s/d: "Slow Life" - SFA

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I think this song is the shit, but what are other people's opinions on it. Why do most people prefer Rings Around the World to Phantom Power?

joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Because it's a better album? "Slow Life" is a good song though.

donut gon' nut (donut), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Sounds great live with the surround sound shenanigans, especially with all the delay on Gruff's voice when he sings the chorus through his Power Rangers helmet. Never understood why rocks are Slow Life. Can someone explain?

mzui (mzui), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

"Rocks are slow life" is a sentence used in some book Gruff read. I forget what it is, but a quick Google search will probably bring up what I'm looking for.

And yeah, it's a great song. It's sort of stylistically divergent from the rest of Phantom Power, but it still sounds great where it is. It'd serve SFA well to do an album in the style of "Slow Life." Guerrilla was close.

enjoy bell woods, Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

If you've never heard the song, SFA's record label offers "Slow Life" as a free download: http://placidcasual.com/slowlife/01%20-%20Slow%20Life.mp3

http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/ch5-d.html

"Living matter is the most powerful geological force," Vernadsky claimed, "and it is growing with time." The more life, the greater its material force. Humans intensify life further. We harness fossil energy and breathe life into machines. Our entire manufactured infrastructure-as an extension of our own bodies-becomes part of a wider, global-scale life. As the carbon dioxide from our industry pours into the air and alters the global air mix, the realm of our artificial machines also becomes part of the planetary life. Jonathan Weiner writing in The Next One Hundred Years then can rightly say, "The Industrial Revolution was an astonishing geological event." If rocks are slow life, then our machines are quicker slow life.

enjoy bell woods, Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

ROCK STAR LOW LIFE. What book was that in then?

snotty moore, Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

What is that in reference to?

enjoy bell woods, Monday, 29 August 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Classic. I agree that it'd be in the Furries best interest to do an entire album like this.

Cunga, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

A really great closing song, which is still unable to prevent "Phantom Power" from being the worst SFA album. Or, OK, not worst, just the least good.

zeus, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Phantom Power one of my favorites. I had a burned CD of it for a while, without song titles, and thought they were singing "Drugs are so nice".

rockford, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that it'd be in the Furries best interest to do an entire album like this

Oh yes please. (They already kinda did with RATW, to be fair!) Zeus also OTM, altho I'm not counting the latest release as an album, more a horrible mistake.

Just got offed, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Classic. This was meant to be in their ghost techno record.

pft, Saturday, 15 September 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)


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