VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

I fucking love Ribbons of Gold. I was underwhelmed by Persistence of Vision.

  On 12/15/2017 at 11:58 AM, hello spiral said:

I fucking love Ribbons of Gold. I was underwhelmed by Persistence of Vision.

 

pretty much... In fact any other VHS Head releases just make me want to listen to Ribbons instead

I think the 'problem' was that TROG was just so goddamn good as a debut album with every track just being incredible that he made himself such an impossible task to try and be able to top it again

PoV was good too, and maybe even technically superior, but it just didn't have the emotional bite and moments of bliss that TRoG had.

Yeah. Ok.

 

I listened to it twice. I'd give it a "good minus" at best. I'm certainly not hearing "album of the decade", or "10/10" material. I'm hearing 63 minutes of samples constantly starting and stopping and barely ever settling into a groove, with the occasional melody thrown overtop. Some good tracks on here for sure, "Seen Enough?", "The Stuff", "The Violent Breed", and a couple others but other than that the album is way too twitchy, it's like techno with mega parkinsons disease.

 

Michael J Fox-core.

 

edit: and "The Murder Cycles".

Edited December 16, 2017 by Bulk VanderHooj

lol

bump!

 

just played this as loud as I could possibly get away with and my brain danced so hard, it may of turned into sludgy jam

 

pretty amazing record, but looking at the fan review sites like RYM and Sputnik not so well known, kind of think this LP should of been more popular than beyond the realm of watmm

 

definitely an under-the-radar classic

Edited October 28, 2018 by beerwolf

  On 12/15/2017 at 12:19 PM, span said:

 

  On 12/15/2017 at 11:58 AM, hello spiral said:

I fucking love Ribbons of Gold. I was underwhelmed by Persistence of Vision.

 

pretty much... In fact any other VHS Head releases just make me want to listen to Ribbons instead

Agree for everything except Midnight Section.

This is an especially appropriate time of year for VHS Head, with Halloween just around the corner.

If you're in the mood, check out 

 

  On 10/28/2018 at 5:08 PM, ambermonk said:

This is an especially appropriate time of year for VHS Head, with Halloween just around the corner.

 

You might also like this.

 

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/94265-sd-vtol/

  On 12/16/2017 at 6:04 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Yeah. Ok.

 

I listened to it twice. I'd give it a "good minus" at best. I'm certainly not hearing "album of the decade", or "10/10" material. I'm hearing 63 minutes of samples constantly starting and stopping and barely ever settling into a groove, with the occasional melody thrown overtop. Some good tracks on here for sure, "Seen Enough?", "The Stuff", "The Violent Breed", and a couple others but other than that the album is way too twitchy, it's like techno with mega parkinsons disease.

 

Michael J Fox-core.

 

edit: and "The Murder Cycles".

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  On 10/28/2018 at 5:29 PM, fumi said:

If you're in the mood, check out 

 

  On 10/28/2018 at 5:08 PM, ambermonk said:

This is an especially appropriate time of year for VHS Head, with Halloween just around the corner.

 

You might also like this.

 

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/94265-sd-vtol/

This is a moniker, or band of his too which is slightly more looser sounding and partners well with VHS Head:

 

https://soundcloud.com/gulffire1

I much preferred this release in the same vein to VHS head's releases. 

 

https://phonoghosts.bandcamp.com/

 

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/95579-phono-ghosts-%E2%80%94-photons-in-fashion/?do=findComment&comment=2656684

 

 

Maybe not quite the same vein but similar I guess. Spliced up tape samples and whatnot.

Edited October 28, 2018 by Bulk VanderHooj

  On 10/28/2018 at 6:29 PM, BCM said:

 

  On 12/16/2017 at 6:04 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Yeah. Ok.

 

I listened to it twice. I'd give it a "good minus" at best. I'm certainly not hearing "album of the decade", or "10/10" material. I'm hearing 63 minutes of samples constantly starting and stopping and barely ever settling into a groove, with the occasional melody thrown overtop. Some good tracks on here for sure, "Seen Enough?", "The Stuff", "The Violent Breed", and a couple others but other than that the album is way too twitchy, it's like techno with mega parkinsons disease.

 

Michael J Fox-core.

 

edit: and "The Murder Cycles".

.

 

nah

yeah wtf. listen to the second half of twitch of the nerve. or the entire album again or something

fucked up

BOOOOORRRRIIIINNNNG

that's how I feel about analord style 'braindance'

 

Subjective innit

why did you feel the need to say that?

mainly because StephenG always feels the need to say the same thing about the stuff he doesn't get like. 'it jumps around too much, it never settles into a groove' blah blah blah

Let's all cool off and get some ice cream

I post plenty about music I like thx.

For the record I actually like this album. 

 

Just didn't see it as 10/10 album of the decade like it was hyped up to be. 

i didn't either after i had listened to it 2 times through

I think I

  On 10/29/2018 at 3:28 PM, dr lopez said:

i didn't either after i had listened to it 2 times through

I think I mentioned it before but I *HATED* Video Club the first time I heard it - It just seemed so obnoxiously hyperactive. For some reason I gave it a second, and a third and a forth listen...then I bought it and just couldn't stop playing it, it was an earworm of the most satisfying kind.