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Mar 29 09 5:23 AM
It's the most solid album they've put together since Priest=Aura. Forget Yourself came pretty close, After Everything Now This was close, Uninvited like The Clouds had one of my favourite songs ever in Block . . I find myself listening to this and realise I've stopped dead in my tracks at whatever Im doing in awe of the music, Lunar for example. Its like they still hadnt found what they were looking for so they decided to forget about trying to 'make' a record, they just relaxed and let it all flow naturally. Its like listening to the gods, the masterpiece Ive been waiting for. If you've downloaded the mp3 you will happily discover that you havent even got the full cajones till you hear the album proper.
Some of the lyrics for Operetta (stolen from the stage, but I wasnt quick enough for Part 1) - Tim's bv not written here
"Chorus 6 - A song about you Just a song Are you good or evil Or just right or wrong
V3 In summertime Picking up an insistent distant beat Oh beachcomber come home now Come in from the heat
Where's the boys all dressed in green In the gap that lies between Where's the girls all dressed in white In the deep heart of the night
The interweaving leaves Once she was a sceptic twice she believes The wind that skinned and thinned us Underneath
Where's the men all dressed in black None are ever coming back Where's the ladies dressed in red All are dancing with the dead"
Love it, love it, love it.
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Best Album Ever You Said.Can't Wait To Hear THIS! Nicolas
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timetunnel wrote: Best Church album ever.
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Apr 9 09 5:22 AM
4:44pm
Got home early from work
Two weeks off coming up
Holidays, you see
Son called from uni asking me to pick something up for him
Which inturn triggered an earlier thought:
Must grab a copy of U#23 to listen to
Tonight
Tomorrow
And the next day if it's any good
7:25pm
Counter, Fish Records, Leichhardt
Got it
In and out within two minutes
7:30pm
Driving out of the fucked-up car park I almost flattened a scooterist
Apologised
He's bloody lucky I did
Usually I would …
And he got cocky!
I just about climbed out to kick his smart arse
Luckily for him my car was playing up again
Started losing its cool last night
Kept interjecting and shushing loudly
Reached the spitting stage tonight
So I hissed passed the dickhead on his Barbie bike
Struggling to park it in a spot wide enough for a semi
Bozo!
8:00pm
Anyway
Got home
Both of us in one piece
The rod a little too hot and undermined
Poor bugger
I'll deal with him in the morning
8:15pm
Blue Cob
A bit Beatlesque
Mina de Mortu
Love it already
Savoury Space - SS1
Cute intro
Nifty build up
Steve's popping corn vocals
Neat!
OAS
Reminds me of the last track from ULTC
A bit Max Sharam
Which is capital
SS2
Don't know if I'll ever listen to this again
The female 'vocalist'
Bloomin' awful
Get her off!!!
She fucked it up
Big time!
Anchorage
A little too
Little Wing
But you never know
Lunar
"Come this way, please"
I'll let you know when I get there
Operetta
Requires some consideration
Later
Dijanaxxxo
Apr 10 09 2:57 AM
Pangaea
The implications of the word Pangaea are cleverly used in this song. The title suggests the principal meaning of 'Pangaea' but in context the word is used to illustrate the drifting apart of people who were once close culturally or socioeconomically or emotionally - or all/some of the above. They may remain geographically close but they've drifted apart in other ways, and for petty, secular reasons at that.
To be sure, this song has oodles of substance, and the delivery is intensely emotional, both musically and vocally, but there is a weak link in there somewhere. I can't really put my finger on what it is. It might be the lone word, Pangaea, building a few barriers. 'Pangaea' is a difficult word to use [in lyrics] because of the pronunciation. Coming from the Greek word, it should be pronounced 'Pan-gi-a' as opposed to 'Pan-gee-a' or - if you're an Australian yuppie - 'Pan-guy-a'. This is irrelevant, perhaps, but it's one of the reasons, nonetheless, why the song makes a weak impression. Furthermore, although gorgeous, the - um-um um umm um - bass line and medium-tempo rock groove dilute the tone of delivery. Overall the song is just too polished and smooth for such an antediluvian conjecture. As I said, musically it's lov-er-ly, but this lovely context falls short. It's a tad feeble under that gReAT BIG TITLE. What a premise to live up to!
Apr 10 09 7:22 PM
Happenstance
Most chance events and meetings are not particularly fascinating. If you do the math, you can pretty much work out the probability of that event, so there's no mystery there. Most births and deaths are not mysterious, but then there is that small percentage of very peculiar happenstance and cursed destiny that is mysterious. I think Steve is pertaining to that unaccountable minority in this song. This makes sense, and it fits in perfectly with the mystery surrounding the number 23. Think it once, you plant the seed. One is incidental to 2 and 3. Alone it remains unattached to anything, but doubled - think it twice, you grow the need - it's generating [something]. Think it thrice, you summon the deed. But how, and why, you ask? After all, you really didn't do anything but think. Depending on the thought/s, sometimes thinking can be worse than not thinking.
Words and Voices
Vocal execution is outstanding on this track. Steve's vocals are stunning. The key he's singing in brings out the rich, velvety qualities of his timbre. The instruments behind him play all the right notes at just the right volume, supporting his voice. Articulation is great - clear with strong phrasing - and emotionality is sincere, therefore, powerful and convincing. Marty, too, does well on the secondary vocals. He tunes in to the sensitivities of the piece, and he perfectly understands his role as the voice of the primary singer's thoughts. He sings a series of powerful soliloquies. Just as thoughts are heard as whispers in the mind, intoned in a chant-like manner, he whispers and chants his solo and interjected lines with extreme sensitivity. Tim (Is it Tim?), on the third vocal line, gleams and echoes the urgency of [summoning] the deed very effectively.
Three voices,
Voice 1: the idea;
Voice 2: the desire, and
Voice 3: the urgency,
asking thrice:
I should take some time Really make you mine
I should take some space Be with you some place
I should take some chance Given happenstance.
I should take some time, space and chance to be with you and really make you mine. After all, it's a given: a chance given.
Was it preordained: destined to be given? Or was it summoned? Your life is given and taken away. These events are predetermined. Everything in-between is happenstance plus 'some'. Pretty much you make your own destiny; and then other people, and the forces of nature, plus 'some', interfere with it. Fascinating, isn't it?
Music and Musicianship
The levitating [light] and cascading [darker] melodies correspond with and support the voices featured: broad and upturned for voice one, and confined and inverted for voices two and three. Beautifully simple BEAUTIFUL melodies played impeccably and with so much feel. The musicianship is truly flawless. A solo lead guitar drifts about - channelling and transmitting, up and over, and between and under - and then it gives way to the final sung declaration. The lead guitar re-enters and travels up high to the PRIZED event: orchestrated happenstance.
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