Best EARTH Studio Album?

i hope the old albums are well represented here since I assume most people only know the reformed line up albums.

bees for me, although i have a weird soft spot for phase 3.

i really am not sure what will win this, but i get a sneaking feeling Bees might.

It'll be 2.

i voted bees

An hour left to vote.

I want to know more about the love for Pentastar, cos I don't get it.

I think it'll be Bees just over 2, with the others trailing. Personally I voted for Phase 3, although all of these are great.

Because Pentastar was awesome, that's why.

earth 2

i love pentastar. most people can't make albums that cool or they would have done it by now. loved that last album too though. more than i thought i would even. at first, i just fell in love with the fancy deluxe vinyl package. turns out it was an album worth the fancy packaging.

The thing with "bees" is that the live versions on the radio earth lp are superior to the studio versions.

8 minutes...

bees will win this

not saying it should, just that it will, and i think by a sgnificant margin

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Whatever.

Oh shit, I would have voted for Legacy Of Dissolution!

hahahahaaaaaa wow so much for my l33t prediction skills

.. and yay for mine!

Hex deserved better actually.

i ended up voting for Earth 2 -- even though some of the later stuff is more pleasant to listen to, Earth 2 is so monumental and amazing ... Dunno, it'd be like voting against the Grand Canyon or something.

i think i've requested this on every Earth thread ever but if any one has a digitized copy of the VHS that came with either Earth 2 or the first one, I would love to watch again please.

http://www.angelfire.com/punk3/reynirvana/earth.htm

Is this what you are talking about?

that's it! i can't find mine... it is WILD

If you find it I am guessing it is worth $$$. Not on youtube AFAICT.

Never seen it.

only 100 copies? fuck, i wish i could find it....

that's the video that's just, like, old footage of semi-nude women with the music over it?

since i'm apparently letting ILM polls dictate what i post on my blog, I've just upped a 2006 Earth show over yonder: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/

i'm glad i wasn't the only person to vote for phase three; that album's really underrated. the opening track alone's
a masterpiece of epic concision: two guitars, three chords, totally majestic.

i'm glad i wasn't the only person to vote for phase three

Hi dere!

I want to know more about the love for Pentastar, cos I don't get it.

― Duke, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:58 (Yesterday)

^ epic but nothing else on the album comes close.

I want to know more about the love for Pentastar, cos I don't get it.

I like songs.

dang. missed this. would've voted pentastar. frequently use it to zone out and code stuff at work. the head-nodding repetition is key.

probably not what earth intended, but hey.

^ epic but nothing else on the album comes close.
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 17:52 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I personally think it lacks the epic quality of other Earth stuff. To me it sounds like a reasonably conventional rock band instrumental. And definitely the most interesting song on the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYaSKrM4xo

Did everyone buy the "bible" vinyl of Bees?

Extra Capsular was recorded at Smegma studio and has some Cobain on it. I still like Pentastar best though.

psyched that these dudes are coming to my neck of the woods this fall! never seen them before.
www.thronesanddominions.com/dates/

i'm seeing them tonight. first time for me too. the anticipation is setting in in a major way.

* The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2008) 10
* Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) 4

This doesn't make sense to me. Is this the consensus apart from ILX, too? I remember Hex being touted as a kind of undisputed masterpiece at the time, and it's still my favorite (maybe by far?). Maybe I need to listen to TBMHITLS again...

Also, these vinyl reissues look mighty fine. Not a lotta Earth talk on ILX these days, huh? Been jammin' the drcarlsonalbion soundtrack thing quite a bit lately, love the new Earth single, think dude's on a roll. Just me?

New Earth album Primitive and Deadly out in September. I agree with you about Hex and I think he's kind of lost his way a bit since then.

the last two doomy country outings were not very exciting.

I'm biased but the new one is VERY different to the 2 Angels records. If I had to compare it to anything from the back catalog I'd say Bees meets Pentastar

Bees meets Pentastar

hello

I thought the last two records were good, the addition of the cello was interesting, but agree they don't hold up as compared to earlier stuff. Stoked there's a new one coming though!

total heavyosity! [devils horns]

i have written to the label and told them to lock the fellas into a studio until they sort it out.

Surprised by the Big / Earth love. Found that Black Friday release sorta blah