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Wendelin of Trier wrote:I think my dislike for DYLRM hit me so hard at the time that I lost a lot of faith in the good ship BSP. It was like I thought they were one thing, but they revealed themselves to be quite another. It was like finding out your dad is a cross dresser or something. I'm not referring to your dad in particular, obviously.
Half of it is probably in my perception, these things tend to be, but I was excitedly expecting the follow up to Decline and OS, the music, the artwork, the attention to detail and what I felt I got was a terrible compromise, 25% BSP and 70% a half baked attempt at winning the mercury prize or whatever it/was/tiswas sodding well called.
I dont know what the other 5% was. Canvey Island football shirts, probably.
Rake wrote:That's fine, I think we'd done the top 3 to death, time to do 'what went wrong?' to death again instead ;-)
I actually think you've summed up my feelings perfectly re; the DYLRM era, I felt cheated too, and cheated by the best looking and most sorted girlfriend I'd had in years. I was just playing Krankenhaus and was struck by how much better an album DYLRM would've been if they'd dropped Canvey Island, Down on the Ground and A Trip Out for Straight Down The Line and Hearing Aid.
Cold Ethyl wrote:Wendelin of Trier wrote:I think my dislike for DYLRM hit me so hard at the time that I lost a lot of faith in the good ship BSP. It was like I thought they were one thing, but they revealed themselves to be quite another. It was like finding out your dad is a cross dresser or something. I'm not referring to your dad in particular, obviously.
Half of it is probably in my perception, these things tend to be, but I was excitedly expecting the follow up to Decline and OS, the music, the artwork, the attention to detail and what I felt I got was a terrible compromise, 25% BSP and 70% a half baked attempt at winning the mercury prize or whatever it/was/tiswas sodding well called.
I dont know what the other 5% was. Canvey Island football shirts, probably.
Eloquently appraised. I think I got what I expected - the no thought British Home Stores dinner service wedding gift- the one you feel obliged to use but you can't wait till it breaks. Great Skua aside, I can't think of anything on it that now makes me go wow.. Couple of half decent tracks in Waving Flags and Lights Out, but even they don't make me feel like I'm looking at myself and my life through someone else's eyes. I''m with you on the cross dressing analogy. It was like finding out that it was a monkey with a typewriter after all.
Blackout wrote:I just didn't really like it cos it wasn't the sort of thing I was listening to at that point in time. What I did not do was then instantly decide the band were now shit and slag off everything else they did after it and by association anyone who liked it, which was pretty much why I fucked off this forum for a long time, it was like considered some sort of crime to still like the band.
Blackout wrote:What I did not do was then instantly decide the band were now shit and slag off everything else they did after it and by association anyone who liked it, which was pretty much why I fucked off this forum for a long time, it was like considered some sort of crime to still like the band.
Blackout wrote:A couple of people had mentioned the band name to me in 2002, but likewise it was a flyer handed to me while queuing for a gig in Brighton (or Hove, actually, as "they" allegedly say) - Interpol at the Old Market -.
mick wright wrote:Admirable mentions (ie >10) for when I was relatively skint and had to rely on trains goes to The Fall, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Xmal Deutshland, Wolfgang Press and, ahem, The Reluctant Stereotypes.
pomfob wrote:Harumph. It's all subjective of course, but this dislike of Do You Like Rock Music? I just don't get it. It rather tails off after Atom, but overall I bloody love it. The intro bit to Atom would be my favourite moment of theirs if it wasn't for The Great Skua ...and the rest of Atom (which would be perfect if it wasn't for the vomiting noises at the end)...why all the hate for Canvey Island? It's quite sweet. Lights Out For Darker Skies, Waving Flags, No Lucifer, Down On The Ground - c'mon, these are great songs that stir the blood, surely?
I'll get back in the box now, shall I?
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