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Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 17 Feb 2008, 22:17 ---i don't get it, Let It Come Down is either an album by Spiritualized or James Iha and Use Your Illusion is a Guns N' Roses compilation
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I was saying that aiming for a big sound is not always a good thing in and of itself (as the two Use Your Illusion albums proved - they are albums, not compilations) and that in my opinion the way to "go big" is like J. Spaceman did on Let It Come Down.
As stated, I like the album, just not that much. I'd give it a 7/10. Compared to everything else I've been hearing lately, it's hard to justify getting too into it.
I think some people may be liking it for the "underdog" factor, being that they are reasonably unknown. When a "big" band makes a less-than-stellar album, people vastly underrate it - example: Our Love To Admire - but when a "smaller" artist makes a less-than-stellar album it tends to get overrated - example: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out.
E. Spaceman:
Let It Come Down is for sure my least favourite Spiritualized album (though i still like it quite a lot). It is too crowded and Pierce is often content with having an orchestra, a choir and a full band fill in for songwriting.
Something about DYLRM? just strikes me as right. The Decline was really great but it often comes out as being too samey for me.
Jackie Blue:
Let It Come Down is very divisive, I know (though I can't see liking it less than Amazing Grace).
Something about its density just strikes me as pretty much perfect. I don't know whether I like it more than Pure Phase but they are such different albums I don't know how to or why I should compare them.
Johnny C:
I had a post about how Our Love To Admire is only about half-good and the rest of it goes from "nothing special" to "truly awful." Sadly, Firefox bit it before I could post it. To summarize it, the reason that album isn't rated very well is because half of it sucks, and nobody wants to listen to a record when half of it sucks.
Jackie Blue:
I was quite underwhelmed with Our Love To Admire at first, but then after a few listens, I realised it is far more dense and interesting than I had thought. I still prefer Antics but I think people were expecting a bit too much from them and also a bit too eager to proclaim that it was sub-par even before they heard it. They are a band that, I think, suffer entirely too much from "it's not the band I hate, it's their fans" syndrome (also "it's not the music I hate, it's the band", also known as "GY!BE syndrome").
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