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Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2009 at 00:53
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They're a retro Goth band called the 'Armless Monkees
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2009 at 15:55
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

micky, I was promised a place in your sig so that my name may reach the heavens and be engraved upon the rock of ages. Were you dissatisfied with the quality of the edit? :(


oh no....   I had asked if you could do that artsy stuff with the lights...  then I was going to put it in there Clap
Ah, I didn't see that. I will add the glorious lens flare tonight when I get home. All members of PA shall be blinded by the light!


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micky, I was promised a place in your sig so that my name may reach the heavens and be engraved upon the rock of ages. Were you dissatisfied with the quality of the edit? :(


oh no....   I had asked if you could do that artsy stuff with the lights...  then I was going to put it in there Clap
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

micky, I was promised a place in your sig so that my name may reach the heavens and be engraved upon the rock of ages. Were you dissatisfied with the quality of the edit? :(


oh no....   I had asked if you could do that artsy stuff with the lights...  then I was going to put it in there Clap

edit... unless I missed that...


Edited by micky - April 07 2009 at 15:54
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2009 at 15:47
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that they have no arms so they play their instruments with their tongues and feet??
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micky, I was promised a place in your sig so that my name may reach the heavens and be engraved upon the rock of ages. Were you dissatisfied with the quality of the edit? :(
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It's evident that their music is a mixture of new-age with gregorian chants to give it a "monk effect". The clear sun in the beach is obviously the most stupid place for three "monks" to be standing upon, but it may be a reference to the fable about when Jesus walked on the waters, because if not, it really doesn't make any remote sense (not that the reference does either, but at least they can blame the chessyness on their beliefs...) Again, they're all looking in different directions, which may be an attempt to show how individually artistic this particular endeavor is, trying to re-affirm the musical skills or knowledge of each of these "monks". Of course, failed actors as they are, they don't convey any sense of grandeur but a feeling of utter boredom; just look at the middle guy, submerged in drowsiness, or the left-most one, who is apparently thinking of the hamburguer he is not eating because of this stupid photo-shoot. The right-most guy is clearly the most focused one, probably because he realized the cameraman, trying to make the pic look "new age", decided to take a diagonal-looking picture, and he's going to be the only one who will look completely vertical, so he better holds this position or the whole thing, which is already a mess to begin with (again: monks in the water? With so many cathedral and monasteries in the world? At least ELP in "love beach" appear in street clothes...), will become a complte and utter failure...
 
Oh... the music should be cheesy as hell...
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interesting LOLClap

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Its surely an Emerson, Lake & Palmer coverband with keen 16th century Germanic influences

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Re monks' traditional undergarments: I do believe Benedictine monks (okay I could've got the denomination wrong) used to wear boxers made from some type of hessian. Bit of a sackloth & ashes connection, I guess.
 
I STILL think they look like rejects from Arthur Brown's 1968 Top of the Pops version of Fire. Also think Carl Palmer and Vincent Crane were on that one - all wore hoods so 'tis hard to tell.
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Points: 5210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2009 at 08:29
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

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While in the midst of a divine trance, our intrepid monks neglected to notice that the tide was comng in. The monk in the middle, being of more slight build, is shivering in the cold, while our more portly friends are thinking of, well port, and specifically where they might find it.  All are thankful that the tide didn't make it up to their underwear (assuming such garments are needed for monks)
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Well... obviously these guys think that using ties and suits already makes them look highly indie and/or intellectual and it's partially true. Evidently the lack of color in the photograph is a cry against the futile and repugnant use of color like in the DT photograph, but also an aesthetic plea to be treated like some kind of vintage act that obviously will make musical references to the past, while keeping it "current" which can be determined after seeing the atrociously pre-fabricated nerdy/geeky look of all the male characters, who avoid making the smallest gesture of a smile lest they be confused with anything else but true art-rock saviors who can't afford to sell themselves even though they're posing for a photograph just the same as the guys in N'Sync. Look how brillianty every woman is looking ina different direction, a sign of utter originality and chaos, disorder, hence, according to them, rebellion and art. The girls bring the balance, those two in the corner, to the black lack of color of the center of the picture, a sign of the incrediblt artistry that can be found in the music of this group of people, who can't try harder enough to look like they don't belong, even though they just fall in a complete different category, but they're just as mundane as the rest in their group. They adapted to their rules. They don't belong to the "non-indie" group, oh no. They really don't. They're just as vulgar because they look like exactly any kind of group that plays the music they play.
 
If you really don't want to sell your image and prostitute yourself, then stay away from the cover inlet. Otherwise all you're doing is posing and making your little ego be given some of the praise that, originally, the music by itself should be able to get.
 
Albums WITHOUT the pics of the artists.... now that's much better.... but very few manage to do that.... it takes BALLLS.
 
Bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, and Tool managed to do it for years before showing clear images of themselves in any part of the album.
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That picture is pretty pitiful. They should just go back to being a progressive band rather than trying to rock and be metal. The album artwork is really cool though, but i'm not getting my hopes up again. They have been dissappointing for awhile now.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

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Have they come to give Debbie Gibson's teddy bear the last rites?
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^ Mike and Tony drafted another poor schlep to be a lead singer?
-------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob-------

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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 07:25
next up....   what does this picture tell you of this group...
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yeah Rocky... I share an interest in this myself...   that was sort of what drew me into the thread....

might dig up another pic... and see what our crack panel of visual interpreters  thinks of it LOL

by the way... if I was to keep score...  point to Rocky for round 1. 
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Points: 4202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2009 at 04:26
Funnily all the observations that seems to be correct, and not just angry and hateful, were almost identical to what I wrote about the Decemberists.

While I think the Debbie Gibson cover works very much like a psychological personality test. Similar to the Rorschach inkblot test (I'm sure T is familiar with it).
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2009 at 23:58
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


ahem.... look at this picture... what does it tell you about the music inside...  would you check it out.


Does quality matter a lick if you do not like the style of the music?


 
That image tells me that a girl, presumably 25-30 years old, had just had sex with a poor innocent teddy bear... The music will be electro-pop euro-oriented with flashes of jazzy-delight provided by the shades of blue that we can find in the title of the album, which obviously is a reference to Miles Davis' masterpiece. It probably presents a metaphor about the ocean and also about how she was feeling so sad and "blue" but suddenly found a bear to vent all her frustations on and a few hours later, against a virginal, quite mystically-religious white pure backdrop, she emerges with the corpse of the damned bear who represents mankind, those b*****ds who robbed her virtues in the back of a gray alley many years ago.... Her pants are torn, which is a sign of the struggles she has made in life and the fight she put to keep her honour, something the ^%@% teddy bear had to endure because that b*****d paid for all of our crimes......
 
.... yes my people, I have realized this is a religious album.
 
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