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Metamatic

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Metamatic

Postby golfer » Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:42 pm

Just how good was John Foxx's L.P. METAMATIC.....it rates an easy 9.5/10 with me. Others? [;)]
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Postby devildog » Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:47 am

I think it is good but I think the Garden is better. "Europe After The Rain" is so hauntingly beautiful.
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Postby KYYX4ever » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:56 am

love this album !! beautiful songs. it fits right in with other 70's electro, such as Numan, Fad Gadget, and Kraftwerk. i made a few CDRs with this all mixed together, and it flows surprisingly well. John Foxx was absolutely one of the grandfathers of mo
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Postby Ollie Stench » Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:38 am

I like all of Foxx's records for vastly different reasons. I don't get nearly the same feeling listening to Metamatic as I do The Golden Section, but both are great records.

I recently had the chance to hear one ofthe Cathedral Oceans discs and was co
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Postby oneno » Sun Jun 06, 2004 9:09 am

John was often reffered to as "Gar Numan's stupid brother' but at the time the realm of experimental electronic music was wide open.I have all of his Ultravox and most of his solo stuff.his last stuff is very much creative but metamatic was very cutting e
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Postby Blitz Boy » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:50 pm

let's mention that Mr. Foxx is PROUD of having been a New Romantic, as he told me a couple months ago. Not all the guys of the era would state this... Anyway, his present works (with Louis Gordon, the cd "Crush & burn") is too much hard-electronics for me
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