From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #428 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, September 22 2005 Volume 04 : Number 428 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:58:19 +0100 From: Barry Whiting Subject: Re: seven-seas Siberia. Again, I'm agreeing with Steve. I think they're the two weakest tracks on the album. I can't get past Siberia's shuffly rhythm ; a bit too mid-90s sounding for me. Perhaps time will improve the experience. Parthenon Drive is a decent enough album track but it's the fat-kid-picked-last in the midst of the stronger tracks surrounding it and suffers because of it. Still more than enjoying the album though. Steve Griffiths wrote: >I tried! > >Parthenon does nothing for me and I hate the lyrics, the track [to me] is Bunnymen by numbers and weak at that. > >Siberia is slightly better but it's [again only my opinion] like an Evergreen era rework of 'Bedbugs'. > >On the whole, I think there's too many tracks that Mac should have saved for his solo work. > >I'll keep trying! > >Steve G. > >ps - worth the money for Scissors and Margins - let's hope they play them on this tour and maybe even do Avalanche too. > >Shaz wrote: >I can't believe you don't like Parthenon Drive and Siberia.... > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! 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I agree with the two of you. I've been listening to the album for quite some time now and the tracks i tend to skip are Parthenon Drive, Siberia, and Scissors In the Sand. The tracks I like most, in order: Of A Life All Because Of You Days Sideways Eight In the Margins Stormy Weather Make Us Blind Everything Kills You What If We Are Siberia Parthenon Drive Scissors On 9/22/05, Barry Whiting wrote: > > Again, I'm agreeing with Steve. I think they're the two weakest tracks > on the album. I can't get past Siberia's shuffly rhythm ; a bit too > mid-90s sounding for me. Perhaps time will improve the experience. > > Parthenon Drive is a decent enough album track but it's the > fat-kid-picked-last in the midst of the stronger tracks surrounding it > and suffers because of it. > > Still more than enjoying the album though. > > > Steve Griffiths wrote: > > >I tried! > > > >Parthenon does nothing for me and I hate the lyrics, the track [to me] is > Bunnymen by numbers and weak at that. > > > >Siberia is slightly better but it's [again only my opinion] like an > Evergreen era rework of 'Bedbugs'. > > > >On the whole, I think there's too many tracks that Mac should have saved > for his solo work. > > > >I'll keep trying! > > > >Steve G. > > > >ps - worth the money for Scissors and Margins - let's hope they play them > on this tour and maybe even do Avalanche too. > > > >Shaz wrote: > >I can't believe you don't like Parthenon Drive and Siberia.... > > > >--------------------------------- > >Yahoo! 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This is my take on Parthenon Drive from a review I I wrote of Siberia (which looks like it won't be published because some other guy on the staff was promised the story, and I didn't feel like arguing.) Parthenon Drive casts an eye back on a Liverpudlian youth, but, unlike Playgrounds and City Parks from Macs solo Slideling, theres little time for teary-eyed wistfulnessits Sinatras A Very Good Year for people who realize the best is yet to come and wont that be fine. A musically linear track that recalls the rhythmic groove prime 66 Velvets, the song is nevertheless talkin bout a revolution; it references several  time and life, records and revolvers (including a nod to the Beatles best with Sergeants backwards-looped guitar solo.) Clocks hit twelve and dreams will fall/off my shelf and off my wall blasts the Mac, the center of a Cinderella story gone wrong. But ultimately, the songs an affirmation--if the shoe dont fit, get on with it, as the singer insists hes glad to be alive, around 45. The eerie drum machine/theremin fade-out sounds like an intentional reference to the bands 1981 sophomore effort, Heaven Up Here, which was produced by Hugh Jones, the same man behind the board on Siberia. But rather than repeat the dark, portentous atmospheres of HUH, Jones has chosen to produce this album with a sterling silver clarity, and the songs are better for it. (Jones himself contends that Siberia is his best work thus far.)" Barry Whiting wrote: Again, I'm agreeing with Steve. I think they're the two weakest tracks on the album. I can't get past Siberia's shuffly rhythm ; a bit too mid-90s sounding for me. Perhaps time will improve the experience. Parthenon Drive is a decent enough album track but it's the fat-kid-picked-last in the midst of the stronger tracks surrounding it and suffers because of it. Still more than enjoying the album though. Steve Griffiths wrote: >I tried! > >Parthenon does nothing for me and I hate the lyrics, the track [to me] is Bunnymen by numbers and weak at that. > >Siberia is slightly better but it's [again only my opinion] like an Evergreen era rework of 'Bedbugs'. > >On the whole, I think there's too many tracks that Mac should have saved for his solo work. > >I'll keep trying! > >Steve G. > >ps - worth the money for Scissors and Margins - let's hope they play them on this tour and maybe even do Avalanche too. > >Shaz wrote: >I can't believe you don't like Parthenon Drive and Siberia.... > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail > > > >===================================================================== >Bunnymen Online Presence: >http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info >* >http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ >* >http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ >* >http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 >* > >====================================================================== ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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