― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
once i've finished the johnny cash box-set.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
"Filigree and Shadow is the second in a line of three This Mortal Coil releases, and is considered by many to be the best. (I'll still take their third album, It'll End In Tears, even if it does have that godawful cover of Big Star's "Kangaroo.") If you're into 4AD, you're probably on your third copy of this disc. If you're not familiar, this is a great place to start... that is, if you like your music spooky and woozy."
Is that not a glaring mistake in there?
― Michael Copeland, Friday, 7 January 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I actually just recently threw Filigree on the ipod and it inevidably delights. I remember loving It'll End in Tears more though.
Alex is a softee!
― hector (hector), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 January 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link
"ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH! It WAS THEIR FIRST ALBUM NOT THEIR THIRD! GRRRRRRRR!" - Mr. Hopelessly Obsessive Detail-Oriented Man
"It'll End In Tears" = Classic x10.
"Filigree" = classic x6.
"Blood" is...very good but I never play it.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
1. It'll End in Tears...which is truly a work of fucking art.2. Blood -- comparitively a little heavy handed, but still gorgeous3. Filigree.. -- Lovely as well, but it's the one I picked up last...and I've always been slightly put off by Dominic Appleton's lisp.
The non-LP tracks "Sixteen Days" and "Acid, Bitter and Sad" are also well worthing tracking down.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Blood2. Filigree3. End in Tears
― ddb (ddb), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I do! Definitely. From first to last.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
This seems to bear out Dan's theory as well. Strange.
BTW Scott you recommended me Eluvium on a thread about Roedelius/Krautrock eons ago and I finally got around to checking it out when ILM was down recently and like it quite a bit. Thanx!
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
And I think it's just SO perfectly ironic that Eluvium has appeared in a This Mortal Coil thread! I have absolutely no problem comparing the two - very quiet, contemplative, gorgeous music. But I admit I liked the first release a little better...he did things on the piano that really resonated with me somehow...like as if I was on the piano myself choosing the some of the same notes in my head. Eerie.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The only meh moment on It'll End in Tears is the cover of "Not Me."
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually like that cover, I think its placement on the album before that perfect concluding song sets everything up well -- a brusque mood-shatterer followed by a last swoon.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah in of itself it's a great song, I like it!
― Trayce, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I am in the "it ruins the flow" camp on that one. It could have been so good as, say, the second song on side 1. But by the time side 2 has lulled you into a dream state, it feels like a rude awakening.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Similarly "Hot Doggie" introduces the 4AD compilation album in an abrupt way it doesn't then follow for any of the rest of the album... maybe Watts-Russell is just efil =)
― Trayce, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL yeah, "Not Me" does ruin the flow. I agree with the Hot Doggie problem as well, but somewhere along the way I forgave these things and just accepted them.
― Glow In The Dark (Bimble), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I always thought that it was the rest of the album which was the problem in that it was downhill after 'Hot Doggie'.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Blasphemer!
― Glow In The Dark (Bimble), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Not downhill by any means, but "Hot Doggie" is excellent.
― ilxor, Thursday, 29 January 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Considering all the bloodthirsty invective I spewed when this thread was first initiated, here's a bold statement .... FILIGREE & SHADOW has in no way aged well.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:32 (two months ago) link
Whatever prompted this conclusion!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 April 2024 12:40 (two months ago) link
I just gave it another spin recently, and compared to IT'LL END IN TEARS and BLOOD, it just doesn't hold together quite as well.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 29 April 2024 20:35 (one month ago) link