From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #473 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, October 7 2005 Volume 04 : Number 473 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:28:30 -0400 From: Red Subject: seven-seas Siberia Steve Griffiths wrote: > > >On the whole, I think there's too many tracks that Mac should have saved > > for his solo work. I'm tending to agree very much with you here! (But I guess that's who Mac is these days.) I'm FINALLY getting to hear the album where I can concentrate on it. Had two mere listens the week it was released, heard someone else's copy who doesn't live in my town, and when I tried to buy my own copy, I discovered the damn mall didn't have it. In fact, NO ONE around here has it! I was pissed off! I've ALWAYS been able to walk into the mall and buy me a new Bunnymen album on the day of release! :-((( Finally had to give up and order it online. So I've not heard it again, until now. :-( Just arrived today! %$#@&^ Hence my lack of comment. Anyway, truthfully, I must admit, the first two times I heard it, I was really disappointed. :-( But now, after finally hearing it again, three times just this afternoon, with headphones, I'll agree with whoever said it was a grower. Some of it has grown on me more than I expected after my first listen, but like you said, Steve G, I feel most of it sounds like it should have been saved for the next Mac solo album. (maybe he realizes he needs Will!) ;-) I will say this, though, it sure is a catchy album! Should have technically done better in the charts than it did. But the weird thing is, most of it sounds way too familiar, like I've heard it all before. Some of the songs sound just like some of their other tracks..... still trying to put my fingers on which ones they are, coz I'm not sure if they're from WAYGTDWYL (which I seldom play) or Mac's solo stuff (which I seldom play also), but I sure can't hear any HUH resemblance like everyone was saying while it was being recorded. :-( Some are noticeable though, coz Parthenon Drive sounds like it came straight off the Grey Album! And a couple of the tracks sound just like Electrafixion.... which I'd say are my favourite ones on the album. After 'Of A Life', which has some of the album's best Will-work on it, I think the album falls slightly on the WAYGTDWYL/Slideling side of things, which as you all know, does nothing for me. It picks back up with Scissors in the Sand, thankfully, or I'd have to buy the vinyl and only play one side! ;-) 'What If We Are' is one that has surprisingly grown on me, although I have to turn off the 'rock bottom' stuff at the end. Two or three times would have been enough. I can't decide about the 'Siberia' track. First listen, I liked it......earlier today, I wasn't sure. I like some of the music...it reminds me of something else that I have, something not Bunnymen actually, (can't hear that Bedbugs thing someone mentioned) but the vocals are a bit iffy on it, I think. Overall, as usual, I'm missing Les on this album. :-( (well, nothing can touch Pete either, but that's a different story.) :-( I guess what I'm saying is, I don't dislike it as much as WAYGTDWYL, but I don't like most of it as much as Evergreen! Some bits are great, but the album as a whole didn't grab me as much as Evergreen did. Hope they play Scissors live! That should do the trick! :-) Red ===================================================================== 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 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:30:40 -0400 From: Red Subject: seven-seas The Crystals I remember someone saying one of the tracks' opening bit was a rip-off of The Crystals 'And Then He Kissed Me'. No, don't think so. I hear that song at least every other day in my car on the oldies station (sorry, no good radio and no tape/cd player YET) and I can sorta see where you're coming from, but it's not really there. I love that song, so I can definitely hear the difference! Actually, whenever I do hear that song, all I think of is how The Mighty Lemon Drops ripped off The Crystals!!! LOL The Crystals were definitely WAY ahead of their time with that one! :-) Red ===================================================================== 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 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:50:49 -0400 From: Red Subject: seven-seas Re: Siberia At 07:28 PM 10/7/05, you wrote: >I guess what I'm saying is, I don't dislike it as much >as WAYGTDWYL, I should rephrase that, coz I don't really 'dislike' it......actually. WAYGTDWYL isn't one I play often (can't remember last time) but I can't see myself playing ANY album as much as I play HUH! Red ===================================================================== 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 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:09:44 -0400 From: Red Subject: seven-seas Bunnymen grocery store music???? My husband just told me that he heard the Bunnymen in the grocery store the other day.......Dancing Horses! I've heard them in malls in larger cities, but never this close to home!!! :-O Red ===================================================================== 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 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #473 ********************************