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I looked no thead.The album was a bit spotty but "Smile" & "Bedlam" are classic prog rock.Were they ahead of their time or 20 years too late?

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well, they were no Republic Of Heaven, that's for damn sure.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well, they were no Republic Of Heaven, that's for damn sure.
Edward III (ehonauer@gmail.com), February 23rd, 2006

Thank you for making my day a little brighter.

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

hahaha

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

damn fine band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 February 2006 02:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh dear, they were dreadful through and through. i suppose the guitars were impressive on their own but the records were completely unlistenable. i always thought they served as proof that guy chadwick was the only one that mattered in the house of love.

― keyth (keyth), Friday, 24 February 2006 03:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

i think i disagreed and possibly argued with keyth about this ten years ago but now i have to agree.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 24 February 2006 06:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

Save for "Squirrel," a complete and utter dud.

― hector savage, Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like 'em just fine but I barely listen to them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

Seriously, is this the only Levitation thread on ILM!? I could swear I've ranted here on them before.

Just giving "Need for Not" a dust off. Its a fine album - possibly ahead of its time in the sense they did the prog thing about 10 years before everyone else (*coff* muse *coff*) copped it.

Love this album.

― demiurge overkill (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's a good album, especially 'Resist'. Not so much prog as complex psych-pop. Also very good mates with a certain band I don't have to name.

― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

Levitation made an awful lot more sense when you stared directly into their mad eyes from four foot away on stage at King Tuts or similar, like I seemed to find myself doing a lot in the early nineties.

Gazing *cough* backwards through rose coloured granny glasses, I can honestly say that they tore shit up in a live setting and in a strangely unique fashion like very few bands I've seen before or since.

― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

im pretty sure i commented on levitation before too.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

Truly weird, because last sunday I listened to them for the first time in one million years.
Oh, the memories - Trayce is right, what really amazed me was how much some of their songs seems to predate Porcupine Tree (who are huge here in Italy).

― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

I listened to "Even When Your Eyes Are Open" earlier this week (and flirted with the notion of selling my Dark Star CD, but recanted).

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Was alerted to these by a friend, nobody probably gives a shit but what the hay.

https://soundcloud.com/moke72/sets/levitation-92-demos

― MaresNest, Monday, 24 December 2012 01:48 (4 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Bickers is far more visceral and energetic than Shields; and i get far more pleasure from his brand of chaos -- the critics are completely wrong.

"Loveless" is noise; "World Around" is sound.

― suspecterrain, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 07:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

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