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Post by wonderwall on Mar 23, 2014 16:50:18 GMT 1
Was reading through various forums to do with music back in the 90s and see this album and band is always in general called terrible and k is slated as one of the worse albums of that period.I have always loved that album and would put it in my top ten albums of all time was it that bad or do you think it was a good record I loved it and still do now.
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Post by TheThorne on Mar 23, 2014 17:50:28 GMT 1
I don't think anyone ever thought it was a bad record just self indulgent and ridiculous, bizarrely the same reason why everyone loved muse a few years later, some high profile Melody Maker /NME writers at the time had so much power with public opinion , and when you compare it to stuff like seahorses , Cast and Ocean Colour scene they were streets ahead and much more interesting , think it was mostly the dodgy mysticism and hari Krishna vibe that wound people up. I loved that album and they were much duller when they turned into Deep Purple a couple of years later.
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Post by wonderwall on Mar 23, 2014 18:36:19 GMT 1
I thought the second album was decent as well
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Post by Shireblogger on Mar 23, 2014 19:25:25 GMT 1
K was one of the more interesting albums to come out of BritPop. Kula Shaker tried to do something different, rather than just jumping on a formulaic bandwagon. But, at times, it did come across as a bit smart-alec.
I saw them live in the mid-90s, and they were good value. The critical derision they later endured was completely undeserved.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 23, 2014 19:28:50 GMT 1
I loved both albums. K was the first album I bought, govinda and the indian sanskrit stuff hasnt aged well at all but knight on the town, hey dude, hush, 303 are brilliant
Then came their second album, an over the top, self indulgent end of the world apocalypse album, with thunder claps and lyrics about wizards In blizzards of mystical machine guns. Its soo cheesy but musically brilliant. I love it
As for turning into deep purple. Isnt hush on their first album a cover of deep purple? They were always heavily influanced by the greatful dead, deep purple and maybe a bit of the doors
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 23, 2014 19:42:34 GMT 1
I think a lot of the hate came because crispian mills was posh and then trying to reclaim the nazi swastika by saying it was an indian sign for peace before hitler stole it was always going to be misconstrued
Nme who hated the band jumped all over it at the time. Misquoted and manipulated things until they painted an image of a posh nazi sympathiser. Infact. I think the nme review of peasent pigs and astronauts had the word posh plastered throughout it. Failed to review the album and gave it zero.
The final nail in the coffin was jokingly releasing single sound of drums on hitlers birthday ha
Although since then crispian formed a band called the jeevas with two former memebers of straw and released two amazing albums, I saw them live twice
Kula shaker then reformed and released teo more albums. Both are well worth checking out "strangefolk" and "pilgrims progress". I did get to see them twice when they reformed but they are on hiatus at the moment
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Post by TheThorne on Mar 23, 2014 20:27:50 GMT 1
Think 'Hush' was a non album single which was added later on but yeh forgot about 'Mystical machine Gun' the 2nd album was alright as well.
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Post by wonderwall on Mar 23, 2014 22:40:41 GMT 1
I can still say to this day it's the album that gave me such a buzz the first time I played it more than any other album I ever purchased.I got it on the day it was released in the cardboard case.I can remember the nme saying something to the effect that the kids will all buy it and put it at number one sadly ! Well I think we all did buy it.
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Post by thehitparade on Mar 23, 2014 23:01:51 GMT 1
'Hush' was a cover of a song Deep Purple had also covered, yes.
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Post by space on Mar 31, 2014 19:34:19 GMT 1
excellent album, very good band.
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Post by space on Mar 31, 2014 19:34:31 GMT 1
excellent album, very good band.
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Post by space on Apr 1, 2014 12:48:45 GMT 1
somehow i m hearing today a collection of kula shaker tracks and its impressive how many great tunes they have especially in their first and second album.a very underrated band.
"K" sound like a mix of the 1st&2nd stone roses album.
they had the charisma of writing great melodies and playin them with ambition and imagination, something that was really missing from most of the britpop bands...
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Post by wonderwall on Apr 1, 2014 14:24:18 GMT 1
Between say April 1996 and April 1997 they were the biggest band in the uk .I always go back to k amazing album they would have done better with the second but took to long to release it sounds of drums was a great lead single.
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