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         |  Peloton
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-07 15:43 [#00688461] Points: 651 Status: Lurker
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 | I got a promo copy of this ages ago. I've only just got round to listening to it.
 
 Oh man, is it bad!
 
 Did they just hook a mic and record static from the TV? It's
 just static. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
 Needless to say, I won't be playing it again in a hurry.
 
 Does any one like it? Can anyone explain it to me?
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2003-05-07 15:45 [#00688465] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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 | i like it a lot...i liked it since i first heard it its not the music i'd be playing to often but when i do i
 love it
 perhaps if you would check merzbow you would appreciate
 satanstornade a bit more because that music make even less
 sense :)
 
 
 
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         |  Morton
             from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-05-07 15:52 [#00688472] Points: 10000 Status: Addict
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 | i like it too, i think it's even a bit more accesible than akita's solo merzbow stuff
 
 'unlock the..' is a great journey through noise imo :)
 
 
 
 
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         |  danbrusca
             from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-07 15:54 [#00688476] Points: 4570 Status: Lurker
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 | I sold this on eBay this week, just didn't like it. That's not to say I don't like noise though because I have serveral
 Merzbow albums.
 
 However, I will defend it from the accusation that it's
 'just static. Nothing more, nothing less'. You're mixing up
 noise and noisey, the former has structure and the latter
 does not. Satanstornade is quite clearly structured.
 
 I suspect that just as all country music sounds the same to
 me, all noise will sound the same to you ;)
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-05-07 15:56 [#00688478] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | sounds good... I love listening to static... I'll have to go buy this right now!!!
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2003-05-07 15:57 [#00688479] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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 | i like it as occasional music some tho have hundreds of albums by mezbow...
 
 
 
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         |  uzim
             on 2003-05-07 16:00 [#00688484] Points: 17716 Status: Lurker
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 | the harsh black goo of 'Fend Off Your Miserable Grief'... the ray of sun shining through an old defect psychotic fast
 factory in 'Unlock The Mysteries Of The Sun'...
 the blue-green-purple weird metal machine with factory wind
 of 'Track 5', with green monitors...
 the blood and outside grey-green device, out in the desert,
 of 'Testicular Fortitude'...
 
 just drug your mind and you'll understand!! ; )
 
 it's always the same with noise, you can consider it as
 stupid crappy static, nothing more, charlatanism, don't even
 dare calling it music it is just crap, but you can also
 consider there is more in this that meets the ear, and it is
 just fully abstract music that needs a lot of time to be
 appreciated....
 
 just like some very simplistic modern art, you may never
 know whether it is meant to have a real value or not - an
 artist simply paints a blue circle on a white blackground
 and nothing more, some can say it is great and a
 masterpiece, some will say it is just crap and anyone could
 do better than this. and what is the truth (?), what the
 artist do think of his work, you may never know! : )
 
 
 
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         |  eXXailon
             from purgatory on 2003-05-07 16:15 [#00688504] Points: 6745 Status: Lurker
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 | personally I don't like this noise stuff. 
 it's just a bit too asbtract for my liking
 
 
 
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         |  Peloton
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-07 16:15 [#00688506] Points: 651 Status: Lurker | Followup to uzim: #00688484
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 | That's a pretty decent defence but... I'm sticking with the static TV theory ; P
 
 "the king is in his altogether, his altogether... "
 
 
 
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         |  deepspace9mm
             from filth on 2003-05-07 16:16 [#00688507] Points: 6846 Status: Addict
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 | I've not had time or cash to pick up satanstornade yet but i got the phthalocyanine album a few months back and only
 listened to it bout 3 times. Which is not to say i didnt
 like it, but i think serious noise music needs serious
 concentration. The first time it just hurt my ears, but
 since then it sounds more and more beautiful beneath the
 harsh static, reminds me off shostakovich somehow. i dunno,
 anyway
 
 
 
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         |  eXXailon
             from purgatory on 2003-05-07 16:22 [#00688511] Points: 6745 Status: Lurker | Followup to uzim: #00688484
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 | how representative is "Fend off your...." for the genre/artist? because I disliked it...:(
 
 
 
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         |  uzim
             on 2003-05-07 16:34 [#00688522] Points: 17716 Status: Lurker
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 | eXXailon > it is representative of the noisyness, but not really of the quality imo - there isn't much in this
 track...
 
 Unlock The Mysteries Of The Sun is much better, for example.
 but still noisy.
 
 
 
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         |  Morton
             from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-05-07 16:51 [#00688534] Points: 10000 Status: Addict
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 | If noise is defined as uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.
 
 - Masami Akita (a.k.a. Merzobw)
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2003-05-07 16:56 [#00688543] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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 | who called it uncomfortable in the first place? 
 
 
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         |  cuntychuck
             from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2003-05-07 17:13 [#00688560] Points: 8603 Status: Lurker
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 | i really really dont like merzbow, it destroys my 'non' hardcore ears
 
 
 
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