Melt Banana-Bambi's Dilemma - Page 2

!@#$%! · 05.01.2007, 02:42 PM

grrr.... still waiting for next paycheck-- but soon!!

Massassinated · 05.01.2007, 02:43 PM

Disappointed with this new release.
It's not as good as cell-scape, and I prefer the Scrath or Stitch period anyway.

Cardinal Rob · 05.01.2007, 02:45 PM

It's still fabulous, being a Melt-Banana album. The first song is explosive fun which has been its first ear-catching moment for me. The second one is obviously the Dog Song. I'll listen to it again soon.

Cardinal Rob · 05.01.2007, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

if i was running a magazine, i would name it album of the month.

Nothing's stopping you right now!

Everyneurotic · 05.01.2007, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cardinal Rob

Nothing's stopping you right now!

Oh, i will be writing about it alright.

pbradley · 05.01.2007, 04:07 PM

I was going to pick this up with the new Dino but it looks like I won't be free to go to Amoeba until this weekend.

Fucking finals.

atari 2600 · 05.01.2007, 08:58 PM

There's some really wild and trippy mix-bending effects, and it's a bombastic assault like you'd expect with punchy songs for the most part, but so far it's yet to captivate me like Cell-Scape or Charlie atlhough the theremin-tinged songs are growing on me.

The elements of the mix each resonate with more refined clarity than on previous Melt-Banana releases, and I'm not so sure that's such a great thing.
Bear in mind that only just listened to it for the first time and that it's a disc.

I think my faves are "Type: Ecco System" and "Crow's Paint Brush."

The Violinist Niccolò Paganini, 1819.
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique.
Pencil, 298 x 218 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Paganini, 1832.
Delacroix, Eugène.
Oil on Cardboard
Completed in 1832
30.2cm x 43.8cm
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

finding nobody · 05.01.2007, 09:00 PM

Melt Banana is playing two hours away at the end of May. I'm very close to going

atsonicpark · 05.02.2007, 05:40 AM

Okay, I've listened to it four or five times.

Outstanding production.... Less use of cool guitar tricks (he even reuses the "police siren" "riff" from a song off of Teeny Shiny)... A lot catchier... a lot of the riffs, more obvious... the band has improved drastically, especially the drummer...

All in all, it's obviously good. But it's no Teeny Shiny or Charlie. It's better than Cell-Scape though...

PAULYBEE2656 · 05.02.2007, 06:29 AM

rumours now abound about mxbx playing ireland at electric picnic......

CHOUT · 05.08.2007, 01:11 AM

Fuck yeah. Melt Banana will be in Minny June 24th! Fukkkkkkk yeah!!!

Toilet & Bowels · 05.10.2007, 04:24 PM

"Hello! MELT-BANANA here!! ^o^
Soon, we leave Japan to USA to tour!

* Our US tour will be 2 month tour, with 47 shows. Our schedule between
the
end of May and the end of June had been unclear for a while, but now we
updated our schedule on our web-site. The detailed schedule has been
changed, so please check out again!! More information on the KORK
Agency
site:
http://www.korkagency.com/

Why it took a long time to be confirmed the schedule??... Yes!! We are
going
to support for the TOOL from the end of May to the end of June. That's
why
it had been unclear. (Our booking agent was working on it hard, and
they did
a good job!) There will be about 14 shows with them playing in mid-USA.
When
we saw the schedule first, we felt kind of strange because those venues
have
word like "arena" or "coliseum".... We have no idea how it will be like
playing in such a huge places. Maybe we will be like tiny tiny beans on
frying pan. But it will be very rare and very good experience for us,
and we
are very excited. And also, we are looking forward to seeing the TOOL
play!
I heard that their show is so great with amazing stage and so much fun.
(I
heard that members look like flying in the sky during they are on the
stage,
using many projecters.) We really thank the TOOL a lot to invite us to
their
tour. It is our honor and pleasure to open for them! ^o^

BUT! to join the TOOL tour, we needed to cancel many shows.... We feel
so
sorry not only for the promoters who was to book our shows but also for
people who were looking forward to our shows. We apologize canceling
the
shows. Please understand that there won't be such an opportunity for us
in
the future, and we also had a dilemma to decide it. We hate canceling
shows,
but this time we had no other way and we had to.

We are thinking to tour in USA again soon, as "Bambi's Revenge US
tour", and
we try to play shows as many as possible our best and to seeing you who
could not see this time.

** Have you already listened to MxBx new album "Bambi's Dilemma"??
This album contains 18 tracks, and we are happy with this album because
we
feel that we could do what we wanted to make. It is kind of rock album,
maybe. But then if we are asked like "what is "rock"?", it is difficult
to
find a clear and certain answer and we may say "hmmmm.....". I think it
is
obscure and there won't be one answer. So let's say doing what you want
to
do is rock and punk, and with this way, this album is rock and punk
because
we did what we wanted to do as usual. When we were recording tracks
like
theremin core songs, we had so much fun and we were laughing all the
time!!

*** About Europe tour, we unfortunately have not decided yet when to
tour.... And about Australia, we are not sure yet either.... Hopefully
next
year!!(I¡¡(B

**** MELT-BANANA Official Web-site:
You can jump to our web-site from A-ZAP Records site:
http://www.a-zap.com/
my space is(I¡§(B
www.myspace.com/azap"

Theremincore!

Cardinal Rob · 05.10.2007, 04:29 PM

Ah, I just read that. I love their usage of English. Anyway, I will be dying to see them when they come round to Europe (hopefully in Autumn but who knows).

Toilet & Bowels · 05.10.2007, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cardinal Rob

Ah, I just read that. I love their usage of English.

i think i've got all their emails from the last 6 years saved in my yahoo account

pbradley · 05.10.2007, 06:10 PM

Ah, to think of all the lame Tool fags getting to see melt-banana but being all "whoz that tey suck" while I can't go because Tool blows too much.

Everyneurotic · 05.10.2007, 06:12 PM

tool brings better bands than them to open.

atsonicpark · 05.11.2007, 12:42 AM

yeah.

i like tool (aenima!) but their opening acts are better 85% of the time...

Everyneurotic · 05.11.2007, 10:05 AM

aenima is one of my favorite albums ever, and i really love salival; the first couple and latest couple are ok, i guess, they don't get me excited though.

i'm beginning to think that tool are more like a "singles" band than an album band, they have brilliant one off songs but then the albums end up feeling so so.

i remember when tool took king crimson on tour with them, all the idiot fans were saying "what's with the oldsters? they suck!! why does maynard have to put up with this shitty cing krimson band?" i can't wait to see what they think about melt banana.

by the way: since i still don't have the record and probably going to take a little till i get it, can someone tell me who's the drummer in bambi's dilemma? i'm really curious.

pbradley · 05.11.2007, 10:35 AM

Yes, aenima is a must and undertow may get some sympathy listens but everything inclding lateralus is pure lame. Also, to merge topics lil' bit, I don't know what to think of their cover of No Quarter.

But enough of this topic hijack.

Iain · 05.11.2007, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

i think i've got all their emails from the last 6 years saved in my yahoo account

I wish I had all of them saved. I was just telling someone about the joys of being on the melt banana mailing list. It's worth it even if you think they're rubbish. Their boundless enthusiam fills my heart with joy.

05.01.2007, 02:42 PM	#21
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,648	grrr.... still waiting for next paycheck-- but soon!!
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05.01.2007, 02:43 PM	#22
Massassinated bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Paris Posts: 138	Disappointed with this new release. It's not as good as cell-scape, and I prefer the Scrath or Stitch period anyway. __________________ I can't tell if it's yesterday or tomorrow and it's a real mindfuck
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05.01.2007, 02:45 PM	#23
Cardinal Rob the destroyed room Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: In the O.. O.. Organ Loft, West Yorkshire, UK Posts: 553	It's still fabulous, being a Melt-Banana album. The first song is explosive fun which has been its first ear-catching moment for me. The second one is obviously the Dog Song. I'll listen to it again soon. __________________ lastFM \| RYM \| MySpace
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05.01.2007, 04:07 PM	#26
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	I was going to pick this up with the new Dino but it looks like I won't be free to go to Amoeba until this weekend. Fucking finals.
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05.01.2007, 08:58 PM	#27
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	There's some really wild and trippy mix-bending effects, and it's a bombastic assault like you'd expect with punchy songs for the most part, but so far it's yet to captivate me like Cell-Scape or Charlie atlhough the theremin-tinged songs are growing on me. The elements of the mix each resonate with more refined clarity than on previous Melt-Banana releases, and I'm not so sure that's such a great thing. Bear in mind that only just listened to it for the first time and that it's a disc. I think my faves are "Type: Ecco System" and "Crow's Paint Brush." The Violinist Niccolò Paganini, 1819. Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique. Pencil, 298 x 218 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris Paganini, 1832. Delacroix, Eugène. Oil on Cardboard Completed in 1832 30.2cm x 43.8cm Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
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05.01.2007, 09:00 PM	#28
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	Melt Banana is playing two hours away at the end of May. I'm very close to going
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05.02.2007, 05:40 AM	#29
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Okay, I've listened to it four or five times. Outstanding production.... Less use of cool guitar tricks (he even reuses the "police siren" "riff" from a song off of Teeny Shiny)... A lot catchier... a lot of the riffs, more obvious... the band has improved drastically, especially the drummer... All in all, it's obviously good. But it's no Teeny Shiny or Charlie. It's better than Cell-Scape though... __________________
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05.02.2007, 06:29 AM	#30
PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	rumours now abound about mxbx playing ireland at electric picnic...... __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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05.08.2007, 01:11 AM	#31
CHOUT invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Minneapolis MN Posts: 3,128	Fuck yeah. Melt Banana will be in Minny June 24th! Fukkkkkkk yeah!!! __________________ Chout's rare Sonic Youth vids: http://youtube.com/SONICchout
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05.10.2007, 04:24 PM	#32
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,282	"Hello! MELT-BANANA here!! ^o^ Soon, we leave Japan to USA to tour! * Our US tour will be 2 month tour, with 47 shows. Our schedule between the end of May and the end of June had been unclear for a while, but now we updated our schedule on our web-site. The detailed schedule has been changed, so please check out again!! More information on the KORK Agency site: http://www.korkagency.com/ Why it took a long time to be confirmed the schedule??... Yes!! We are going to support for the TOOL from the end of May to the end of June. That's why it had been unclear. (Our booking agent was working on it hard, and they did a good job!) There will be about 14 shows with them playing in mid-USA. When we saw the schedule first, we felt kind of strange because those venues have word like "arena" or "coliseum".... We have no idea how it will be like playing in such a huge places. Maybe we will be like tiny tiny beans on frying pan. But it will be very rare and very good experience for us, and we are very excited. And also, we are looking forward to seeing the TOOL play! I heard that their show is so great with amazing stage and so much fun. (I heard that members look like flying in the sky during they are on the stage, using many projecters.) We really thank the TOOL a lot to invite us to their tour. It is our honor and pleasure to open for them! ^o^ BUT! to join the TOOL tour, we needed to cancel many shows.... We feel so sorry not only for the promoters who was to book our shows but also for people who were looking forward to our shows. We apologize canceling the shows. Please understand that there won't be such an opportunity for us in the future, and we also had a dilemma to decide it. We hate canceling shows, but this time we had no other way and we had to. We are thinking to tour in USA again soon, as "Bambi's Revenge US tour", and we try to play shows as many as possible our best and to seeing you who could not see this time. Have you already listened to MxBx new album "Bambi's Dilemma"?? This album contains 18 tracks, and we are happy with this album because we feel that we could do what we wanted to make. It is kind of rock album, maybe. But then if we are asked like "what is "rock"?", it is difficult to find a clear and certain answer and we may say "hmmmm.....". I think it is obscure and there won't be one answer. So let's say doing what you want to do is rock and punk, and with this way, this album is rock and punk because we did what we wanted to do as usual. When we were recording tracks like theremin core songs, we had so much fun and we were laughing all the time!! * About Europe tour, we unfortunately have not decided yet when to tour.... And about Australia, we are not sure yet either.... Hopefully next year!!(I¡¡(B **** MELT-BANANA Official Web-site: You can jump to our web-site from A-ZAP Records site: http://www.a-zap.com/ my space is(I¡§(B www.myspace.com/azap" Theremincore!
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05.10.2007, 04:29 PM	#33
Cardinal Rob the destroyed room Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: In the O.. O.. Organ Loft, West Yorkshire, UK Posts: 553	Ah, I just read that. I love their usage of English. Anyway, I will be dying to see them when they come round to Europe (hopefully in Autumn but who knows). __________________ lastFM \| RYM \| MySpace
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05.10.2007, 06:10 PM	#35
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Ah, to think of all the lame Tool fags getting to see melt-banana but being all "whoz that tey suck" while I can't go because Tool blows too much.
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05.10.2007, 06:12 PM	#36
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	tool brings better bands than them to open. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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05.11.2007, 12:42 AM	#37
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	yeah. i like tool (aenima!) but their opening acts are better 85% of the time... __________________
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05.11.2007, 10:05 AM	#38
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	aenima is one of my favorite albums ever, and i really love salival; the first couple and latest couple are ok, i guess, they don't get me excited though. i'm beginning to think that tool are more like a "singles" band than an album band, they have brilliant one off songs but then the albums end up feeling so so. i remember when tool took king crimson on tour with them, all the idiot fans were saying "what's with the oldsters? they suck!! why does maynard have to put up with this shitty cing krimson band?" i can't wait to see what they think about melt banana. by the way: since i still don't have the record and probably going to take a little till i get it, can someone tell me who's the drummer in bambi's dilemma? i'm really curious. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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05.11.2007, 10:35 AM	#39
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Yes, aenima is a must and undertow may get some sympathy listens but everything inclding lateralus is pure lame. Also, to merge topics lil' bit, I don't know what to think of their cover of No Quarter. But enough of this topic hijack.
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