coast to coast
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this is great, I agree with everything everyone is saying here, rep all round. Theres something for everyone and every mood in their discography.
Clouds Taste Mettalic is probably the most listened to around my way, but I think The Soft Bulleten is probably the strongest album... and yet I'm voting Zaireeka cause I still think it's amazing that someone did that... DVD 5.1 mixes is going to make obselette the sense of cermeony that goes into putting on Zaireeka, and so it goes...
but then Hear It Is is a good romp too... uh...
I've often thought of havng a Zaireeka Party, rent the upstairs of a pub, get 4 kick ass stereos, try and arrange some "visuals", blah blah blah... would people go for it, or would it be and a freaked out bar man listening to out of synhc psych pop in an empty room?
I bought Zaireeka, and attempted to play it once on my own....got three going at the sametime but had to pull apart the house for it to happen. Would love to hear it properly, but missing required enthusiasm... never thought the songs were as good as those of Soft Bulletin, which got my vote. An absurdly good album. Just truly excellent in the way it manages to be insanely likeable and really really exotica nd weird at the same time. Great songs too. "Race For The Prize" sounds so strange that you cannot help but be sucked in by it.
My favourite moment has to be the middle verse of "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" where it switches to 6/8 (I think) and the lyrics go "Driving home, the sky accelerates and the clouds all form a geometric shape"... its magical. That song does so much in so little time,, the first verse, the chorus, the post-chorus fake string but, the reverby guitar riff, then the key change into the second verse!