Re: (TV) WTF, Tom?

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

I'll have to spend some time with those liner notes...indeed I had the
Infinite Zero release with the bonus tracks.  And the vinyl which sounds
best of all.  I find it an infinitely fascinating record.  That "meters in
the red" approach is almost never done with those kinds of guitar sounds...
it's usually all overdrivey or distortiony "wall of noise" type tones that
get pushed that way.  It's very intense to hear these more natural tones
get that treatment... same thing holds with the drums, which sound "big"
but don't have the off-putting artificial sheen that usually comes along
with that.  It's all very unique.  I always have it in my personal Top Five
Albums, and today I think it's jumping into the top slot for a while.  It's
a record that clobbered me over the head the first time I heard it, but
still continues to reveal new layers and sound different with every spin
decades later... that's rare.

So agree with Leif about the way "There's A Reason" opens the
record...classic.  On par with "See No Evil", even and even more
captivatingly sinister.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:44 PM, leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com> wrote:

> The mix always sounded claustrophobic in a way no other
> > Verlaine mix does.
>
>
> But wasn't the claustrophobic, super-compressed sound a major part of the
> attraction here? To me it was, at least. It suited these songs extremely
> well
> -- and also made for an even soundscape throughout. Same with the debut and
> with "Cover" and "Flash Light", although in different ways. Part of my
> problem
> with "Words from the front" and "The Wonder" is that they don't have this
> evenness. Mostly good tunes on them -- but as a whole, the songs seem to
> have
> been recorded in different studios and with different musicians.
>
> I think I remember that TV in some interview said that the recording idea
> during the "Dreamtime" session was to have the "meters up in the red
> fields",
> and the result may be proof of that.
>
> As for  "There's a reason" -- it should be regarded as one of the most
> powerful openings of a rock'n'roll record, methinks.
>
> Leif J, Sweden
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