This new !!! album

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called "Myth Takes" is - um - kinda fantastic? I'm just sayin'. They sound like
they all got haircuts and decided to make a Martin Hannett meets '87 Prince record. Nic Offer is also restrained now. Good stuff.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

the title is just so. bad.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

Great album, shit title

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a thread for the most lopsided album greatness/title shitness ratio? 'Cuz we can start this thang right here and now.

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

there must be at least 298329

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

1. Ned Raggett Reads the Almanac

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

2. Return to Cookie Mountain

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

(actually I have no idea if its great or not but other people seem to think so)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

I concur. Terrible album title -- great album.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

i like imagining a really fey voice saying 'mistakes' with a lisp. only then is it good.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

also, the TVotR album is a pocketful of snores and i cannot figure out why the fuck people like it, besides the first track.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

He Poos Myth Takes on Cookie Mountain

― darin (darin), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

also, the TVotR album is a pocketful of snores and i cannot figure out why the fuck people like it, besides the first track.
-- the table is the table (meltingglacier...), January 5th, 2007.

amen - i get lambasted all the time for saying the preceding two albums are far superior.

― ersatz (ersatz), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Because everyone in the entire world is stupid except me, Pieces of the People We Love was a commercial disaster (peaked at #113, it did). Woe be the dance-punk genre if this equally fantastic album suffers a similar fate. Sigh.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

"dance punk genre"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Or whatever the fuck it's called.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

I call it "flavor of the month" (this month: "freak folk")

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

(sorry don't mean to be snarky I actually like the first Rapture album okay and we did a show with them a long time ago and even then they were opening their sets with Go4 covers and jumping on tables all in good fun and Luke was a very nice dude too)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

>> also, the TVotR album is a pocketful of snores and i cannot figure out why the fuck people like it, besides the first track.

Yeah I agree, I Was A Lover is a really great song but I couldn't get into much of the rest of it.

I don't think I've heard Louden Up Now yet, but I liked the 1st !!! album and The Dis-ease 7".

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

this is the wackest album ive heard in a while.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

i like the title "return to cookie mountain" because it reminds me of a wonderful mountain made of cookies.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Reminds you?

Where did you encounter such a place?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sesame Street

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Reminds you?

Where did you encounter such a place?

Oh, the LOL

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

!!! was massive at the T&G-fest. My ears bled with joy. This album has some serious expectations to live down.

― Three hundred inches from the children. (goodbra), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

the one time i saw them live it was godawful, but i think half of it was the venue/sound guy.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

I call it "flavor of the month" (this month: "freak folk")
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), January 5th, 2007 3:37 PM. (Shakey Mo Collier)

hi, welcome back to 2005

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

the new !!! sux
-- jaxon (gnarls.in.charg...), January 5th, 2007 3:32 PM. (jaxon) (admin) (userip)
the old !!! sux too
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), January 5th, 2007 3:35 PM. (hstencil) (admin) (userip)

yeah, i just forgot
-- jaxon (gnarls.in.charg...), January 5th, 2007 3:37 PM. (jaxon) (admin) (userip)

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

chaki otm about jaxon and stencil being otm

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 6 January 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

a-ron otm

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:23 (eighteen years ago)

Loving this record. Agree about the shit title but the Out Hud/!!! universe has always been balanced between good music with shit titles, crap presentation and the Mouth of Offer - at least the latter isn't so distracting on this album.

― Scott Warner (thream), Saturday, 6 January 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

the Out Hud/!!! universe has always been balanced between ~~good~~ crap music with shit titles, crap presentation

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Great album, shit title

Ath Holes.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i'll agree, myth takes is a pretty crap album title.
but who cares, because this album friggin' rules. the martin hannett meets prince comment is 100% OTM. love it.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

I am listening to this album for the first time as I type. So far it's excellent. I don't know much about them but A Certain Ratio keeps coming to mind as a comparison. Who are similar artists?

― B.Graff (mr_graff), Monday, 5 February 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

i recognise the album as very good, but i don't think i can handle this style right now

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

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