BOC: X-Brothers, Heaven Forbid, Brain Surgeons

[Bolts of Ungodly Vision]

>It's funky, it's rappin', it sucks.
I LIKE that... if monly most reviews in the lit. were that to the point.
For me the albums go from the most compressed Albert-itude in Eponymous...
since he does 99.99% guitar and drums and stuff.With trep its a triuly
distinct shif in tBS's sound with two really new guitar people doing the
work of Albert (and more) the soloing styles are far more varied... from
Pete's graceful not torture and warble to Billys rocktasticness in the
grand Traditino of Rock Guitar.  But as an Album, Trep never had the
feelin' of internal cohesion that Epon. or the other 3 had... but then
again the band still was very much NEW to each other.
Box I like better... it had more sense of togetherness (the live shows on
that tour an./ Malpractice too) were so much more focusessed than in
Eponymous days...the album itself seemed to use more of the attemptes to
link the songs together as an album that Tyrrany used to have... like the
earthquake noise in Earthquake boogie... and the heartbeat sound of Gun's
intro.
Malpractice wasnt so much an album as a complation of "odds and sods" to
quote the Who... but I liked it for the diversity and  extra cripsness of
the formerly tape only tracks.... the ver sion of Baby Ice Dog they do is
DEFINITIVE in its attitude adjustment of the material comparaed to T&M ...
and the acousticness of the tunes (such as the pull the Plug stuff and to
some extent Girl Who Made Love...)_ always seemed to my ear to show much of
the development that had happend as the brian surgeons became 5 people in a
band working well. The "new" stuff too was gooood respectiful kicking
covers. not to mention a nod to one of BOCL's fallen compatriots.

Piece of Work is sinply grandiose in scope.... it does the work  of Epon.
variety of quirk p plus the cohesiveness in  compositionsal placement on
the two CDs which  Box o hammers... fascinating since the album happens at
an equllay if not moreso turbulent personnel time for the band.... But its
GOOD.
It does a good job and being both the end of an era with Petes retiring and
Billy unfortunate  battle w/illness and also show that a viably rich sonic
future is still ahead for albert, deb and david.

yay.
Jason
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