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General Category => New Model Army => Topic started by: Shush on January 30, 2015, 09:42:10 PM
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Curious if anyone else is the same. I absolutely love the four 1980's NMA albums and they are all important to me, and would still in forced to choose pick "No Rest" as my all time favourite NMA album. Thing is, when I was younger, in the late 1980's I played those albums none stop. Back in the day of living with Mum / Dad, being in your late teens, you tend to be obsessed with your favourite band, and play their material none stop. When I play the 80's albums these days, I often get a feeling of "been here many times before", and hanker for the fresher sound of the newer material.
Have to admit, I do not play the first four, or indeed six albums all that often these days. It is a place I do like to visit from time to time, but mainly listen to later albums. Am I alone ?
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no shush, you are not alone, i feel the same hankering too sometimes
sometimes the best thing ever is to play all the albums in order.
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Completely agree, mate... the only 80s album I stick on nowadays is TGOC and that's only because I didn't listen to it for years... not that I don't love the others, but I can pretty much play them back in my head at will...
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I don't go back either so many times at these days. Love to get inside the new material. That's what we're living to now.
At times there are times when I play the old ones. They are a reminder where did it all come from. ;)
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I play them all just to see if they can be improved in any way so I can let a certain someone know :) :)
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The problem is as every song lasts at least 20 minutes it's hard to find the time to play them all though :) :)
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Well of course you're not on your own. How on earth do you think the band (and this board) could have kept going if all there was worth thinking about was the first third of the bands catalogue. Without progression and movement there wouldn't be a band to be discussing - we'd all be on the History Channel forum.
I still sometimes listen to earlier stuff when I'm in the mood and when you get to hear one live it's awesome but I think I'd be a bit concerned about myself if I was stuck in the frame of mind of an angry young man of 19.all the time. I've got older and experienced more and so have the band Mr Sullivan said near enough, "if you're not changing then you're already dead" . If they weren't telling stories and making music from now it would be dishonest and I don't think they'd bother.
So, yes every 90's album can lead me into newer albums but also , less frequently now, older albums. But that's the joy isn't it? With a 34 year and counting body of work there's going to be something somewhere for a lot of occasions To try and slice that up into little chunks of "These years were better than the rest" would be a pointless, reductive and ignorant idea to propose wouldn't it?
The interesting parts of these threads are when folk drop in and post their own personal bits and pieces - sharing stuff, it's nice. Unfortunately sometimes, in common with the rest of the internet, it gets a bit "Willy Waving" Which is both tedious and pointless.
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"Willy Waving" is he a Country an Western singer ? ;D
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"Willy Waving" is he a Country an Western singer ? ;D
If he isn't, he should be...
I don't really play any of the albums more or less than any others, although BDAW doesn't get much attention unless it comes up on iTunes' random selection.
It depends what mood I'm in, really. There are times when only Vengeance will do, and others when Impurity, High or BWAB will suit my mood.
It's a good think that they're all good records, really!
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"Willy Waving" is he a Country an Western singer ? ;D
Indeed he is - quite a master for reworking all those old homeland classics such as "The night I married my sister" or "Dang, That steer is one helluva looker"
Or for the British - "Scrumpy made me do it" or maybe "She came from the Isle of Sheppey"
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i love scrumpy jack
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I really don't - messed my head right up. In fact it may have done lasting damage :D
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nah, your head has been perfect for along time
try devils bit
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Don't need no more bloody devils - still waving at the one that I know and the one that I don't :-*
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jesus
have you tried an exorcism?
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Yeah but the ******* priests ran away ;D
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bahahahahaha
probably with the less robust child