SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

James, Do you have Thin Air yet?  I haven't listened to it yet, but it was available on eMusic, so I went ahead and downloaded it over the weekend.

Nah, I'm not really a n00b. 

Or wait, am I?!

Well, at least I'm not as n00by as James.

TGM: Orb wrote: How anyone thinks Awake is not the best DT album is beyond me... And anyway, World Record is still a great record. I prefer other VDGG albums... almost all other VDGG albums, but the number of albums I don't prefer all other VDGG albums to is very small.

How anybody can think that Metropolis Part 2 is a 1 star album is beyond me...

TGM: Orb wrote: How anyone thinks Awake is not the best DT album is beyond me...

Perhaps because it has it's pretty heavy moments? I find it good, specially 6:00, Innocence Faded and Lifting Shadows.., while Scarred, Voices, The Silent Man, Space Dye-Vest and Erotomania have there really good moments.

The Quiet One wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: How anyone thinks Awake is not the best DT album is beyond me... Perhaps because it has it's pretty heavy moments? I find it good, specially 6:00, Innocence Faded and Lifting Shadows.., while Scarred, Voices, The Silent Man, Space Dye-Vest and Erotomania have there really good moments.

Hm... oersonally, I wouldn't consider anything off it remotely as heavy as Speed King or the opening solo off Facelift or something like that. It's pretty metallic, I'll give you, but I don't really mind any musical styles enough to complain if they seem well-written and memorable to me (I mean, my main problem with metal is when it's done very blandly, which is a bit... the songs off Awake don't strike me as that).

The opening solo on Facelift is heavy?

Gosh, you need educating on heaviness.  Try Guapo's Black Oni (especially one section) and get back to me.


Edited by James - July 06 2009 at 15:50

I only rate albums one star if I can't see myself listening to them again ever.

I've handed out fewer than ten of those honors.

James wrote: The opening solo on Facelift is heavy? Gosh, you need educating on heaviness.  Try Guapo's Black Oni (especially one section) and get back to me.

That organ solo (the huge stretchy one) is massive, raw and mind-stretching. Heavy is not simply having guitars and drums and being loud.

Epignosis wrote: I only rate albums one star if I can't see myself listening to them again ever. I've handed out fewer than ten of those honors.

I can only think of three right now for myself.  But yes, that criterion works well.  Albums so terrible you're tempted to throw them away, so they don't foul up your collection with their stinkiness.

TGM: Orb wrote: James wrote: The opening solo on Facelift is heavy? Gosh, you need educating on heaviness.  Try Guapo's Black Oni (especially one section) and get back to me. That organ solo (the huge stretchy one) is massive, raw and mind-stretching. Heavy is not simply having guitars and drums and being loud.

I know.

Also listen to Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company.

That's also heavy.

Just saxophones and a trumpet (I think).