Comments on: YMGTA #41 – Sub-Lingual Tablet https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/ymgta-41-sub-lingual-tablet/ "It's the whole body of the work that is to be applauded" Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:49:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dan Lewis https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/ymgta-41-sub-lingual-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:09:28 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=1122#comment-637 Awesome as ever, thanks for this. it’s all subjective I know, but I’d rate SLT way higher than The Remainderer, for example. It’s far from perfect but a lot more fun (atrocious vinyl FB Troll excepted). Also think it’s a rare case of the vinyl and cd versions being significantly different; that vinyl Pledge is one of the best things on the album.

Couple of things:

1) Couldn’t agree more about that 6 music festival version of Reformation. I think it’s the finest live moment from that line-up. Just brutal, surely the heaviest thing they did.

2) We need to talk about Dedication. Given that there are multiple studio versions available, I’m still amazed that they never managed to nail a version that comes close to how the played it live. It was a highlight every time I saw it played, and I reckon the version on hanleyfender’s Two-o-one-four comp you mentioned is the best recorded version out there. It’s just exhilarating, start to end, it builds and builds and could almost be a successor to Blindness. That good. By comparison the studio versions feel undercooked and messy. My theory is that MES felt that live it was too…conventional, even commercial (okay that’s pushing it) so decided to fuck with it in true MES style…

essay over, cheers for your Dedication!

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