Stuart Morrow returns as the bass player.
Stuart Morrow returns as the bass player.
I'd quite like a largely acoustic albumMe too, but just to have another album would be great 8)
I'd quite like a largely acoustic albumMe too, but just to have another album would be great 8)
Stuart Morrow returns as the bass player.Well, I'd like to see/hear the return of Ed Alleyne-Johnson! 8)
Stuart Morrow returns as the bass player.Well, I'd like to see/hear the return of Ed Alleyne-Johnson! 8)
What ever did NMA do in the past when all the fans weren't able to collectively co-produce their records?
Ok so listening to the dog and the wolf yesterday it occurred to me that it might be good for NMA to even further out, get even more experimental and push the boat right out to sea.
After dog and the wolf It seems like the obvious thing would be to make another straight ahead noisy, live rock record - a la High (fast becoming one of my favorite NMA albums) But it might be interesting to really try something very new, different and VERY experimental.
I guess I might be on my own....but how would anyone else feel about this?
Ok so listening to the dog and the wolf yesterday it occurred to me that it might be good for NMA to even further out, get even more experimental and push the boat right out to sea.
After dog and the wolf It seems like the obvious thing would be to make another straight ahead noisy, live rock record - a la High (fast becoming one of my favorite NMA albums) But it might be interesting to really try something very new, different and VERY experimental.
I guess I might be on my own....but how would anyone else feel about this?
100% up with you on this one.
What ever did NMA do in the past when all the fans weren't able to collectively co-produce their records?
They must have just muddled through. Thank god for the internet!!! ;)
What ever did NMA do in the past when all the fans weren't able to collectively co-produce their records?
They must have just muddled through. Thank god for the internet!!! ;)
The CORRECT answer to my question was
"They made records we all loved enough to make us big fans."
;)
Ok so listening to the dog and the wolf yesterday it occurred to me that it might be good for NMA to even further out, get even more experimental and push the boat right out to sea.
After dog and the wolf It seems like the obvious thing would be to make another straight ahead noisy, live rock record - a la High (fast becoming one of my favorite NMA albums) But it might be interesting to really try something very new, different and VERY experimental.
I guess I might be on my own....but how would anyone else feel about this?
100% up with you on this one.
We've had an opportunity to hear "Watch And Learn" during the Camden Rocks Festival gig. When Dean took the Gibson I though they would play "Autumn". Surprisingly it was the completely new track. Massive, not exactly tuned, straight forward. I have to get used to it. 8)
want to keep the surpsise and hear nothing until i put my vynil on.................
I don't mind a heads-up on a few of the lyrics, the teasers ...But why? You are going to be able to hear the album in 45 days or so. You really can't hold out so you can hear it as it is intended to be heard? Not snippets; rather a full listening experience, surprises and all.
But why? You are going to be able to hear the album in 45 days or so. You really can't hold out so you can hear it as it is intended to be heard? Not snippets; rather a full listening experience, surprises and all.
I will get the album the day it comes out and I will settle in and give it a completely fresh listen.
... You won't be adding it to your stash of unheard NMA material?.
I have stashed away, never listened to/watched:
- the documentary film
- "Between Wine And Blood"
- "Between Wine And Blood Live"
- "Winter"
The new release "From Here" I will give a listen to as soon as it arrives. I will miss nothing by running it out of sequential order. I am not on a hunt for any connections to previous works, that doesn't matter to me. I listen to the music...
I don't listen for secret clues. You've been watching "The Da Vinci Code" a bit too much.
There is nothing hidden in the Mona Lisa.
There is nothing hidden in a New Model Army song.
Also, your theory that singles were released before the album doesn't hold up. Brits released singles and they never were part of an album. Go find "Hey Jude" or ""Paperback Writer" on an album. Didn't happen.
8, you have got to change your name to 2 or something lower. You are giving yourself far too much credit by trying to make us think your IQ is 8.
I don't understand it, honestly. What is it about those specific NMA recordings that you're putting off listening to them etc.? I'm curious, because it makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. And to not go in chronological order, is just as mind boggling. :( To each, his own....
I have explained this before. All understand and agree with what I am doing. All feel it is a brilliant strategy.
Why those specific recordings have I set aside? I just never listened to them when they arrived. Busy or something. And as days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, I figured why bother listening now? I'll just save them for when the band leaves us. Then I will have new NMA material to listen to. Unheard stuff.
When the band leaves us you will have no unheard material. No unheard entire albums. I will have exciting "new" songs to listen to. I will be happy. You will be sad.
Regarding chronological order: How much music can we really listen to chronologically? The Beatles were releasing records before I was born. How exactly could I have listened to their first record, then their second, etc... in order? I suppose the first Beatle song I ever heard was "Hey Jude" - a song from the tail end of their career. With NMA I was lucky enough to have caught on to them by their second album. My listening order for them has been chronological. But how many bands can we really do that for?
1. But as for not having anything 'new' to hear, that's not true. I'll have ('GOD' willing) countless live NMA/JS recordings to take in..
2. Ohhh, not only will I be sad (what an incredible, terrible understatement), but I'll be absolutely gutted, turn hopeless and dead inside.
I will have new real New Model Army material to listen to even when the band is done.
2. Gutted? I've been there... and been there to the thousandth power. The passing of Prince was a real bad moment for fans like myself. Unlike NMA, Prince released an album every single year. It was a part of my life... Christmas, Super Bowl, Prince album. Some were brilliant, some were so-so, but the point is the guy released 42 albums over forty years and all Prince fans loved and looked forward to that new unheard music of his that we were about to own and play. The joy, the anticipation, the fun, the excitement -- new Prince album! For forty years, every year, that went on for Prince fans. Forty years! And now it's over. GUTTED
You say you will be listening to unheard live tracks, maybe a release of unreleased NMA songs when the band calls it a day. Believe me, that ain't going to cut it. Already the Prince estate has been releasing music from his vault. It ain't the same by a million miles as music that Prince himself released. An album from Prince was an album worked on by Prince. What we are getting now is bean counting record executives pushing Prince product to make money off his dead bones. It sucks when I see a new Prince release come from the record companies. Those songs weren't released BECAUSE PRINCE DIDN'T WANT THEM RELEASED! You might feel that same anger when a "new" NMA army release comes out after the band is done.
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The guy moved up here, for a few years anyway. Wonder which albums he wrote while he was up here, in Canada... if he did write anything up here, anyway. Can you clue me in, you might know more about Prince's move to Canada. Think he lived here for 2 years or something? Toronto, if I'm not mistaken. Dated some Canadian too, I believe. ???
Having recently listened to the whole A-Z of songs on my ipod
it appears that the only letters missing an NMA song are: J, X & Z.
So maybe the next album can somehow get a track(s) to cover these letters,
after all there can't be many bands that have a song title from every letter of the alphabet. ;D
p.s. Still need a song called "Spring" to complete the Four Seasons ep. :D