Wall of Mouths

The verses of Free Drug Zone from Seaweed sounds very influenced by Nausea, except the chord progression ends on the third chord and the bass line isn’t as prominent as Nausea,

I got my e-mail Yesterday! Doubt it will get here to me in the states in time for the weekend. Downloaded the single from Amazon to get me primed…
Now where are the B-sides boys!! ;)

The best I saw was actually a fan to Andy and having to watch him recover…from the HA tour FabChannel Show (Paradiso) - When introducing Straight Life he goes into a bit about the song being about consumerism and buying too much stuff, and quotes Chuck Pahlinuik “Things you own, end up owning you” …and a fan said “Like your albums” Andy turned red faced laughed and said “Yes, thank you for buying our albums…” and pretty much said “shit… you got me”
Great “Gotcha” moment. Martin and Mikehell even laughed.

Kyuss that is

Kyruss doing Crooked Timber

Variety - each album is unique and always interesting

Merry Christmas WOMbles, Michael, Andy and Neil!

ooh toughie!

1. Nausea
2. Screamager
3. Nowhere
4. Innocent X
5. Opal Mantra
6. Stories
7. Our Love Must Die
8. Ten Year Plan
9. Lonely Crying Only
10. If it Kills Me
11. Rise Up
12. Crooked TImber

Ahh!! Definitely need a 2-CD set :D

Downloaded mine off Amazon last night (Woo Hoo! easy U.S. release…I fully expected having to import from Amazon.uk)

Have to say, it’s one of the best sounding live albums ever. Much kudos to whoever did the mix!
More than anything Micheal really shines!! The bass on the recording really pumps, I hooked my iPod up to my stereo and this thing really jams!
I will admit I always felt the last few live recording I heard (or live-ish if you count the Web-Gig) sounded a bit to “Straight from the mixing board” for me. I felt it took away from Scopophobia and a the Fab Channel shows.
But here everybody is clearly in the mix and you really hear the crowd. The drums and bass are huge! The crowd was awesome, and really added something to the recording.

I was a little disappointed in a few songs (Trigger Inside being the most flat), but overall the songs sounded massive. THIS sets the standard for how a power trio should sound!
If this was the last thing the boys put out (God forbid!) they should be proud to go out on a high note.

I will say there were several tune I would have loved to hear (Perversonality in place of Neck Freak, and I would have loved to hear Skinning Pit lead into Fantasy Bag), plus 10 Year Plan and Rise Up would have been awesome..but I think this is more a tribute to how many great songs there are versus a knock on the album. I mean how can one really complain with 36 songs!

Well done boys!!

Yup it’s called The Five Gates of Hell.. Interesting book. Kinda surreal. Pretty quick read

all of the labels were messed up on Amazon as well.

Big fan of Low Winter Sun! Andy’s voice is sounding top notch..not only this but the whole album as well.
Has he started doing vocal exercises? or maybe it’s the giving up the Tom Waites sounding growls ;)

Hope this is a good sign…I was stopped at a light yesterday cranking Exiles…dude next to me and honked to ask who I was listening too…He loved the bass!
I said “Therapy? you can find them on the internet mother fucker!”…no actually I said Therapy? Crooked Timber…get it on iTunes or Amazon.

BTW…huge props to Andy Gill and Company…they did a brilliant job…this album kicks incredibly!
My pictures are rattling on my walls!

I saw they posted it to Sputnik Music, but it was not listed under New Releases…so I went ahead and wrote a quick review so it would show up on the front page, get a little free pub out there for them.

here’s the link in case anyone wants to laugh at my mad writing skills…ha!
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review_29971

Okay…I’ve given it a few listens now…here’s my impressions.
Right off…Great Album!!! To me it remenicient of NANE…but they tones down the noisey/punky elements and replaced it with Kyuss flavored heavy grooves…which is a really cool sound! Mikehell and Super Cooper are on top of their game throughout…and the mix really brings it out!
This is an album very much driven by the rhythm section. Andy’s guitar is more of a compliment versus the primary driver.
But where he stepped back with the guitar Andy really stepped up vocally. Less shouting, more singing…best he’s sounded since Semi-Detatched!

I wouldn’t say melodies are pushed to the back…but they are less forced. There’s no big choruses here, but that’s not to say the album is without hooks.
This a great change of pace after OCFA! Again reminiscient of other stuff (NANE & OCFA and SP-YF), but still it’s own animal.

Track by track
01: The Head that Tried… have to admit this is the weak sister in my mind…not the best opener. Cool track but not the greatest.
02: Enjoy the Struggle… let the grooves begin! very Kyuss sounding…love it! This is song where Andy would have done one of his Tom Waits impressions, but here he just belts it out with venom (thank God!), but not over the top…love it!
03:Clowns Galore.. starts of with some interesting harmoncs play…but at around the 35 second mark, the boys unleash one of the sickest grooves ever!
04: Exiles… BASS! Mikehell must have had a ball making this album! Cool Mid-80s alternative sounding chorus…great track!
05: Crooked Timber…Lyrical melodies reminiescent of Our White Noise, but less guitar oriented..this is all Mikehell & Super Cooper with Andy showing he can still cary a tune.
06: I Told You I was Ill… got a bit of a Long Distance mixed with Unconsoled sound here…great stuff
07: Somnambulist… most OCFA of all the tracks, most pronounced chorus, but not a 4 word chanter..
08: Blacken the Page… very NANE, quick noisy hitter!
09: Magic Mountain.. a 10 minute instrumental…this sounds like it belongs on a mid-80s John Hughes film soundtrack. Definite Cure vibe in there. Reminds me a bit of some of the Series 7-soundtrack that Girls Against Boys did. Would have liked this better as a b-side, but it’s defeinitely something you could throw on in the background while working and enjoy.
10: Bad Excuse for Daylight…Black Sabbath anyone? very Electric Funeral-ish beginning. Vocally it’s pretty interesting. The verses Andy sings in a kind of worn out, defeated tone, but then in the chorus he brings in some melody. Very sludgy pacing, cool track, not sure it was best choice for closer.

Okay…with all that said…excellent album! Definite step forward from One Cure Fits All.
Not every track is a classic, but there’s several tracks that are now going to be a permanent parts of my T? rotation, Enjoy the Struggle, Clowns Galore, Exiles, Crooked Timber and I Told You I was Ill.

WELL DONE LADS!!!

FYI. For you Yanks, if you don’t mind downloads, or can’t wait for an import to be delivered, the album is available now on both iTunes and Amazon.
My physical copy won’t be delivered for a bit, and I couldn’t wait so I got the download off Amazon.

listening to it now…silly! THICK sound, nice mix! It thumps and everyone fits in nicely…! Can’t wait to get it in my car!

Innocent X
Potato Junkie
Nausea
Screamager (Counting Hat off to the Insane EP)
Brainsaw
Misery
Tightrope Walker
Ten Year Plan
This One’s FOr You
If It Kills Me
Rise Up
Our White Noise

and off the best of…Bad Karma

got my CD and Vinyl pre-ordered…can’t wait…even paid for the 1 day shipping!

I added reviews for Babyteeth, Pleasure Death and Nurse. Fuffled a few feathers though..didn’t know about one post per day. Oh well I take one for the team to get Therapy? some visability.

I posted an attempted a review of MTACT.
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=26197
At the time it only had a single harsh rating, and I thought it needed some WOMble representation and defense.
Hopefully the moderators won’t have any issues and delete it. So check it out…not the best but I tried to be thorough.

also gives them an excuse to put out some new Ts with Gemil on it…can’t be bad

new label..new sound(?)…kinda re-ntroducing the band to the world. A simple here we are statement to me.

Beefgrinder wrote:

Hurrah! New album - looks slightly ominous for our American friends though… “Release TBA”

I disagree. The fact that an American release is even mentioned makes me optimistic! Can’t wait!!

TotallyRandomMike wrote:

Now that I think of that, a very limited reissue of Semi-D on 6x7” would be a treat…

No!! then mine wouldn’t be as special :)

But a vinyl box reissue would be great. If Nada Surf can get one (including albums not released by Barksuk, thier current label) then T? could get one.

Cuchulain wrote:

Hate it when you hold a mad party in your house and when cleaning up the next day you notice a load of your rare CDs are gone.

One of the few rules on life I have..
Parties…Go..Don’t throw.

That along with “If I can’t spell it, I won’t eat it”

congrats! Mikie!

I was shocked to see Chris Holmes is still alive and kicking. I would have swore his liver would have packed it in after seeing “Decline of Western Civilizarion 2”

Nuse needs a re-mastering…bad! It’s way too quiet compared to the others.
I don’t think any need a re-mix, just remastered to get the volume up to par with their later released. And adding B-sides is never a bad thing.

Seeing Y&T on their label’s roster gets my hopes up. (another A&M unfortunate), their stuff was out of print forever, but all but “Down for the COunt” have been been remastered and re-released.
*Fingers crossed*