[kj] reasons why BTATS is gash

[Neil Perry]

There's so much that is wrong, mistaken and just plain
bad with BTATS that it's hard to know where to start..
but this is a start. It's the closest I've come to
severing my KJ allegience, and still remember the
crushing disappointment when I first heard it.
Strangely, it did produce one of my all time faves -
Chessboards - but the rest, to me, is weak at best,
pure drivel at worst. That horrible drum sound, the
production that sets my teeth on edge, Jaz's neutered
cat crooning.. makes me shudder just thinking about
it.
N

--- iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pat Davies
> > www.amag.org.uk
> >
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