From: Kevin J. Bonham, sleepycat@eudoramail.com Subject: Re: Question for less than impressed Seance reviewers.. Date: 2/9/2002 3:52:04 AM To: seance@lists.no-fi.com "Assaf Friedler" wrote: >> Speaking of different tastes and favourite church albums - I always found it difficult to understand what people like so much about the blurred crusade. To me it sounds like a good album, but not an outstanding one. It wouldn't make its way into my top 5 church albums. A matter of taste, again... Maybe most people discovered the church around that time, so this is how they fell in love with the band. I discovered them around the GAF/starfish era, and when I went into their back catalog I was much more impressed by remote luxury, seance and heyday compared to the first two albums. Two much of ordinary rock sound in BC, I would say. Their special sound was not formed yet. It was in the middle of its development in BC and seance. Only in remote luxury the band has finally established its unique sound, I think. >> I agree totally, I got into them around that time and was into Starfish and Heyday and loving those; when I got BC out of the local record rentals bar (yes, they had such things then) I thought "What is this poppy crap?" I was very uncompromising in those days so it was about two years before I came to appreciate BC at all, mainly through the prettiness of "To Be In Your Eyes" and "You Took" . Even so, it's good but not the band's most distinctive moment. I want my favourite bands to make stuff which makes me think "No one else on earth could have possibly done this." >>A thought about HOB - the song quality is so uneven that it could be easily split into two parts (maybe two EPs, like remote luxury and Persia). The "good" EP will contain anasthesia, ricochet, Louisiana, tranquility and buffalo. The "bad" EP will contain the great machine, no certainty attached, this is it, another earth and glow worm. There is such a big difference between the 5 "good" songs and the other 5. Anyone agrees on that? >> I'm not certain if my selection of tracks would be *exactly* the same, but about the general unevenness, yes. There's a lot of stuff that has its merits but also is easy to dislike if you want to. Also, HOB is just not at all cohesive in my view. We have: * ambient classic Churchy songs (Anaesthesia, Tranquility) * slightly country-ish Church (Louisiana, Buffalo) * rocky Church (Ricochet, No Certainty Attached) * spooky twiddling (Great Machine, This Is It) * pop rock (Another Earth, Glow Worm) I don't see what all these tracks have to do with each other. That's another thing I like about AENT. It's an album and not a pile of random songs. Cheers, Kevin. --- Self-Appointed President, Oxydental Fan Club Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com