicks in.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Zargus
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:28 |
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hehe that video of Otis, so bad its goood...
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:02 |
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Elephas Leviis as beautiful as anything on KA, which seems like a natural comparison. Love it! The rest of the album isn't awful or anything, just hard to choose listening to when I have all those hours of fantastic stuff from 70-81.
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 23:41 |
 MovingPictures07 wrote:
AHHHH!
IT BURNS!
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This.
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Evolutionary Sleeper
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 21:26 |
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Elephas Levi
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 21:13 |
I don't want to hijack the thread either (well, maybe ), but nice avatar. 
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 21:12 |
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Understandable.
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 21:10 |
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I like funk, but I really hate disco.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 21:08 |
I don't know why, maybe it's because I've always liked funk and never completely disliked disco (or that I'm a Magma fanboy ) but I don't understand how so many people don't find anything good about the album. At least 4 of the tracks (Otis through Otis (ending) and Elephas Levi) are really good IMO and most of the rest aren't complete lost causes...except the opener, it belongs in an exceptionally corny '80s movie.
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 20:24 |
Sckxyss wrote:
I listened to this album once, then promptly deleted it from my hard drive, so I can't say..
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So did I. I did burn it onto a blank CD first though, just in case I'd ever be crazy enough to try it again.
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