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14:53 / 30.04.03

Are you the real son of Zadok? People who live in glass houses et cetera.

14:59 / 30.04.03

Well I don't pretend to be a real son of Zadok, since they stopped existing some 2000 years ago.

21:03 / 02.10.03

I just got (), and all questions about its artistic merit aside, the first track sounds really familiar, but I can't quite place it. I'm pretty sure it was in iether a film or TV show I saw recently. Anyone know an example of it being used in something like that?

21:14 / 02.10.03

Is it merely me or is this sigur ros band more of a preformance troupe than a band? I mean, their videos carry the impact of the music but otherwise the music alone is weak.

They seem to be more of a milk-fed pop-for-the-masses de-evolution pap smear of a real band/troupe of performance than the real deal artists like Zoviet France.

Or so I figure.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:49 / 03.10.03

Zoviet France? Jesus, why don't you just go out and buy a Kelly Clarkson record? Zoviet France are watered-down mass-produced opium for the slavehorde masses of VH1 watchers. You philistines need to track down some Crucified Zizek records, and fast, before your souls totally shrivel up from lack of beauty. Of course, this will be difficult because Crucified Zizek only press one record every year, a live recording of one of their experimental art/noise happenings recorded at a random forest location on St Swithen's Day, but it'll be worth it.

12:59 / 03.10.03

Crucified Zivek? Crucified Zivek!? That bunch of cum-buttered, corporate ass-munching band of MTV-saturated, Q-magazine whores? Christ man they even made a video for their last release. I mean a video? Ugh.

If you want the real authentic music deal these days you've got to listen to Kruschev Pollack. As I'm sure you know, to do that you'll need a 28-bit decryption key from the Music Liberation Front, a transmission mast, a small gurney and 12 parallel-wired Oric 48k home computers, but, fuck man, that's where it's at now!

13:35 / 03.10.03

Quantum: My girlfriend bought Sigur Ros several years ago, because of the angel foetus on the cover, and really liked it. I liked it, then a few months ago met someone who'd heard of them, and now suddenly everybody likes them.

Obviously I don't wish to be a pedant (snirk) and you know I truly adore your girlfriend but I remain a little dubious of her ability to buy the album 'several years ago'. The album with the angel foetus on the cover was Agaetis Byrjun, and it came out in 2000. But I agree, bloody good album which leads me to...

Jack Fear: ...And then when the drums come in, a moment that's clearly meant to be climactic, the effect is unfortunately laughable because the sound is so cruddy and the programming is so crude...

The sound is deliberately cruddy. It's deliberately crude. It's supposed to sound muddy and subterranean; it's music that sounds like it's coming from a great distance; as if it's distorted by time. I love the way that it sounds. You say that the atmosphere is threadbare - I'd say it pulsates. I've spent hours listening to this record and that moment still sends chills through me.

But back to the original question: I've listened to () quite a few times and I think it's a really good collection of music, I like it a lot, but it just doesn't move me in the same way Agaetis Byrjun did. Perhaps this is due to different associations or a different emotional state (Agaetis Byrjun was released at a particularly painful time for me) or just personal taste but it doesn't seem to have the same range of texture that Agaetis Byrjun had. I'll still be following further releases with avid interest however.

13:47 / 03.10.03

The sound is deliberately cruddy. It's deliberately crude.

(Pee-Wee Herman, falling spectacularly off his bike) "I meant to do that!"

14:19 / 03.10.03

Jank has never ehard of Lo-Fi obviously...

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:28 / 03.10.03

Yeah, that's the only explanation. I know if I'm unimpressed with something, it's usually because I've never heard a word that describes it.

14:45 / 03.10.03

I apologise for my godawful spelling in that post... and Flyboy's sarcasm. So unnecessary.
You don't like a band, someone else does. Get over it boys.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:48 / 03.10.03

Let's put it another way: Jack Fear doesn't like them, and the reason for that, you suggest, is that he has never heard of [the term] "lo-fi". I respectfully suggest in turn that this may not be the case.

14:55 / 03.10.03

Brought that CD yesterday actually, and I like it. Some moments of it are really beautiful, though comparsions to prog rock did spring to mind - but man cannot live on joycore alone. Can see why people don't though, and can imagine that they would be quite dull live.

19:14 / 03.10.03

Kruschev Pollack don't deserve the imagination space they've carved out in your head. But Mass Hallucination Engine sound like something many people, as Flux would say, "around these parts" would sell their first born to get imprinted onto their neural channels.

Indeed they would give up hundreds of MB worth of valuable brainspace writing over pre-imptinted things like manners and reason and common sense if only they could remember MHE's latest catchy tune.

15:44 / 04.10.03

I don't quite know how you jumped to that conclusion Flyboy, I was merely pointing out a genre of music that is made to sound quite shitty on purpose. I didn't imply that by knowing about Lo-fi will make someone like Sigur Ros.

Anyway.

I saw them live at Hammersmith apollo, it was a sat down event (which helps cos they're not a jump around sort of band). I love them and I found the gig one of the most intense I've ever been to. I was amazed at some of the sounds that they managed to reproduce live and the singer wasn't a singer... he was another instrument.
My favourite game to play #4: Try and make up lyrics for [] phonetically. My dad came up with one about "vegetable oil for the soul" or something. He's such a poet.

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