Earth 2 Is Such A Monumental Masterpiece, It Must Be From Outer Space
 

Discuss.

(I just fuckin adore the structure of the motherfucker. Riffage eventually gives way to dronage with percussives, and the way that these people did it is beyond mere worship. It really is a compositional masterpiece, up there with Bach and Cage.)

One of my favorite albums to pass out to after a night of heavy Swa(y)-style drinking. That kid, + that damned love/hate relationship w/ whiskey. Worst ex-girlfriend ever. She shows up at random times, begging him to take her + he loves 'er so much that he's just gotta, gotta, gotta. After a few days she starts wearin' on 'em though, + he tells her to get lost again. Wines a bit sweeter, a bit more understanding. Even if not quite as sexy. She can sit on his fridge-top looking all sexy sometimes for days on end, and he doesn't even have to touch her. Sober Swa(y) prefers Extra-Capsular Extraction. And Hex is something special, too. Dylan did something super creative w/ that one. He's def. under-appreciated, and in my mind far better than a few of those bands that clearly filled their notebooks w/ lessons learned from Earth....some of those bands are good, too, though...just not as good.

But Swa(y) + Ms. Ezra Brooks, they've had some great times w/ that Earth 2 record. Room dark as shit and spinning, that record will slow things down a bit.

yeah, it's toward the top of my list of fav. records to get drunk to. + whenever I'm listening to it, I feel like the only person in the entire world. I can dig that.

Hhaa, Robe. actually made a tribute (in title anyway) cd.. Glacial:Special Low Frequency Edition (Boris made the Absolutego tribute version too). Great album. Phases 3 is also awesome. The thing is, it was such a simple but perfect template that there really doesn't need to be any more doomdrone stuff that sounds like this album -- and yet there was... tons of it.

I love that record, but to be honest, I like the new Earth records more. "Hex" and "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull" totally blew my mind. Driving stoned in the desert with those sounds is surreal. I love the wild west "Blood Meridian" influences. Dylan Carlson is one of today's most important musicians.

worst post of all time?

I hate this album.

oh for christ sakes.

anyway, yes this album is fantastic! its one of the first ones i ever heard so i have a real love of it. i bought it with my last $10.

Yeah, it's up there.

record was released like 15 years ago...your parent listened to it. It is a cool release, hate their subsequent stuff.

Please explain.

He also hates Trout Mask Replica, so I'm guessing he hates stuff without melodies?

Good point, I bet he also hates loveless...wait he doesn't hate it anymore.

he hates stuff that hate haters hating ate eight years ago

basically he's a belgian

Interesting. I don't hate Loveless but I don't really like half the songs on there. Fucking love Isn't Anything, though.

It's a solid gold fucking album. I also love Phase 3, which trust takes things in an even more generally broken, and much more eclectic, direction. My favourite however might be Penestar, which I think is hugely underrated. I can't quite put my finger one why, but for some reason that one always has a special aura to me that bumps it a few notches up the mind blowage scale somehow...

Well major major fan but it's one of those albums that do shit to you or completely grabs you.

i bought this abum (on cd unfortunately) at Amoeba Records in San Francisco. I didn't know what to expect from it, but it seemed daunting, only three tracks, all of them over 15 minutes... I had no idea what I was getting into.
When I got around to listening to it, I kept waiting for the songs to start, but wasn't bothered that they never did. The massive, heavy distortion basically had me hypnotized.
I can't defend Earth 2 as great 'music' but it kept my jaw on the floor the whole time by doing so much with so little (stylistically thay is) and to me that's the mark of any great piece of art, music or otherwise.
This and domkirke are sort of neck and neck for my favorite drone album

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Just tabbin' every Sunn/Earth riff.

Oh ok, sounds about right.

Lowest string of course.

Tuned down.

LOL.

Hey guys,

I'm just going to explain my post by saying that Earth 2 fucking bored me to death, I think it's one of the worst things I've ever heard and I don't really hate things without melodies, there are some drone bands that I really dig (Double Leopards, Emeralds, Boris, ...) but I listened to Earth when I wasn't that much into drone (basically, at the time, I was thinking that drone = boring). Now, maybe I should give it another try but seriously, from what I remember, it was just plain boring...

PS: Yeah, I love Loveless now, I've recently discovered something really fascinating about it... It took me about two or three years to finally get this album but I don't know, I wanted to listen to it the other days and I found it GOOD.

i listen to earth 2 in my car so it sounds like i'm driving a refrigerator.

Definitely.

It plays as one seamless 73min piece though, innit? I just adore the riffs in part 1, there's 2 main riffs I think, and riff 1 is revisited near the end of that part. Then a slower more drony riff dominates part 2. Then in part 3 we get an almighty drone, but wait....there's percussives in there....thrown in at random moments......this effect is jaring.....in a good way. It really is one of my 5 most cherished CDs. My only quibble is....I never found a recording of it that had real punch, volume-wise. Even the super lo freq re-release has to be turned up to 11 in order to get a good feel of it. It begs a remaster.

I thought it was fantastic.

I thought this was about the tv show.

This thread made me pick it up again last night, it's been some time since I heard the album... And holy fuck, what a ride.

It's a record. It doesn't give you a fucking personality.

Um, this makes no sense.

Oh wait.....someone thought the post was fantastic, and you are responding to that same post. I see now.