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scottsy · 12-28-2008, 11:18 PM

Ahhh, excellent! I love the Church to death, from the moment I heard "Under the Milky Way" as a 12 year old kid... I made it my business to gather as many of their albums as possible... I've seen them twice in recent years before here to the US, once at a full electric gig, and then again at a half electric half accoustic show.... both were outstanding... this band brought me through some of the toughest, most indecisive times of my life... not because their music is about such times in life, but their amazing imagery and melodicism pulled me through with the greatest sense of escapism, wonder and deeper thought...

and they don't have a dud CD in their entire catalogue... sure the band will tell you that Magician Among the Spirits was a bit of a low point for them, but man, their low points sounds like quite a few other bands low points.... Magician is an altogether fine piece of work. As is Sometime / Anywhere, when the band was pretty much reduced to Kilbey and Wilson - Piper.

But after all that turmoil in the early nineties - they come storming back with the amazing, shimmering Hologram of Baal, follow it up with the lush atmospherics of "After Everything, Now This" and then go on to produce music at a rate that would put shame to alot of younger, more contemporary bands - with astute musicianship, excellent production and lyrics that take you to another world...

This isn't to discredit their earlier body of work... all the albums from "Of Skins and Hearts" through to Priest = Aura represent a steady progression of melodic, spacey, thought provoking pyschedelically tinged rock - whether it be embellished by production on "Heyday", washed in Synths like on Seance, or whether it be stripped back and raw like their first two albums... it's all pretty hard to find fault in, and impossible to be bored with. Then there's starfish which chimes its way into your memory like no other album from that era is able to. Truly one of the greatest albums made by an "Australian" (despite the fact the band at the time had a much more international flavour and residency) band.

So uh, yeah, I think I like 'em or something...hahahahaha....haven't ranted like that on a board for a while... :-)

12-28-2008, 11:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
scottsy Untalented Drummer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sussex, Wisconsin Posts: 2,900	Ahhh, excellent! I love the Church to death, from the moment I heard "Under the Milky Way" as a 12 year old kid... I made it my business to gather as many of their albums as possible... I've seen them twice in recent years before here to the US, once at a full electric gig, and then again at a half electric half accoustic show.... both were outstanding... this band brought me through some of the toughest, most indecisive times of my life... not because their music is about such times in life, but their amazing imagery and melodicism pulled me through with the greatest sense of escapism, wonder and deeper thought... and they don't have a dud CD in their entire catalogue... sure the band will tell you that Magician Among the Spirits was a bit of a low point for them, but man, their low points sounds like quite a few other bands low points.... Magician is an altogether fine piece of work. As is Sometime / Anywhere, when the band was pretty much reduced to Kilbey and Wilson - Piper. But after all that turmoil in the early nineties - they come storming back with the amazing, shimmering Hologram of Baal, follow it up with the lush atmospherics of "After Everything, Now This" and then go on to produce music at a rate that would put shame to alot of younger, more contemporary bands - with astute musicianship, excellent production and lyrics that take you to another world... This isn't to discredit their earlier body of work... all the albums from "Of Skins and Hearts" through to Priest = Aura represent a steady progression of melodic, spacey, thought provoking pyschedelically tinged rock - whether it be embellished by production on "Heyday", washed in Synths like on Seance, or whether it be stripped back and raw like their first two albums... it's all pretty hard to find fault in, and impossible to be bored with. Then there's starfish which chimes its way into your memory like no other album from that era is able to. Truly one of the greatest albums made by an "Australian" (despite the fact the band at the time had a much more international flavour and residency) band. So uh, yeah, I think I like 'em or something...hahahahaha....haven't ranted like that on a board for a while... :-) __________________ "If you're like me, then it's possible you're a clone generated from my stolen DNA. I suggest you turn yourself in for destruction immediately" - Shaun Micallef.