For some reason, I haven’t even opened this 2LP set. Factory sealed freshness! Mmmm…
I mean, I’ve heard the album… I think perhaps I’ve owned the CD at one point and that’s how I heard it. Anyway, you know who they are, and you know this album. Carry on, as you were!
Still yet to try any of this band’s music. I’ve been really into Tool for the past few months so I’ve been getting through that first, haha. Where do you reckon I should start with Perfect Circle?
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I understand, Tool can take time to absorb if you give them proper space to stretch out.
As for APC… all of them. There are only four!
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Honestly Tool takes a lot of dedication haha, but it’s worth it for sure. Absolutely love Aenima and Lateralus. I think I’ll get around to APC once I’m done digesting 10,000 Days.
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Hope you dig 10,000 Days. That’s the tour we saw, way back when it was new, and those tracks were huge live! No surprise there, obvs.
Think we’ll see a Tool and an APC albums post someday on SAT? (fingers crossed)
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Haha yeah I hope so, I’ve been meaning to write something proper on Tool for a while now but I want to get to know them as a band properly before I dig into em on the wordpress front.
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I started following Metal and Alternative around the time this came out. I was also listening for Tool comparisons or separations
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How did it go? Preference for one over the other?
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I respect the growth. Tool was more raw. APC sounded more polished but still tuff. I think I respect Maynard, overall and the musicians he works with
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Raw’s a good word, and yet it’s still pristine. What a sound… especially live! Maybard is an interesting cat. Whatever his reputation, I think he (and his fellow musicians) has a fairly unerring sense of what is right for the music.
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I like the way you worded that. I miss music from that era, in general. Rock was really rock, then I’m no country fan, but I appreciate old school Country more than the present. Hip Hop is endangered
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Rock is still rock, you just have to go find it. Glorious Sons, Black Keys, Trews, Monster Truck, lots of great stuff out there! I’m sure other folks can chip in with a ton of other suggestions too. I’m with you on the country too, I like the old stuff. Hank, Johnny, Willie, Patsy, Loretta. I don’t tend to listen to anything of the stuff from the last 30 years and that’s a big chunk of time.
Hip hop is endangered? I thought it was the biggest, fastest-growing, most popular genre these days? Or is that precisely why it’s endangered, too much dilution in the pool? Rap is a tricky thing for me, it could probably be its own philosophy-style post, but I need them to be saying something, socially conscious without being strident, and I have to be able to tell that they mean it, not using it as a marketing targeted thing. I don’t care about raps that are just posturing, guns and bling and women and how they rose up from the projects or whatever. That’s juvenile crap. Needs to be meat on the bone.
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I always find that sleeve makes me particularly queasy. Great album though
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I totally get the queasiness. Still, album art that provokes a reaction is better than something pedestrian!
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Get it opened!
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Haha yeah one day…
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