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Is it any good?

Spatula Clarke

22:10 / 25.02.03

I'm on a very tight music budget right now and can't afford to buy anything that's not all it's cracked up to be. With that in mind, I'd like to know what people think of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Master and Everyone and Loose Fur's Loose Fur before I decide to fork out for them.

Feel free to use the thread to ask for opinions on other records, by the way. Feel free to suggest a better thread title, too.

Matthew Fluxington

22:47 / 25.02.03

Well, hey look. A review of both records.

I haven't heard the Oldham, but I do have the Loose Fur record. The Loose Fur album is pretty good, especially as a postcript to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I prefer the Tweedy songs to the O'Rourke songs, but it's all good. I'm not passionately into the record, but I quite like it. It's a mellow album, with lots of odd sounds and percussion. I had a nice half-asleep nap the other day while listening to it.

I mean that in a good way.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:49 / 25.02.03

E. Randy: I love Master And Everyone, much more than Ease On Down The Road. I have an issue with it being only 35 minutes, but the quality's good. It's a bit more country, and there's some gorgeous harmony on the disc. Simple, stripped back, and with a little more light than other releases. Not another I See A Darkness, but I find myself listening to it quite a bit. "It's A Hard Life" is a phenomenal song - sad and redemptive at the end - I really, really recommend you pick this one up. It's a gem. A husky, sung-in-your-ear gem.

De Selby

03:07 / 27.02.03

I don't want to eat out of bins, but I would also really like to hear the first Suicide record, and I have no idea on how good it is....

help?

rizla mission

12:47 / 27.02.03

It's VERY good. And in fact it would probably make an excellent soundtrack to eating out of bins.

Primitive, minimalist electronic rythyms and dark, cool, similarly minimal monologues, loaded with menace & punk rock posturing. Every second of it is absolutely killer.

(Possibly not a good buy if you're looking for quantity as well as quality though - only 8(?) tracks, and I think it clocks in at half an hour or possibly less).

Murray Hamhandler

15:14 / 28.02.03

But the current edition of the first Suicide album comes w/a second disc full of extras. And it's about the same price as a one-discer.

Matthew Fluxington

15:28 / 28.02.03

Yeah, but that extra disc is pretty lousy, I think. In a way, I think people are better off getting the single-disc version.

Saveloy

15:36 / 18.03.03

Finger - "We are F*** You"

Any cop?

Saveloy

13:02 / 02.04.03

Hmmm, alright then, how about A.R.E. Weapons? The name puts me right off me tea but Neil Kulkarni likes 'em...

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