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I know it has been said before but Third is amazing. I got it today for £2.40 in Woolworths and I can definately see what everyone was talking about. Very happy indeed.
:D:D:D
I know it has been said before but Third is amazing. I got it today for £2.40 in Woolworths and I can definately see what everyone was talking about. Very happy indeed.
:D:D:D
Are your favourite tracks towards the end?
I found that
the last four tracks are knockout
Magic Doors or Machine Gun is my favourite track, as well as The Rip
Magic Doors is my favourite track
her voice is awesome in that song.
The drum intro to Machine Gun
is worth more than 2.40 on its own.
It's pretty nice
it suprised me with their comeback its not as ground braking as what dummy was at the time but it's still damn good. I haven't fallen in love with it really but it's a nice listen.
My favourite album of last year
Completely brilliant!
Yeh it's awesome
took a few listens but everything about it now sound pretty perfect. Agree that The Rip and Magic Doors are the standouts.
Cracking album
worth £2.40 of anyone's money. I love Machine Gun and We Carry On
£2.40?
Dummy cost me £3.50 in Britxon Woolies... RIPPED OFF.
(Never had it on CD myself, and the wife's copy got nicked years ago.)
is it just me
or is the production on some of this record quite bad? Some of it sounds like a really low bitrate mp3 rip, parts of it are crippled by what sounds like horrendous digital clipping - Machine Gun is nearly unlistenable with the right hand clipping, it's almost painful
i mean, i guess it's not supposed to sound particularly welcoming, and i could imagine it being a purposeful attempt to add something to the effect, but the question is this - do i actually want to listen to it?
Can't say I've noticed any clipping
and I think the drum part on Machine Gun sounds incredible; will give it another listen today but in the grand scheme of shittily produced records, I don't think Third would be very high on my list. I wouldn't say the production's OMGZ incredible but I dig tthe fact that they've made half the record sound exactly like Silver Apples, especially the sixth track, which I swear to God is actually a Silver Apples song.
not quite sure what clipping is,
but yep there's something about the production that puts me off.
and you've got a point about wanting to listen to it: i've no problem with bleak albums - in utero and closer are two of my favourites of all time - but on this record, the bleak tone just becomes oppressive when you listen to the whole album. it's a mixture of her voice, which seems to be the same anguished monotone the whole way through, and the production
Clipping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(audio)
If you've heard From Here We Go Sublime by The Field, there's clipping all over the beats on that, which is one of the main reasons so many minimal techno fans completely dismissed it. Slightly ironic, given that I'm currently listening to GAS and all the beats on this are clipped to fuck as well. It's not something I have an immense problem with in electronic music, but when you hear it on guitar-based albums, it's really noticeably and sounds like absolute shit.
Isn't it supposed to sound like that though?
I thought the clipping was part of the effect and the intention of the sound?
i got it for 2.40, AND 'Dummy' for 2.00!
Living in Stockport *finally* paid off.
The first thing I liked about it was simply that
the end of Machine Gun sounded like Terminator!
I later realised that the whole album was incredible.
average
the rip is the only tune on it
the rest of it isn't bad
dummy>third>portishead
we carry on is a cracker!
Machine gun is great, as is the album generally, but We Carry On is the standout.