BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF, 2 years on... how do you feel about it?

[Gonzo]

Love it, start to finish. theres not one bad track on it in my honest opinion but that's me. i love the whole drum layering sound. i dont skip any of the tracks, unlike a certain album i wont mention. personally i think its their most mature album, like a journey album where each track leads into where the last left off telling a story. does it have classic written over it like T and C. I think it already has but thats me.

[Master Ray]

Ain't just you, Gonzo...

Be interested in hearing what your least favourite album was... you won't get crap for it, I've already said I'm not too fond of TLOHC, which seems to be a popular favourite!

[szmurf]

I've already said I'm not too fond of TLOHC, which seems to be a popular favourite!

HERETIC 

[Gonzo]

Wow, The love of hopeless causes is a great album its definately up there in my top 5 NMA albums. My least favourite and least played is, here we go, Strange Brotherhood. I just cant get to grips with that album at all. 98 werent a great year for me personally so when the album came out i thought it would lift me up or carry on from where TLOFC left off. maybe the 5 year gap inbetween albums didnt help, i dont know, but to me i thought it was a piecemeal/experimental album just put together. i know ill get stick for it but gigabyte wars i cant handle. i do struggle with it. maybe its time to revisit it.

[Johnz]

Wow, The love of hopeless causes is a great album its definately up there in my top 5 NMA albums. My least favourite and least played is, here we go, Strange Brotherhood. I just cant get to grips with that album at all. 98 werent a great year for me personally so when the album came out i thought it would lift me up or carry on from where TLOFC left off. maybe the 5 year gap inbetween albums didnt help, i dont know, but to me i thought it was a piecemeal/experimental album just put together. i know ill get stick for it but gigabyte wars i cant handle. i do struggle with it. maybe its time to revisit it.

I think it's most people's least favourite album. The band themselves have referred to the mid-nineties as a time when they lost their way and they did mention somewhere that SB wasn't the album that they wanted it to be. To me it is definitely the odd one out but I actually like it a lot. I was just happy to hear from them after a five year break and the & Nobody Else tour was great.

[Master Ray]

Ah, SB is NMA's least favourite album... what do they know?

 

[arne]

Great thread, and nice it has continued until the christmas gigs. For me, BDAW is one of the best albums ever, the tour 2 years ago was magic, and it all brought me back much closer to the band and the music. I liked the albums before BDAW but they mainly continued the classic sound and it seemed like there wasn't so much in the music that was new. BDAW was different and it lifted the band to a whole new level, in my opinion. My favourites were exactly the songs that were perhaps a little strange at first, like Did You Make It Safe, because they were different and brought something else, something new. And the gigs were magic and atmospheric, and the new songs brought so many new layers to the classic sets. Would be nice to hear more of that, and more new and unexpected sounds.

[Johnz]

Great thread, and nice it has continued until the christmas gigs. For me, BDAW is one of the best albums ever, the tour 2 years ago was magic, and it all brought me back much closer to the band and the music. I liked the albums before BDAW but they mainly continued the classic sound and it seemed like there wasn't so much in the music that was new. BDAW was different and it lifted the band to a whole new level, in my opinion. My favourites were exactly the songs that were perhaps a little strange at first, like Did You Make It Safe, because they were different and brought something else, something new. And the gigs were magic and atmospheric, and the new songs brought so many new layers to the classic sets. Would be nice to hear more of that, and more new and unexpected sounds.

That's exactly how I see it.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Layers.

I know I've gabbled on about this before and I'm not trying to labour a point honest .......... but 

I am currently in the position of spending an inordinate amount of time laying down listening to music through headphones and god only knows how many tracks are on each song. Theres "buried" parts all over the place. I'm pretty sure there are some instruments that only appear for a few bars. I'd love to know just how many tracks were put down on each song or which has the greatest number - I reckon after the next 5 weeks I'll have got 'em all 

[Master Ray]

Interesting that, at Nottingham, Justin said that the new album was pretty much finished but isn't going to be released for a while... be fascinated to see if it continues in the same vein as BDAW...

[mudgeek]

I feel fine... just fine! I've been listening to BDAW these past days and I still love it! The band managed to eschew the "rock band" cliché and made some kind of 'organic music' (not new age!) that I cannot pigeonhole whichever way I try to make get people to listen to it.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

... that I cannot pigeonhole whichever way I try ....

Perfect 

[eastmidswhizzkid]

Layers.

I know I've gabbled on about this before and I'm not trying to labour a point honest .......... but 

I am currently in the position of spending an inordinate amount of time laying down listening to music through headphones and god only knows how many tracks are on each song. Theres "buried" parts all over the place. I'm pretty sure there are some instruments that only appear for a few bars. I'd love to know just how many tracks were put down on each song or which has the greatest number - I reckon after the next 5 weeks I'll have got 'em all 

for a long time i have insisted that everyone should listen to their favourite albums at least once through headphones. it is only recently (since the advent of ipods/smartphones) that i have come anywhere near even beginning to acheive this but the principal remains as valid. hearing new bits on records that i have been listening to for 30, 40 years blows me away.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

hearing new bits on records that i have been listening to for 30, 40 years blows me away.

Me too -  love those moments  It's also surprising how much difference it makes using proper hi-fi stuff. When I hooked up my old Pioneer again the difference in sound quality was amazing.

[Willard]

hearing new bits on records that i have been listening to for 30, 40 years blows me away.

Me too -  love those moments  It's also surprising how much difference it makes using proper hi-fi stuff. When I hooked up my old Pioneer again the difference in sound quality was amazing.

One of my favorites recently (well, a few years back) was the things that you hate in the back ground of RnR