― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 11 September 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 11 September 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Can were barely a glimmer in my eye when I first bought that album. I mean Can meant nothing to me. Wow.
― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― LC (Damian), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Gave this a spin in light of the recent "Brilliant Trees" poll. Yes, it's got Mr. Nelson and Mr. Fripp all over it, but it still comes in behind "Secrets" and "Trees" as far as his 80s solo albums are concerned. The tunes just aren't as memorable. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's damn good though.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 May 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
Not to mention "Alchemy" - I think I've played that more than GTE.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 May 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Laughter and Forgetting and Silver Moon kill me....
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 30 May 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting timing...picked this up for a dollar yesterday.
― sam500, Monday, 30 May 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
No can't enthuse about this as much as SOTB or BT...still pretty great and 'Before The Bullfight" is quite lovely...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Monday, 30 May 2011 07:58 (twelve years ago) link
Amazingly enough I discovered this album from seeing the "Silver Moon" video on VH1.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 30 May 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Excellent nightly writing music.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
one of the first albums I always put on when the weather changes in the fall!
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
This may be the best album he ever did. The most impressive thing is how the vocal and the instrumental disc work together as one piece you can listen to entirely in sequence, not merely discrete "pop" and "ambient" records. Despite the differences, it's as if "the story continues" from one part to the other, like in 2001. Partly this continuity is due to Fripp and Nelson playing lead guitar on both halves.
Emotionally, the songs are sunnier than on his other albums. The instrumentals are also unusual in his body of work in that they are mostly based on chord changes or melodic sequences. There isn't any of the quasi-tribal rhythm from Alchemy or the Czukay collaborations.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
it rules
― brimstead, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
I can listen to this all night.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
the ambient half of this album is like, one of my favorite things ever.
pop half not bad either.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link