The Album Review Club - Week #216 (page 1412) - Together Alone - Crowded House

threespires said:
One listen in and though I doubt they intended this effect, I find myself chewing over Sola Fide vs Fide Formata and more broadly the Counter Reformation! So I might need to refocus myself more on the skanking aspects of this in order to create a useful review :-)
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Supertones are from the evangelical tradition as far as I know. If you want catholic ska i'd recommend Sonseed



My limited experience suggests Catholics and Eastern Orthodox think about this stuff a bit deeper than those of my tradition and are more likely to have read Augustine and Aquinas etc. More often than not we dismiss bad caricatures of the arguments rather than engaging with it though so if you want to write that review i would be happy to read it. Or you can just skank away. Either is interesting to me
 
threespires said:
Yep up there with the lava. Weirdly 93.20 I didn't go as wild, partly because I was immediately bear hugged to within an inch of my life by the guy next to me and partly because it was more a primal explosion with all sorts of emotions going on rather than just pure wheeling away happiness.

Again per Mr B's review I had a think about the last piece of music that made me cry but I'm not sharing that with you lot :-)
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Was doing the full Weaver up and down London road then around Picadilly gardens for that one.
 
mrbelfry said:
Kompany goal against Leicester I was on my knees struck dumb.
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I always describe that goal as having made my head explode. Not sure what was going on physiologically but thank goodness I was at the Etihad and VAR wasn’t (not that there appeared to be anything to worry about but you never know for sure these days).
 
mrbelfry said:
Supertones are from the evangelical tradition as far as I know. If you want catholic ska i'd recommend Sonseed



My limited experience suggests Catholics and Eastern Orthodox think about this stuff a bit deeper than those of my tradition and are more likely to have read Augustine and Aquinas etc. More often than not we dismiss bad caricatures of the arguments rather than engaging with it though so if you want to write that review i would be happy to read it. Or you can just skank away. Either is interesting to me
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Given that lot come from the same place as The Wiggles I can't be sure they aren't actually The Wiggles.

You've just reminded me I recently went to see Mike Joyce on his book tour where he put forward his theory that all the best bands came from Irish Catholic backgrounds. Speaking to him afterwards my lad joked that though the rest of his band was from Irish Catholic backgrounds they were now going to have to get rid of their Burundian Catholic front woman in order to ensure success. Joyce just looked at him in a very confused fashion.
 
threespires said:
Given that lot come from the same place as The Wiggles I can't be sure they aren't actually The Wiggles.

You've just reminded me I recently went to see Mike Joyce on his book tour where he put forward his theory that all the best bands came from Irish Catholic backgrounds. Speaking to him afterwards my lad joked that though the rest of his band was from Irish Catholic backgrounds they were now going to have to get rid of their Burundian Catholic front woman in order to ensure success. Joyce just looked at him in a very confused fashion.
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If he's just talking about northern bands then there is a good chance he's accurate. Probably because there are so many Irish around
 
threespires said:
Given that lot come from the same place as The Wiggles I can't be sure they aren't actually The Wiggles.

You've just reminded me I recently went to see Mike Joyce on his book tour where he put forward his theory that all the best bands came from Irish Catholic backgrounds. Speaking to him afterwards my lad joked that though the rest of his band was from Irish Catholic backgrounds they were now going to have to get rid of their Burundian Catholic front woman in order to ensure success. Joyce just looked at him in a very confused fashion.
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Are you referencing The Wiggles as in the Australian kids nursery rubbish?
 
threespires said:
Yes it was a filppant reference, which in hindsight was both uncharitable and inappropriate. Not to mention the fact it transpires they are American not Australian so I managed to be wrong in three different ways
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My knowledge of them is very recent - it seems appropriate that they are used as a calming influence for my grandson when it’s time for a nappy change…. they send me cold!! Maybe they have links to this weeks offering ;)

Edit: Are they not Australian? Hope you’re not getting confused with Ms Rachel - a NYC resident and fabled baby whisperer and YT phenom
 
GornikDaze said:
My knowledge of them is very recent - it seems appropriate that they are used as a calming influence for my grandson when it’s time for a nappy change…. they send me cold!! Maybe they have links to this weeks offering ;)

Edit: Are they not Australian? Hope you’re not getting confused with Ms Rachel - a NYC resident and fabled baby whisperer and YT phenom
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They are Australian but the band Mr B posted the video of are actually Americans. In fairness whatever you or I as very much not the target audience might think of their musical qualities, the Wiggles have been incredibly successful and are well loved across the globe!
 
threespires said:
They are Australian but the band Mr B posted the video of are actually Americans. In fairness whatever you or I as very much not the target audience might think of their musical qualities, the Wiggles have been incredibly successful and are well loved across the globe!
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Ah gotcha! Target audience or not, they strike me as very weird. Their bouncing balls video is… bizarre! They also have unfeasibly white teeth!!
 
What an opening… 20 seconds!!

That Am I Evil riff - hopefully they gave credit to Sean Harris and my neighbour Brian Tatler from the mighty Diamond Head.

Ska and religion, what a perfect combination. Some reasonably heavy guitar in places. Too much plastic sax and nonsense lyrics. Are these guys from Orange County, and are they religious by any chance?

2/10
 
Adventures of the O.C.Supertones - The O.C.Supertones

Thankfully the ska elements were not as prevelant as I’d feared on some songs, but then again, on others ….. On the plus side, there are plenty of chipper guitar parts. The break in “Never Wanna Fall” is unexpected and really makes the song.

The bass at the start of “Found” makes me feel like it is going somewhere interesting but then the ska element comes in and some bloke goes “brrrreeeeee” in annoying way several times. And the gang chorus shouts “ska” just to underline the point. It’s like you’ve crept into a house, hoping to remain unobserved, knowing that it’s almost impossible, but you’ve done well so far. This is actually going to be a great song! And then everybody jumps out from behind the curtains with their bloody saxophones and party blowers. There’s a nice, short guitar break half-way through though before the ska returns.

In fact, the whole album is a bit like Madness with guitars, but I don’t like Madness and the guitars are not so good that they make it suddenly something that I’d listen to. Unfortunately, in some places, the vocals are “look-at-me” and rap style singing shouting, which doesn’t do anything for me. For a lot of the album, the vocals are actually pretty good.

If only these guys could have worked out how to put something in the lyrics to tell us where they’re from. I’d like to think that they are from Wigan but I suspect that they are from Seminole County, Florida.

My main problem with the album is that it sounds like the soundtrack to a party that I wasn’t invited to but wouldn’t want to be there anyway. Nothing to do with the religious content, just the general chipper popiness of it all. I can’t really say it better than that: there’s nothing really wrong with many of the songs on this album, but it just isn’t what I’m looking for from music though I can appreciate it enough to give it a 6/10.
 
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