― 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