I'm gonna need to start picking up the pace, to be able to keep up with all the new albums I'm hearing these days. Here's one...

http://hipdispleasure.blogspot.com/2005/02/low-great-destroyer.html

I bought this recently for $2.00 and listened to it for the first time today. Think I'm going to need a lot of time with it.

Where did you get this for $2?

And if you don't like it, I'll make it worth your while... Do I hear $3.50?

I was visiting my bro in San Marcos. In addition to the 15 or so CDs I bought in Austin, I found this one at a Half Price Books in San Marcos. It's the promo version though.

Not ready to dump it just yet. But if I don't get into it within the next 3 months - I'll probably burn it and sell it.

I'm still not sold on this one either...
and I think the review's fairly spot-on, FT. Kudos...

Good review.


Still haven't made up my mind on this album yet. So far only Monkey really stands out to me.

I've been sold on this one since the first listen. The first four tracks are strong IMHO. "Monkey" is song-of-the-year-up-to-this-point.

California is actually one of my favorite Low songs. I guess FT isn't the yin to my yang after all.

But that's just it, Mike, I really WANT to like "California." I can tell it would be a brilliant song, if it just didn't sound like it was being blasted through a set of blown Soundesign speakers. My whole point of the review is that it's a really good album ruined by really bad recording/mastering/production. To me, "California" is the prime example of that.

Good review. I pretty much feel the same way about the album as you do. The production/mastering/whatever has really soured the last two Low records in my opinion.

Good review- you give it more credit than I do. I think its simply the second bad record in a row by a band that I used to really like.

I still like it a lot. Fridmann's production is over-doing it on some occasions, but "California" isn't really one of them.

"Everybody's Song" is the best (worst?) case of the over-distorted production.

This album may cause a lot of people to consider buying new stereo equipment.

just hearing this today and i love this shit.

I agree. One of my favorites of the year so far.

Would I like this? and by that I mean, what y'all know about my strange predilections, is this up my alley?

Bob, I trust yr. judgement. Gimme some truth.

I'll put a song of theirs on the mix I'm gonna send you. You decide for yourself.

I love it as well and added Just Stand Back to a new quarterly mix i'm making for co-workers.

i think if you heard it first spaced out on a road trip then you'd love it, but under different circumstances i can't tell.

Not a bad call, chase. My initial response to him was 'meh to OK' due to slowness and lacking in hooks, at least compared to Stones/Motown/DBT...

I haven't heard it but for some reason, when you have a job and have to be in the car for extended periods of time you become more open minded with shit.

Just an observation.

Gar, I do believe you'd at least like this record.

edit: Not because other of my posts pertaining to it allude to the idea that it is gar in comparison to the rest of their catalogue, but because I think it's more your bag than the rest of their catalogue.

Tough call. Check your PM.

Haven't heard this album yet. I need to rectify this immediately.

The impressions/observations about me in this thread RULE!

"Spaced Out" is that code for drunk? stoned?coked up? Hittin the ice chalet?high on paint?Painkillers? What do you people take me for?

Benny--good call. I think it's called when my brain is "on"

Sketch -- nice motif

Bob -- I'll get this in the next day or so. My cable modem is SO SLOOOW, but we should be switching to DSL tomorrow.

THIS THREAD FUNNY!