[kj] reasons why BTATS is gash

[iPat]

Im with you on this one bluce
The slap bass was very fashionable at the time. Level 42 were big at the
time - before BTAS mind you. Stanley Clark was influencing many around me
with their bass playing.


On 5/9/06, bluce ree <bluceree2003 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> a)  the first 45 seconds of 'Love Of The Masses' including that fruity
> little break at around 42 secs.  The whole song sounds like Tears For Fears.
>
>
> b)  'The Southern Sky'.  horrible.
>
> c)  the chorus in 'Victory' which ruins an otherwise sub-par but
> inoffensive song.  the verses are probably one of the better things on the
> album.  thin praise indeed.
>
> d)  'Rubicon'.  ooh... sinister guitar intro.... gives way to a riff which
> sounds like everything else on this fucking record.  Maybe it's the
> production but this is the most samey album they've done.  Stupid vocals on
> this track as well, sounds like a new romantic Chas and Dave.
>
> e)  'Goodbye To The Village'... yet another weak, poppy chorus.
> Non-descript bass.  the guitar sounds alright, even if the song sounds like
> a poor Nighttime-era b-side.
>
> f)  'Sanity'.... horrible beat, horrible 'woah-oh's, horrible chorus
> (again), horribly undermixed guitar.
>
> g)  'Exile'... where are you lady?  I'm in Club Tech-Noir.
>
> h)  horrible production.  Even Chessboards sounds paper-thin compared to
> the live version on NWOBFG.
>
> i)  whats with all the slap-bass?
>
> the whole album sounds much like the worst aspects of 80s synth-era Cure
> and sits VERY uncomfortably between the 3 early albums and EDAVRE onwards.
>
> it has a few moments of okayness.  Adorations remains the strongest thing
> on it IMO but is ruined by Jaz's choirboy vocals and that 'as pain and joy
> and sorrow...' bit.
>
> If Nighttime was chasing the dollar then BTATS grabbed it, put it in its
> bra and did a whoreish lapdance.  Although partially I think it was their
> attempt at being 'good' musicians even though Revelations shits on BTATS for
> musicianship, attitude and variety.
>
> Although people say that OTG isnt a true KJ album etc etc it could only
> have followed this record.  If it had come out after any of the others the
> sharp change in direction would have marked them out as commercial whores
> who like being bummed in the gob.  BTATS softened the blow, so to speak.
>
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> --
> Pat Davies
> www.amag.org.uk
>
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