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cubistking1906 wrote:Whole album of stuff like Seven Forty Seven + Sisters(ON remix), shaken not stirred.

softfokus wrote:I know this isn't the most popular opinion, odd considering the other responses in this thread, but I really enjoyed the direction they were taking with TCH. I like their 'different' material for different reasons. At the time, they came under a lot of criticism for no longer being an 'electronic band' which I always felt was garbage, because they never really were one to begin with. I've argued with friends who claim TCH is boring, but I'll maintain they aren't really listening to the album or soaking in the full spectrum of the instrumentation and arrangements. TCH is a masterwork in being tastefully subdued and adhering to the 'sun drenched psychedelic sounds/pop music theme.' Incorporating the guitars, again coming under criticism, made sense for a band that takes a lot of influence from the sounds they grew up with. I've never understood why this was such a big deal considering they even approached the guitar sounds in, what I felt was, a really interesting way. I felt like they really tapped into something nobody else, at the time, was really doing with this approach. You can hear this album's influence in a lot of artists/bands today.

softfokus wrote:I know this isn't the most popular opinion, odd considering the other responses in this thread, but I really enjoyed the direction they were taking with TCH. I like their 'different' material for different reasons. At the time, they came under a lot of criticism for no longer being an 'electronic band' which I always felt was garbage, because they never really were one to begin with. I've argued with friends who claim TCH is boring, but I'll maintain they aren't really listening to the album or soaking in the full spectrum of the instrumentation and arrangements. TCH is a masterwork in being tastefully subdued and adhering to the 'sun drenched psychedelic sounds/pop music theme.' Incorporating the guitars, again coming under criticism, made sense for a band that takes a lot of influence from the sounds they grew up with. I've never understood why this was such a big deal considering they even approached the guitar sounds in, what I felt was, a really interesting way. I felt like they really tapped into something nobody else, at the time, was really doing with this approach. You can hear this album's influence in a lot of artists/bands today.

I've felt that TH would have the same impact on me with repeated listens and in some ways it definitely has, but it just doesn't strike the same emotional chords with me that their work on TCH, or even Geogaddi, did. Environmental decline and bleakness. If TCH was the beauty and optimism of the 60s/70s then TH is the harsh realities and paranoia of the 70s/80s. It's VideoDrome. The 'sparseness' in TH might have been intentional for this exact reason, but I'd like to hear more work from them that seems more 'rich with ideas' than TH. Whether it's grounded in reality at all, their earlier albums always had some element of playfulness even in their darker moments. TH, to me, does not maintain this same element of playfulness and maybe thats the point. I like it for different reasons. If they continue with the 'approach' of TH it would nice to see them have the same 'density' of sounds apparent in their other material.

In any case, that's my opinion. probably preaching to choir. also, I hope they just do whatever the hell they want to when it comes down to it.

Tarkus wrote:I would love to see a marriage of 70's prog and electronic with the classic boc twist.

re-phaelam-ed wrote: - rnd tunes no. 30