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Post by Fig on Nov 14, 2012 14:31:26 GMT -8
Holy shit this is one interesting board family. Make it a point to meet up with us at Sasquatch next year and you'll see why we suffer through the slow, irritable months leading up to Sasquatch full of bitching at each other.
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Post by losertron on Nov 14, 2012 14:52:51 GMT -8
The Flaming Lips? They have The Terror coming out next year as well as the King Crimson cover album. I suppose it's like wondering if Uncle Greg will show up for Thanksgiving at this point...
Also, How To Destroy Angels seems like a pretty legitimate possibility. They just put out a pretty good EP and have a full length due in the spring.
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Post by Fig on Nov 14, 2012 14:58:57 GMT -8
The Flaming Lips? ... I suppose it's like wondering if Uncle Greg will show up for Thanksgiving at this point... I fucking lol'd.
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Post by losertron on Nov 14, 2012 15:04:31 GMT -8
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 15:23:02 GMT -8
King Crimson cover album!?
Just when I think I am out, they draaaag me back in.
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Post by Geoff on Nov 14, 2012 15:30:23 GMT -8
The Flaming Lips? They have The Terror coming out next year as well as the King Crimson cover album. WHAT? Oh shit. The cover album came out already.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Nov 14, 2012 15:39:37 GMT -8
Those clowns can't play Fripp...can they?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 15:51:25 GMT -8
Doubtful, but god help me I'm curious.
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Post by stamper on Nov 14, 2012 16:10:23 GMT -8
Ok what is this Muse 3 all about? *shrugs*
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 16:52:50 GMT -8
Ah, turns out it is a front-to-back cover of In the Court of the Crimson King, the first King Crimson record from 1969. It's an incredible record, and my second favorite King Crimson, but it is not really a guitar record. It's kinda sorta a concept album about the end of the world, and the style is more the pastoral British prog of the late 60's that the Decemberists were fucking in the ear with Hazards of Love than the guitar-driven prog of the mid to late 70's that King Crimson is generally known for.
It's kind of weird -- I am flipping between liking and hating it every thirty seconds. They have a bunch of different bands working on different tracks, so it's totally uneven. But there are some cool textures and some interesting ideas. I can't imagine why I would ever put it on instead of the original, but if it scoops up a couple of kids that Kanye missed and gets them to check out King Crimson then I see no harm. It's certainly not terrible.
I'd rather see Wayne climb up onstage and shove Legos up his ass than see him try to take on Discipline or Larks' Tongue in Aspic. That would just be embarrassing.
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Post by losertron on Nov 14, 2012 16:57:00 GMT -8
Have you heard their Dark Side of the Moon cover album yet...?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 17:02:46 GMT -8
Yeah, it was fucking awful. Just like everything they've done since Yoshimi.
Who the fuck re-makes Dark Side of the Moon? It's like Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, there is just no point. Dark Side of the Moon is the most perfect album ever recorded. Why anyone cares how it would sound if Wayne Coyne and his brother recorded it is beyond me.
You could say the same thing about this one, I guess, but as much as I love In the Court of the Crimson King (a LOT), it's not sacred in the way DSotM is.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 17:06:01 GMT -8
Jesus, though, the title track from In the Court... is one of the most powerful, terrifying songs ever written. I don't know who is responsible for the rendition on the cover album, and I don't care. It is impossible to fuck this song up.
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Post by losertron on Nov 14, 2012 17:07:56 GMT -8
You didn't care for Embryonic?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 17:12:37 GMT -8
Embryonic is what every album would sound like if bands included every single song they demoed in the final tracklist and left them all half-finished. It was terrible.
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Post by losertron on Nov 14, 2012 17:27:50 GMT -8
I've got a soft spot for it for some reason. Zaireeka too. Zaireeka's my favorite.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Nov 14, 2012 17:31:33 GMT -8
Ah, turns out it is a front-to-back cover of In the Court of the Crimson King, the first King Crimson record from 1969. It's an incredible record, and my second favorite King Crimson, but it is not really a guitar record. It's kinda sorta a concept album about the end of the world, and the style is more the pastoral British prog of the late 60's that the Decemberists were fucking in the ear with Hazards of Love than the guitar-driven prog of the mid to late 70's that King Crimson is generally known for. It's kind of weird -- I am flipping between liking and hating it every thirty seconds. They have a bunch of different bands working on different tracks, so it's totally uneven. But there are some cool textures and some interesting ideas. I can't imagine why I would ever put it on instead of the original, but if it scoops up a couple of kids that Kanye missed and gets them to check out King Crimson then I see no harm. It's certainly not terrible. I'd rather see Wayne climb up onstage and shove Legos up his ass than see him try to take on Discipline or Larks' Tongue in Aspic. That would just be embarrassing. This strokes me out. For whatever invalid reason, I am only familiar with the first few Crimson albums. I've been meaning to ask you again, do you remember which one we last listened to at your house? I'm abouts to tear through all that shit.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 17:32:13 GMT -8
Zaireeka is fucking awesome.
Hang around long enough and you'll get the full story on my long and complicated love/hate relationship with the Flaming Lips. It comes up all the damn time. Anyway, the punchline is that Uncle Wayne's muse has summarily left him and now he is just blindly grabbing for cash and perpetrating weirdness for weirdness' sake. Doesn't make the WB albums or the first two Fridmann albums any less majestic; just makes me sad.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 14, 2012 17:32:51 GMT -8
This strokes me out. For whatever invalid reason, I am only familiar with the first few Crimson albums. I've been meaning to ask you again, do you remember which one we last listened to at you're house? I'm abouts to tear through all that shit. We were listening to Discipline. That album is a meeeean motherfucker. So awesome.
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Post by Geoff on Nov 14, 2012 17:50:26 GMT -8
I honestly love every Flaming Lips album aside from their first few. Haters gonna hate.
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