HW: New plans or not

[Jon Jarrett]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Nick Medford wrote:

> In message <3.0.6.32.20010213093638.018d1610 at flite.net>, Andrew Apold
> <mordru at FLITE.NET> writes
>
> >Even IITBOTFTBD, which I didn't care for initiually, has grown on me.
>
> Same here, in fact I think the first 3 tracks rank among their best work of
> the last 20 years. There's some fairly uninspired stuff elsewhere on the
> album, but I'd rather have a mix of great stuff and poor stuff than an album
> like 'Distant Horizons', where everything is OK but nothing really stands
> out.

        I see this last opinion a lot, and I always feel I'm getting
something wrong because to me, though _Distant Horizons_ is a thrown
together sort of thing, some of the stuff on it is to my mind pretty
bloody good. I like `Phetamine Street' a lot, I like `Kauai' a lot better
here than I do on _Spacebrock_ (but still I have to admit not a hell of a
lot), and I think `Wheels' is absolute class. I mean, it's a one-riff song
with a key change about two minutes in for no clear reason and some
kicking bass synth work as well as blistering Brock-type guitar from both
guitarists. If it were Monster Magnet we'd all acclaim it as genius! Okay,
the speech in the middle is a bit cringeworthy, but such is life. This is
one place where Rizz improved a song. But I still love it. And `Alchemy'
and `Reptoid Vision' seem pretty good to me too. The remaining stuff is
nothing special, I grant you, but I have no problem with any of it bar the
`Love in Space' version and that's better than the single version that had
the vocals on. I just think this album gets a poorer press than it
deserves. There weren't that many good songs on _Alien4_ after
all. Anyway, I'll stop now. Yours,
                                   Jon

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