For years I have hated this album with a passion. Whilst I loved all of
his other work I just could not get into this album.

And I'm usually able to crack them all. I had "Kid A" for lunch and did
a few sessions of "Bitches Brew" in the afternoon, just for kicks.

But AWDF was just too much for me from the get go. I hated it. I

However, the last few days I have been listening non stop to NEARLY GOD
and PRE-MILLENNIUM TENSION amongst others.

So just now, whilst I was busy with something occupying, I accidentally
dropped AWDF into the player and it sounds heavenly to my ears.

I'm affraid to move, scared that I will break the spell I'm under right
now. I dare not even blink my eyes. OMFG.

Have I really slept on this for all those years? I tried listening to it
at least once every two months but got the sickness so bad after 5 mins
that I had to stop the player.



This is such madness. I can't understand this. This has got to be the
slowest growing on me album EVER.

lol.




ooooh here comes PJ Harvey as well.

Once again....


I really like you.

FunkMistress said:

great minds think alike



the album's still sounding good!!

AWDF still kicks my ass everytime, so does MaxinQuaye.....Pre-Millenium Tension I never got into, except for Christiansands.....one of his newer ones, the one with all the collabs, never did it for me....

Nearly God is special, took long for me....

See, now you've made me pull out my copy, which I haven't listened to for a good 4 or 5 years! I just could not stand this album when I first heard it. I gave it a couple of tries, and then just put it up. It's been locked in my desk here at work ever since.
Let's see if my ears have changed at all since then....

Wendy & Lisa are on the b-side Time (Slippin') from that album...I think it's the Money Greedy (import) single.

Serveitupfrankie*

IstenSzek said:

Snowflake indeed.

Always thought you had good taste, Isten...

"I've been workin so hard.....just got home from my job.....I look down in my wallet.....goddamnit I've been bought"



I love this CD. Sometime you just gotta be in the mood for this shit but damn, when the iron strikes.....Glad to know you finally got it. Now if that could just happen with PJs Uh Huh Her. I like it but for me it has nothing on Is this Desire or Stories. Although hearing the songs from Uh Huh Her performed live gave them the life I thought some of them lacked on the CD.

Now if only wish Tricky would rediscover that fire and put out a fierce ass album. I'm tired of half hearted attempts. That new chick he's working with, Costanza, can't hold a candle to Martina Topley Bird

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Sadly this is true. His last two albums were flops for me.

mrdespues said:

Me too. Although there were musical glimpses of past glory in the last album, that Costanza chick needs a muzzle on that mouth of hers. I read somehwhere where Tricky said this chick was his musical soulmate and I was like, that dude must be shootin up some dirty junk because noway nohow would this chick even come close to holding a candle to Martina. It's like a birthday candle to an atom bomb.

but broken homes is a fuckin classic!

im still yet to buy martinas album.....

coincidentally one of the dirtiest lasses i ever met was called that..tho i digress hheheh!

jonylawson said:

Tis on one of my fiercest mix cds

jonylawson said:

YEP!!I always put that on mixes for ppl who seem like jaded listeners to me.

Martina's solo album is awesome. I've had it since about a month
after it was released (that's when I finally tracked it down).

I still haven't grown tired of it. It's a little bit of a grower
but it reveals it's beauty quite quickly.

However, it doesn't turn boring after repeated listenings. Her
voice is just great. A bit different from the Tricky albums in
places. She doesn't quite sound so unworldly anymore.

But the warm earthly feel that's replaced that is extremely hot
and infectuous. It's the kind of voice you could listen to all
day long.

The a-capella intro to this album alone is almost worth the price
of buying the cd. It's only 01:11 mins long and I just wish it'd
be longer.

HamsterHuey said:

what? how else am I gonna get a nice clear space above my
post?

IstenSzek said:

For skipping that album for so long, I meant.

HamsterHuey said:

oh. ok. I should probably not have such a short

IstenSzek said:

It's short???

HamsterHuey said:

IstenSzek said:

No?

HamsterHuey said:

are you mocking me?

IstenSzek said:

Is that what it's called? Then yeah.

Tricky made "Angels ..." as a "fuck you" to his record company, his fans, the press, his career, his image - it's a bleak, angry, despairing album, and almost his best. It's like "Chaos & Disorder" with more focus and venom, and way better tunes. Not for everyone, but neither's Tricky.

man angels is how I feel in love with tricky




and I agree the last album or two has a couple moments, but I just havent felt them

trickys 'BLACK ALBUM".....as the press described it!

hmm, maybe i should blow the dust of my copy of awdf...

I feel like I understand it a bit better now although there are
still parts of it I find hard to stomach.

But so far, I've gained another record to love here

whenpigeonscry said:

Well.....did you? And what did you think?!