Resonance volumes

[Oxiplegatz]

Was the Resonance vol.2 released? I'm questioning just because it has become available to order in the biggest Russian online music shop www.souyz.ru
The country where you can it order from - Netherlands.
The date is - 2002.02.02.
What do you know about it? It was promised to be released in March...

And at all, what about first volume? Has anyone here become unconscious becasue of it?

 

[Oxiplegatz]

Ahh... that was pre-order. I should have guessed.

It'll be released on 25th of February...

 

[Garm]

No man...I just bought it from my local record shop in northern Norway! There is something really fishy about those guys on Peaceville.

 

[mega]

Originally posted by Garm
No man...I just bought it from my local record shop in northern Norway! There is something really fishy about those guys on Peaceville.

It is not that uncommon at all, that the stores sell albums before their official release date as they do get them in advance anyway.
Release dates are also priot to changes for various reasons.

 

[Oxiplegatz]

Originally posted by Garm
No man...I just bought it from my local record shop in northern Norway! There is something really fishy about those guys on Peaceville.

Ok, at all, I don't have a chance to buy it in the "nearest shop", so I will have to order it somewhere online.

Norway! Your olympics go pretty well, I see, five golden medals Russia will beat everybody anyway! (if only...)

 

[DamienTC]

Not that I want to get all cocky here, but the winter olympics is PRETTY boring... Maybe it's because my beloved nation, Denmark, only has two curling teams contending, and nothing else.

 

[Garm]

Damien: Not cocky, not cocky at all. It is a well known fact that there is nothing funny to see in the winter olympics and the games ruins the good old TV-schedual so there is in fact nothing funny at all on TV in the weeks of winter hell!

And I really don't care a crap about the norwegian gold medals (getting tired of them all )

 

[lumen]

I'm supposed to be writing a review of this CD, and there's really not much information included with the promo copy.

Sleepless 96 is obviously a rerecording, but Lovelorn Rhapsody is totally not the version from Serenades and I have no idea where it is supposed to have come from. Is it some older demo version? Some later rerecording? A remixing? What???

Anyone have any info on the album they'd like to share with me, or comparisons to resonance 1 (which I've seen the tracklisting for, but haven't heard)?

 

[dougie]

Anathema actually made "Q" magazine for the first time....guess with what... a review of Resonace 2. They are usually hard to please and gave them 3 stars, which is pretty good. A review of R2 also in Rock Mag. Cheers John

 

[requiem]

Resonance 2 is all very well, but what about the mighty 'A Fine Day to Exit'.

It just goes to show that the mainstream music press is not even interested in music they can push. It seems a criteria that the music must be easily digestible yet still devoid of any meaning or feeling (which is what music is supposed to be anyway!)

John, I guess it's hard to be content with pleasing the diehards like myself while knowing there's something special the whole world could enjoy...

You'd better write some fucking sad songs about this situation for the next l.p!

 

[chazzyf]

Still disappointed by AFD2E - just doesn't seem to have the depth of emotion that the previous couple of disks had.

Just picked up Resonance 1 at HMV - on sale for a bargain 7.99 - in fact most of the Peaceville stuff seems to be going very cheap these days.

Even cheaper than the prices on their website.

 

[Russell]

Originally posted by chazzyf
Still disappointed by AFD2E - just doesn't seem to have the depth of emotion that the previous couple of disks had.

Just picked up Resonance 1 at HMV - on sale for a bargain 7.99 - in fact most of the Peaceville stuff seems to be going very cheap these days.

Even cheaper than the prices on their website.

Yeah, they have a mid-price range, so they're pretty much always cheap

 

[hornblow555]

Any word on whether there is any reason to actually buy either of the Resonance albums? I know that there are some rare tracks, but are they any good? I hate compilations in general because they are usually merely old stuff I already have sprinkled with some crappy rare tracks. However there are some instances I can think of where a compilation can be useful sometimes:

1. The band sucks so much that that a compilation will give somebody most of the band's good material (NOT the case with Anathema)

2. The compilation is of predominantly rare or unreleased tracks, sometimes re-recorded or remixed (Edge of Sanity's Evolution)

Other than that I don't really see the point, as new fans will often end up buying all of the albums anyway (at least in the metal world), and old fans will really be wasting there money on old stuff that they already have.

 

[lumen]

Originally posted by hornblow555
Any word on whether there is any reason to actually buy either of the Resonance albums? I know that there are some rare tracks, but are they any good? I hate compilations in general because they are usually merely old stuff I already have sprinkled with some crappy rare tracks. However there are some instances I can think of where a compilation can be useful sometimes:

1. The band sucks so much that that a compilation will give somebody most of the band's good material (NOT the case with Anathema)

2. The compilation is of predominantly rare or unreleased tracks, sometimes re-recorded or remixed (Edge of Sanity's Evolution)

Other than that I don't really see the point, as new fans will often end up buying all of the albums anyway (at least in the metal world), and old fans will really be wasting there money on old stuff that they already have.

I haven't heard Resonance 1, but here are my thoughts on 2:

Unless you have an absolute need to have everything Anathema, don't bother. The Serenades versions of "Lovelorn Rhapsody" and "Sleepless" are better. The video is not terribly compelling, and "Nailed to the Cross/666" is the hidden track on Pentecost III. So the only thing left is "Eternal Rise of the Sun" if you don't have it already, and it's good, but not worth buying the whole album if you have all of Anathema's albums already.

 

[requiem]

Originally posted by chazzyf
Still disappointed by AFD2E - just doesn't seem to have the depth of emotion that the previous couple of disks had.

We must be listening to different albums then, because to me AFDtE has the MOST emotion of all their albums, including Alternative 4...

And as for the question about buying Resonance 1- absolutely. I don't know what the people on this forum are telling you... it seems like many of them have their doubts about Anathema. But I can tell you that if you want emotional acoustic and atmospheric music, then definitely get this compilation.

Anathema are just hitting their peak.