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johnny5:
oh shit i guess i better order this

Ptommydski:
Mine hasn't arrived yet. Thanks for the comments though. Keep them coming, let everyone know if you like it.

Trynant:
Well, I think I'm on my fourth or fifth listen of Blood Under the Bridge and it gets better each listen. To be honest I liked "Red Pen" and "Pitch" a little better than the songs on this LP, but that is the equivalent of saying I prefer diamonds over sapphires: they are all beautiful gems (okay, that was a little cheesy).

As for what songs I like on this LP:

"Dixon" is my favorite song to "rock out" to, even if it is just an instrumental track.

"38 Souls" is probably my favorite overall song, it's pretty damn wonderful. "Winterwind" comes in as a close second (hearing that little bit of "Bar Ice" at the end of the song was a bittersweet stroke of genius). "Is It a Ditch" is amazing as well.

This is definitely not a case where all the previewed songs are the only good ones on the LP; all of the songs are exceptional. Personally I would say "Kiss Them All" is the weakest song on the album, but even that is better than the best song that most other bands could make.

Be warned that I am very hyped for this album, and that means a lot of this post is under heavy bias towards Blood Under the Bridge. Nevertheless, right now this is my record of the year.

Lastly, whether to say this is better or worse than Congress or Hammer of the Gods, I think it is as good as the previous releases. The only thing is Blood Under the Bridge is a different, possibly more upbeat sound than the previous two albums. Like I said before, it is hard to compare this latest EP to the earlier releases when so much is different.

Wonderful though. Get it when you can.

Side note: I have only been listening to the CD. Hopefully I can get a working turntable soon and hear what this sounds like on vinyl, but even in digital format this is a great, great EP.

Johnny C:

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Trynant:
Is that a sign that you just ordered a wonderful album or is there something funny about that quote that I'm missing? I'm pretty dense.

EDIT: Finished listening to Blood Under the Bridge for what must be the tenth time. I just looked at how many times I've listened to Bottomless Pit songs on my desktop, and I'm pretty sure I'm a fan. "The Cardinal Movements" 34 times, "Red Pen" 32 times, "Fish Eyes" and "Angry Swam" 31 times, each song from Hammer of the Gods and Congress has been listened to more than twenty times. This is not counting listening in my car or on my laptop. That's a shitload of Bottomless Pit :-o

As for Blood Under the Bridge, I think if I were to rate this album against Hammer of the Gods and Congress, the order would be Congress > Blood Under the Bridge > Hammer of the Gods, but this has only been after a day of the listening to the Blood Under the Bridge. "Red Pen" and "Pitch" are just so damn good, but I can see "Winterwind," "Late," "Is It a Ditch," and "38 Souls" growing on me a whole lot. "Dixon" has already wormed its way to my heart, or at least to my need to bang my head.

As far as possible cons to this latest LP, I think "Rhinelander" and "Kiss Them All" are some of the simplest and sparsest songs lyrically that either Silkworm or Bottomless Pit has produced (this is only the lyrics I'm talking about, all the songs on the LP have masterful playing on every instrument). The lyrics aren't banal at all, just sparse. I could be missing out on a lot of subtext in these two songs, but I personally don't think there's a lot of content word-wise in them compared to some of the poetry I've heard from Tim and Andy. I still haven't gotten to grasping "Q.E.D.", it's this quiet song jammed between Andy belting out his words in "Is It a Ditch" and "38 Souls" and it just keeps going in one ear and out the other. As a last "con" (and I emphasize the quotations here), Blood Under the Bridge sounds less previous Bottomless Pit songs and more like Silkworm songs. This LP is still a long ways from being another Silkworm album, it's more like a bridge over the gap between Bottomless Pit's and Silkworm's sounds.

Please note that the last paragraph is comprised of nitpicks at best. I am immensely satisfied with my purchase of Blood Under the Bridge and want all of you to hear this record and enjoy it as much as I am. It will also be nice to hear other people's opinions just because I am a wreck at trying to articulate my feelings about this music, and I know there are other people on this forum who can say what I have said with much more brevity and elegance.

More coherent commenting will follow once I get off this binge of Bottomless Pit.

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