[kj] Anniversaries - Brighter 86 / Democracy 96 / Hosannas 06

[C Jr]

BTATS - a good album, some pretty solid songs, despite the 'poppier' sound,
production and textures... its heart is in the right place, good lyrics and
mood throughout... Neither their best, nor worst... A logic and
understandable step in the band's evolution, I'd say.

DEMOCRACY - one of my favorite KJ albums... I love almost everything about
it, even the murky production... had Mass and Four Stations made the cut,
it would probably be my favorite of the bunch.

HFTBOH - I concur that most of the songs are a bit too long, still, I like
the album... it's a step down from 2003's return, but also a necessary
transition into Absolut Dissent territory.



Apart from OTG, KJ is yet to disappoint me.


mvh
-Jr.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:

> For me, Id rank these three from best to worst as:
>
> Democracy - I actually love about half this album.  The drums are kind of
> plodding and indistinct, buried in the wall of sound production (that
> reminds me of Steve Brown's work on The Cult's aborted "Peace" album) on
> most tracks but the title track, Absent Friends and Lanterns are standouts
> that I never get tired of hearing. If "Mass" and Four Stations Of The Sun"
> had made the album instead of a couple lesser tracks, this would rank much
> closer to Pandemonium.
>
> Hosannas - Probably the closest thing to hearing Geordie's raw demos.
> It's far from a good album, but some songs have an almost hypnotic quality,
> "Judas Goat" being the best example.  I'd almost like to hear this album
> with no vocals, it would probably work better for me.
>
> Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - I actually went and pulled my original EG
> cd of this album today and attempted to give it a listen for the first time
> in several years....  I (still) really do not like anything about this
> album, the dated production, especially regarding the drums and the
> synth-heavy angle they took with this album utterly kill this one for me.
> I never would have guessed Big Paul played on this album without looking at
> the credits.  For me, this album is in a dead heat with Outside The Gate as
> worst KJ album - I suppose it's no shock they are consecutive albums in the
> bands period of steep creative decline.
>
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