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Grape Ripple
 Post subject: Which Elf Power album should I buy?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:07 pm 
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AMG recommends A Dream In Sound. I trust you people much more.

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When the Red King Comes is my favorite by them and was their first full band release (Andrew did ...Phantom Limbs a few years earlier under the Elf Power name but it was really just him mostly). For their first 4 albums, Red King is the must lush and intricate and musically interesting, and it rocks a great deal too. A Dream in Sound is also very good and feels more like a solid collection of songs as opposed to WTRKC's more cohesive and connected feel. The Winter is Coming is a much darker record than the other 2--almost dirge like in parts and definitely has its own 'mood'--but it's also a great record. The first record with pretty much just Andy is 4-track tape feel kind of stuff but it has its own charm.

I must say that I have not listened to Creatures and the latest one very much to give a fully formed opinion on them. I believe Yail Bloor is the latter-day Elf Power guru on this board, perhaps he or someone else can give you the goods on those. But for my 2 cents, get Red King.
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I wish I'd taken advantage of having them spring up in athens when I was there. I think I only saw them once, and didn't pay much attention.

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I will never listen to a band called Elf Power
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When the Red King Comes

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I read in Athens' Flagpole that CREATURES would be the favorite Elf Power album for people who don't like Elf Power. Pretty acurate, I guess, since I never really got into A DREAM IN SOUND, but I can dig some CREATURES fo' sho'.

Get CREATURES - easily digestible twee rawk. If you wear it out quick move on to DREAM.
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seriously, Elf Power?
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I wish I'd taken advantage of having them spring up in athens when I was there. I think I only saw them once, and didn't pay much attention.


You don't mean Athens, OHIO, do you? Because I go to school in Athens, Ohio and no one comes up here for anything...period - expect maybe the booze-fest that is Halloween.

I have the Red King album. I don't really enjoy it.
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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
I wish I'd taken advantage of having them spring up in athens when I was there. I think I only saw them once, and didn't pay much attention.


You don't mean Athens, OHIO, do you? Because I go to school in Athens, Ohio and no one comes up here for anything...period - expect maybe the booze-fest that is Halloween.

I have the Red King album. I don't really enjoy it.


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Yup, GA. When I was an undergrad, we had elf power, macha, the drive-by truckers, the star room boys, neutral milk hotel, jucifer, and strangely enough jennifer nettles, who went through various incarnations and is now in that awful pop-country band Sugarland.

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
Yup, GA. When I was an undergrad, we had elf power, macha, the drive-by truckers, the star room boys, neutral milk hotel, jucifer, and strangely enough jennifer nettles, who went through various incarnations and is now in that awful pop-country band Sugarland.


Don't forget DJ Dangermouse, REM, Phosphorescent, National Anthem, Five-Eight, the Glands, Bubba Sparxx(!?), Grand Fury, Olivia Tremor Control, Japancakes, Guadalcanal Diary, Widespread Panic...

and of course the immortal nuci phillips. and more that ican't think of right now.
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I knew I would leave some out.

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Old Kentucky Wrote:
Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
Yup, GA. When I was an undergrad, we had elf power, macha, the drive-by truckers, the star room boys, neutral milk hotel, jucifer, and strangely enough jennifer nettles, who went through various incarnations and is now in that awful pop-country band Sugarland.


Don't forget DJ Dangermouse, REM, Phosphorescent, National Anthem, Five-Eight, the Glands, Bubba Sparxx(!?), Grand Fury, Olivia Tremor Control, Japancakes, Guadalcanal Diary, Widespread Panic...

and of course the immortal nuci phillips. and more that ican't think of right now.


Good job guys.
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No love for bubba sparxx, busty?

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