The Gathering

O.K. now that I know Home this good, I can give a good ranking of TG-albums. Not the best 'till the less best, but just my favorite order:

1) How To Measure A Planet?
2) Mandylion
3) Souvenirs
4) Nighttime Birds
5) Home
6) If_Then_Else

1. Sleepy Buildings
2. Superheat
3. Mandylion
4. Nighttime Birds
5. HTMAP
6. If_Then_Else
5. Souvenirs
6. Always
7. Almost A Dance
8. Home

Today's ranking.

1. Mandylion
2. Souvenirs ( I had a epiphany a couple of weeks ago.)
3. How to measure a planet ?
4. Sleepy buildings
5. Home
6. Nighttime Birds
7. If then else
8. Accessories & Rarities
9. Superheat

My opinion is far different today:

1. If_Then_Else
2. How To Measure A Planet?
3. Home
4. Souvenirs
5. Nighttime Birds
6. Mandylion
7. Always
8. Almost A Dance

1. How to Measure a Planet?
2. Mandylion
3. If_then_Else
4. Nighttime Birds
5. Home
6. Souvenirs
7. Almost, Always

Mine changes daily My bottom line is that I like them all a lot.

1 (more than number 1!!) MANDYLION (THE Gathering album!)
2 Sleepy Buildings (something different but amazing!!! Just wonderful... Sorrowful but hopeful... Sweet and sad...)
3 if_then_else Just for Amity, one of my favourites
4 Always Very good! The Mirror Waters is one of the best songs, and generally it's a good album
4again Almost a Dance I don't why, I can't remember any riff, any music (except from the music in #1,#2 which is EXACTLY THE SAME), but I like it a lot
4again HTMAP Because it's a big cd with many famous songs

And then (in the same position) Superheat and Nighttime Birds (I like a lot the first song)... That's the albums I have..

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Indeed, me too!

HTMAP
Mandylion
Home
Sleepy Buildings
Superheat
If_then_else
Rarities & Accessories
Black light district (only a few tunes but brilliant)
Nighttime Birds

0. Black Light District (because it's not really an album, but BLD is my favorite song)
1. Souvenirs
2. Nighttime Birds
3. How to measure a planet ?
4. Mandylion
5. Always
6. Home
7. If_then_else
8. Almost a dance

I can't file Superheat and Sleppy Buildings, but I enjoy this live albums

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How to measure a planet?? I don't know (mais toi tu le sais, Anneke!)

1. Souvenirs
2. How To Measure A Planet
3. Nighttime Birds
4. Mandylion
.........

1. If_then_else (I definitly won't understand why is this album so criticized...could somebody explain? )
2. Souvenirs (Best studio work I have ever heard...the band should really love record it)
3. Home
4. Mandylion
5. HTMAP (too many weaks songs which are barely more than a rythmic idea - Marooned which spoil its masterpieces)
6. Nighttime Birds (only ONE tonality!)

Indeed, I also love ITE, but I think the music is less exciting than the other albums. Although I think this one is very balanced en consistent. The only thing I don't like about this album is the way the instruments sound. The recording. And the front-cover sucks too. Who gave permission to use that as front-cover artwork ?

Anyway, the songs are great!! No weak song on it IMO.

My current (and most often) ranking:

1. How To Measure A Planet? 10/10
2. Home 9/10
3. Souvenirs 9/10
4. Nighttime Birds 8/10
5. If_Then_Else 7,5/10
6. Mandylion 7,5/10

I still haven't heard BLD

1. Souvenirs (reigns supreme and nothing else by TG comes close...Yet! )


2. HTMAP?
3. Mandylion
4. if_then_else
5. Nighttime birds
6. Sleepy buildings
7. Home

Don't own the first two albums or Superheat.. And I didn't include BLD as it's an EP...

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WOW!! Today, I bought the Black Light District EP and it's so great!!

The music on this cd contains some very good ideas from which I hope the band will develop in future work. The title track is beautiful, so rocks 'Debris' like mad and Broken Glass is a nice 'early' version.

On the multi-media 'rockumentary' I heard early takes from 'In Between.' Funny!

Well, I haven't heard Home yet but with this missing album my list from the Anneke era perhaps would be:

How to Measure a Planet = 10

Souvenirs = 9.99

Nighttime Birds = 9.98

Mandylion = 9.97

Sleepy Buildings = 9.96

If Then Else = 9.8

putting aside singles and live albums.

what the f*ck! every album is so great that all of them are my favorite ones.

I would like to add HOME to my list

1. Souvenirs/Home
2. How To Measure A Planet?
3. Nighttime Birds
4. Mandylion

I have an incomplete TG discography (*sniff*, I know, I know!), so this is what my rankings look like as of now:

1.) "Souvenirs"
2.) "Home"
3.) "Nighttime Birds"
4.) "Mandylion"
5.) "Always..."

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Well, from the ones I've heard, this is the order of preference for me (no ratings, tho, I ain't a critic! ):

1. How to Measure a Planet? - The breakthrough. This album completely floored me when I heard it the first time, the band went into a radical new direction, and their inspiration seemed to know no bounds. Epic.

2. Home - Second to HTMAP, but proud successor to it, IMO. I love the atmosphere of the songs, the lyrics, it's sheer escapism for me.

3. Mandylion - Like HTMAP, a breakthrough, a trend-setter, a masterpiece of inspiration. It's no. 3 only because the first two are so much more inspired.

4. Souvenirs - Brilliant, lyrical, atmospheric, beautiful, and other adjectives as well.

5. Black Light District - Superbly emotional, the title track is just a milestone.

6. If_Then_Else - Fine moments (Amity, Saturnine, Rollercoaster), a momentary loss of direction IMO.

7. Nighttime Birds - The first TG album I ever heard, but arguably the weakest of the Anneke era. Still, some great moments in there!