syrupboy
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Post by syrupboy on Nov 13, 2005 5:05:51 GMT -4
I posted this over at Pulse, but it immediately got buried by Mariah Carey threads. What can I say about this song? The debut single from perhaps the most criminally underrated band of the past 20 years. Peaked at #9 on the modern rock chart in 1992. Although their best album wouldn't come for another five years after this was released, this remains their signature song. The Wheel weren't true 'shoegazers', but Black Metallic is probably the closest they came to that sort of sound with the layers of guitar and buried vocals. The guitar solo in particular is otherworldly. With all the talk about Green Day's current six minute single, it's important to remember that there was a time not too long ago where unorthodox songs like this one (7 minutes long) could get on the airwaves and chart well. For your listening pleasure: www.donyoindustries.com/blackmetallic.ramBest single of the 90's, hands down. On this there can be no debate! But if you'd like to debate, feel free ;D |
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Post by halo19 on Nov 13, 2005 14:47:29 GMT -4
I would  . I think it's pretty good, but it's not one of my favorites. But then again, it took me nearly a decade after this was a hit before I started listening to that kind of music. The Mariah thing does not surprise me one bit, though. |
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Post by crash46 on Nov 13, 2005 18:43:17 GMT -4
This morning, I happened to hear this song for the first time, on an alternative "time-warp" show. I liked it quite a bit, and I thought the solo really stood out as well.
I don't know much about this sub-genre (couldn't name a single other band that's part of it, if you asked me), but the way Rob's vocals and the guitars sound kind of muffled, it gives the song an interesting sort of mood.
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Post by halo19 on Nov 13, 2005 21:46:04 GMT -4
Vocals on shoegaze songs are almost always real muffled. On here, it's not to the extent that most My Bloody Valentine is, who add some distortion and feedback to the sound of that song.
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Post by The Duality Of Man on Nov 14, 2005 0:21:43 GMT -4
Black Metallic is a beautiful song, and the rest of Catherine Wheel's Ferment album is great.
The only cd of their's I'm not big on personally is Wishville.
Their standout album though is easily Adam and Eve. Delicious, Broken Nose, Phantom Of the American Mother, and Ma Solituda is one of the best sequences of songs on any album ever made in my opinion.
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Post by syrupboy on Nov 14, 2005 3:57:26 GMT -4
Their standout album though is easily Adam and Eve. Delicious, Broken Nose, Phantom Of the American Mother, and Ma Solituda is one of the best sequences of songs on any album ever made in my opinion. I agree, and I'd throw Satellite in there at the end too. Only two contemporary albums have a five-song sequence that rivals this one in my opinion: The Joshua Tree (WTSHNN, ISHFWILF, WIWY, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still) and OK Computer (Paranoid Android, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Exit Music, Let Down, Karma Police). Satellite was originally supposed to be the second single from the album, and there was supposedly a killer radio remix created for it, but after Delicious flopped it never saw the light of day. |
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Post by The Duality Of Man on Nov 14, 2005 5:06:21 GMT -4
They did actually release three singles from Adam and Eve though they were only released internationally.
The order was:
Delicious (Released in November of 97)
Ma Solituda (Released in February of 98)
Broken Nose (Released in April of 98)
Some radio stations around the time also played Phantom Of the American Mother. I thought along time ago that it was a single and did actually chart, which was not the case.
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Post by syrupboy on Nov 14, 2005 7:24:10 GMT -4
They did actually release three singles from Adam and Eve though they were only released internationally. The order was: Delicious (Released in November of 97) Ma Solituda (Released in February of 98) Broken Nose (Released in April of 98) Some radio stations around the time also played Phantom Of the American Mother. I thought along time ago that it was a single and did actually chart, which was not the case. Yeah, 99.9 WBTZ had 'Phantom' in regular gold rotation for years, which is incidentally how I first discovered the Catherine Wheel. I think Mercury intended to service that track to radio, but the label was too busy imploding around that time to bother. This is part of the reason that one of the greatest albums of all time is deleted in the US. |
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Post by a Nick O! on Nov 14, 2005 18:42:56 GMT -4
"Black Metallic" is a beautiful, epic song. I love it. I didn't realize it was their debut single. Wow!
The Catherine Wheel were my first real concert I paid to go see. Technically, my first concert was the first half of P.M. Dawn's set at Six Flags St. Louis in 1993, but that was only because they happened to be there that day. I did own their latest record at the time however, so bonus for me.
Anyway, the Catherine Wheel were opening for Belly in my hometown in Missouri in the fall of 1995. Believe it or not, Jewel was the scheduled opening act, but she had to cancel. While I was aware of her album, "Who Will Save Your Soul" was still over half a year from becoming a smash hit.
I seem to remember a fascinating image in the "Black Metallic" video, and that was two girls roller skating down a dark hallway with sparklers in each hand.
And goddammit, but every time I type "metallic" (yes, including just now), I can't stop my left pinky from adding an "a" to the end, out of habit.
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. I think it's pretty good, but it's not one of my favorites. But then again, it took me nearly a decade after this was a hit before I started listening to that kind of music.
