Ghost "Hypnotic Underworld" C/D

as for AMT - I like them okay, but really I was surprised at all the hubbub about them being this wiiiiyuld Japanese free-form psychedelic collective! as if that was a breathtaking new concept. It's a GOOD concept and yes, let's have more of it, but y'know "let's not all start sucking each other's dicks just yet" and all that. I think Batoh and co. have the edge insofar as they can do both real, almost prog-y, songs plus the out there experimental stuff and still keep it all together. AMT, on occasion, is just a sprawling mess.

I am somewhat biased it's true.

It's definitely got the best art of any of their CDs, featuring a gauze overlay to go between the jewel case and the booklet proper. I've never seen anything like it. Drag City must have pulled out all the stops for Ghost this time around.

:( the double-vinyl is yr standard gatefold. Bah! It does sound nice tho.

bug drag city for a copy. they'd give you one, no?

you are sure to love Hats by The Blue Nile!

Hey, they're right!

(i wrote one piddly nu-metal review years ago and for the longest time all i got in the mail was horrible godsmack-esque crap)

I think the concept (recorded in Japanese Temples!) is better than the execution (okay versions of songs on other albums!). But if you have everything else, I guess you should seek it out.

All of the flutes are a nice touch; they're something one never really hears in the context of Western pop/rock music. Part of me wishes the album were entirely instrumental. I always get frustrated with lyrics I can't understand. Cultural bias kinda blows.

I'm surprised you like haco keith. Isn't this stuff a bit too prog for you?

Best Ghost-related stuff I've heard are the two Masaki Batoh solo records and the Cosmic Invention album. All great and well worth your time and money.

Man, I'm looking forward to hearing the new one. Anyone in the UK carrying it yet?

not too sure i'm enjoying this new ghost album as much as "lama rabi rabi" or the first two.

I only have one AMT album ("The Geocentric World of ..." or something like that) and it's a fine piece of work. But I think when a band starts putting out so much stuff the way they did, it actually gives the impression that there's *less* thought and energy put into their releases than was previously believed, and people feel start to feel cheated. Like, "I thought you were a hard-working freak of nature and now it turns out you can shit these albums out daily" = "I feel like a sucker." It forces people to draw the distinction between "prolific genius" and "lazy artist with no editor".

-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...) (webmail), February 3rd, 2004 7:35 PM. (link)

Wolf Eyes!!

Also, "Holy High" sounds like a fucking movie soundtrack song -- great!

What Ghost should I get next? All I have is this and some 7".

bump for country matters

i wonder why geir doesn't like these guys? not melodic/sissy enuff? they are def prog qua prog though, flutes and the whole shit.

best best best ghost. love this record. geir prob objects to the lack of catchy tunes

troubling reliance on rhythm too.

once I was piper

My favourite track on this is Hazy Paradise. It's worth checking out the original by Earth and Fire, if you don't know it. they were like a dutch version of early jefferson airplane, until they went all disco/abba-tronic.

woah i didn't know that was a cover

i could ysi

Wait a sec - there is new Ghost?

no this is old

Oh feck yes, sorry I was misreading and forgetting song tittles. Holy High people!

this is my debut with this shit, so, uh.... abracadabra

This is one of the few albums I am cool with having a poster of bcz I like it do u see.

Hypnotic Underwear

!!! didn't even know about this super glad to hear about it

oh.

nevermind

what happened to this band? one album after this one, i think, then . . . ?

there's another band named ghost now, but it's (obv.) not the same.

that fake Ghost bums me out

Batoh has done a couple of records with Helena Espvall lately, the 2009 double is really really good. I'm not so hot on the first one.

he did solo tour in US I wanna say, early last year. So, still active. But yeah, new Ghost lp would be welcomed.

I think that fake metal Ghost is actually playing Chicago this weekend, with Enslaved. I am going to see Souled American reunion that night. Can't wait!

oh man, i love both bands named ghost.

the new one reminds me of a nu-blue oyster cult. the world could use a new BOC, IMO.

well BOC is one of my favorite bands ever, so I'm hip to what you say. I'm actually taking an Amtrak train down to Effingham, Illinois (wherever the heck that is) to see them in three weeks!

i've seen youtube clips of them performing. they hold up well live.

i think much of the BOC comparison is the layered vocal harmonies, which took a back seat in metal when screaming like the cookie monster became de rigueur.

oh I've seen BOC once a year for the last twelve years or so. I actually had to miss them this yeat because their Chicago-area was the same night as Pitchfork fest. So, Pitchfork won out. But, I want to keep my streak alive, so I am taking the train down to Effington (LOVE that name) in a few weeks. Should be rad. But yeah, still fun live -- when I started my streak 12 yrs ago, it was still 3 original members : Bloom, Dharma, and Lanier.

Lanier decided to retire in mid-2000's , and the shows seem a little less epic without him. Supporting band still good tho (Rudy Sarzo on bass!!), and the thing that keeps me coming back is the fact that they still constantly change the setlist. Like, last year they played "The Golden Age of Leather" for the first time in the 12 yrs I been seein 'em! it was amazing!

haha .. oh wait, it's EffingHAM, not EffingTON

anyway, stoked to discover the charms, etc

those Batoh/Espivall lps really rule (back on topic)

After 3? 4? years I feel like I'm starting to warm up to In Stormy Nights.

there's an effingham road near me, you can call it "fuckingham road"

batoh/espivall lps are so cool.

was also mega-disappointed when I saw a 'new ghost album' and it was that swedish band. (tho they're fine, I guess.)

rough-but-right tape of a ghost show on the hypnotic underworld tour (plus partial opening Espers set): http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/139913297497/ghost-espers-the-khyber-philadelphia
anyone know what the unknown tracks are? feel like i know them, but can't seem to track 'em down.

ooh! this was such a great tour, one of my all-time favorite shows

wish the recording was a liiiiiitle bit better, but it's still pretty neat.

also, the tape itself is kind of perfect
http://36.media.tumblr.com/df7eb42e11790203bae145a709220fb7/tumblr_o2ps0wQoC31qzy30io1_1280.jpg