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Agreed. Tape and Vocabularies definitely are tracks that didn't make it onto DT. I'm not that crazy about Tape but Vocabularies is nice. Though I'm not particularly fond of most of the songs on the album. I think that the first song, Speak to the Wild is the best, and upon listening to it, it had me really excited for the rest of the album but I'm disappointed with it overall. Grace Lake is decent too, I guess. I'm still excited for the shows at Saint Vitus and Rough Trade that I'm going to but I hope that the sets are a little longer than the shows he just played out on the West Coast. What I don't understand is why he doesn't play songs from Trees. |
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invito al cielo
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Just a note, thinking Thurston's solo shit is boring is not inherently the same as saying, "Thurston sucks."
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I wish there would have been more songs like Tape and Vocabularies. For being such a man of words, I'm surprised there's only 8 songs.
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I concur. I think that there's less of a degree of lyrical minimalism on The Best Day compared to Chelsea Light Moving but I really wish he would go back to songs more like those on Trees and Demolished Thoughts. |
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Disagree, more Speak To The Wild, Forevermore, etc...
Acoustic style is boring, perfect for in-ear music whenever needing some sleep. Best solo-effort in a while... Looking forward to see him again live |
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Is it just me, or is the mastering/compression really horrendous?
Perhaps I'm not listening to a legit 320.
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^^Here you can have my copy: just copy and paste this link (internet@goals) into your internet browser then turn all your house lights off, turn them back on in the same order you turned them off and you should be good to go.
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A joke without humour is a pointless exercise indeed.
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You call that a joke? THIS is a joke..
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it wanted to. Pointless? I think not. |
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I enjoyed the hell out of this on first listen.
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The videoclip for 'Speak To The Wild': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0bsQ-rqsxc
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I bought vinyl version yesterday and liked it. Detonation is probably the weakest song on the album. The rest is good (or even better) stuff. I don't care if some songs are leftovers from Demolished Thoughts, what does matter is how they sound. I like Tape & Vocabularies, these songs widen the material in this album.
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My vinyl came in yesterday (with signed poster)! I definitely enjoyed it. Caught me on the first listen which I couldn't really say for CLM, not to say I don't like CLM. Disappointed that Detonation was the version on the 7", but the way Germs Burn worked into Grace Lake was a treat.
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i like best day , also i liked his CLM work, it's not easy for someone who spent 30 years in band ( and leading that band ) and get creativity to do "solo" albuns.
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I got also vinyl today with signed poster (they send me also Body/head 7" same day)! It seems Thurston really have wanted to show all his sides in this album, but I think he didnīt totally succeed. During the Speak of the Wild I really thought this could be the best outside sy-album, I even started to think this could be SY-album. I liked also a lot Forevermore, itīs kind of big brother of Frozen gtr, there happen very little but it carries very great through the whole eleven minutes (very strange & interesting choise to put this song second in the album, I think in many albums this would be the last song). And the third great song is Vocabularies, the rest is just good. Even I liked the album, I think this is the weakest Thurston-album. Of course my opinion can change after more listening, but I donīt think so. The nearest of Sy & the greatest solos are still Coming Apart, Last Night On Earth & the Only Way To Go is Straight through IMO.
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From interviews i've heard, I understand Thurston wanting this to be his songs/compositions and choosing telling his supporting band "what/how to play". But i kinda want something w/ more diplomacy from him again... I know very little of Sedwards or those bands he was/is in... I definitely sense he's holding back in his guitar playing, i can tell he could just let loose.
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Trees has songs in a different tuning thus requiring him to either retune his guitar or bring multiple guitars i bet he's not fond of doing either much these days. They will probably work in some other stuff that is in either CGDGCD or CGDGBB, which leaves mostly psychic hearts songs. The early formation of this band before Deb Googe was playing i think they played a CLM song, Heaven Metal that was on youtube.
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Does anybody know some background information about this mom (and dad)-theme of Best Day? There is also picture of Thurstonīs mom in Demolished Thoughts.
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invito al cielo
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yeah, I was wondering as well. as i've seen in one of the youtube vid. from his live performance of speak to the wild, where he said before that song that this album is dedicated to his mom. |
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