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by **Dr Cheese** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:41 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:

Marianne Faithful. A drug-fuelled period ... fecked up her vocals,

That must have been one hell of a period, my missus just gets a bit grumpy!

by **black francis** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:22 pm

That doesn't sound like much fun.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:41 pm

Period... oo-er missus.

I meant as in period or moment in time (obviously).

by **In The Margins** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:51 pm

From twitter:

Release date for UK The Fountain dates has changed to Wednesday. Sorry last min changes.
about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

by **tonywojo** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:59 pm

In The Margins wrote:From twitter:

Release date for UK The Fountain dates has changed to Wednesday. Sorry last min changes.
about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

Deck?

by **tonywojo** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:00 pm

Kounelaki wrote:Sez who?

Me - with a standard deviation of 1.25 words!

by **Mr.Sparkle** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:14 pm

withahip wrote:Half a masterpiece ain't a masterpiece. It is the epitomy of frustration.

Now Curvature of the Earth - there is a masterpiece.

I don't know about that, I actually like his other solo stuff more. Curvature is a really, really good album but I wasn't a fan of the production on it. Have you heard Performance? That's a pretty awesome album, IMO. I like the cohesion and sounds on it more than Curvature.

Looking back on Siberia, I agree with black francis in that most of the songs are half masterpieces, although I'm not sure I'd even go that far. I still think it's the Bunnymen's best album since getting back together but it's definitely not a masterpiece. The production on it wasn't really hi-fi or lo-fi, it was just ho-hum. From what I've heard so far from the Fountain, the production is definitely way better. I keep thinking of Of A Life and what an awesome chorus it has but the rest of the song is pretty boring. I think the title track is pretty awesome throughout, though.

by **black francis** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:19 pm

The chorus on "Of a Life" is great. The ending of "In the Margins" is pretty rad too. Mac did it really well live.

The interlude on "Scissors in the Sand" give it a real dated sound.

For all the excitement over Hugh Jones producing Siberia I thought the production while night and day better than Flowers was nothing special.

GET NICK LOWE TO PRODUCE!!

by **withahip** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:18 pm

Mr.Sparkle wrote:I don't know about that, I actually like his other solo stuff more. Curvature is a really, really good album but I wasn't a fan of the production on it. Have you heard Performance? That's a pretty awesome album, IMO. I like the cohesion and sounds on it more than Curvature.

As far as the production on Curvature I cut it a lot of slack as he put it out on his own while putting together complete finished songs. I would love to see what he could do with a real producer.

Performance? Ok, I am just finding out now.
This link is gorgeous:
http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... id=6970297

I see why you expect more from the production of Curvature.
Will and fans of Will are missing out with him sticking with the Bunnymen.

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... d=56960637

Thanks for the heads up on Performance.

by **withahip** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:26 am

Heard Baseball Bill on the radio this morning. The song after, emo song, just sounded so childish. EATB had this above it all quality.

by **Dr Evil** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:57 am

I am not sure voice problems limit his creative potential or if he just can't be bothered, like Oasis-they don't have voice problems, they just lost the spark very quickly. At least the Bunnymen spent 20 years building their reputation (and probably another 20 destroying it) but Oasis got started on the destruction bit much quicker.

by **black francis** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:03 am

I think Mac should sound EXACTLY like he did when he was 25. I don't want to hear anything about age, honesty or any of that crap.

Exactly like he did at 25. No more excuses.

by **fat cherry** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:18 am

Dr Evil wrote:, like Oasis-they don't have voice problems,

disagree, liams voice is fucked compared to what it was ten years ago. always a bit one dimensional but he's got the mac craok down to a tee - listen to any live recording recently. but spark-wise, agree totally.

by **Dr Cheese** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:36 am

Oasis lost their spark after Morning Glory, shame really, those first two albums are tremendous.

by **black francis** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:18 am

As much as I love the first two albums I didn't think they had staying power at the time.

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