It Bites - The Tall Ships

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XeRocks81

November 10, 2008, 04:44:09 PM
Well, got in the mail today about a week later.  I'm up to Memory of Water and I'm digging it so far.  I was listening to the tracks on their myspace last night and I was really hoping to get it today.   The comparisons to Kino are inevitable obviously, to me it sounds like the second Kino album that never happened.  I haven't listened to any old It Bites yet.

RacingHippo

#1
November 10, 2008, 04:59:19 PM
Quote from: "XeRocks81"...to me it sounds like the second Kino album that never happened.  
...that hasn't happened yet, you mean :D
It's a lot like Kino, inevitably. But it's also undeniably It Bites (minus Dunnery's voice).
* May contain nuts.

tomskerous

#2
November 10, 2008, 08:13:23 PM
Quote from: "RacingHippo"(minus Dunnery's voice).

...thank heavens.

(Even as a diehard fan, I always had to admit to my student radio Smiths-loving peers it was bloody annoying)
I was a victim of goose-flirting the other day.
This bleeding great goose came up to me and wanted a light.
I said no.
Goose, there\'ll be no flirting today.

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Big Black Shed

#3
November 10, 2008, 08:14:52 PM
I was about to start yet another thread, but here will do.

Without sounding like a complete fan-boy, I'd like to say:

Mr  John Mitchell, you are without doubt a bloody genius.....

I really can't find words to describe The Tall Ships.

I've found / been lead to a LOT of great music this year. RiverSea, Magenta, Touchstone, to name a few.

But this is my album of the year. Without a shadow of a doubt. Well, so far. ;)  ;)  ;)
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D S

#4
November 10, 2008, 09:14:01 PM
Totally agree.  It'll take some album to shift TTS from my Album of the Year spot.  Ask me in a week if it's still there...  ;)
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Valhall

#5
November 10, 2008, 10:56:02 PM
I just have to roll on the side and shake my tail too... This album is like watching a lightning storm from your window, and staying there amazed by its sheer beauty. I gave it several spins a day since I got it and I can't see me being tired of it anytime soon.
...Whatever.

JoeHiYo

#6
November 10, 2008, 11:53:17 PM
+1 to everything above. Great stuff!

Dodie

#7
November 11, 2008, 09:07:56 AM
Hi all,

To me "The Tall Ships" sounds exactly like It Bites 20 years on: maybe I'm weird, but a massive part of the old It Bites sound was always John Beck's keyboards, backing vocals (and I imagine his writing contribution too...). That's all on "The Tall Ships" in spades, and of course that's 50% of the common ground between It Bites and Kino. But to me the new It Bites doesn't really sound much like Kino :? In particular, a lot of JM's guitar work and vocal melodies on "The Tall Ships" seem to be strongly in the It Bites tradition. Maybe the sound production has some similarities to Kino, but the actual songwriting seems very different to me...

I popped into a Rock specialist CD shop called "Muse Music" in Hebden Bridge (near Halifax, Yorkshire) the other day. The guy who runs the place persuaded me to leave buy albums by Mostly Autumn and Porcupine Tree, neither bands that have really got on to my radar till now. He told me he keeps having to reorder "The Tall Ships" because it is selling quite well. Of course he won't be stocking 20 copies at a time, but its good to know that a little shop (one which chooses to shun the internet, apparently), located in an obscure Yorkshire village, is reporting a healthy interest in It Bites...

Cheers

David

RacingHippo

#8
November 11, 2008, 02:27:49 PM
Quote from: "Dodie"Hi all,
Hello. And welcome.

Quote from: "Dodie"I popped into a Rock specialist CD shop called "Muse Music" in Hebden Bridge (near Halifax, Yorkshire) the other day.
Ooh.... that's not far from here.
Sounds like it's ripe for being an outlet for Frost*ie goodness, methinks.  Have you mentioned anything to him?
* May contain nuts.

Dodie

#9
November 11, 2008, 07:37:54 PM
>Sounds like it's ripe for being an outlet for Frost*ie goodness, methinks. Have you >mentioned anything to him?

'fraid not (or is that a frayed knot?)
He stocks Inside Out releases (I also got the new Neal Morse album during the same trip, and have been loving his cover of the Osmond's "Crazy horses"...)

I mentioned Frost*, and he knows about the band, so I (perhaps wrongly) assumed he'll be stocking EIMA. I didn't dare mention the new album because I knew he'd offer to order it for me, and I didn't want to offend him by saying I'd already pre-ordered over the evil internet (from the CRS - couldn't wait long enough for the Frost Shop)

Cheers

David

Mikey

#10
November 11, 2008, 08:03:29 PM
Quote from: "Dodie"I popped into a Rock specialist CD shop called "Muse Music" in Hebden Bridge (near Halifax, Yorkshire) the other day.
Must have a

in there, next time I'm in HB.
I used to have a signature

Gandalf1986

#11
November 12, 2008, 09:49:22 AM
/bows to JM

This is just awesome! :)
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You think you own me
You miss the point completely
These things I do they\'re not for you
I\'m sick and I\'m tired
Leave me alone...[/b]

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rogerg

#12
November 12, 2008, 10:48:09 AM
still waiting for the US release....   :(

ChrisX

#13
November 12, 2008, 06:05:12 PM
Quote from: "rogerg"still waiting for the US release....   :(

If you really want it badly then pick it up here
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keithd

#14
November 13, 2008, 11:04:41 AM
Quote from: "XeRocks81"Well, got in the mail today about a week later.  I'm up to Memory of Water and I'm digging it so far.  I was listening to the tracks on their myspace last night and I was really hoping to get it today.   The comparisons to Kino are inevitable obviously, to me it sounds like the second Kino album that never happened.  I haven't listened to any old It Bites yet.

Probably one of my favourite tracks
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