I think the overarching theme or mood is loneliness, and that can manifest itself many ways. Not all loneliness induces sadness. It can make you sad but also antsy, angry, lethargic, etc. You can try to fight, fuck (empty sex is lonely), or drink it away. You're always left with yourself after the distractions dissipate. Even amidst the occasional bursts of energy and melancholy lulls, every song strikes me as lonely. But that could very easily just be me.Kali Durga wrote:So it seems to me that the albums that were recorded in his usual, immediate, written-in-the-studio way all have a coherence and overall mood that the other two, the ones that contain music worked on over time, don't.
Which is not to say I don't like either album, just that after Lazaretto loses its newness, it may become like WBC for me, in that it might not be one that I reach for so frequently since I listen to Jack's music according to what sort of mood I'm in. It may only come out when I feel a desire to hear particular songs on it.
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scoliosispony
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i won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore...
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You have a point there, but I dunno if I'd call it loneliness so much as aloneness. Though the difference there is subtle.
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scoliosispony
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Well, yeah. You can be alone without being lonely, and you can be lonely without being alone (that's the worst).Kali Durga wrote:You have a point there, but I dunno if I'd call it loneliness so much as aloneness. Though the difference there is subtle.
i won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore...
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I just asked a local record store if they had any posters that they weren't using.
I kid you not this thing is almost 2meters wide.
No idea what the design is...
I kid you not this thing is almost 2meters wide.
No idea what the design is...
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AWWW yeaaahh
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Very cool !josephodonnell wrote:AWWW yeaaahh
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Nice!! That is pretty cool..josephodonnell wrote:AWWW yeaaahh
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The next single of Lazaretto, Would You Fight For My Love is going to be relased on 4th August !!!
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Re: Lazaretto
Everyone else has had their say, I suppose I'll have mine..
Re: black Lazaretto
-The famous 'skip' everyone had been going about, is noticeable, but hardly so..
- The LP is mixed quiet as hell, as in, if I were to put on one if my other records at he same vol I was listening to lazaretto, I'd blow an ear
this kinda annoys me, I'm all about pushing some air and getting some great dynamic range, but I feel this isn't quite achievable with lazaretto on vinyl. All that pushing the volume up does is increase backround noise.
- The sound quality in my opinion is not all that great. Perhaps the way it was mixed this was the intention, and if so, that's fine.
All in all, not to sure how I feel about the LP.
I really miss the sound of the 12" single sixteen saltines/love is blindness. Ideally, this is how wax should sound and what makes me love it so much. That's sounds ABSOLUTELY killer and is reference material in my opinion as far as sound quality is concerned.
End of the day, still a great album.. On ya Jackie boy!
Re: black Lazaretto
-The famous 'skip' everyone had been going about, is noticeable, but hardly so..
- The LP is mixed quiet as hell, as in, if I were to put on one if my other records at he same vol I was listening to lazaretto, I'd blow an ear
this kinda annoys me, I'm all about pushing some air and getting some great dynamic range, but I feel this isn't quite achievable with lazaretto on vinyl. All that pushing the volume up does is increase backround noise.- The sound quality in my opinion is not all that great. Perhaps the way it was mixed this was the intention, and if so, that's fine.
All in all, not to sure how I feel about the LP.
I really miss the sound of the 12" single sixteen saltines/love is blindness. Ideally, this is how wax should sound and what makes me love it so much. That's sounds ABSOLUTELY killer and is reference material in my opinion as far as sound quality is concerned.
End of the day, still a great album.. On ya Jackie boy!
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The Side B label track is cute. The A side not so much.
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What, you don't dig Supacracka doing Superfly?
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I guess it's normal that the label tracks are really noisy, right? I don't know if as much as mine, so I wonder. I can barely hear the song behind the noise.
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Re: Lazaretto
Maybe yours is a late pressing? I mean plates to get worn after so many pressings so maybe it isn't as deep (the grooves)?circecoen wrote:I guess it's normal that the label tracks are really noisy, right? I don't know if as much as mine, so I wonder. I can barely hear the song behind the noise.
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I haven't played my black vinyl labels but my vault version was noisy. Like one of those Polish postcard records.circecoen wrote:I guess it's normal that the label tracks are really noisy, right? I don't know if as much as mine, so I wonder. I can barely hear the song behind the noise.
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dunedin
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I'd like to hear a full length version on a b-side or vault 45.Kali Durga wrote:What, you don't dig Supacracka doing Superfly?