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Member Since: May 14, 2007
Rank: 40
Rated 13 releases, average: 4.46
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Shockabilly - Earth vs. Shockabilly - 18-Jun-08 05:59 AM
I bought "Earth vs Shockabilly" when it came out in '83, and it never quite gelled for me. Some parts I still do not like or understand, but that's OK. That is what art is like.
What this album DOES have, however, is (in my opinion) the benchmark version of "19th nervous breakdown". This is The One. It is a favourite tune of mine, and I constantly seek out new versions and covers and this kicks everyones ass, hands down. Absolutely blistering. The take on "Purple haze" is strange and interesting, and most of the other tracks here will widen your opinion of the song (if it is a cover that you know) or of music in general.
This is not for everyone, granted, and I'm not even sure it is for me, but I bought it _again_ on CD, just for "19th nervous breakdown". That one track really is that good.
Rupert Hine - Waving Not Drowning - 08-Jan-08 03:30 PM
The follow-up to "Immunity", with some of the same feeling and some direct development away from the original. I would like to comment on the "small film" formed by the two songs "Dark windows" and "the Sniper", which tell a story of leadership and assassination that puts many of Hollywoods feeble attempts at moviemaking to shame. This is great storytelling!
Also in a class of its own is "the Outsider", an incredibly haunting and beautiful song using wind as a major instrument, much like "Dark windows" has a very musical rainstorm providing percussion to its story.
Music making rarely gets this good. Only a handful of the several hundred records I have heard since this came out actually comes near it in musicianship. Very very few trump it. This, and "Immunity" before it, are records for the ages.
Rupert Hine - Immunity - 08-Jan-08 03:21 PM
This album actually changed my life. It gave me a new insight into how music could sound, and removed a lot of inhibitions. If I had to melt my entire record collection and keep three albums this would be the number one keeper.
It is fantastic in several ways. The tone of the lyrics, the fantastic use of synthesizers (which Hine deliberately "overloaded" by feeding them strange input to get interesting output, one example is a sample of a knife tapping glass) and the avoidance of drums on many tracks. This was a completely new way of creating "pop" music and it is unsurpassed. This album can still, decades later, make me weep.
I pity all who miss out on this.
Note: the info on "tampering" with the synthesizer inputs comes from an interview in swedish Hi-Fi & Musik Magazine.
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