Off: MQB

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

hey - could be the first time you and I really disagree - I just LOVE this
album!!! Face it, psych fusion is not your thang,is it!!!Altho' you like
Ozrics don't you, and what about Melting Euphoria? Perhaps you should sample
our stocks of Nebula Trip or Serotonin?? There's hope for you yet!!!
Andy G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike coleman" <deltawave at METRONET.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: Off: MQB


> ok- I'm sneaking in for a minute
>
> this comment has nothing to do with the excitement being currently
> generated by the shows, and I am sure they are "mind expanding"....
>
> played "Definative" last night with all the normal preparations required
to
> knock my guilty conscious back (and admittedly it almost doesn't work
> anymore)
>
> anyway-  for the third time (with this particular CD) it was all I could
do
> to hang in for 30 minutes-  terrible boredom and sinking spirits--
>
> I FORCED FORCED FORCED myself to hang in there, like I set out to do last
time-
>
> indeed, the music improved after that 30 minutes-
>
> BUT
>
> these comments remain
>
> 1) I found myself about to PRAY for the CD to end-  it seems like it NEVER
ENDS
>
> 2) Super great sprinkling of effects, here and there-  I can see if I had
> taken some "Brainsquid", it might have helped, but at 36, I can't do this
> for every CD I play...(I could if I wanted though)
>
> 3) Too much repetetitve riffing, monotone sounds-  needs hypodermic
> injection of, dare I say it- METAL-
>
> maybe they have 'cranked up' since that CD, but I just have to bail on
this
> one-
> so back into the mainstream I went-  "days of the new"'s newest one ,
> called "days of the new" (hehe) was great.......it ,too, was a little
> mooshy here and there- but not bad-
>
> I think the best thing I heard last night was a Langton Riff popping out
at
> me from a slightly unclear recording and I had to consciously stop the
> little air guitar I was trying to play.... but that wonderful sustained
> sound came launching forth and made the ears stand up for a second...I
hope
> the "electric eye" spy was focused on the neighbors house at that
moment....
>
> mike