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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2007 at 14:10
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

MAGMA ISS DE HUNDIN!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2007 at 14:11
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

MAGMA ISS DE HUNDIN!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2007 at 15:02
Originally posted by Speesh Speesh wrote:

I often feel the same way about "Trout Mask Replica", I can only hope it will make sense one day. Though now I certainly don't see anything to get there even after many attempted listens.

As for Magma it may just be one of those things that just doesn't appeal to you. I liked Magma from the first listen. I like all of the positive points you brought up, but I really like the stuff you hate as well, the chanting and whatnot. I guess it is just a love it or hate it kind of thing.
 
I agree with all of this 100%.   Probably the album that was the hardest for me to understand (but I got there eventually) was King Crimson's Lizard.   Maybe the same thing will happen for me one day with Captain Beefheart.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2007 at 21:12
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Yorkie.... if you take my suggestion seriously.. you will find  that album is not cheap...


however.. for those who don't have it .. or know...

subscribe to Napster....  sitting here looking at all Magma's album....  for a minimal charge... all at your fingertips to listen to...screen on your computer to buy at your leisure. Without sinking 30 bucks into an album just on a recommend.




I'm intrigued enough with this thread to pick up this album.  Thanks micky for the rec and the advice about price/Napster...might have to look into that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2007 at 23:39
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Yorkie.... if you take my suggestion seriously.. you will find  that album is not cheap...


however.. for those who don't have it .. or know...

subscribe to Napster....  sitting here looking at all Magma's album....  for a minimal charge... all at your fingertips to listen to...screen on your computer to buy at your leisure. Without sinking 30 bucks into an album just on a recommend.




I'm intrigued enough with this thread to pick up this album.  Thanks micky for the rec and the advice about price/Napster...might have to look into that.


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I can't even remember what Napster costs me.. just renewed automatically a couple of weeks ago.. I got it in October...  for screening new groups here and for simple  personal enjoyment. It is cheap.  Like I said for example ... all the Magma albums are there, even the official boots  are there all  to listen to. It does have quite a database.. that is for sure LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2007 at 19:28
Magma be fire man, I ain't "get" them at first either, but they grow on you yanno. Christian Vander walk tha beat like a policeman.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2007 at 21:10
I feel the same way. I 'get' the concepts, I 'get' how talented they are, I even like the instrumentals enough (slowly getting used to handling most of the wailing). I've watched some videos and become a little more interested. Although I appreciate them, even like them at rare moments, I don't 'get' Magma. 

What is there that could 'grow on you'?

"The choir is very impressive, but it also makes the album quite monotonous in the long run as they NEVER shut up." LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2007 at 21:17
Originally posted by Poser Poser wrote:

I feel the same way. I 'get' the concepts, I 'get' how talented they are, I even like the instrumentals enough (slowly getting used to handling most of the wailing). I've watched some videos and become a little more interested. Although I appreciate them, even like them at rare moments, I don't 'get' Magma. 

What is there that could 'grow on you'?

"The choir is very impressive, but it also makes the album quite monotonous in the long run as they NEVER shut up." LOL


never quite understood just what there is to 'get' about Magma... either they you enjoy them ...or you don't... 

sounds like you have the right attitude though.... can think of scores of groups and albums that on the first listens didn't light my  house on fire... but sticking with it... and suddenly.... something clicks.. what it is... who ever knows just what it is that causes something to 'grow on you'  Might be that for a couple of listens you are thinking of this.. or that...  your girlfriend or wife is bitching in your ears as you are trying to listen... or  maybe it simply just takes a couple of listens to find something in the nuances of the music that speaks to you on some level. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2007 at 03:48
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Yorkie X Yorkie X wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Yorkie X Yorkie X wrote:

I like some differant stuff but Magma were just too weird for me unfortunatly .. though I can hear they are very talented I fail to grasp the idea of whats going on ? .. I guess I`ll never be a Magma fan Unhappy


what did you listen to out of curiousity.... 
  It was Attack  I think  .. I liked the cover and heard lots about Magma and it turned up in my local CD store so I just thought I`d give it a try ...  maybe I started with the wrong CD  


IMO you did....  try another. It is a group worth a 2nd chance if you will.... I differ from some Magma fans... but I'd suggest starting with the debut... you get what Magma was about... and is easier to grasp.. .and is a GREAT album.. in my personal top 10 favorites.
 
I strangely agree. Not in my top 10, of course, but indeed could be a good introduction to Magma...
 
as for grabbing "cheap" copies, the blogging thing provided a far better way than Napster et al... It's now possible to reach this album (and many more) within seconds, if you know what I mean Wink
 
(P.S. My all time favorite Magma album, as well as one of the items in my Top something list, is MDK, along with its several versions... -that is, as a composition & concept, not necessarily as a particular "album"...- But I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point to newbies, despite the fact that it was the very first Magma piece I ever listened!!!)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2007 at 23:48
Originally posted by Bilek Bilek wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Yorkie X Yorkie X wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Yorkie
X Yorkie X wrote:

I like some differant stuff but Magma were just too weird for me unfortunatly .. though I can hear they are very talented I fail to grasp the idea of whats going on ? .. I guess I`ll never be a Magma fan Unhappy


what did you listen to out of curiousity.... 
  It was Attack  I think  .. I liked the cover and heard lots about Magma and it turned up in my local CD store so I just thought I`d give it a try ...  maybe I started with the wrong CD  


IMO you did....  try another. It is a group worth a 2nd chance if you will.... I differ from some Magma fans... but I'd suggest starting with the debut... you get what Magma was about... and is easier to grasp.. .and is a GREAT album.. in my personal top 10 favorites.
 
I strangely agree. Not in my top 10, of course, but indeed could be a good introduction to Magma...
 


LOL  I know man....  agreeing with me too often can lead to bouts of never being taken seriously hahhaha.. 

you always say that sh*t Bilik LOL...seemingly thunderstruck you would agree with me as if I had opened my mouth.. and a stream of fine white wine issued forth from it instead of words.  One of these days you'll have to tell me of what all the stuff you disagree with me on hahahha
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 03:10

You got it all wrong this time... It was the "ideas", which I found strange that I agree, not you! In fact, I'm not even sure if I recognised it was "you" whom I agreed with LOL. (read the rest of my post, you may get an idea why it was strange for me to agree with the idea that "it is best to start exploring Magma with their debut"...)

I can tell a million things on which I disagree with you, of course, but it will take all of my time, and I have a huge pile of sh*t to do here at work Tongue I barely find time (if at all) to write to forum every now and then, I can't spend my precious time trying to find reasons to fight with you Big%20smile... besides, isn't it good that we may find stuff to agree upon, unlike most other guys writing (or was writing... I don't follow the general forum these days...) in this forum, notwithstanding your notoreity??? LOLLOLLOLLOL

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Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 16:15
Originally posted by Bilek Bilek wrote:

You got it all wrong this time... It was the "ideas", which I found strange that I agree, not you! In fact, I'm not even sure if I recognised it was "you" whom I agreed with LOL. (read the rest of my post, you may get an idea why it was strange for me to agree with the idea that "it is best to start exploring Magma with their debut"...)


oh no.. I saw the rest of the post and know where you were coming from.... some think you should go directly the the 'classic' album to start with... might be some truth in that... and for most groups.. sure... but the way I see it.. Magma isn't most groups.  It is a group that can lose people unneccessarily if you throw them off the deep end.  I think the same of Pawn Hearts... some of it is so dense.. it can be construed as pure rubbish... but if you take a step back.. and check an album like H to He... you might have a better idea of what they are trying to do with their 'masterpiece' (though I still largely disagree with calling Pawn Hearts a masterpiece... I do think there is a thing such as failure when trying to up the ante as they did there.. that album with a little less contrived wierdness.. could have been a masterpiece)



I can tell a million things on which I disagree with you, of course, but it will take all of my time, and I have a huge pile of sh*t to do here at work Tongue I barely find time (if at all) to write to forum every now and then, I can't spend my precious time trying to find reasons to fight with you Big%20smile... besides, isn't it good that we may find stuff to agree upon, unlike most other guys writing (or was writing... I don't follow the general forum these days...) in this forum, notwithstanding your notoreity??? LOLLOLLOLLOL


Someday I would love to hear it LOL I had no idea you thought I was so full of sh*t until we ran across each other in that ... well... particular thread and found something we DID agree upon. LOL





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:04
micky, you seem not to read my posts entirely, or reading with ... erm ... some other part of your body LOLLOLLOLLOL

let me just make it clear, I didn't mean "you" by any means when I said "sh*t"... take a close look, I wrote that message at work and the sh*t was right on my screen (outside of progarchives forum window Tongue), as will be tomorrow!

about VdGG, yeah, once again I agree, Pawn Hearts may be very very difficult to digest in the first listen. In fact, I started to warm them up by the "Least We Can Do" tracks in The Box (for some reason, completely ignoring the entire Pawn Hearts, actually half of it live, in Disc 2...), so that would be my choice, though H to He or Godbluff might as well be good choices...

and I disagree: I regard Pawn Hearts an absolute masterpiece! I don't have the rhetorical skills to present my case (neither time!) here, but that is the actual album that clicked my "switch" (a vague reference to the new series of Battlestar Galactica Tongue)

I suggest you to go through my initial post once again to see my point! well, maybe I have to make it clearer, I'll do that when I have time...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:13
Originally posted by Bilek Bilek wrote:

micky, you seem not to read my posts entirely, or reading with ... erm ... some other part of your body LOLLOLLOLLOL

let me just make it clear, I didn't mean "you" by any means when I said "sh*t"... take a close look, I wrote that message at work and the sh*t was right on my screen (outside of progarchives forum window Tongue), as will be tomorrow!

about VdGG, yeah, once again I agree, Pawn Hearts may be very very difficult to digest in the first listen. In fact, I started to warm them up by the "Least We Can Do" tracks in The Box (for some reason, completely ignoring the entire Pawn Hearts, actually half of it live, in Disc 2...), so that would be my choice, though H to He or Godbluff might as well be good choices...

and I disagree: I regard Pawn Hearts an absolute masterpiece! I don't have the rhetorical skills to present my case (neither time!) here, but that is the actual album that clicked my "switch" (a vague reference to the new series of Battlestar Galactica Tongue)

I suggest you to go through my initial post once again to see my point! well, maybe I have to make it clearer, I'll do that when I have time...


hahahha...  I guess I I am shouldn't post with no sleep.. forgive me LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:19
what is there to get?

they're a musical group

they make music
you enjoy it

or you don't
simple as that

"getting" things is a pretense made up by people who need some sort of vague reason to justify why they like something that many people may not
but in reality its just all taste


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:26
Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

what is there to get?

they're a musical group

they make music
you enjoy it

or you don't
simple as that

"getting" things is a pretense made up by people who need some sort of vague reason to justify why they like something that many people may not
but in reality its just all taste

I think saying "I don't get this band" is just another way of saying, "I don't think I enjoy them to their fullest yet."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:27
Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

what is there to get?

they're a musical group

they make music
you enjoy it

or you don't
simple as that

"getting" things is a pretense made up by people who need some sort of vague reason to justify why they like something that many people may not
but in reality its just all taste

I think saying "I don't get this band" is just another way of saying, "I don't think I enjoy them to their fullest yet."


what ho
an example of what I was talking aboutWink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:30
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:32
Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

what is there to get?

they're a musical group

they make music
you enjoy it

or you don't
simple as that

"getting" things is a pretense made up by people who need some sort of vague reason to justify why they like something that many people may not
but in reality its just all taste


But your musical experiences and conditioning inform what you will/ do find enjoyable... From A to B to C and so on.  There is language of music that needs cognitive decoding (kind of musical semiotics/ signs and signifiers that you may not be able to appreciate due, in part, to lack of experience).  There is something to get, but you can "get it" (understand the music and make salient musical associations) without liking it.  I know that I've encountered music that  was initially hard to grasp (Schoenberg for instance) in a meaningful and enjoyable way, but "learned' to like it.  Sometimes when getting into a new style/ band, or even switching back and forth between genres, it takes a little rewiring of the brain.  But Magma is more likely to appeal to people who can appreciate jazz, quirky and rather weird offbeat music (and operatic stylings) as well as rock.  Not for the mainstream rock/pop listeners, though I'm sure some of them could enjoy it too.


Edited by Logan - December 12 2007 at 17:32
Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2007 at 17:34
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

what is there to get?

they're a musical group

they make music
you enjoy it

or you don't
simple as that

"getting" things is a pretense made up by people who need some sort of vague reason to justify why they like something that many people may not
but in reality its just all taste


But your musical experiences and conditioning inform what you will/ do find enjoyable... From A to B to C and so on.  There is language of music that needs cognitive decoding (kind of musical semiotics/ signs and signifiers that you may not be able to appreciate due, in part, to lack of experience).  There is something to get, but you can "get it" (understand the music and make salient musical associations) without liking it.  I know that I've encountered music that  was initially hard to grasp (Schoenberg for instance) in a meaningful and enjoyable way, but "learned' to like it.  Sometimes when getting into a new style/ band, or even switching back and forth between genres, it takes a little rewiring of the brain.  But Magma is more likely to appeal to people who can appreciate jazz, quirky and rather weird offbeat music (and operatic stylings) as well as rock.  Not for the mainstream rock/pop listeners, though I'm sure some of them could enjoy it too.


sometimes I debate with myself whether this practice is really 'learning to like something' or self brainwash LOL


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