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| 5.0 classic | Alfier | November 5th 25 |
There are some records that remain etched in your memory with a dreamlike familiarity, like certain dreams that, while you're asleep, have the vivid sensation of knowing the place, but in reality, when you wake up, that's not quite the case. However, that dream will surely remain etched forever, or for a long time to come. So, when The Future Now came out way back in 1978 (I was just 17), the first time I listened to it, I had the strong feeling described above! Not many other records gave me this effect on me: Wish You Were Here by Pink; Kid A by Radiohead; The Lamb Lies Don't Broadway by Genesis; Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains, Bubblegum by Mark Lanegan and others... What's really going on? What mysterious, magical, or quantum process is taking place? That's the beauty of this crazy life.
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| 0.0 | altertide0 | April 25th 15 |
The Future Now makes Eno's Before and After Science and "Heroes" sound like amateurish music. Save for the disappointing opener, it has all that makes new wave good with almost none of the bad. There's aggression ("Energy Vampires"), balladry ("The Mousetrap") and pure experimentalism (the social critique of "Mediaevil", the calm chaos of "The Cut"), all bathed in unorthodox playing techniques, strange time signatures, minimalism and a sense of class, summed up on the closing "Palinarus (Castaway)".
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| 4.0 excellent | e210013 | September 18th 24 |
| 3.5 great | BoJean | February 28th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | loulou | January 29th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | wilde | November 20th 09 |
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