[Jeff McLean]

Red Sails - bloody weird album and not one of my favourites, but HOW
good is
Jimmy Sharman's, and is there a better double shot in any of the oils
albums
than Bells and horns / Shipyards...?

As for Breathe, quite opposite to most other people on the list, it is
quite
clearly one of my favourites.  Nothing less than a beautiful album
(aside from
Underwater)...

Cheers all - can't wait for the 28th...

Joffa

Tom Davies wrote:

> yeah, just chiming in with what everyone else is saying about Red
> Sails... Helps Me Helps You is raucous and terrible IMO, but the album as
> a whole is experimental, challenging, and mostly successful. There are a
> bunch of tracks that really grow on you -- for me, notably, Minutes to
> Midnight, which I initially couldn't stand and now like rather a
> lot.
>
> Coincidentally I find myself listening to Red Sails today for the
> first time in a few months, along with the likewise experimental and
> difficult Breathe. Both albums strike me as particularly thoughtful -- of
> course, all the Oils' music is pretty damn intelligent... but right now
> these two albums are just interacting interestingly with my mind at a time
> when I've been seeing life as a cruel joke... both these albums seem to
> get at something about the absurdity and mutability of life... "there is
> room for make-believe out on the ocean" ... "everybody say god is a good
> man" ...
>
> well, those are my ramblings for now ... perhaps some of you will know
> what I'm getting at...
>
> td
>
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