Question: was Bread & Circus the first Toad album you heard? Generally, I think we love our first exposures to a band (exceptions abound, of course, just saying GENERALLY), which would explain my love for Fear. I backtracked and got all the older stuff (and loved it), but nothing was gonna top my first big impressions.
Bread & Circus has the first single I heard, but Pale was the first that I purchased (based on that single). I tracked down Bread & Circus in the ramp up to the release of Fear.
I saw them on their first Fear tour (with the Origin at the SLC Fairgrounds), which I loved, but after that peak, I lost some interest. I listened to their later albums, but by then, my tastes had shifted so dramatically that Dulcinea and Coil never really had a chance to connect with me like their earlier work did. Even going back to those albums today, for me at least, they lack some of the urgency and honesty of that first trilogy of releases.
This all tracks. I think most bands have eras for their listeners. I've seen it with people who loved early REM and got off the train by the time I got on. Same with U2, Pavement, etc. There's no explaining it, usually, except that we just resonate with what we resonate with...
Bread & Circus is wrong--definitely belongs above Coil.
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Also, Pale>Dulcinea.
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Question: was Bread & Circus the first Toad album you heard? Generally, I think we love our first exposures to a band (exceptions abound, of course, just saying GENERALLY), which would explain my love for Fear. I backtracked and got all the older stuff (and loved it), but nothing was gonna top my first big impressions.
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Bread & Circus has the first single I heard, but Pale was the first that I purchased (based on that single). I tracked down Bread & Circus in the ramp up to the release of Fear.
I saw them on their first Fear tour (with the Origin at the SLC Fairgrounds), which I loved, but after that peak, I lost some interest. I listened to their later albums, but by then, my tastes had shifted so dramatically that Dulcinea and Coil never really had a chance to connect with me like their earlier work did. Even going back to those albums today, for me at least, they lack some of the urgency and honesty of that first trilogy of releases.
Quick: name a more X-96 band than the Origin!
This all tracks. I think most bands have eras for their listeners. I've seen it with people who loved early REM and got off the train by the time I got on. Same with U2, Pavement, etc. There's no explaining it, usually, except that we just resonate with what we resonate with...
Dang, Paul, I was at this show!!!! I think I got my tix at Modified Music in Orem. I was attending summer classes at BYU and just had to go.
And yes, Dulcinea is the best.