"adam morosky" <amorosky@hotmail.com> wrote:
i feel that he gets a lot of acclaim for music that is at times tacky sounding and lyrics that are down-right god-awful. Lyrics (that don't inspire head-shaking or pants-wetting, anyway) really aren't his strong suit. Once I stop paying attention to them, Godflesh works in the same way that a lot of non-English rock music does: the vocals become a texture, and if they complement the music, so much the better. (In language-teaching parlance, this is "accomodating weakness" instead of "building strength", and it's generally considered a bad thing.)
can anyone suggest a favorite napalm death record or a broadrick-related record that lives up to his good reputation? I've always much preferred the quieter/more instrumental side of his output: Techno Animal is frequently awesome ("Radio Inferno" has a good assortment of compilation/12" tracks that are well worth hearing), and his releases as Final (particularly "2" and the "Urge/Fail" 7") and Solaris are quite good... the latter two aren't at all thrashy, though.
-me