Which Stina album could you live without?

[mamamoth]

PAS for me, too. Only because her quirkiness shines through every other release, and I love her phrasing and lyrics, which PAS doesn't have. I agree with ruth1998 about ASCHE being too light; most of the album seems like it has no melody and no body, but there are a few songs that have affected me too much to let it go altogether.

[< parvoart >]

Which Stina album could you manage to do without?

hmmm... i can live without moac and pas quite well. the former is too slick in some ways, and the songs just don't connect with me on the whole. the latter is a great exercise in deconstruction, and the production is good, but again for me personally it lacks the knock out blows say asche, dynamite and ti has to offer!

...except that I'd love to get hold of the tapes for This Is and remix the lot and clear up the mess Mitchell Froom made,get rid of the hateful Midi saxophone on Lori Glory,add some cymbals and sheen to the drum sound,strip out some of the pretentious noise effect on each track,add the missing overdubbed Stina vocal backings (which are on every other album but this one,have you noticed?),add some Stina Dynamite guitar,some string arrangements,the three choirboys from ASCHE,some wackiness from PAS,and add the missing tracks 'Thing about fire' and 'Walking too fast' in properly produced versions thus nudging the album up to a decent playing time.

hmmm, dave! hateful midi sax on lori glory is meant to be there... it's supposed to sound fake and cheesy, right?! and no cymbals is cool. think peter gabriel album no. 3 - don't get me wrong, i love a nice jazz cymbal too, but there's nothing lost on ti without them. and what's this about pretentious noise.??.. a bit of grit in the mix is cool. but after that, i'm right withya - bring on some dynamite guitar!!! choir boys!!! the missing tracks !!! and get rid of welcome to happiness! if 'revolver' can dazzle in under 35 minutes, ol' stina can too

[sound world]

...cheers Doc,nice to see an old face around again!
Well,you don't notice 'Revolver' being under 35' do you?
At least I never have!...having been listening to it almost ever since it was released,I find that fact rather shocking!! Feel the width,eh.

[< parvoart >]

...cheers Doc,nice to see an old face around again!

and 'old' is the operative word here, right?! (though not old enough to have heard beatles' albums direct after their conception! [:o]

Well,you don't notice 'Revolver' being under 35' do you?At least I never have!...having been listening to it almost ever since it was released,I find that fact rather shocking!! Feel the width,eh.

nope, you're spot on... there's so much compressed into each 2.5 minute nugget (well, except yellow submarine... more of a turd than a nugget, but what the heck), it does seem to warp time a little.

so, there's a point to discuss - 'this is...'; stina's 'revolver'?

[sound world]

Well as you know I'm not a big fan of This Is...although Stations is one of my all-time Stina faves.
What's wrong with 'Yellow Submarine'????
If you'd heard the Primary School Band (that I run) playing Yellow Submarine (complete with FX) you'd remember its enduring appeal!-(and who it's aimed at).They love it!

[trainsurfer]

I agree with Rob, MOAC is my least fave. There are a couple of nice tracks, but it doesn't sparkle with inventive arrangements like most of her later work; too jazz-orientated and conventional.
Not to say that it's rubbish, but Stina's muse obviously grew in strength from ASCHE onwards.

[Crystallina]

I never really could get into And She Closed Her Eyes. It's all too innocuous for me. I suppose the same could apply for Memories of a Color but the former one seems prettier in a way, somehow.

[Franck]

MOAC, of course. jazzy & irritating at some points, even if I discovered Stina with that one. I love some tracks on it (mostly Another story girl) though.