6/12/2023 0 Comments 311 transistor![]() ![]() Just ways to cope, live positively, and not let it paralyze you. Nick and SA are very introspective on this collection, asking a lot of serious questions, and not always landing on any satisfying answers. Ruminating on what the album has been for me, thematically I always felt it was kind of a darker album. So I do remember it taking me a while to like it in its entirety, but "Freeze Time" "Come Original" "Large in the Margin" "Flowing" and "Eons" had me from the get go. If not, it'll be nice to write it all out, but it's gonna be lengthy! :) It saw me through my teenage years, and I've analyzed and pondered this album many times, so if you're really interested, I'll share my thoughts. Very interesting to hear this point of view! Soundsystem was the first album I heard of theirs a little over 15 years ago, and it immediately had me hooked. But the rest of the album is what I said, as of this listen. Soundsystem I think is the only one I hadn't even given one listen to though.Įdit: The last 3 tracks are the opposite of everything I said. Wanted to hear y'alls thoughts on the album and what you appreciate in it, or perhaps what I should pay more attention to for future listens.įull disclosure, I am going through the whole 311 discog start to finish, with the only albums I was 100% familiar with before 2 days ago being Grassroots, Blue, Transistor, Universal Pulse, Stereolithic, and Mosaic. But now that I do have a better sense for the subtlety of 311, I still think this album just offers no value and I don't feel like I'm overwhelmed with newness and not hearing it right. Then again, I thought 80% of Transistor was bad the first time I heard it, and now I think 80% of it is great. It doesn't sound like Blue exactly, but it sorta sounds like a lukewarm version of the stereotypical 311 sound ish, across 13 songs. None of them are catchy, no hits, none of them really grab me, they all pretty much sound the same, not much experimentation, no concept really. because we did not want our fans to have to pay $22.Just finished listening to it for the first time pretty much ever, had maybe tried a song or 2 with no recollection, and recently got REALLY into 311 as in, now positively consider them one of my favorite bands.Īfter the masterful album that is Transistor (I don't think it's perfect or like every single song, but it has some masterful work and overall has a masterpiece feel to it, and is of course experimental and visionary and conceptual), I get that it's hard to follow up.īut seriously, Soundsystem was what they came up with? It sounds like a collection of random 311 b-sides to me. "After we realized how many songs we had to choose from - we purposely decided to release a double album's worth of material on one CD. "We wanted to give our fans a lot of music because they have been waiting for our new album for a while," said drummer Chad Sexton. ![]() "Transistor" includes 21 tracks and clocks in at about 70 minutes. ![]() The band was also conscious of giving listeners good value. "311 has always had the same message of respecting other people - because in some ways, those other people are you." "The concept behind `Transistor' is very positive - it's about how all humans are connected," Hexum said in a press release. "I found a bootleg of the cosmic conscious, then erased it, visualized the breath technique, slowly became it, now something is watchin' me, since I have found the keys, to free this energy," the band intones on a track called "Galaxy." That subcategory of reggae - which features spacey deconstructions of bass-heavy Jamaican grooves - made a perfect connection with the group's lysergic lyrics. "One of the biggest influences was dub music," Mahoney said. "Our producer, Scotch Ralston, had the same attitude - anything goes." "We wanted to get more out there, with effects, trippy sounds, overdubs, layers and textures," Mahoney said. "Transistor" is a looser, more free-wheeling effort than the ultra-popular "311." ![]()
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