OWB....best yet?

[Rog]

Originally Posted by matt

i'm guessing bolloxed

combination of everton v liverpool then Villa v man u then the rugby all in the pub

i still love the album though

[Blueski]

I think 'Beacoup Fish' is their best work. But 'OWB' is still a brilliant album.

And 'AHDO' was a good album -- maybe not great, but good.

[King of Snake]

BF has a lot of great individual tunes, but never felt very cohesive as an album. OWB succeeds in conveying some sort of over-arching mood and vibe that harks back to the STITI and Dubno days. I'm really really enjoying OWB, and I think the only thing that's kinda holding it back is the fact that it's so short (meaning, some of the tracks are too short and could have been worked into even better things, and I think it would have benefited from at least one more "big" track (like Darc )

[negative1]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

BF has a lot of great individual tunes, but never felt very cohesive as an album. OWB succeeds in conveying some sort of over-arching mood and vibe that harks back to the STITI and Dubno days.

I'm really really enjoying OWB, and I think the only thing that's kinda holding it back is the fact that it's so short (meaning, some of the tracks are too short and could have been worked into even better things, and I think it would have benefited from at least one more "big" track (like Darc )

i agree mostly with what you say..however, 'beaucoup fish' feels more
cohesive now, than when i first listened to it.

yeah, we all got spoiled to longer tracks from earlier albums,
however even on the 'riverrun' series, there were short
snippets between songs, and i guess they're just continuing
that here..

-1

[potatobroth]

I'm leaning towards Rog here. Although I can't help but feel the album is missing one more track. Other than that, I feel its right on par with their best.

[Flywaver]

I think STITI would of been the absolute Mother if Cherry Pie was used instead of Rowla. Still my top album though. When was Cherry Pie played live?

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by negative1

i agree mostly with what you say..however, 'beaucoup fish' feels more
cohesive now, than when i first listened to it.

i'd agree. part of the reason BF is my favorite is precisely because it feels balanced and coherent throughout. start that first note and drive straight through to the last.

[holden]

Okay, so certain tracks are growing on me, and some from the previous albums are less exciting to me with time. And so on.

Inspired by this thread and negative1's statistical posts , (and a lil boredom), i ranked all the UW (mk2-3) album tracks, to see where OWB fits in today. I haven't listened to the other albums for awhile (Dubno was last week, and AHDO maybe 2 weeks ago), so the numerical score (out of 10, whole numbers only) is just how i feel at this very moment. I'm sure these scores would change if i listened today! Anyway....here's some fodder for discussion (i.e. "How can you give "Mo Move" a higher score than "Pearls girl"??, etc). It's all subjective, so whatever.

Score (out of 10)Oblivion With Bells (2007)
Crocodile8
Beautiful Burnout10
Holding the Moth9
To Heal8
Ring Road7
Glam Bucket9
Boy,Boy,Boy7
Cuddle Bunny vs the Celtic Villages5
Faxed Invitation8
Good Morning Cockerel6
Best Mamgu Ever7

album average7.6

A Hundred Days Off (2002)
Mo Move10
Two Months Off9
Twist8
Sola Sistem6
Little Speaker7
Trim4
Ess Gee5
Dinosaur Adventure 3D8
Ballet Lane7
Luetin9

album average7.3

Beaucoup Fish (1999)
Cups10
Push Upstairs9
Jumbo9
Shudder/King of Snake9
Winjer7
Skym6
Bruce Lee7
Kittens8
Something Like a Mama7
Push Downstairs6
Moaner9

album average 7.9

Second Toughest in the Infants(1996)
Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love10
Banstyle/Sappy's Curry9
Confusion the Waitress8
Rowla8
Pearl's Girl9
Air Towel8
Blueski6
Stagger7

album average 8.1

Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
Dark and Long8
Mmm Skyscraper I love You8
Surfboy5
Spoonman7
Tongue7
Dirty Epic9
Cowgirl10
River of Bass8
M.E.8

album average 7.8

So, looks like it's STITI>BF>Dubno>OWB>AHDO for me today. I'm surprised myself! I always can listen to BF, any time, any place, but have to be in a certain mood for STITI. yet there it is, on the strength of it's two mega-awesome lead-off tracks.

Cheers,
Holden

[//\/\/]

on listening to the first half of the album, i was thinking 'brilliant; this is going right up there...' and then the wheels just seem to fall off. 'ring road'?!? c'mon - the 'describe a dreary southern highstreet' things been done to death (and done better) over the past few years - it's just a sub-the streets that i cannot believe made it onto an uw release. they should've given it to lilly allen.

a real shame; because the first half is pretty sublime stuff, knitting and building so much emotion and warmth into the rythms - but then it just seems to lose interest in itself and venture off into noodling (like 90% of ahdo) - it's like the tracks aren't finished, but got lost...

so no - not the best yet; but happily on the upswing after 'days' - stop getting bollocksed rog

[dubman]

i dont agree with the half and half stuff. i think it's just punctured by the occasional misstep.

while ring road is interesting to me because of what it is, i dont think it's actually a good song. i'll always hate boy boy boy, beautiful burnout has great moments but i can't get behind it as something huge, and i think mamgu is pretty lukewarm.

the rest is pretty great to me. i love cuddle bunny. faxed and glam bucket are big favorites too