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if thats the title of the album, i hope it doesn't imply its the final release. It mans that they're recording it in Goatnut, TN, with Nick Raskuliniez and the Blade Grinder crew co-engineering.
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To me, Snakes has melodies, but few if them are really "ear-catching". I mean, I can remember how most of the songs go, but none of them really stand to me melodically... somewhat ironically an instrumental, TMMB, is the most memorable song on there. Couple this with the fact that some of the songs are REALLY bad (Bravest Face, Good News First, etc.) and only a few are much more than "very good" (Armor and Sword, Main Monkey Business, Way The Wind Blows), and you have quite a tedious listening experience.
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Why are you using IE 11? Or IE at all for that matter...
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Frelling forum
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Neil says that the record is a album of covers, and "at least 7.3 times better than Clockwork Angels".
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Poe's Law?
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And just for fun: <<<King Crimson - THRaKaTTaK (1996)>>> *Thrak*: 10/15 <Fearless and Highly THRAKked>: 0/15 <Mother Hold The Candle Steady While I Shave The Chicken's Lip>: 0/15 <THRaKaTTaK Part I>: 0/15 <The Slaughter Of The Innocents>: 0/15 <This Night Wounds Time>: 0/15 <THRaKaTTaK Part II>: 0/15 Thrak (Reprise): 10/15 Overall rating: 1 (Beyond Horrible) A collection of suckish improvs from different live versions of the THRAK midsection... so you get to hear the first two minutes of THRAK (performed decently, but not really better than the original) followed by half an hour of AWFUL, AWFUL improvisation... these were six musicians, four of whom had little experience in improv and two of whom who had barely played with the others before, trying (are they even?) to get on the same page with one another but coming up EXTREMELY short. Avoid this at all costs; there's nothing essential about it and a good 90% of it is simply ear-destructive. Easily the worst album I have ever owned.
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It's a decent collection of songs, but in album form it just drags.... and drags............ and draaaaaaaaaags................................... Main Monkey Business is great though.
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King Crimson - THRAK (1995) Vrooom: 11/15 Coda: Marine 475: ""/15 *Dinosaur*: 13/15 Walking On Air: 12/15 B'Boom: 10/15 THRAK: 11/15 Inner Garden I: 10/15 People: 10/15 <Radio I>: []/15 One Time: 11/15 <Radio II>: []/15 Inner Garden II: 10/15 Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: 12/15 VROOOM VROOOM: 11/15 Coda: VROOOM VROOOM: ""/15 Overall rating: 9 (Good) Overall a very consistent effort, with the only weak links being the two Radio tracks (honestly if not for them I have no idea what I would put as worst song)... however, only 3 songs on here seem to approach "great" for me, with the ultimate highlight being the "poppy" (but all the better for it) "Dinosaur", while there are way too many tracks which are good but unremarkable (one of them, B'Boom, is actually pretty neat but is ruined (well, sort of) by a drum solo of all things). Stylistically, this album aims for a cross between the 70's and 80's Crimson, meaning that it can be derivative at times but still presents an interesting mix of elements... still, the relative absence of great tracks (as well as the 2 Radio tracks) ensures that this will get at most a 9 (and a 9 it does get, despite originally thinking it was an 8. See how reviewing something can change your perspective on it?)
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The only way that will happen is if ghost works returns
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From your list, One More Red Nightmare, even though it's only my third favorite on the album.
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This topic should have been in MMM.
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No, you are just an entitled dickweed. You are a PUTZ!!!!!! Maybe, but at least he's right.
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Whichever was founded last, since it will probably have a higher growth rate based off of t-1
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SavageGrace before November ~15: 11/15 SavageGrace after November ~15: 6/15 This thread: 9/15
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7/15
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The only way this could ever happen is if he sang it an octave down, and let's face it, much of the excitement of the original came from the vocals. I love the song, but I wouldn't want to see it live.
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Only got one reply in FMW, so I'm reposting here
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The Next Unread Topic button worked fine for me, up until recently, when I started to get this message: Sorry, we couldn't find that! [#10356] There are no newer topics in this forum. Need Help? Our help documentation Contact the community administrator 90% of the time that I used it in "Rush". However, when I check, there are still unread topics (I know about polls showing up as unread but most of them aren't polls)... is anyone else getting this issue?
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King Crimson - Beat Neal And Jack And Me: 12/15 *Heartbeat*: 13/15 Sartori in Tangier: 12/15 Waiting Man: 10/15 Neurotica: 11/15 Two Hands: 10/15 The Howler: 7/15 <Requiem>: 5/15 Overall rating: 9 (Good) Erm... front-loading here much Mr. Fripp? Indeed, the first three tracks on here are classics, two of which would end up on Absent Lovers (although the other, the opener Neal And Jack And Me, does borrow a bit much from the last album's title track ('Discipline'))... Here, they're still great, although somewhat lacking in the sort of manic energy that made Discipline so enjoyable. However, from here, we enter a decline. I basically like the next three tracks, but only one of them (the noisy, Thela-style Neurotica, no relation to the later Rush song) manages to hold my attention all the way through. To be fair, Waiting Man would improve MASSIVELY live, suggesting that it is indeed the lack of energy (another big problem with Beat) holding it back. However, the last two are another story altogether. Howler is complex enough that it should be interesting, which makes it all the more remarkable that it isn't, while Requiem is simply six minutes of aimless noise which I really feel no motivation to listen to at the end of the album. The first three tracks are enough to ensure this a high grade, but the last two make sure that it won't go any higher.
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I can see why that would be a problem I typically try to assign an album rating before writing a review for this reason... it usually works well.
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*Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus* **Tarkus**: 15/15 •Eruption: 14/15 •Stones Of Years: 15/15 •Iconoclast: 14/15 •*Mass*: 15/15 •Manticore: 14/15 *Battlefield: 15/15 •Aquatarkus: 12/15 Jeremy Bender: 12/15 Bitches Crystal: 13/15 <The Only Way>: 8/15 Infinite Space: 11/15 Time And A Place: 13/15 Are You Ready, Eddy?: 10/15 Overall rating: D (Great/Very Good)
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May as well... Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer The Barbarian: 11/15 Take A Pebble: 14/15 *Knife Edge*: 14/15 The Three Fates: 10/15 <Tank>: 7/15 Lucky Man: 12/15 Overall rating: C (Very Good/Great) Track by track:
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Also check out the Manchester June 1977 show, By-Tor segueing to the Necromancer was really cool and I don't know why they never did it again. But back to the thread, ATWAS is still one of my all time favorite live albums, it really captures the energy of the show. I listened to some of ESL last week and was reminded why I rarely listen to it, it just sounds way too clean and I don't know what they were thinking doing fadeouts of crowd noise between the songs. I wouldn't call ESL clean,i'd call it murky and muffled like some ones stuffed a pillow over the recording mike.I had a bootleg from the same era that literally lept through the speaker ,especially on Natural Science. As for the fade outs it was a done thing on live lps at the time.Ted Nugents Double Live Gonzo suffered from it.It was mistake as ruins the live expierence.I think if they did that with ATWAS if would have been sacrilege You're right, clean is probably the wrong word for ESL, I meant how there was basically zero crowd noise but is recorded poorly as well. I really wish ESL had been recorded like the St. Louis 1980 bootleg which is outstanding and has tons of energy. ftr I knew what you meant, ESL has too much tampering and not enough fixing. I hate the way the VHS copy has Neil talking in between songs and they cut to weird images.. and no drum solo :( No drum solo? Where can I get my hands on this???
