My review on....

[Coen]

I would like to ask you to review an album of your choice. (or reviews tou ever written somewhere else before). Very curious on your (re)views !

To start of with:

COMPACT DISC - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED

PiL's John Lydon managed to get entirely lost, after the great music and earlier bandmembers were well out of the picture. 'This is what you want...', still has its moment of irony and one can hear Lydon's sneer at people and matters around him. With Album/Compact Disc he started to lose his roots in search for more. Even with a bunch of great musicians around him, he couldn't find anything more than a just above average rock album.

That was something he did NOT want to become. Some years later some girly backgroundsingers had to accompany his pityful attempts. Lydon was lost and was ever since unrecognizably bad. Even these musicians here on this album couldn't make him recognize he was losing track. Nice try...a heartless result ! And unfortunately much worse was still to come from Mr. Lydon.

[Coen]

Nobody else ever written, or wants to write a review, that he wants to share ? Can't believe it. [xx(]

SCREE -MAGAZINE

Making the Magazine wealthy musiclovers even richer.
This cd is new for a lot of Magazine fans. Not found in such way on any other main 'records' together. I'm a big lover of this still unique band. There's always some impatience and theatricality in the performance of Howard Devoto. So great. Whereas the bass of Barry Adamson is steady, creative, and so beautifully waving through the songs... You also can hear the recognisable guitarsound of the late John Mc Geogh on most tracks aswell. And find the so typically Magazine sound the lucky live catchers can still remember. I saw them at the 7th June of 1980 in my hometown and was deeply impressed and thrown over by it. And I was in very good company with friends, who experienced exactly the same then.

This cd cover some B-sides aswell. But it's still good listening and a thrill. Again and again. Play it as much as you like. Magazine is a gut experience and it won't leave you. I could say that during the last 25+ years. Amazing. I would have agreed with people saying at the time, that Magazine/Devoto thrill is forever. Trying to explain you that now again. Ofcourse there are favourites like 'Touch and Go', 'Give me Everything', 'I love you Big Dummy'(from earlier Buzzcock/Spiral Scratch appearance and written by Don van Vliet, Capt. Beefheart), 'Twenty Years ago' plus the more than interesting Live contributions of sacred beauty, songs of the first two studio albums.
It was a great pleasure to find Scree online. Internet does give life better quality. Lovely...

[My Aural Stimulator]

There's a great review of the Colour Field/Colourfield/Colorfield/Whatever in the other section. Check it out! [xx(]

[Coen]

The Damned Don't Cry - Visage
Classic, because it's still the best music around.

I just bought this cd recently, after enjoying the Blitz-time at Inflation in Melbourne. I missed this music in my collection, even after 20+ years. Isn't that incredible ? The music is catchy, dancable, at times brilliant, nostalgic, stylish and of sheer beauty. It's thatrical, aswell as glossy and it's like parading at The Ramblas at Barcelona or anywhere else. It's still fashionable, although you won't find a hairdresser or fashionist in my near surroundings.

I sincerely do hope, this music will have a rebound, as music has become to flat these days. Overproduced without any real spheric presence. Visage has all that. Look al the musicians...Magazine, Ultravox, Rusty Egan and Steve Strange. I've read that Strange is going to rule again in ol'new ways, and I wish him all the best. Hopefully he will be able to strike me again ...for another 25 years. But this music ? Will always be part of me. Not only for pasts' sake, although I can't deny it was a great time. And you can hear just that, for sure.

[Frau_Blucher]

New Order: Get Ready

Yeah, that's right, I think this 2001 album is a great one. They disappear for 8 years and come back with a back-to-roots guitar sound that's just a real toe-tapper. It's been dissed as missing some of their "classic" dark synth tone - what's classic, what came first or what came second? It was also dissed for Barney's 'lazy' and 'simplistic' lyrics - I call them unadorned and undiluted ala Steinbeck if you will. It's just a damned fun album more than anything else.

It starts with three tracks that might be the best consecutive string of tracks off any of their albums. Crystal and 60 Miles an Hour are both hard-charging toe-tappers that literally seem to say 'wake up!' to New Order fans. Turn My Way is the true gem IMHO. It has all the classic elements - great Hooky bass lines, sparse but definitive Barney guitars, soaring interludes, and those signature wistful and declaratory lyrics about how they'll always be their own men. Of course Billy Corgan's beautiful intro and backup vocals make it the ultimate song for this New Order/Smashing Pumpkins fan.

Lastly, the end track of Run Wild is pure perfection. I'm not sure if they're singing about a lover or a child. I take it as the latter, and it always reminds me how much I admire my own kids. This song and album are imperfect, of variable quality, huge highs and with some lows mixed, dreamy and independent...just like the band themselves. If you discarded these guys after Republic (before?!), you're disregarding two essential elements of their catalog. Only the inclusion of this album and Siren's Call can tell New Order's complete (and ongoing) story.

[brock]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Coen[/i]
<br>Nobody else ever written, or wants to write a review, that he wants to share ? Can't believe it. [xx(]
[/quote]Go to the Members section of this site and check out the posts of lbworshipper. You will be impressed.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by brock[/i]
<br>Go to the Members section of this site and check out the posts of lbworshipper. You will be impressed.
[/quote]
They are indeed. I've enjoyed every one of them. At the same time though, they're a bit cold and journalistic. I'd love to hear more unabashed fan reviews from the heart too.

[Coen]

I did try to find the name that you gave (Ib...), but I couldn't find it. Thing is...I just love lots of music for so long, and I really love to read about music I know/love and then read something written by others, make you wonder what people see/think about this same piece of music through a different mind. Call it poetry for my sake. I just wonder and love to read it. Also about music/records I don't know yet. I like the personal touch that people give to their music. I'm not a big reader and English is my 2nd language and have to read certain expressions twice to understand. But I sure do like to hear the echo of what music does to people here and anywhere.

[My Aural Stimulator]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Coen[/i]
<br> I did try to find the name that you gave (Ib...), but I couldn't find it.
[/quote]

It's lbworshipper, as in lower-case L.

[Coen]

Thanks, I found it and took a glance at it.
Definetely something to look into once I'm not rolling out of the pub. But eventhen. my dictionary English will be my guide. Loads of new words in there. Nice to learn new terms. I have a few of the albums and I will play the songs next to the reviews !

PS. I do agree with Blir's interpretation about reviews. That's why I opened this topic. It's what people try to describe in words what they have with their music !

[Coen]

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS - GREATEST HITS

'Only You and I' alone, is good company enough !
'Only You and I', is the last song of this album. Richard Butler at his best. May be there are to many PF greatest albums, but that last live song is good enough by itself to get this Greatest Again, as they should have called it.

Btw: can't read anymore about reviews and comments raving on endlessly over the old being passé by the sake of the music being made before. Those are the same people that often complain about trends in the first place. Music should speak for itself, and when its overruled by better (new) music: so be it, IF that happens. Thanks to the new musicsystems, we see the revival of the old new thing from the last decades. And that still is quite alot. Psychedelic Furs Greatest Hits reflect what they were and are offering you. For example: don't remove the intention and the intensity out of 'Only you and I'.

[Coen]

HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS

Say WHAT ? So, ya changed songs around in hindsight ?
First: I was in the happy situation to land in Melbourne when things started to heat up there. Early 1982: Talking to a Stranger (who wasn't for me, as I was a newby there). Saw the video on tv, and thought it was great. Saw them live, thought they were even greater. Met them in person, and they were real good guys. How can you lose... They talked me into the band 'Can' aswell, so my Melbourne residency started out Super, with bands around like The Birthday Party, Plays with Marionettes (with Hugo Race and Nick Seymour) The Models, Deckchairs Overboard, SPK and so much more.

Great songs next to 'Stranger' are Tow Truck, Droptank, Lumps of Lead, Scream Who, Run Run Run (really hypnotic, especially live !). But then again...my old fashioned album only carries: Towtruck, Droptank, Mouthtrap, Lumps of Lead. Talking to a Stranger, Scream Who, Run Run Run (Pogo in Bogota ) I have troubles with common rockbands, and this H&C isn't. I've read things like tribal funk, and a rougher on the edges Shriekback. Yes, that'll suit this album's Hunnas fine. No mediocrity, but full on rhythmic funk-blast pleasure ! But I'm talking album and NO CD here. What do I read here ?? They try to change the first album to easy listening pop in hindsight? Probably lost their intensity along the way. My advice ? Buy the first record as in LP-album. Reminds me of a question that Mark Seymour popped up after a gig in '82: Are all bassplayer [this] aggressive ? Answer: Yes, at least they should...when you're a real 'Hunna'.

PS. I bought the VHS WAY TO GO OUT. Fantastic. All the clips are there and a lot of places to go out in St. Kilda, Melbourne.

[Mechi]

I'm making a web page about arts in general that will include reviews. Here is the review I've written about Antics by Interpol:

Interpol: Antics

(Matador)

On their first album, Turn On the bright Lights, Interpol showed many simlitudes with the post-punk bands of the early eighties such as Joy Division and Wire.But on their second album, the New York four-member group develops an evolutioned style. Practice and some experience has done good to Interpol: Antics is a more delicate record than its predecessor. The lyrics are better than before and there is certainly more attention paid to the production of the songs. Moreover, Antics gives Intepol their own identity separating them from all those comparisons with bands of the past and prooving that they are not as dark as everybody thinks they are (they are in a sort of in-between).

Favourite tracks: Evil and Narc

Hit of the album: Slow hands (Indie-rock's new anthem)

hope you like it!!!! [:)]



Mercedes

[Coen]

(Sounds like I'd better start with cd nr. 1 from them Meshi. I only know them from MTV and from a collectors-cd from YES NEW YORK)


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YCLEPT - DOME

Dome's most recent return...a must, just because !
Great to find this cd at wiremailorder, and a pity, that it's availability is kind of limited/restricted. Two members of post-punk group Wire, Gilbert & Lewis, guided the listeners in 1980 towards great sounds. Rhytmhic landscapes, aswell as industrial, ambient, and experimental ways of music-impressions, work their way to your senses. Yclept partly found its way by Gilbert and Lewis swopping mini-discs, to work it out to a real new Dome record, the first in 15 years ! Exciting on the Yclept album, is the musical contribution they made for punk (ballet)dancer Micheal Clark: 'Because we Must' is really hypnotic, as there's a continuous beat, that typical Lewis-voice that enchants 'because we must...', underlined with spheric guitar sound of Bruce Gilbert. It makes the album versatile and is a good intro to the rest of their earlier Dome cd's aswell. Yclept is a MUST-have, just because...you shouldn't miss it, because we must...

[Coen]

GOLD & POISON - SPK

SPK Re-inventing music to open up boundaries.
SPK stands for industrial music and to innovate music and rediscover it. They were never by themselves, and were joined in that industrial world by the likes of Throbbing Gristle, Laibach, Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo and DAF. Also with these bands/groups one saw a moving towards 'commercialism' round and after 1984. (Chris & Cosey did just that out of the TG group). That was a shock for the rawer material fans from the early 80's. In hindsight some efforts stand up...and others are still down.

One of the best live gigs I've ever seen was from the SPK who was thriving towards the metal dance, where in live gigs material from the junkyard was used (I actually took some of it home from the Seaview Ballroom, to do some metal bashing myself, where my Melbourne neighbor reacted by throwing bricks over the fence !!). GOLD AND POISON is a step further down the commercial dancelane, BUT...at the same time one can find a few very melancholic non-easy sound/songs from the impressive Zamia Lehmanni album. What I understood from GOLD AND POISON was, that this record had become a selection to enter the American market. Therefore it became a bit of a mix up, which you start to get used to, but as such is a strange combination. It's like Graeme Revell once answered me personally when asked why he was getting so far off the original track with SPK. 'Why does nobody seem to have a problem with the same things that Cabaret Voltaire and Laibach are doing right now, what's wrong with earning some money with music once ?' (1986/7). One never knows how he got exactly into the filmscore-business. But maybe Graeme Revell is at home in all kind of films, to make sounds and music for. And it is the 'old audience', that seems to have the problem to switch to different mov(i)es. I enjoy this album though, so I seem to be adapting slowly but steadily !