[kj] I'M GETTING SICK OF YOU SO-CALLED GATHERERS..you know who you are!!!

[Matt Tibbits]

No, you're all wrong, SO-CALLED Gatherers. Everything they've ever recorded has been equally, utterly brilliant.

 

 
 

> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:21:30 +0000

> To: gathering at misera.net

> From: gingoblin at easynet.co.uk

> Subject: Re: [kj] I'M GETTING SICK OF YOU SO-CALLED GATHERERS..you know who you are!!!

> 

> Well, played it for the first (and last) time in quite a while...

> 

> America - Pretty bad, but not truly truly awful.

> 

> My Love Of This Land - Reminds me of the Stranglers around this time (it's 

> the wooden block!). Okay actually.

> 

> Stay One Jump Ahead - just about bearable til the drums come in. The first 

> few seconds could be the start of something promising... then it's "let's 

> go" followed by me going "uuuuurrrgghh".

> Then the rap bit!! Jesus fucking christ.

> 

> Unto The Ends - Pretty horrible. Drums are bad, keyboards are bad. Fade out 

> part is ok!

> 

> The Calling - The music's not too bad, but Jaz's vocals are awful. This 

> could be okay with completely different production. And very different vocals.

> 

> Obsession - Urrrgh, Jaz's vocals at the start. Hmm, maybe another one that 

> would be massively helped by it not being the late-80's. The drum sound is 

> beginning to get quite annoying.

> 

> Tiahuanaco - I'm almost embarrassed for them. Fucks sake. The last part's a 

> bit better. But only better than the really bad part preceding it!

> 

> Outside The Gate - This is bad. Slightly interesting about halfway through. 

> Then back to being bad. Again, MAYBE with different production it could be 

> improved to a level of "okay". Ah, the end part is enjoyable enough though. 

> Makes me think of mid-80's Damned actually.

> 

> America (Extended mix) - skipped this not far into it... couldn't take anymore!

> 

> Stay One Jump Ahead (Extended mix) - Now THIS is more like it!!!! Classic 

> Killing Joke... up there with Wardance, Reqiuem and the rest. I'm shouting 

> for it at the next gig.

> 

> 

> This is as objective as I can possibly be. Still slightly scarred from 

> sitting in a friends bedroom in 1988 going "what the fuck is THIS?"

> 

> So in conclusion, it's still fucking awful!! Some if it is the production, 

> but really, it's just a bad bad LP. Thank the lords for Extremities a few 

> years later.

> 

> SO-CALLED Dave in SO-CALLED Edinburgh

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> At 11:22 25/03/2010 +0000, you wrote:

> > >Christ, all this talk is actually gonna make me go to the other room

> >and >fetch this infernal album and listen to it again. Okay, here I

> >go...

> >

> >And with that Dave was never heard from again . . .

> >

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