So What's The Final Verdict on The Fountain?

by **electrabunny** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:04 pm

JackT wrote:I wish somebody would teach me how to like music.

by **electrabunny** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:06 pm

After listening to it multiple times today at work (and then in my car on the way home) I must say that I really like it. But what do I know, I'm just an American :frown:

by **black francis** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:05 am

electrabunny wrote:I finally got it. Boy are they using cheap graphics even on the CD cover. Looks like they are selling the CDs out of their trunks. Strange...

That's an obvious forgery as everything appears to be spelled correctly. I think Jack collects them though.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:41 am

Key to identifying it as a forgery is that it is spelt "The Fountain" when in fact it should be "The Fountrain". It also looks too new, the real deal has CD-RW printed on the left side and Ocean Raen Livepoole live written on the right side in blue marker with a line through it.

by **Mr. Brian** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:02 am

electrabunny wrote:After listening to it multiple times today at work (and then in my car on the way home) I must say that I really like it. But what do I know, I'm just an American

You probably put in REO after that didn't you! Didn't you! And you enjoyed it! Admit it you American!

by **Grumpy_Jimbo** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:22 am

electrabunny wrote:After listening to it multiple times today at work (and then in my car on the way home) I must say that I really like it. But what do I know, I'm just an American

Am really chuffed that you damn yanks are now realising your place in the rock 'n' roll pecking order........... :rolleyes:

by **Lancashire Fusileer** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:38 am

shadows on the trees wrote:Ditto.

squared. It's okay as a collection of songs by someone else of no importance. As a collection of songs by the main band who made life tolerable for me in 1980s Industrial Lancashire, it's just nowt to write home about.

Not reviewing it, no point, can't find the enthusiasm to do so sadly.

by **Lancashire Fusileer** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:43 am

Voodoo Billy wrote:Yes, but how many bands have a four year stretch of material which can come close to matching the quality of 80-84 Bunnymen? Maybe we should be comparing it with other 2009 releases by other bands?

It would fall far short, as this year has seen some cracking and innovative releases, and the Bunnymen's is mid table, second league. (In my very humble opinion)

by **Dr Cheese** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:07 am

It's an impossibility of course but I wonder how the Bunnymen would be perceived today if they'd only been around since Evergreen and everything before it didn't exist?
Just a thought.

by **fat cherry** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:23 am

there'd be a very short setlist!!!

by **fat cherry** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:27 am

ere cheesey, on your youtube "Cockley Beck Bridge" it says the music is M83 etc? whose that then? SOunds good. bit sigur ros-ish.

by **withahip** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:36 am

M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us? A all time fav. Wonderful driving music.

by **electrabunny** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:55 am

Mr. Brian wrote:You probably put in REO after that didn't you! Didn't you! And you enjoyed it! Admit it you American!

No, Journey...Don't Stop Believing!! :wink:

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:57 am

Dr Cheese wrote:It's an impossibility of course but I wonder how the Bunnymen would be perceived today if they'd only been around since Evergreen and everything before it didn't exist?
Just a thought.

Then they would be Coldplay?

Alternate reality

Coldplay released their fifth studio album on 12 October, "The Fountrain". The new album features a mix of uplifting anthemic songs headed by a first single, Think I Need it Too. Frontman Ian-Chris Martinculloch said it is their greatest album since the acclaimed debut "Evergreen" released in 1997.

Reality

"Eleventh album and follow-up to 2005's 'Siberia' from the illustrious Liverpudlian post-punks. Despite frontman Ian McCulloch describing it in typically hyperbolic fashion as the band's best album since their defining 1984 classic 'Ocean Rain', it has received very mixed reviews, although some critics have praised its accessibility and anthemic qualities. Produced by legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra guitarist John McLaughlin, it features a guest appearance from Coldplay's Chris Martin on the title track."

The last sentence has a kind of twilight zone to it.

by **electrabunny** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:59 am

Grumpy_Jimbo wrote:Am really chuffed that you damn yanks are now realising your place in the rock 'n' roll pecking order...........

Our place in the "rock 'n' roll" pecking order? Who has the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame?

So What's The Final Verdict on The Fountain?

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