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You know what... reply with album covers that changed your life
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Grogmagog
Steven Woolgar@gogmagog @samvarma I saw them on the previous album tour. Animal Magnetism. I was a huge fan at the time and was surprised by Mattias being in the band. I was hoping for Michael or Uli. Mr Jabs did a great job nonetheless. I screamed myself hoarse yelling for them to play Sails of Charon or Polar Night.
there is beauty in simplicity
Proto Himbo European@kinsale42 @samvarma King of the mountain of still such a kick-ass track
Greys Abiding 🎹
@Davi_Dblees EPIC as I've gotten older the genius of this cannot be understated
Ludwig Vielfrass
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🤘 @dannotdaniel I see what you did there
🌋9395224!!69
@Exposedpig Easily.... EASILY... one of the best songwriters of all time
@samvarma just something about that blowtorch in foreground of everything with the noah's arc looking boat in drydock and all the hazy church steeples and domes in background.
@Exposedpig In other words, #art
@samvarma hellz yah 🙌
@Exposedpig [inappropriately intense drunken hug after just meeting you] 👀
@Exposedpig @samvarma this was also a huge one for me
Yah - lotta family strife back then. Album definitely passed a life line to greater perspective and empowerment despite chaotic beginnings.
"Under the Arctic fire
Over the seas of silence
Hauling on frozen ropes
For all my days remaining
But would north be true?"
Holly
TheStrangelet 
@samvarma perhaps you've encountered this gentleman? 🎸 🔥
seen him a couple times at Kingston Mines.
no place I'd rather be tbqh 🎶 🍺
Check out his cover of Miss You
Geoff Duncan@samvarma
It’s weird: I don’t remember getting obsessive about album covers. I thought a lot of them were dull or just embarrassing.
I do remember obsessing over some *liner notes*.
@geoffduncan This isn't about the covers—it's about remembering how much we loved the music, and the extent to which the images embody that love
@geoffduncan Maybe I'm weirdly visual, but my pre-experience of the music was the imagery, so the album covers are totems of a sort
@samvarma
I remember my friends going over every detail, talking about hem, speculating, etc. I just didn’t for whatever reason—and *I* was the visual arts kid!
But I remember making sure my parents never saw this one. Or heard it. (Ironic given what happened a few years s later.) About ten seconds of this still lives rent-free in my head whenever someone tells me “Play something terrifying.”
@geoffduncan Listening now for the first time 👀
@samvarma
Bits hold up, “Electric Eye” could be covered today. The end of the title track is still the platonic ideal of a divebomb+rage for me.
A few years later local parents would sue Judas Priest for the suicides of their sons, claiming subliminal messages egged them on. The band was acquitted.
@geoffduncan I do remember that story. Also crazy how much chorus they had in their guitar sound!
@samvarma
It varied, but yeah: the shadow of the Roland Jazz Chorus was getting very long. That album also has pitch-shifted/processed drums. So, you know, Phil Collins' shadow. ;)
It varied, but yeah: the shadow of the Roland Jazz Chorus was getting very long. That album also has pitch-shifted/processed drums. So, you know, Phil Collins' shadow. ;)
David J. Atkinson