― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
There's not too many albums where I can immediately recall the time/place/emotional memories of my first listen. I picked up P=A the day it was released in March 1992 even though my CD player was dead-in-the-water. It's a long album and didn't fit on one side of a 90min tape (I did a lot of listening in the car) and my usual sloth and final-year-of-college ennui prevented me from buying a proper length tape and getting a new CD player until April. The upshot was that even though I had the album for over a month, I didn't listen to it completely until April 29, 1992... The day of the LA Riots.
My city is burning to the ground, here why don't I finally listen to the new Church album to take my mind off of things. OOPS! BIG MISTAKE!
These lines in "Chaos" I thought were especially prescient:
"Bang the gavel, it's lawlessnessI can't unravel the knotHalf this wretched town is starvingWhile the other half are bloatedEverybody hates the bastards in power"
Back to travellin'
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 27 January 2007 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 27 January 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link
evidently
― jimbo (electricsound), Saturday, 27 January 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimbo (electricsound), Saturday, 27 January 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"His gold won't buy him sleep His poverty runs so deep In winter he cracks, in summer he warps"
― Bimble, Saturday, 2 February 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ADRENALIN IS NOT MY MISTRESS
― Shoegazey Goth Metal Phone (Bimble), Monday, 12 January 2009 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWGFYFGjVaM
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:44 (nine years ago) link
^^^ A+++
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I just busted this album out yesterday! One of my last acquisitions from episodes of 120 Minutes that I had on tape 20 years ago and never quite got around to buying.
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
Released 23 years ago today!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
The cool thing on this set of material by the Church is that they really lay back on the tempos and drive giving the music alot of space. It's harder to play slow and keep the music interesting and moving, even the old jazz guys will tell you that. That space allows the music to breathe and gives it dynamics, perhaps best illustrated on the title track. I love Koppes solo with the big delay on that tune.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
New album is wonderful. Hearkens back to their early '80s run with lots of beautiful gothy synths in the background. Really great.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 October 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
Had to miss the tour stop here, sadly, but definitely need to catch up to the album.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
I picked up P = A from the Salvation Army a few weeks ago and have been pleasantly surprised. I mean, I knew it was a fan favourite but it was where I fell off the wagon as a yoof. (Along with Wish, from the same year, the drowsy jams with long running times I heard via radio were pleasant enough but not something I felt any need to invest in.)
But yeah, it's quite good. Though I would have dropped the opening/title track to get the total running time under an hour. It doesn't do much musically, thereby drawing too much attention to some rather dopey lyrics IMHO.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 8 June 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link