quoted 4 lines On Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:56:42 GMT ROWLAND ATKINSON proferred the> On Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:56:42 GMT ROWLAND ATKINSON proferred the
> following assessment of FSOL: Dead Cities:
> > Its very good. Hard to decide whether the book is worth the extra
> > even if it is amazing to view.
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, A.R. Lockett wrote:
quoted 6 lines Sorry, Rowland, but . . .> Sorry, Rowland, but . . .
> Wasn't hard for this purchaser. I decided it is a cynical marketing ploy.
> 12.99 for the normal ed. as opposed to 16.99 for the special ed. means one
> is forking out 4 quid for the "privilege" of owning 196 diminutive pages of
> what is essentially glossy visual vacuousness. But then again of course it
> is the "exclusivity" that draws us in rather than the "extras".
I dunno 'bout that... I think a marketing ploy would be what
they did with FSOL ISDN. They put better tracks ("Kai" & "Amoeba") on
the re-issue, the re-issue had *more* text and pretty pictures, and it
was cheeper...! Now doing that after qualifying the import ISDN as
"limited" was a ploy. I think record company nastyness had something to
do with that, though, they wanted ISDN to be limited to 100,000 copies
and they 'weren't allowed' (see their web page for that stuff)...
Dead Cities is less of a ploy because the tracks are the same on
both editions, which doesn't require buying *both* to get *all* the
tracks. (However, there is one track on the Wipeout playstation disc
that's not on anything else to my knowledge, that one's called
"Landmass.") Furthermore, you get a 194-page book with lots of computer
graphics and stuff. Oh yeah, and once again it's limited to 10,000 copies.
So it's not much of a ploy 'cause you're getting plenty of stuff for your
money... not to mention the music (which i can't really discuss 'cause i
only have "My Kingdom" so far 'cause mostly all the mail-order record
stores sent out Dead Cities late 'cause they came late from the
distributors.)
quoted 15 lines I actually love the hardness of the few tracks. While Lifeforms pretty> > I actually love the hardness of the few tracks. While Lifeforms pretty
> > much wanked itself over two full length discs
> Are you saying it was toss? ;)
> > this is much more certain of where it is going and there is a genuine
> > development to the tracks, some of them surprisingly emotive.
> I beg to differ. The experience of listening to Dead Cities was for me akin to
> that of having a shower in a plastic mac (not a customary practice for me,
> by the way).
> There was the perceptible sensation of something resembling
> warmth/feeling and certain pleasurable elements "out there" but it just
> didn't penetrate through to the soul; like registering "intellectually" that
> something satisfying was present in the immediate environment but at the
> same time being conscious of an obstructive layer forbidding full access to
> satisfaction.
> (*I recommend Dannimac -- heheh)
Heh... interesting thoughts... but what's a plastic mac...?
8>
no@h
(who'll buy FSOL from the stores from now on
'cause it's faster and cheeper)
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