HW: Ridicule? (Distant Horizons)

[John Majka]

Always interesting the varying opinions that people have!  "Phetamine
Street" has long been my favorite track from Distant Horizons.  I agree that
the album comes across as a bit of a hodge podge of this and that... but I
think that overall, it's a pretty quality hodge podge!
John Majka
jmajka2 at home.com


> Bill writes:
>
> >> What's the general view of Distant Horizons?  I have avoided it on the
> >> basis of comments that it was a techno album (didn't much like
IITBOTFTBD)
>
> Not even remotely IMHO.
>
> >What a great excuse to play this album again....
> >Distant Horizons, IMO isn't a techno album. But the songs Distant
Horizons
> >and Phetamine Street may be classified as such.
>
> Phetamine Street techno?  Not hardly.  OK, maybe the way Chadwick plays
the
> drum parts (much as he did on It's the Biz...) is sorta techno-ish in a
> choppy pseudo-electronic-beat-sorta-way, but I'd argue Phet. St. is more
> punk rock than anything.  So ya wanna call it punkno?  No?  Well, neither
do
> I.  :)
>
> The Hawkwind '97 version is much more interesting than the DH version
IMHO.
> I hated the song the first time I heard it (I rather like it now), but I
> think that's just because it sounds so poorly 'produced' on the DH
version.
> And supposedly, all of DH is basically demo versions of the tracks that
were
> to be re-recorded, but EBS jumped the gun and released it before the band
> was finished with it.  Hence its peculiar non-uniform sound and style.
>
> Grakkl (FAA)
>