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 Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:05 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:43 am
I love their music. Unique, beautiful, and once I first heard it it clicked with my likings so well. heart
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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:35 am
They've added some new sounds with their new album Aether Shanties. One song, Until the Day You Die, sounds like a cheerful song from between the 1920s and the 1950s. It is highly contrasted by Building Steam which has more of a techno, almost rave quality. I like the variations they're introducing, because there's only so much one can do with the sound they had previously.
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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:29 am
Yeah I was nicely surprised with the new album. My bf had bought it for me ^__^
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:45 pm
Call me late to the party but I've only just discovered how amazing this band is.
And by "only just" I mean "within the past hour". sweatdrop
Oh. My. GOD. I think it's safe to say I've been swept off my feet.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:13 am
Abney Park was just some run-of-the-mill stuffy goth band that changed the way they put their makeup on before going on stage.
They didn't change their musical stylings, so everybody who says that they are "Steampunk" is further perpetuating the idea that Steampunk is all about the looks and not about anything deeper.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:40 am
Zahmen II Abney Park was just some run-of-the-mill stuffy goth band that changed the way they put their makeup on before going on stage. They didn't change their musical stylings, so everybody who says that they are "Steampunk" is further perpetuating the idea that Steampunk is all about the looks and not about anything deeper.
I take it then, that you haven't actually listened to a thing they play, have you?
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:03 am
Rukario_Rue Zahmen II Abney Park was just some run-of-the-mill shitty goth band that changed the way they put their makeup on before going on stage. They didn't change their musical stylings, so everybody who says that they are "Steampunk" is further perpetuating the idea that Steampunk is all about the looks and not about anything deeper.
I take it then, that you haven't actually listened to a thing they play, have you?I take it you've never bothered to look into their musical history? Every album that came out before Taxidermy was, by their own words "Industrial Goth". Then Taxidermy came out, they kicked out a few band members, and they decided to make up a "Steampunk" fictional backstory as a way to connect to a new growing subculture because Goth is a dying subculture for music (mainly because anything that titles itself "Goth" rarely gets a listening base older than 16. And yes, I've listened to their stuff.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:02 pm
Zahmen II Rukario_Rue Zahmen II Abney Park was just some run-of-the-mill stuffy goth band that changed the way they put their makeup on before going on stage. They didn't change their musical stylings, so everybody who says that they are "Steampunk" is further perpetuating the idea that Steampunk is all about the looks and not about anything deeper.
I take it then, that you haven't actually listened to a thing they play, have you?I take it you've never bothered to look into their musical history? Every album that came out before Taxidermy was, by their own words "Industrial Goth". Then Taxidermy came out, they kicked out a few band members, and they decided to make up a "Steampunk" fictional backstory as a way to connect to a new growing subculture because Goth is a dying subculture for music (mainly because anything that titles itself "Goth" rarely gets a listening base older than 16. And yes, I've listened to their stuff.
rolleyes Yes...and Johnny Cash started out singing Gospel. What's your point?
Musicians change genres, it happens. Many styles of music didn't exist until a musician decided to "connect to a new growing subculture". So I fail to see where that argument has any conceivable merit. Your irrational hared of Goths (who in fact are a part of the roots of the Steampunk subculture itself, btw) has nothing to do with Abney Park's actual music.
Their music is not just Goth with different makeup on. Leaving aside the famous "Airship Pirate", which is one of the most unabashedly Steampunk songs I have ever heard, their music has little connection to the band's earlier Goth roots. Certainly, no more association to the Goth subculture than Steampunk has itself.
Now, you seem to be acting under the false impression that a musical artist is forever shackled to one kind of music, and that any changes are "being fake". That is simply not how music works. Musical genres are all just offshoots of other forms of music. Besides, people are not static things. We change our styles, our interests, even our way of life. People convert from one religion to another. Compared to something as big as our views on Eternity and the "Meaning of Everything" (religion), musicians becoming a part of a different subculture than they started out is hardly a drop in the ocean, much less the bucket.
No one is born Steampunk. We all got here through some process that made us connect. Abney Park aren't fakes. Nor are they sellouts. They're just a group of people with their own talents and interests, who discovered Steampunk and decided to stay...much like the rest of us.
Kindly keep your ranting to yourself, good sir.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:19 pm
Rukario_Rue Zahmen II Rukario_Rue Zahmen II Abney Park was just some run-of-the-mill stuffy goth band that changed the way they put their makeup on before going on stage. They didn't change their musical stylings, so everybody who says that they are "Steampunk" is further perpetuating the idea that Steampunk is all about the looks and not about anything deeper.
I take it then, that you haven't actually listened to a thing they play, have you?I take it you've never bothered to look into their musical history? Every album that came out before Taxidermy was, by their own words "Industrial Goth". Then Taxidermy came out, they kicked out a few band members, and they decided to make up a "Steampunk" fictional backstory as a way to connect to a new growing subculture because Goth is a dying subculture for music (mainly because anything that titles itself "Goth" rarely gets a listening base older than 16. And yes, I've listened to their stuff.
rolleyes Yes...and Johnny Cash started out singing Gospel. What's your point?
Musicians change genres, it happens. Many styles of music didn't exist until a musician decided to "connect to a new growing subculture". So I fail to see where that argument has any conceivable merit. Your irrational hared of Goths (who in fact are a part of the roots of the Steampunk subculture itself, btw) has nothing to do with Abney Park's actual music.
Their music is not just Goth with different makeup on. Leaving aside the famous "Airship Pirate", which is one of the most unabashedly Steampunk songs I have ever heard, their music has little connection to the band's earlier Goth roots. Certainly, no more association to the Goth subculture than Steampunk has itself.
Now, you seem to be acting under the false impression that a musical artist is forever shackled to one kind of music, and that any changes are "being fake". That is simply not how music works. Musical genres are all just offshoots of other forms of music. Besides, people are not static things. We change our styles, our interests, even our way of life. People convert from one religion to another. Compared to something as big as our views on Eternity and the "Meaning of Everything" (religion), musicians becoming a part of a different subculture than they started out is hardly a drop in the ocean, much less the bucket.
No one is born Steampunk. We all got here through some process that made us connect. Abney Park aren't fakes. Nor are they sellouts. They're just a group of people with their own talents and interests, who discovered Steampunk and decided to stay...much like the rest of us.
Kindly keep your ranting to yourself, good sir.Clearly I'm the one ranting. You're right, they got a little less industrial. But listen to any song off of "Return to the Fire" and then listen to any of their more recent stuff and try and tell me that aside from losing a tad of industrial, they are any different. I just don't think they should be hailed as "GREAT STEAMPUNK MUSIC HURRR" when they're just a dressed-up goth-rock band. We both know that if they hadn't changed up the way they look, they'd still be an unknown goth band. And would ya stop preaching at me about things that aren't related directly to the band in question? At least my objections have more of a backing than your counter-objections.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:11 pm
Gentlemen, please. Stop fighting. I doubt that humans are naturally supposed to release steam from their ears, even if they are "steampunks". *chuckles softly*
So Abney Park may not be your cup of tea. To each his own. I personally enjoy it, but that does not mean you have to.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:14 pm
EvFaerAshlynn
Gentlemen, please. Stop fighting. I doubt that humans are naturally supposed to release steam from their ears, even if they are "steampunks". *chuckles softly*
How exactly am I supposed to troll when level-headed people like you come waltzing in making jokes? You ruin the system.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:21 pm
Zahmen II EvFaerAshlynn
Gentlemen, please. Stop fighting. I doubt that humans are naturally supposed to release steam from their ears, even if they are "steampunks". *chuckles softly*
How exactly am I supposed to troll when level-headed people like you come waltzing in making jokes? You ruin the system.
My apologies. I must not have realized you were trolling. *shrug*
I just seriously dislike fighting and arguments. >>;;
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:28 pm
EvFaerAshlynn Zahmen II EvFaerAshlynn
Gentlemen, please. Stop fighting. I doubt that humans are naturally supposed to release steam from their ears, even if they are "steampunks". *chuckles softly*
How exactly am I supposed to troll when level-headed people like you come waltzing in making jokes? You ruin the system.
My apologies. I must not have realized you were trolling. *shrug*
I just seriously dislike fighting and arguments. >>;;
Abney Park still sucks.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:48 am
I respectfully disagree. All music is a matter of taste - one person's symphony is another person's noise - Abney Park is no exception. I find it most enjoyable. With regards to its present 'Steampunkyness', I feel it would be hard to define any form of music as such - but one need only look at the lyrics of such songs as Under the Radar to see Steampunk conveyed.
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