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| Marc With A C |
Posted - 11/23/2004 : 21:53:25
Haven't played this disc for awhile, and got a little experimental with it. Arranged it in alphabetical order in my Winamp for giggles, and it blew my little mind. You'd think that "Fields Of Marigold" would be out of place as the third track, but it actually works really well. Give it a shot. It might renew some interest in an already great album!
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| frank black conspiracy |
Posted - 01/07/2005 : 16:21:23
I managed to find the time to listen to this album all the way through today.
I realised too I haven't paid enough attention to this album, or Black Letters Day, like I had the others before.
Maybe because the time in between these two and DITS, I started to get back into Frank solo stuff. And time flew by then Show Me Your Tears was released.
And maybe because I loved certain tracks that I played more than the rest, purely because I thought they were amazing.
Anyway, I think this album is awesome, just in case anyone wanted to know. On a par with the rest if only because of the "hit" songs on there. i thank frank for writing these especially: Velvety (hey! that was a Pixies song. nice),
Out Of State,
His Kingly Cave (love the wind effect and Franks seal of approval at the end. "Yes.....nice"),
San Antonio
the Scene and Fields of Marigold. To name but a few.
I know the others are so good too, just these are the ones that stopped me listening to them.
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| Jason |
Posted - 11/26/2004 : 23:30:44
I like it. I can listen to it all the way through today, tomorrow, and the next day.
If there's one very slight quibble I have with it, I think it's that I miss Rich Gilbert on guitar. Dave Phillips is cool, I like him, and it's still a real nice album with him on the lead gee-tar, but Rich's playing has a certain flamboyance, a certain "noise" element, that I think brought a lot to the Catholics. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 11/26/2004 : 18:43:20
Maybe they thought some people would recognize "His Kingly Cave" from Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day.
Or maybe not.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| the thing |
Posted - 11/26/2004 : 02:42:36
Weird - sounds like maybe it was going to be a single, before they opted for Velvety. I really like the song, especially when you find out what its actually about.
 Forget the cults I got me a whole church! |
| Superabounder |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 17:24:26
I remember buying DW and the packaging said something about "includes 'His Kingly Cave'" as if it was some major hit somewhere in the world. I love the song, but I struggled for a long time to figure out if I was missing something about it that made it more of a hit than the other songs on the album. |
| The Holiday Son |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 07:19:30
Fields of Marigold forever |
| Newo |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 06:30:02
I got DW a couple months before BLD so had lots of time to listen to it stand on its own. I always break strings when I play Heloise in the street, something about that song makes me want to beat shit out of my guitar. Same with Kingly Cave, which is my current favourite, and one I used to skip when I first got it. That's what I love about this fellows' records, so many moods that different songs strike me as interesting in different seasons.
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Moving from the clown to the jester will mean moving from similar to same, from alike to identical, from comparable to analogous. Though applied differently, the colours used on one can be used on another, and a couple of changes of costume will rapidly transform the jester into a clown and the clown into a jester. Strictly speaking, they almost duplicate each other as regards clothes and function, the only difference between them, from a social point of view, is that clowns do not usually visit the palaces of kings. |
| n/a |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 03:55:59
Me too, I love that music...and now I must listen to it again!
Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena
Se a alma não é pequena.
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| vilainde |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 02:09:15
Yeah! I join the Cult of the Fields Of Marigold Lovers.
Denis
"I believe in your perfect face..." |
| the thing |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 01:39:57
Totally agree Adam, I bought them both on the same day and cast Devils Workshop aside for many months until rediscovering it (rather guiltily) in one of my regular trawls through the back catalogue. Fields of Marigolds is one of those FB songs where you have to check pretty hard to make sure its an original, its so timelessly classic its hard to believe it hasn't been around for decades as a standard...
Forget the cults I got me a whole church! |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 11/25/2004 : 01:38:20
Fields Of Marigold is a nice song but I hate the guitar work for it, the songs seems empty when the guitars do the riffs
In my honest opinion I think a rhytmguitar wouldn't hurt to song, in fact it would have made me like the song more
 "I joined the cult of Jon Tiven/Bye!" |
| Adam |
Posted - 11/24/2004 : 16:35:33
Love Fields of Marigold. What a great song. At first I thought the album was BLDs little brother, but I see now it stands alone and is a completely different type of album. FOM is my fave off the album.
Free the Heel! |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/23/2004 : 22:13:24
Of course, it's a damned good album, that's my credo... His kingly cave is so epic, San Antonio Tx is undoubtedly a song that dates back to the Teenager of the Yaer era. Are you Headed my way is pure Rock'n Roll and Whyskey in your shoes is evil. Any Frank Black Album played randomly rocks. This topic is useless though necessary...
HW |
