OFF: Orange Goblin

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
> That's it, yes: _The Big Black_ sounded quite dense and crowded in 
> comparison with _Time-Travelling Blues_.  I mean, one's gotta like 
> tracks like "Scorpionica" :) but things don't really "breathe" on the 
> album.  And what I heard of _Coup de Grace_ got, I dunno, just a bit too 
> thrashy and punky, which is fine though I don't think it's the band's 
> forte ....  Haven't heard a whisker from _Thieving ..._ yet though!

	I figured that the sound of _The Big Black_ and _Coup de Grace_ 
was down to people's reactions to _Time Travelling Blues_. Whether 
people liked it or not, almost every review I saw said "and it sounds 
like Lynyrd Skynyrd", or in extreme cases "What is this supposed to do 
for me that any Montrose LP doesn't?" (I saw this comment on a different 
list at the time TTB came out; only reason I ever checked out 
Montrose... )

	But anyone who's seen Orange Goblin will know that their 
front-man at least is somehow convinced that they're a heavy metal band, 
so I suspect that they were trying really hard to sound more dense metal 
and less seventies groovy clearlight with the follow-up, and then stuck 
with it alas... Yours,
			Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk