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Post by luke on Jan 12, 2006 20:05:58 GMT -5
Yeah, sounds like a live album. But I'm pretty psyched. I can already feel myself telling the typical double album backlash criticism to fuck off...
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Post by kool on Jan 12, 2006 22:03:23 GMT -5
I think it's better releasing it as a double-disc set instead of doing it the SOAD/Metallica/GNR/Radiohead way. This way, you don't have to pay full price for two separate discs. They could've done it that way and it would've counted as 2 albums on their contract. [Double-discs count as 1.]
I remember Lars Ulrich [supposedly joking] that Metallica released 'Load' & 'Reloaded' separately [instead of just 1 double CD] for this specific reason. Asshole.
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Post by Adam on Jan 12, 2006 22:27:22 GMT -5
Double albums rule. I love long, epic platters that I can lose myself in.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 12, 2006 22:29:56 GMT -5
Eh, kind of depends on how good it is. Yeah, if it's all really good, then the more the better. But most bands can't really put together two full discs full of good music. So long as it works, great, but if it's going to be subpar, then I don't see the point of dragging it out.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Jan 12, 2006 23:00:07 GMT -5
Rocky, you know if there's going to be a new Blanche album this year?
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 12, 2006 23:26:39 GMT -5
There is. I saw them in Detroit in early October, and around that time they were saying that other than that show, and one other show they had around Thanksgiving in Cleveland, they were done with live shows for a while so that they could focus on the new album. Supposedly recording was to start the week after Thanksgiving, so hell, maybe its even close to done by now, I don't know. The new stuff sounds good live (I've heard 4-5 new ones). I'd completely forgotten about them though...another great reason to be excited about the year in music 2006.
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Post by maarts on Jan 13, 2006 3:20:08 GMT -5
Just read that Peter Gabriel's commissioned to direct the music for the opening ceremony at this year's football World Cup in Germany and has roped Brian Eno in to help him!
Hope those bonobo-apes that he wanted to record with are not on the schedule....
Sadly no new album from him until 2007.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Jan 13, 2006 4:32:16 GMT -5
Most double albums end up like The Fragile or Mellon Collie. But even with a bit of uncharacteristically weak/indulgent material thrown in there, if you get just 4 or 5 extra class songs from one of your favourite artists, you're still up on the deal.
People hammered Mellon Collie for 5 or 6 tracks not being up to scratch. Well that still leaves 18 gems, so I say to all the nay-sayers: stop yer fookin' moaning.
On the other hand, I'm going to be forced to listen to two dozen new RHCP songs for months on end, so I may invest in some earplugs. I'm not sure which is worse - the tuneless white-funk nonsense they used to spew out, or the sickening MOR, lets-be-U2-for-a-day bollocks they've assailed the masses with of late.
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Post by riley on Jan 13, 2006 7:41:11 GMT -5
I'm not sure which is worse - the tuneless white-funk nonsense they used to spew out, or the sickening MOR, lets-be-U2-for-a-day bollocks they've assailed the masses with of late. For my part, I long for the days of their white funk tunelessness, and concur with your asessment of the mainstream nonsense they've released since John came back. If they made a double or even triple album that sounded just like Uplift Mofo Party Plan where they sing about girls' panties, masturbation and coyotes and stuff, it would show little growth, be way contrived, but it would still be way more fucking refreshing than the over produced, super polished cash infused music they've put out on their last two. This is me holding my index finger and thumb half an inch apart. That's how interested I am to hear the new Chilis. Sad but true. |
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Post by riley on Jan 13, 2006 7:44:39 GMT -5
I posted my list on the first page, and it still stands, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that Slayer's upcoming opus will own everyone's ass. I would absolutely agree with this, if by some stretch TOOL and Radiohead manage to get even more lazy and push their new stuff into 2007. Otherwise, Slayer will drop some impressive noise. You don't even have to hear it to know it will rule. |
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 13, 2006 7:47:02 GMT -5
Just read that Peter Gabriel's commissioned to direct the music for the opening ceremony at this year's football World Cup in Germany and has roped Brian Eno in to help him! Hope those bonobo-apes that he wanted to record with are not on the schedule.... Sadly no new album from him until 2007. Not until 2007??! Bugger! Ahhh well, at least he probably won't make us wait ten years like the gap between Us and Up.... Although I guess there was Ovo and the Rabbit Proof Fence soundtrack that he was working on... :-) Not hugely prolific with the relesases, but he never ever puts out a dud! |
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Post by maarts on Jan 13, 2006 7:59:45 GMT -5
Riley- second your feeling regarding the Peppers completely. Once you've seen them strut their stuff live during Uplift Mofo Party Plan, you are struggling to come ever close to appreciate what they've been churning out lately. To sock or no sock, that is the question.
Yo Scottsie- New Chocolate Cake-album out in a month or two!
...adn wil this be the year for Chinese DemocrabahahahahHAHAHAHAHA!
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 13, 2006 8:04:37 GMT -5
Bloody fantastic! Mellie and I will be online with credit card in hand the day it is released, absolutely no worries about it whatsoever! :-) That, along with Augie March, the Church, Gerling, Radiohead - could be a kick ass year in music, that much could be said! :-)
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 13, 2006 8:05:37 GMT -5
Ahhhh, yes! Chinese Democracy - like the concept it will never happen!
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Post by luke on Jan 13, 2006 9:22:03 GMT -5
If the old ass Chili Peppers were still making songs about panties, masturbation, and partying in pussies, they'd be all Hugh Hefner creepy. Personally, I love the fact that they're pretty much clean, but still sound like some of the biggest fucking hippies ever. Between Kiedis, Frusciante, and Flea, there's always someone there to bail out just about any song they put out.
Of course, I'm not some old guy, so my first experience with the Peppers was Blood Sugar. It helps your perspective on the new stuff when your first favorite RHCP song was "Breaking the Girl."
Bahaha at Chinese Democracy. I was digging around the RS archives, and they had their predictions of albums of the year, and one of them was Chinese Democracy. This was in 2001.
Thing is, Axl must realize by now that nothing he's gonna put together is going to sound even close to as good as that Velvet Revolver album. Surely he's just given it up.
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