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The first Joe Coffee cd could be viewed as a logical continuation from Love Songs, but the new J.C. is in a category and class all its own.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
i've been listening to sheer terror for 19 years and i love it all.
that said, i've probably listened to love songs the most since it was released.
mark lind and i were talking about this just a week or two ago...
do you think joe coffee's first cd was that much of a leap in a new direction compared to love songs exclusively. |
no not at all
the biggest difference in sound on the sheer terror albums is in the tuning
if you listen to the "riffs" its all pretty much the same sort of vibe, hard punk rock
the "metal" sound in the first few albums was more about the tuning then what weas being played
dig?
you come at the king....you best not miss
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i LOOk at it this way. people progress. some dramaticly some more subtlely. early sheer terror stuff appealed to me as a younger man, full of anger
and depression, while later like Joe Coffee appeal to me more as I got older and refined my tastes a bit. My friend Steve said something of that
liking to Paul last time we saw them and he thanked him for it. I think he knew where he was coming from with the compliment.
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Sheer Terror was one of the most respectable and listenable examples of a band growing that has EVER existed. They started off amazing and ended
amazing...there are some high points and low points in between as can be expected with anything. Their lows are todays highs though, thats the
problem.
Too bad hardcore is a tribute genre now.
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Too bad hardcore is a tribute genre now.
well said
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You CAN'T go wrong with any Sheer Terror IMO, they did things musically most bands wouldn't even attempt. Every record had a different vibe, yet they
never lost their identity. To think they started right in the middle of the 80s youth crew days and came with a sound most people didn?t get at first.
My first listen was like ?what the hell is that?, after about 3 spins you would have thought I wrote the songs myself?
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I think the first Joe Coffee is pretty close to a direct continuation of the stuff Sheer Terror was toying with on Love Songs, but even closer to what
they did on Old, New, Borrowed & Blue. Those two albums both made me see another side of ST that was a bit buried further down on other releases, but
in hindsight I can see it all as a nice progression, which I don't think most people noticed when those records came out. I know I sure as fuck felt
like that stuff came out of left field when they came out, but I still knew they were amazing songs.
The second Joe Coffee album sounds like the culmination of everything they've been working for, to my ear anyway. It's a big jump from the first
record to the second, but at the same time, it's more of an obvious and direct progression than the two previously mentioned Sheer Terror records are
as far as leading up to the first JC. I'll be beyond impressed if the next thing they do shows as much growth from this album as this one does from
the first, but I won't really be too surprised. I think the only drawback for the Joe Coffee guys now that they've shown what they can do is that I'm
really hoping they'll do it again. That album is still my candidate for album of the year (if not past few years) and I have to say that I'll be a
little disappointed if their next one doesn't floor me to quite the same extent. And yes, there fuckin' well better be another one, or I will be a
very unhappy camper. Not that they'd care about that, but still...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tireironsaint
I think the only drawback for the Joe Coffee guys now that they've shown what they can do is that I'm really hoping they'll do it again. That album is
still my candidate for album of the year (if not past few years) and I have to say that I'll be a little disappointed if their next one doesn't floor
me to quite the same extent. And yes, there fuckin' well better be another one, or I will be a very unhappy camper. Not that they'd care about that,
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I feel the exact same way. No album has come out in the last few years that I enjoy as much as the new JC. I don't care if they take a few years to
come out with a new record if the next one is anywhere near as good as When the Fabric Don't Fit the Frame.
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