album slagging

[john-paul]

well i must me a strange hawkfan as choose your masks is one of my faves.
bainbridges synth work and huws giutaring are superb on the album. this was
the first tour i saw them on at sheffield city hall, with the tellies, and i
wonder if that has anything to do with it. IMO i think theres a certain
mechanical eeriness about the album which is'nt on another one. having been
listening to early caberet voltaire and kraftwerk before then its probably
not surprising i like it. jp
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iain Ferguson" <iainferguson at AOL.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: album slagging


> Pardon,
>
> does this include Choose your Masks, surely there is an exception to the
> rule here.
>
> Its complete tosh, completely horrid 80's mixing gone horribly wrong
> with nasty gated effected drums that sound like an Roland 808 drum
> machine put through the tumble drier... Yuk yuk yuk,  and I love martin
>   griffins drumming. but on this it's almost more leaded than D.
> Thompson Junior...
>
> I'll duck now ahead of the lone Choose your masks fan throwing a dart at
me.
>
> iain (who really only hates Choose your masks and the godam aweful bad
> bootleg quality live releases).
>
>
>
> john-paul wrote on 27/03/2006, 15:52:
>
>  > for all those people who are slagging HW albums, specifically DH &
>  > IITBOTFTBD, i'm sorry but its a stupid statement to be making. you may
>  > not like the album in question but someone else may think it's the
>  > best thing ever. you can say you don't like it but don't slag it off.
>  > it is the fact that every HW album is different and some old fans may
>  > not like it but new fans may become involved, that make the hawks such
>  > an incredible band. IMHO DH is not my favourite album but there are
>  > many parts of it that are steering towards TMTYL which is a fine
>  > album. HW are ever evolving and as such there will be peaks and
>  > troughs, but lets stop the slagging. remember " it is the business of
>  > the future to be dangerous"
>  >
>  > love to everyone j.p
>