Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg

[Captain_Arrrg]

Place squarely in "can't come soon enough" category, Wolfmother is recording the followup to their awesome eponymous debut. Not much in the way of information yet, other than they'll be playing new songs as they tour Australia with AC/DC (lucky Aussie SOBs), and the single "Black Round" will be available on iTunes June 2.

...OR you can register your email and location with their site and download it now!!!!

[jerry]

Originally Posted by Captain_Arrrg

Place squarely in "can't come soon enough" category, Wolfmother is recording the followup to their awesome eponymous debut. Not much in the way of information yet, other than they'll be playing new songs as they tour Australia with AC/DC (lucky Aussie SOBs), and the single "Black Round" will be available on iTunes June 2.

...OR you can register your email and location with their site and download it now!!!!

Isn't it with a different bassist & drummer?

[superfunk47]

I don't consider it to be Wolfmother anymore. You can't just go and replace 2/3 of your band and call it the same thing. Andrew Stockdale isn't that great of a guitarist/singer anyway. I loved the first album, but if I like this one it'll be me liking a new band, not Wolfmother.

[Barkless Dog]

Downloaded the track and to me sounded the same as the last Wolfmother. Sounds good to me

[Captain_Arrrg]

I didn't know the line-up changed... The only original member of King Crimson is Robert Fripp, and they're still great.

I'll reserve my judgements for later.

[Maxi]

Originally Posted by superfunk47

I don't consider it to be Wolfmother anymore. You can't just go and replace 2/3 of your band and call it the same thing. Andrew Stockdale isn't that great of a guitarist/singer anyway. I loved the first album, but if I like this one it'll be me liking a new band, not Wolfmother.

But doesn't he write everything for the band anyway? So even if you change the other members of the band, it's still the same style because he's writing it all. (I'm not sure if he does write everything, but I always just thought he did).

Having said that, I'm not really a fan :P

[Spedracer]

no offense to any wolfmother fans, but they were a pretty bad rhythm section anyways. Its probably going to be a better wolfmother.

[Anesthesia]

Originally Posted by Captain_Arrrg

Place squarely in "can't come soon enough" category, Wolfmother is recording the followup to their awesome eponymous debut. Not much in the way of information yet, other than they'll be playing new songs as they tour Australia with AC/DC (lucky Aussie SOBs), and the single "Black Round" will be available on iTunes June 2.

...OR you can register your email and location with their site and download it now!!!!

no we are not lucky. when i heard they will be touring with ac/dc i died a little inside. everyone i know has had a gut full of wolfmother. we had their very average album force fed to us at every opportunity and now no-one is interested. there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. but when its a mediocre band with mediocre songs it really does get too much too quickly.

[superfunk47]

Originally Posted by Anesthesia

no we are not lucky. when i heard they will be touring with ac/dc i died a little inside. everyone i know has had a gut full of wolfmother. we had their very average album force fed to us at every opportunity and now no-one is interested. there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. but when its a mediocre band with mediocre songs it really does get too much too quickly.

+1, and this is coming from an American. I can't even imagine how bad it must be over there. They were unique, but not incredible by any means. Better than most rock out there today, but not up to par with the greats IMO.

[chanson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDvJTxZDbA

[uglymutt]

One of my friends, who's a good drummer, praises them so the rhythm section couldn't have been all that bad. Being force fed their songs like Anesthesia (perhaps i'll see you there) said is a massive turn off. I was hoping for a better opening act for ac/dc but i guess wolfmother sort of suits the era of rock (them being compared to classic rock bands)

[Captain_Arrrg]

Allot of hate going on here- I guess the internetz has decided Wolfmother sucks.

Now let the elitist BS continue! I'm off to find a thread title that irks me, so I can shut down that conversation... Maybe come back later so I can "+1" someone else's hate.

"Musicians"...

[Captain_Arrrg]

Originally Posted by chanson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDvJTxZDbA

Transcription:

"... I'm doing a record of 16th century Italian music... *Wolfmother starts playing* What decade are we in? *To the camera as though he's saying it to their face* Wolfmother, you suck!"

Hypocrisy achieved.

[Barkless Dog]

Originally Posted by uglymutt

One of my friends, who's a good drummer, praises them so the rhythm section couldn't have been all that bad. Being force fed their songs like Anesthesia (perhaps i'll see you there) said is a massive turn off. I was hoping for a better opening act for ac/dc but i guess wolfmother sort of suits the era of rock (them being compared to classic rock bands)

Something about their "average" music grabbed everyone by their ear. Their music brings back visions of 70's rock. There music is a consumption product, worth several plays then you move on, like a cheap novel.

[WhisperAPrayer]

Originally Posted by Captain_Arrrg

Place squarely in "can't come soon enough" category, Wolfmother is recording the followup to their awesome eponymous debut. Not much in the way of information yet, other than they'll be playing new songs as they tour Australia with AC/DC (lucky Aussie SOBs), and the single "Black Round" will be available on iTunes June 2.

...OR you can register your email and location with their site and download it now!!!!

YAAAAY!


AC ****ing DC!!

I'm gonna try get tickets tommorow when they come on sale.

I dunno, their new song sounds "Sabbath like" to me.

[The Lurker]

Originally Posted by superfunk47

I don't consider it to be Wolfmother anymore. You can't just go and replace 2/3 of your band and call it the same thing. Andrew Stockdale isn't that great of a guitarist/singer anyway. I loved the first album, but if I like this one it'll be me liking a new band, not Wolfmother.

+1

[Ian Perge]

Originally Posted by chanson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDvJTxZDbA

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one whose mind went immediately to that clip upon the mentioning of Wolfmother.

Originally Posted by Captain_Arrrg

Transcription:

"... I'm doing a record of 16th century Italian music... *Wolfmother starts playing* What decade are we in? *To the camera as though he's saying it to their face* Wolfmother, you suck!"

Hypocrisy achieved.

Firstly, he said "'60s Italian music with an Orchestra...", which a) is bad transcription that absolutely changes the meaning of what he said, and b) is a genre of music that hasn't be "covered" to death unlike the Zeppelin/Black Sabbath/AC-DC that pretty much comprises WM.

...and in my book Mike Patton, who is just about the most innovative vocalist in modern music, has just as much right to dislike WM as you do to like them. It's simply not his fault he's well-known enough to have a camera in his face while WM starts playing their hit.

[Planet Boulder]

Okay, I'm sorry, but I just don't get the hate for Wolfmother. Granted, I haven't listened to commercial FM in years and I avoid pretty much anything in the mainstream music press, so I guess I never got burned out on them (or Coldplay, for the same reason). The only reason I ever got turned on to them in the first place was due to the fact that I read about them in Bass Player. Sounded like something I might dig, so I previewed them on Amazon and dug what I heard.

Personally, I absolutely LOVED Wolfmother's first CD. Was it "technically" great (say, for example, in the vein of Porcupine Tree or some such)? No, but it kicked my ass sideways and that was what I liked about it.

As for Mike Patton, I liked FNM, so I have nothing against him. I do think it was pretty classless to rip them like that on camera while they were performing in the background.

Whatever, though. To each his/her own, right?

[JacobE]

ive heard a bit of the press stockdales done, and heard one of the new tracks, due to the fact its already on the radio over here, and fromn what i can gather they still sound the same and at least live the band consists of stockdale, rythum guitarist, bassist, organ player and a drummer

[steamthief]

Mike Patton is a douchebag - what he tries passing off as "art" is self-indulgent pap.

I'll take Wolfmother over this crap any day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaP8EwBJyWA