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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 20, 2011 21:39:15 GMT -8
Oh shit I was postin like crazy like a year ago about these guys after getting supremely (supremely!) fucked up at one of their shows. Go see them live, I think they are on tour soon.
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Post by Lump on Sept 20, 2011 22:08:30 GMT -8
Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd HopedHow is it?
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Sept 20, 2011 22:11:30 GMT -8
Izzz good Lump!
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Post by Horned Gramma on Sept 21, 2011 6:20:38 GMT -8
Dude in no possible way is 'Minstrel in the Gallery' the best Tull song.
...and the Moonface is EXCELLENT.
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Post by alex on Sept 21, 2011 6:29:27 GMT -8
yeah i'm going to listen to Moonface again today. Can't get it out of my head.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Sept 21, 2011 7:12:00 GMT -8
...and the Moonface is EXCELLENT. ^^^ Short Version Long version: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped is probably my favorite record so far this year, next to Green Naugahyde. At first I was mildly disappointed that he had abandoned the marimbas from the Dreamscape EP but then I realized that it wasn't the marimbas that really defined what Krug is trying to do with Moonface. It's really exciting and interesting to hear someone taking these awkward, non-traditional instruments and sounds and stretching them out as far as possible to see how many emotions can be wrung out of them. I can understand that that same thing could be the reason a lot of people would be turned off by this music, but my experience with it is that after just a minute or two the sound of that cheap organ completely wraps itself around my brain and suddenly all the little flourishes and embellishments and all those little moving parts start jumping out of the soup at you like the images on those Magic Eye 3D posters (which, admittedly, I have never once in my life been able to see). When the year ends I highly doubt that I will have heard a song that I love more than 'Fast Peter'.
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Post by alex on Sept 21, 2011 7:24:38 GMT -8
Grooveshark lists it as Dreamface EP, and it's one 20-minute song. Strange.
loved Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped though. Fuck me that's good stuff.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Sept 21, 2011 7:32:29 GMT -8
Grooveshark has it wrong. But so do I. The title of the EP is actually Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums. It is one twenty-minute composition but it is ridiculously fucking awesome.
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Post by alex on Sept 21, 2011 7:34:05 GMT -8
I'm 15 minutes in and could probably listen to this on repeat all day long
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Post by Horned Gramma on Sept 21, 2011 7:41:09 GMT -8
I'm 15 minutes in and could probably listen to this on repeat all day long Haha I've done that. More than once.
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Post by know ID yuh on Sept 21, 2011 7:53:29 GMT -8
Dude in no possible way is 'Minstrel in the Gallery' the best Tull song. "Minstrel In The Gallery" would be great as an instrumental, the drum break down and sporadic tempo, the heavier than usual guitars with the flute nearly dueling, and the length of song already add to the epicness before you add in Anderson's stretched out vocals and madman ramblings. Who cares if it doesn't tell as good of a story as their other songs, a story does not a song make.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Sept 21, 2011 8:01:22 GMT -8
Particularly with Jethro Tull, I don't come for the stories. Late 70's prog -- especially from Britain -- is consistently guilty of being self-consciously fey and fanciful. The pastoral vibe of the whole Minstrel in the Gallery record has always made it one of my lesser favorites.
In terms of self-contained songs, I'll take something off of War Child or Aqualung, but the full album suites were always my favorites. A Passion Play is a little clunkier but it has some beautiful melodies on it (as well as the Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles). To me Minstrel in the Gallery is the last good Tull record before they became a ridiculous parody of themselves on Too Old to Rock n' Roll, Too Young to Die! and the dreadful Songs From the Wood. But that means that Minstrel also shows the buds of what would eventually flower into the affectations that would make most of the material from 1979 onward mostly unlistenable.
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Post by alex on Sept 21, 2011 9:47:13 GMT -8
wait wait wait... Did R.E.M seriously break up? I just read it on spinner and am shocked that this is the first I've heard of it. *EDIT* Apparently this pretty much JUST happened. www.spinner.ca/2011/09/21/rem-break-up/also, Stipe posted his dick on his blog or something?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Sept 21, 2011 9:54:44 GMT -8
I just found out myself. In my mind R.E.M. has been the epitome of popular music since I was probably ten years old. Hearing that was like a punch in the gut. I haven't been as heartbroken by a band breaking up since Oingo Boingo disbanded in 1995 and that is the truth.
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Post by alex on Sept 21, 2011 10:30:10 GMT -8
To me they were always just one of those bands that would be around forever. Their breakup strikes me as very strange and sudden.
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Post by Blacksmile on Sept 21, 2011 10:45:49 GMT -8
I am greatly saddened by the death of R.E.M.. They have been my second favourite band for as long as I can remember and I was super excited by the fact that they were supposedly working on a new album. Then comes this shocker. Maybe the rest of the band didn't like Stipe showing off his wang or something. I'm glad I had the chance to see them the three times that I did, and from the fron row at Sasquatch.
What an up and down day for music news.
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Post by wompwomp on Sept 21, 2011 10:49:33 GMT -8
Very sad news. Amazing band and I am pretty upset I will likely not get a chance to see them live now.
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Post by alex on Sept 21, 2011 10:52:26 GMT -8
Very sad news. Amazing band and I am pretty upset I will likely not get a chance to see them live now. Sasquatch 2017 Headliner
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Post by know ID yuh on Sept 21, 2011 11:10:00 GMT -8
I haven't been as heartbroken by a band breaking up since Oingo Boingo disbanded in 1995 and that is the truth. Everybody hurts sometimes, but it's not the end of the world as we know it.
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Post by Blacksmile on Sept 21, 2011 11:17:40 GMT -8
Well played.
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