OFF: Candlemass, was BOC-L Digest - 9 Nov 1997 to 10 Nov 1997

[Troy Harris]

At 10:59 AM 14/11/97 +0000, Maxine Wesley wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
>> >" Sunrise I greet you, the beauty of your light, so warm and tender was
never
>> >the night.
>> >In tears I see you, the last time it will be, so give me blessing , I´ll
meet
>> >my destiny"

 AHHH!!!!! Candlemass!!  I dig this tune.  Any other Candlemass nuts out there?



>
>[sniffle sniff] Are you trying to reduce grown men and women to tears?
>
>> From:    Ron Jennings <sprawl at STARLINX.COM>
>> Subject: Re: HW : Too long albums (was NEW ALBUM ROCKS!!!!)
>>
>> > The problem with albums like Electric Tepe, It Is The Business... and Alien
>> > 4 is that they are too long, there are plenty of songs that could be
>> > 'classics' but they fall together with all the crap that comes with them on
>> > these albums. There are more albums suffering from the same disease, Rush -
>> > Counterparts and Test For Echo, David Bowie - outside, Yes - Union etc etc.
>
>My gripe with some of the later albums is similar - it's not that the
>music is crap it's just that the tempos are so different it's
>difficult to beleive that you are listening to the same album (or
>even band in some cases) There is apparently very little thought gone
>into the compilation, predominantly they have just been a set of songs
>that they are playing at that time. There's some good spacey tracks or
>musically sound sections so there you are drifting away in the
>armchair and then <KABOOM> and <ZAP> you are shot out of your seat..
>and the band have decided to play the Sex Pistols...
>
>I'd like Hawkwind to release an album compiled with all spacey/musical or
>all punky - that way I could play an appropriate album dependant
>upon my mood, which as you might have gathered from the tone of this
>posting is definatley 'punk' today. Grrrrrr
>
>Maxine
>
>
>> Q: How about Gong ?
>>
>> (Mel) Chisolm : Is that an indie band ?
>
>ROTFL
>


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