From: Daniel Watkins, centuryhouse@yahoo.com Subject: Long senseless gibbering about Church discoveries... Date: 2/9/2002 1:09:58 AM To: Seance List, seance@lists.no-fi.com --- Kate Kwiatkowski wrote: > My first exposure to the Church was Seance in 83 Not that anyone cares, but a few margaritas into tonight (2:45 am) what do I care? hehe I heard UTMW first, and was immediately jumping up and down going 'who is this?!?'. Not Janet Jackson and it wasn't Poison - it was different, and was what I was about unlike that cheese-metal crap. Starfish was purchased and immediately joined Big Country and U2 as a favorite. Bought the back catalogue: bought Blurred Crusade, Of Skins & Hearts, Seance and Remote Luxury on the same day while I was out of town (in a real city!) for a religious convention. My parents would've been pissed to know I was buying rock music! I remember waiting in the car while they were talking to some people and playing bits of those albums, telling my brothers not to tell my parents what I was listening to. I was immediately dissapointed in Remote Luxury - it was so undeveloped compared to Starfish. Even worse was Blurred Crusade - I thought the singing on Almost With You was horrible, and the tom drums sounded like crap. For the longest time I hoped it was just a bad tape and that if I bought another one it would not have that distortion in the drums. One day I got the cd and found that it wasn't the tape... I remember my brother's sneering at the bad vocals and being kind of embarrassed, fast forwarding the tape and hoping for better. And thinking that OSAH sounded like Kilbey had a cold. Seance I was more impressed with, and loved 'One Day' and 'Dropping Names'! Summer songs! Of course those have all spent times on my fav list since then!!! My taste really changed over the years, and there is so much greatness in each of those albums. GAF - extremely dissapointed. Straight laced religionist that I used to be I was immediately offended by the little bit of bad language on GAF. Very let down. Once I got past that, I started to really like the album. It spent time on my fav list. Summer album to me... Working on the old Ford Mustang (had a 1970 and 1967) and listening to GAF blaring in the 100 degree Texas heat. P=A - just moved out of my parent's house in small town TX and into the big city of Dallas on my own. First cd I bought upon moving. Was immediately impressed, but it really hit me 9 months later listening to it on headphones for the first time. No Church album is complete until you've heard it on headphones! Again, spent time on the fav list! S/A - waited for weeks to get that one. Gaye at Mohawk Music in Dallas got it for me and a promo flyer with it. Was so glad they'd continued on and made arecord, as I really thought the band was over with both Peter and Richard out of the band. Very different from the regular Church sound, but great in it's own way. Immediate fav album, and the alltime best Church album cover! I've got several of the 24x36 inch posters of that... One of the few things right in my life at that point, it helped me through, much like P=A. MATS - wow! Dark, brooding and dreamlike. Pristine sound and production. The cleanest production to date on a Church album. Haunting, and the houdini pictures fit the feel perfectly. This is the Twilight Zone and Ray Bradbury all mixed up... HOB - was in college, just getting onto the internet and reading a few scattered post from Seance list. Only online sporadically but glad to know there were other fans for the first time. Excited about the album and very impressed when I got it, except for songs like Louisiana, Tranquility and Glowworm. Eventually it was a favorite. Of course. AENT, I've blabbered about it for weeks, you know what I think! Good, very good. I want to play on the next one. Daniel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com