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Old 04.14.2008, 09:59 AM   #1
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please answer:

1) is repetition the best unwound album?

2) what is your favourite song on repetion?

3) what sort of opinion does the album generally generate?

4) is the artwork your favourite of all unwound releases?

5) is repetition the most accessible unwound album?

6) if you were to be stranded on an island and could take only 10 albums with you, would repetition be one of them?

7) would you like to say/discuss anything else about repetition?
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Old 04.14.2008, 10:08 AM   #2
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1: not sure, I've only heard Repetition and New Plastic Ideas
2: Unauthorized Autobiography
3: ?
4: maybe
5: probably
6: 10, no. 100, maybe.
7: no
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Old 04.14.2008, 10:11 AM   #3
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1. No. My favorite Unwound album is FAKE TRAIN. Repetition rules though

2. Corpse Pose. I play that 7" single all the time

3. I know only two people in the "real" world that have even heard the album. One likes Unwound, the other thinks they are too chaotic.

4. Nope. My favorite Unwound artwork is on Fake Train.
 

I even bought the actual Tom Jones album at a resale shop just so I could ahve both covers, the original and the Unwound retouched one.

5. The most accesible Unwound album is Leaves Turn Inside You, in some ways, but it's drones and crazy sounds may turn off people. There is really no obviously accesible Unwound album.

6. Nope. I would take Leaves Turn Inside You. It is better for desert island pusposes. a great nighttime listen.

7. Only that I love it so. Unwound is wonderful.
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Old 04.14.2008, 10:47 AM   #4
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me either. i wish that zach de la cockroach guy would have written more lyrics so I would not have to listen to his endless repetitions of his stupid pseudo-political rhetoric over each and every one of their fucking bullshit songs.

But then again, when yr target audience is 12 year olds, you gotta keep it somewhat stupid and simple right?
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Old 04.14.2008, 10:53 AM   #5
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fake train, then new plastic ideas are my favorite unwound ablums.
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Old 04.14.2008, 10:54 AM   #6
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rage against the machine was awesome, and i am not being ironic.
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Old 04.14.2008, 11:16 AM   #7
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Old 04.14.2008, 12:44 PM   #8
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repetition is a great album. i got it for like 6 bucks used from some cd store many years ago. i don't know why anyone would want to trade that album in.
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1) is repetition the best unwound album?

Personally, I wouldn't say so.

2) what is your favourite song on repetion?

Corpse Pose or Lowest Common Denominator

3) what sort of opinion does the album generally generate?

Decent Unwound but inconsistent, particularly towards the end.

4) is the artwork your favourite of all unwound releases?

A Single History

5) is repetition the most accessible unwound album?

I don't know "accessible" when talking about Unwound.

6) if you were to be stranded on an island and could take only 10 albums with you, would repetition be one of them?

Nah.

7) would you like to say/discuss anything else about repetition?

If you like Corpse Pose, listen to Broken E Strings if you haven't already.
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Old 04.14.2008, 01:27 PM   #10
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repetition is a great album. i got it for like 6 bucks used from some cd store many years ago. i don't know why anyone would want to trade that album in.

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Old 04.15.2008, 12:53 AM   #11
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please answer:

1) is repetition the best unwound album?

No, despite the fact that I was hanging out at the Lucky 7 house, where Justin lived, a whole lot when this came out, and I probably feel more nostalgia for it than any Unwound album because of those days. I think Leaves Turn Inside You is their masterwork. Repetition was their breaktrhough album as far as going from merely being an incredibly good post-punk band to becoming a very experimental one, and it is probably my second favorite. Leaves is just impossible to top (which I've always felt is part of why they broke up, though nobody in the group has ever said that or anything.)

2) what is your favourite song on repetion?

"For Your Entertainment" I think that's Justin's best lyric maybe ever.

3) what sort of opinion does the album generally generate?

Most people that like the band love it, but I'm always surprised how different people's favorite Unwound album always is even among diehard fans.

4) is the artwork your favourite of all unwound releases?

No, I think the artwork on Leaves is my favorite, but then the artwork on Fake Train arguably most perfectly captures the spirit of the group as it was just something Justin had thrown together in his room at the Lucky Seven house that they decided looked cool.

5) is repetition the most accessible unwound album?

Parts of it are, but then parts of it are pretty experimental and out there, like "Go to Dallas and Take a Left". Fake Train is really more "accessible" to punk rockers, New Plastic Ideas is more "accessible" to noise rock fans, and "Leaves Turn Inside You" is more "accessible" to ambient and post-rock fans, but all of their albums are Unwound being Unwound and I don't think they ever pandered to any audience (in fact "Corpse Pose" strikes me as a direct slap in the face of the average Romulan nodding but otherwise not moving at one of their shows.)

6) if you were to be stranded on an island and could take only 10 albums with you, would repetition be one of them?

No, but I would miss it. As much as I love those guys, I'm not sure I'd bring one of their albums if I could only take ten out of everything ever recorded. I think they'd understand. I might take Leaves Turn Inside You though.

7) would you like to say/discuss anything else about repetition?

I think it is probably Steve Fisk's finest job producing a rock album.
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