― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― geeta, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
First album: opening track is monster, "Under the God" has meaty punk- Zep riff, "Amazing" best song on the album, I think.
Second album: Not quite as good, but has some decent moments. Now defending the Hunt Sales tunes--THAT'S where the tricky part comes into play. But still I like both of 'em--even the trite one where he says he sings that he's so sorry over and over again.
Live album: Don't really play it (actually, I think I might have gotten rid of it), but I was at the Boston show. I remember Reeves Gabrels putting on a headband flashlight for "I Can't Read"...
― Joe, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
It is still probably the funniest thing I have ever seen.
I could not stop larfing throughout the entire song and he was not pleased. So I don't know if that makes them classic or dud.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
In 1991, I saw a promo concert by them at LAX filmed for ABC (long story). It was actually a pretty good show!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
There's a local band here in my neck of the woods that SOUNDS quite a bit like Tin Machine. The guitarist worships Gabrels, and though I don't remember any actual TM songs in their set, Reeves-ian versions of The Pretty Things Have Gone To Hell and Scary Monsters have been known to pop up.
http://www.inner-kube.com/v2.0/main.htm
They are certainly only the first of the Tin Machine-influenced bands that will spring up, Velvets-like, in the Sales brothers' mighty wake.
― briania, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
They were great backing Iggy on Lust For Life.
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:56 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:07 (8 years ago) Permalink
Die liebe ist nicht genug.
I was listening to their live version of "If There Is Something" from Oy Vey Baby today, and forgot just how much it burns.
― Joe, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 20:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Seriously, it is badass.
― Joe, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
Defending the indefensible rarely was so difficult.
― blunt, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
I had both of these records, got rid of them...but remember liking them. Particularly liked the lead cuts: "Heaven's In Here" and "Baby Universal."
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Heaven's in Here" (the studio version on the original album) is incredible. That jam at the end after Bowie screams "Heaven!", with Gabrels and Hunt Sales, smokes... I could listen to a million times.
I always imagine that song as the perfect trailer music if somebody would ever make a real Mission: Impossible-type movie with the quality of Casino Royale (a realistic one with a team full of ruthless bastards, rather than just a Tom Cruise-shining teeth showboat with stupid effects).
― Joe, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 00:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
or I should say, a 'more realistic' one (relatively speaking)
― Joe, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 00:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
Their version of Working Class Hero wasn't too bad, either, especially in light of recent events.
― Jake Brown, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 01:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ugh, Reeves Gabriels.
Only thing I could ever stand him on was "Outside" where, according to legend, Eno passed out cards to all of the musicians involved, assigning them a role ("Spaced-out guitar player from a hip lounge on Mars") that they had to play during the sessions.
Consequently, Reeves Gabriels didn't play like Reeves Gabriels on that album, for the most part, and it was Bowie's best outing in years.
― novaheat, Thursday, 21 June 2007 06:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
i have decided i love tin machine: help me prove the scoffing hipsters are mistaken -- mark s, Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:00 AM (5 years ago)
Strawman, thy name is hipster
― bobby bedelia, Thursday, 21 June 2007 06:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
the first album an dmost of the second one are perfectly fine, I don't get the hate. "goodbye mr ed" = easily one of bowie's best songs since the 70's
― akm, Thursday, 21 June 2007 23:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
bump"I Can't Read" is a jam
― the best Laid jams (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
that "pushing ahead" blog is really interesting on these tracks/time period. but sorry, this bloweth.
― goole, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
Today's track though is terrific.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:33 (7 months ago) Permalink