on 12/19/02 8:57 AM, Stephen Kelly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > previously.. > >>> i can't help but think it all went downhill once he'd gone.. > >> Well you have to be A Guy Called Gerald fan to make a comment like that. >> How can you downplay Exel? >> Especially people who lived through that era. > > i am a guy called gerald fan - hands up.. but i'm also old enough to have > lived thru that era (check my thinning hair and beer belly)..
I disagree about that. Exel had some excellent collaborations especially the track Ooops featuring Bjork. A very popular album with the alternative and industrial crowed at the time esspecially here in the US, a ground breaking techno album. > you've > maybe blocked their god awful single with ub40 from your memory - but that > was released shortly after ex:el.. each album had gradually more ill > conceived collaborations (imo) that were aimed at a different kind of > listener.. On the contraire I don't think Georgeus is a bad album, the collaboration with UB40 did achieve some radio success. There is a quirkiness too a lot of the tracks, lots of Alexis SR-16. It's like The Prodigy's Charley meets 80's New Age music. Try mixing Nimbus and Southern Cross with new school electro. > i'm a fan of them, so don't think i'm being harsh - they've made some bad > (not meaning good) records imo, that's all.. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] More good records than bad records after Gerald left the band in my opinion. By the way, 808 State have a new album out called Outpost Transmission that just hit the stores. I should be mail ordering a copy very soon.
