Comus

Guybrush · 12-02-2008, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

Only if you plan on running around smashing test tubes and assaulting people with vernier callipers.

Sorting out thousands of dead bugs and various other invertebrates from samples in small vials of alcohol, I'm afraid .. but maybe I can assault some of them with my tweezers.

Double X · 12-02-2008, 12:45 PM

The way I heard you talk about them earlier I thought they were some old metal band. It actually sounds awesome, I'll be sure to check them out.

Barabajagal · 12-03-2008, 08:46 PM

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Who knew acoustic instruments could sound so violent and nasty? Two of the songs (Diana, Song to Comus) are about luring a young girl in the woods to rape. Here is a lyric:

"Hymen hunter, hands of steel, crack you open and your red flesh peel
Pain procurer, eyes of fire, pierce your womb and push still higher
Comus rape, Comus break, sweet young virgin's virtue take
Naked flesh, flowing hair, her terror screams they cut the air"

It's like folk music on an acid trip from hell. Love it.

Rainard Jalen · 12-05-2008, 12:44 PM

I had a listen, it's not that bad, but there are way better albums from the period though. Nothing special really.

Barabajagal · 12-05-2008, 02:21 PM

From the period, yes, but from the genre? (if you can pinpoint it enough, that is.) I still haven't heard anything quite like it, and I'm an avid listener of folk/psych/rock from the '70s.

Just out of curiosity, what are some albums you'd place above it?

jackhammer · 12-05-2008, 03:46 PM

I'm going to stick my neck out and say whilst i can definitely appreciate and it's an original album, I very rarely play it and get bored quickly. Perhaps if I got back on the old dope I could get into it but just because an album is wildly different doesn't mean it's anylessmore palatable personally.

Comus · 01-02-2009, 05:06 PM

I'm so intimate with the album that I've never gotten bored during it, I just relax, close my eyes and gather it all in.

Alfred · 01-02-2009, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

this is bullshit. i've read people raving about how unique this is, and so i listened to what you posted and it just sounds like the b52's with fiddles.

I lol'd.

I listened to First Utterance, but I really hated the vocals, and it really bored me. I can see how it's likeable, but it made my stomach turn. Didn't enjoy at all.

Comus · 01-02-2009, 05:11 PM

Try it again.

Inuzuka Skysword · 01-03-2009, 08:51 AM

I REALLY don't understand how First Utterance can be boring. Especially the track Drip, Drip which has as much energy as a song by The Mars Volta.

Oh, and is it true that Comus is making a new album?

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I'm going to stick my neck out and say whilst i can definitely appreciate and it's an original album, I very rarely play it and get bored quickly. Perhaps if I got back on the old dope I could get into it but just because an album is wildly different doesn't mean it's anylessmore palatable personally. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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12-02-2008, 12:45 PM	#12 (permalink)
Double X sleepe Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: boston Posts: 1,140	The way I heard you talk about them earlier I thought they were some old metal band. It actually sounds awesome, I'll be sure to check them out.

12-03-2008, 08:46 PM	#13 (permalink)
Barabajagal Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 88	This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Who knew acoustic instruments could sound so violent and nasty? Two of the songs (Diana, Song to Comus) are about luring a young girl in the woods to rape. Here is a lyric: "Hymen hunter, hands of steel, crack you open and your red flesh peel Pain procurer, eyes of fire, pierce your womb and push still higher Comus rape, Comus break, sweet young virgin's virtue take Naked flesh, flowing hair, her terror screams they cut the air" It's like folk music on an acid trip from hell. Love it.

12-05-2008, 12:44 PM	#14 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	I had a listen, it's not that bad, but there are way better albums from the period though. Nothing special really.

12-05-2008, 02:21 PM	#15 (permalink)
Barabajagal Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 88	From the period, yes, but from the genre? (if you can pinpoint it enough, that is.) I still haven't heard anything quite like it, and I'm an avid listener of folk/psych/rock from the '70s. Just out of curiosity, what are some albums you'd place above it?

01-03-2009, 08:51 AM	#20 (permalink)
Inuzuka Skysword Existential Egoist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,468	I REALLY don't understand how First Utterance can be boring. Especially the track Drip, Drip which has as much energy as a song by The Mars Volta. Oh, and is it true that Comus is making a new album?