Re: The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs and Sherbet (1999).

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:01 pm

It is over.

It felt like two unconnected albums mashed together and would have been better if they'd released it as two albums. One with the songs on it and one with the instrumentals on it.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:01 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Butterfield Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:02 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Butterfield wrote:Oh my. I'm trying not to swear or take the Lord's name in vain.

Actual lol. Best part of the hour!

by Nightjar Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:02 pm

Butterfield wrote:Even the front cover is horrible.

In all fairness it does act as a caveat emptor.

- Listening to this album will make you feel like you're a pickled egg trapped inside a jar on a chip shop counter for all eternity. yes

by Nightjar Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:02 pm

Butterfield wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Butterfield wrote:Oh my. I'm trying not to swear or take the Lord's name in vain.

Actual lol. Best part of the hour!

He does look a bit like Jesus though! gasp

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:02 pm

Strange album. Too many songs, songs allowed to drift, real CD age release.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:05 pm

Nightjar wrote:Is that a covered market?

Let's remind ourselves how Castle Market looked in its prime. happy

The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs and Sherbet (1999). - Page 13 2deYBC5

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:07 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Is that a covered market?
Let's remind ourselves how Castle Market looked in its prime.

The day before they closed it, I went for a last walk around it and suddenly realised that, after a lifetime of visiting it, I still didn't have a clue where most of its corridors, doors and stairwells actually led to.

Nor could I put together a mental image of how it looked from outside on all four sides. So complex and convoluted was it.

by Nightjar Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:08 pm

I actually find that very hard to judge.

In truth it wasn't the group's fault that it wasn't a good fit for this forum.

I mean, that would've been a matter for the administrator to have ascertained beforehand, surely. poke

It wasn't very much fun to listen to though, but, to reiterate, that's cos it was supposed to be a shared, lively listening experience that rapidly became an onerous chore wherein only Butterpops's pain was amusing. evil2

by Nightjar Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:09 pm

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:13 pm

Makes you wonder what the I, Monster sounds like what with having one of All Seeing I in them.

scared

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:13 pm

There's actual footage of the last day at Castle Market. Excited

God knows how Sharon ever managed to find her sandwich stall in that endless twisted maze.

by Nightjar Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:16 pm

So, ABC's crown remains unchallenged.

Hardly surprising cos that album was truly outstanding, but every other Sheffieldshire effort so far has fallen desperately short of the mark.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:17 pm

Thinking about it, in a sense, I can't help feeling that album captured the feel of Castle Market. A disjointed, incoherent, unfocused, exasperating Frankenstein Monster of a structure but filled with surprising and unpredictable nooks, crannies, levels and turns.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:18 pm

Nightjar wrote:So, ABC's crown remains unchallenged.

Hardly surprising cos that album was truly outstanding, but every other Sheffieldshire effort so far has fallen desperately short of the mark.

I remember Dare and the Arctic Monkeys ones being excellent.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:18 pm

Didn't we do a couple of Thompson Twins ones that we liked, as well?

by Nightjar Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:21 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Didn't we do a couple of Thompson Twins ones that we liked, as well?

That I do recall.

I'm surprised you do.

Sheffield things obviously are the exception that proves the rule. ohrly

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:22 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
The day before they closed it, I went for a last walk around it and suddenly realised that, after a lifetime of visiting it, I still didn't have a clue where most of its corridors, doors and stairwells actually led to.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:There's actual footage of the last day at Castle Market.

Which one is you? Excited

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:24 pm

I went through Birmingham New Street, and I just couldn't get my head around how it was now and how it worked architecturally from my memories.

Come to think about it, I never knew how the old one interacted with the streets.

grandpa

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:28 pm

Nightjar wrote:So, ABC's crown remains unchallenged.

Hardly surprising cos that album was truly outstanding, but every other Sheffieldshire effort so far has fallen desperately short of the mark.

We still haven't done Joe Cocker, Tony Christie, Reverend and the Makers, Babybird, Moloko, John Shuttleworth, Heaven 17, BEF, Clock DVA, Def Leppard, The Last Shadow Puppets, Living in a Box, The Longpigs, The Long Blondes or Richard Hawley yet. Excited

Have we done the Comsat Angels and Cabaret Voltaire?

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