Designer1 Posted March 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 21, 2022 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Designer1 said: WTF are they playing at? Fifteen or more different coloured vinyl version!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Designer1 Posted March 21, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 21, 2022 23 minutes ago, rjw63 said: WTF are they playing at? Fifteen or more different coloured vinyl version!!! I'd say they are taking advantage of the mental sods with more money than sense who buy multiple versions of the same album... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Dog Unit - Turn Right and Right Again EP. worth a listen if you like the likes of Mogwai (for a quick and lazy comparison ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 currently £33 if discogs is to be believed then my record collection is massively outstripping my ISA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted March 23, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 23, 2022 2 hours ago, rjw63 said: I have this! (plus the lounge one too) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 24, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 24, 2022 Probably the record I own that has increased in value (according to that Discogs) faster than any other It's also not even a first pressing (2014), it's the second (2015) and before that even, it was two separate albums KIng Gizzard and the Lizaed Wizard - Float Along - FIll Your Lungs / Oddments There are three for sale currently in the UK the prices range between £170 - £100 You should see the prices for the original separate albums 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 (edited) Ghost - Impera Its….. ok. No where near the heights of Prequelle. It has really good songs on it and some duffers. Twenties is truly awful. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that Tobias appears to have forgotten how to write songs. I swear every song has about 6 different lines repeated over and over. Watcher in the Sky is a banger ruined by the same line repeated about a thousand times. Call me little sunshine has a cool groove but the chorus is just sang over and over with little variation lyrically in between. I’ve also noticed the themes they talk about pre album release are utter nonsense. This was supposed to be about empires/civilisations/cities coming to an end but the songs don’t really reflect that. At least with Prequelle you had Rats with its not so subtle link to the plague. There doesn’t seem to be as much as cohesion song to song thematically with Impera as there was previously. I don’t know, maybe I was expecting too much. Was looking forward to this and it’s still a good album but could have been so much better. It just feels like an album where they have struck on a formula with Prequelle and followed it again here but with pomposity and ridiculousness dialled up a bit more and less clever songwriting. Maybe I’m being harsh but it ain’t clicking with me much. 6/10. Edited March 26, 2022 by Ingram85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted March 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2022 9 minutes ago, Ingram85 said: Ghost - Impera Its….. ok. No where near the heights of Prequelle. It has really good songs on it and some duffers. Twenties is truly awful. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that Tobias appears to have forgotten how to write songs. I swear every song has about 6 different lines repeated over and over. Searchlight is a banger ruined by the same line repeated about a thousand times. Call me little sunshine has a cool groove but the chorus is just sang over and over with little variation lyrically in between. I’ve also noticed the themes they talk about pre album release are utter nonsense. This was supposed to be about empires/civilisations/cities coming to an end but the songs don’t really reflect that. At least with Prequelle you had Rats with its not so subtle link to the plague. There doesn’t seem to be as much as cohesion song to song thematically with Impera as there was previously. I don’t know, maybe I was expecting too much. Was looking forward to this and it’s still a good album but could have been so much better. It just feels like an album where they have struck on a formula with Prequelle and followed it again here but with pomposity and ridiculousness dialled up a bit more and less clever songwriting. Maybe I’m being harsh but it ain’t clicking with me much. 6/10. It's grown on me. Spillways and Watcher I think are superb, and I like Call Me Little Sunshine personally. I think your point about repetitive sections on the songs. I'd argue he has always done that, for instance Cirice doesn't have a lot to it if you sit down and analyse it. But what Tobias does, and I think he does on this album too, is take those shortish themes and replay them in subtly different ways throughout the tune, altering the dynamics and the instruments and so on. I am always amazed at how much detail he puts into this and how he manages to make it work, and it keeps the songs breathing and changing as they progress. I agree about Twenties - did not need to be on there at all. I can sort of see where they were going but it comes across as a failed sort of Rocky Horror Show reject. Is this their best album? I don't think so. In some ways it's perhaps their most consistent (Twenties aside), and like you say it does come across as Prequelle with the pomposity ramped up, but for me Meloria is their best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Intrigued by the reference to Twenties by Ghost I just gave it a listen. I had never heard Ghost before but appreciate they are well respected. Lyrically Twenties is appalling, they could give Des'ree a run for her money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted March 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2022 8 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Intrigued by the reference to Twenties by Ghost I just gave it a listen. I had never heard Ghost before but appreciate they are well respected. Lyrically Twenties is appalling, they could give Des'ree a run for her money. I mean, you did pick possibly the worst lyrics there Most of the rest of their songs are just about Lucifer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said: I mean, you did pick possibly the worst lyrics there Most of the rest of their songs are just about Lucifer. I am fairly open to metal. I quite like a lot of heavy stuff. Any track you could mention that is worth a listen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 35 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I am fairly open to metal. I quite like a lot of heavy stuff. Any track you could mention that is worth a listen? The song that got me into Ghost was Cirice. My favourite song is See the Light. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted March 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2022 25 minutes ago, Ingram85 said: The song that got me into Ghost was Cirice. My favourite song is See the Light. Add “Ritual” to the list along with say “Square Hammer”. They do some covers as well which always sound decent enough (“Missionary Man”; “It’s a Sin”). With the new album, the singles pre release were hit and miss (didn’t like Call me Little Sunshine) but I quite liked Twenties, just don’t think about it too much but found it very catchy. First listen of the whole album and thought it was completely duff but then for the rest of the weekend I kept getting ear worms of the songs and actually now I really love it. Even call me little sunshine I really like. One review I watch explained how it works better as an album rather than songs and I think that is right and I really like it. Has it gone quite “poppy”? Definitely. Is it there best album? Probably not, but they all have their own quirks that’s for sure. People will definitely have their own favourites for various reasons. Still looking forward to seeing them next month though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Ross From Friends - 'Tread' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Sven Kossler - 'D. Bl Stndrds' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Walked in to a second hand record shop in Worcester today, and there, staring back at me was Alfie, my mate’s Uncle. Worth a fiver of anyone’s money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 That album plays like new! And so does this one… Total spend on both: £10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 47 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Walked in to a second hand record shop in Worcester today, The guy on the first floor of the market on the Shambles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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