The Tea Party: Why do they suck?

ALERT GEORGE BUSH!

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Now he's a self-righteous uber-pretentious fucktard.

My thoughts exactly!

1: S/T
2: Splendour Solis
3: The Edges Of Twilight
4: Alhambra (a live CD EP)
5: Transmission
6: Triptych
7: Tangents (a best of)
8: The Interzone Mantras
9: Seven Circles

I still hear "Heaven's Coming Down" at the YMCA.

are you a fan, owen?

The Tea Party, on the other hand, were mostly worthless.

In comparison to all the other Canrock bands of the time, they were definitely the most experimental. Right up until "The Edges Of Twilight", they were an eclectic, sonically interesting band. The songs were unfortunately marred by trite attempts at "mystic lyrics", not to mention poor performance practise on the exotic instruments they used so often.

I would honestly commend two or three songs off of "Edges Of Twilight" to be as good as Dead Can Dance at their peak. Perhaps a dubious honour, but the sound was refreshing on The Edge in 1995 when sandwiched between I Mother Earth and Hole.

Then, with Transmission, Jeff Martin took the reins as producer, and the sound became overtracked and lost any of the small charms it once retained.

The last (only?) Tea Party song I remember liking is "Sister Awake". I was not a very goth kid but that video and the death's head vocals made me very happy.

The album also includes a hidden song which features a spoken word performance by folk legend Roy Harper, who is a personal friend of the band.

Seriously!? That is doubly weird!

I think I saw the band muddle through one of those Ottawa tulip fest/canada day gigs and it was awful. nothing like the really surprisingly awesome performance by (good god) Big Sugar.

(Sundar u rule)

these guys are total dicks imo

One of the worst bands I ever heard.

I was recommended their song "Psychopomp" and am really digging it. shame the singer's big-headed in every sense of the word.

There are a bunch of jams on that album.

I like “Correspondences”

I wrote upthread kind of nastily about this band but I actually still put on Edges Of Twilight sometimes

There is a kind of hipster bar in Toronto and in 2008 or thereabouts, my friend Duncan was hosting this recurring night there. Management went to Duncan as he was onstage with the band and told him that Jeff Martin was there and wanted to get onstage and play a song. Duncan iirc was somewhat hesitant but decided to just go for it. Jeff Martin came onstage and began playing “Jammin’”. And a certain point Duncan repressed his giggling enough to lean over to a live mic and say “listen to what the wise man is saying”

Sounds about right.