BTW the change of style NO had is a demonstration of the capabilities of the members, it's too easy criticize them for this and i remember you Morris playskeyboards....
Exactly. They had reached their limit as true artists and needed to replicate nauseating Ibiza club tracks with a bunch of computers. Morris didn't really "play" keyboards either. He pressed a button on a sequencer when he was told to.
In truth, when NO were more "lo-fi" they really did shine. That's what they were good at. And even then they were so inconsistent on stage. That was nothing to do with the complexity of their arrangements at all and with an army of programmed nonsense to back them now, they really don't have any excuse to be bad live. They may as well be miming.
In truth, when NO were more "lo-fi" they really did shine. That's what they were good at. And even then they were so inconsistent on stage. That was nothing to do with the complexity of their arrangements...
"lo-fi"??? can't get it
i never saw them on stage, but in the couple of DVDs i have i saw them, exspecially Summer and Hook, joking too much on stage, maybe they enjoyed the shows, but saw on the "audience" side it's not really enjoyable and some song is really bad due to it, it doesn't mean they aren't good as musicians(or maybe they are!!!) but the interpretation of the live show doesn't find me satisfied
hear an album like Tecnique live makes me courious really
your name...like ice into my heart...a shllow grave...a monument to the ruined age...ice in my eyes...and eyes like ice don't move...screaming at the moon...as cold as silence...and you never will say a word...this is my name...and a strange day...ever and ever and ever again......
Next to Disintegration, Einstürzende Neubauten, 'Haus der Lüge' and Camouflage, 'Methods of Silence' were probably my favourite albums from 1989 in 1989... From contemporary point of view Disintegration is better than anything else from 1989 by a light year.
An impression of sound Then everything is gone Forever
They're on drugs for including Terence Trent D'Arby's 2nd album. His first album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, was released in 1987 and was way better.
The best Cure album of 1989 was the Fascination Street CD single, which had the magnificent extended remix of that song.
That's like asking me to choose my favourite pet fish! (I don't have children, but if I did, it'd be like choosing one of those as a favourite.)
'Pretty Hate Machine' was the album that kicked me up the bum and made me DO something with my life.
...and just look at me now!! *twitches*
But seriously, without that album, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today, so for me, that album is verrrrrrrry special.
'Disintegration' was from the time before that turning point, where I didn't have any idea what I was going to do with my life. Which, at 17 years of age, was beginning to worry me a lot... Bloody good album and it's slightly melancholic feel matched my own at the time.
So those two are a 'before and after' pair. Totally inseperable.
The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.