The Album Review Club - Week #145 - (page 1923) - Tellin' Stories - The Charlatans

[BimboBob]

Is there need for a score?

A 5.

I'll add myself to the list as well if you don't mind.

 

[RobMCFC]

Is there need for a score?

A 5.

I'll add myself to the list as well if you don't mind.

Welcome aboard. I've put you down for 18th January.

 

[BimboBob]

Welcome aboard. I've put you down for 18th January.

Righto.

Anything goes? I have an album in mind, it's a bit different from the usual stuff on here.

 

[BimboBob]

I have to say I don’t get ambient music.
I can understand it’s use in a documentary on the universe as a backdrop to pictures of the Orion Nebula etc. or as a drone flies and pans it’s cameras over the Grand Canyon. It might be useful playing softly in the background as you meditate in an isolation tank but on its own as a stand alone piece of music it does absolutely nothing for me. I just cannot engage with it at any level. It reminds me of a long bus trip I once took in Morocco to Fez. The drive was through mile after mile of desert and mountainous background where the horizon was such that the sky and the land bled together. Throughout the journey the driver played Jean Michel Jarre music through the tinny bus speakers. It made me aware how powerfully terrifying sound can be when used as part of sensory deprivation torture. Whilst this piece is far better than the Jarre music that day it’s not something I would ever want to listen to again.
2 points.

I've done a similar bus journey, Chefchaouen to Fez, although mid 80's, so had no need to be tortured by the driver.

Oh no, I did that all by myself.

Exhibit A. One Walkman.
Exhibit B. One tape. Slippery when wet.

 

[Marklr]

Layers and layers. And no whale cries! Loving this, @GoatersLeftShin . I can even hear the Orb in this...8 years before them!.
It's a 7/10 from me.

 

[RobMCFC]

Righto.

Anything goes? I have an album in mind, it's a bit different from the usual stuff on here.

No problem with different, as long as we can play it on Spotify or YouTube.

 

[Bill Walker]

Righto.

Anything goes? I have an album in mind, it's a bit different from the usual stuff on here.

Different is good Bob.

 

[Bill Walker]

Welcome aboard. I've put you down for 18th January.

Sounds like his execution day :)

 

[RobMCFC]

Sounds like his execution day :)

Ha ha. Well, I was originally going to call this thread "Jukebox Judge, Jury and Executioner", but I think that we've all shown that we can review each other's choices with dignity so BimboBob has nothing to fear.

 

[Saddleworth2]

There are many very eloquent reviews of this piece on here. Congratulations on everyone for taking the time , care and in some cases love, to write them. We have had journeys through the desert and even a touching Gollum/Sméagol viginette.

Unfortunately I am about to break that tradition. Sorry everyone.



3/10