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Postby Mr.Sparkle » Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:25 am

Crystal Days is a cool collection but I kind of wish they had set it up more like a traditional boxset, mine has sort of fallen apart.
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Postby fat cherry » Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:15 am

I'd go for the first four plus reverberation for a sign of what might have been (smiley face). The albums work as albums, i.e. not just collections of songs - which is lost on the 'boxset', though I quite like that for the extras/ 12" versions of singles - in particular Killing Moon. I mean why would you not want to listen to heaven up here from start to finish? It would be madness not to do that. Or Ocean Rain if you want something a bit gentler I spose
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Postby 5times » Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:20 am

I'd get the lot. Every song before 1985 is worth having.
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Postby Dr Cheese » Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:37 am

I wouldn't bother, it'll save you the crushing disappointment of realising how shit they've become since they reformed.

On the other hand it'll make you realise how great they were in their heyday.

Hmmm, decisions.
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Postby Tenapenny » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:32 am

Post reform get Evergreen, look out for the 2CD version with John Peel sessions.

Evergreens shows how good the comeback was and the potential for greater things. Although I like WYGDWYL I feel there has been a general decline since Evergreen and some of the later albums I have to admit I skip tracks.
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Postby Dr Cheese » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:39 am

Tenapenny wrote: I feel there has been a general decline since Evergreen

You have a gift for understatement.
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Postby Mr. Brian » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:28 pm

Tenapenny wrote:
Evergreens shows how good the comeback was and the potential for greater things. Although I like WYGDWYL I feel there has been a general decline since Evergreen and some of the later albums I have to admit I skip tracks.


Agreed!
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Postby Mr. Brian » Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:28 pm

Dr Cheese wrote:You have a gift for understatement.


LOL!
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Postby 5times » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:41 am

I don't just skip tracks, I skip entire albums
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Postby Voodoo Billy » Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:57 am

5times wrote:I don't just skip tracks, I skip entire albums


Two and a half decades it sounds like. :lol:
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Postby Dr Cheese » Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:56 am

Make Me Shine came up on the iPod in the car the other day, I skipped that pretty sharpish let me tell you.
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Postby 5times » Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:26 am

Siberia is worth a listen. Not that I have done for about 6 years.

Still, the garden of mingin will be out soon, and judging from 'holy moses' it'll be great :neutral:
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Postby crystal89 » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:08 am

First of all I am actually feeling optimistic about the new album.

Secondly is it me or do lots of the songs from Flowers sound like they would be more interesting if sung in Mac's 1980's voice? Let's face it never stop in the 80's was a cracker now it's a little flat.

Let's face it the words were no better then than they are now, they just sounded more vital.
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Postby 5times » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:16 am

I suppose we just have to accept that they are never going to match those first four albums. I've tried to like the new albums, I really have, but I just can't get into them at all. I can't see myself playing Evergreen, etc., ever again, to be honest. On the other hand, I play Crocs or Porcupine for the first time in ages and they still blow me away. The bunnymen lost the creative genius that produced those first four albums thirty odd years ago. They are a still an excellent live band, I'll always go and watch them, but I won't be rushing to buy the garden of meedin when it gets released; I'll see what you lot have to say about it first. :wink:
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Postby fat cherry » Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:56 am

We ought to post our reviews now and then see how close we are.
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