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View Poll Results: How good is it (from 1 being the worst to 10 being the best)?
1 2 1.45%
2 1 0.72%
3 1 0.72%
4 1 0.72%
5 5 3.62%
6 2 1.45%
7 18 13.04%
8 53 38.41%
9 44 31.88%
10 11 7.97%
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Old 05-07-2014, 07:09
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Rate Futurology

So, how do you like the album?
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Old 05-07-2014, 08:19
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7/10. Good album.
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Old 05-07-2014, 08:22
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A band on their 12th album shouldn't be that great!
Taken in that context and considering their vast sometimes excellent back catalogue it has to be a 9
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Old 05-07-2014, 12:14
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My real vote is an 8.5, great album, 12 albums in, and they still do something like this, amazing!
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Old 05-07-2014, 12:16
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Old 05-07-2014, 12:30
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8/10. SPLAM and Mayakovsky prevent it getting a 9.
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Old 05-07-2014, 14:51
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8 for me
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Old 05-07-2014, 16:02
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8/10. SPLAM and Mayakovsky prevent it getting a 9.
Did you replace them with Empty motorcade and TLTISP?

Bump it up to a 9 son.
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Old 05-07-2014, 16:41
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I opt not to rate Futurology as I intend never to listen to it again. The sequencing is off and having the title track as the opener with lyrics like "we'll come back one day" and "one day we'll return" does not work for me.

However, I concede that the sequence below is a worthy follow up to Lifeblood and would be their best album this side of the millennium IMHO.

01. EUROPA GEHT DURCH MICH
02. WALK ME TO THE BRIDGE
03. THE NEXT JET TO LEAVE MOSCOW
04. BLACK SQUARE
05. DREAMING A CITY (HUGHESKOVA)
06. THE VIEW FROM STOW HILL
07. BETWEEN THE CLOCK & THE BED
08. MISGUIDED MISSILE
09. MAYAKOVSKY
10. FUTUROLOGY
11. THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS

...but not quite as good as I Killed The Zeitgeist.

I give the above 7.9/10

I'm even optimistically reserving a place for one of the Japanese tracks.
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Old 05-07-2014, 17:57
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Old 05-07-2014, 18:01
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8/10 for me - SPLAM and Divine Youth (and to some extent Let's Go To War) bring the marks down considerably. If those three were replaced by the bonus tracks it would have been a definite 9/10 for me.
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My current fav track listing goes:

1. Europa Geht Durch Mich
2. Lets Go to War
3. Walk Me To The Bridge
4. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow (Demo)
5. Dreaming a City (Hugheskova)
6. Sex, Power, Love and Money (Demo)
7. Empty Motorcade
8. Divine Youth (Demo)
9. Between the Clock and the Bed (Demo)
10. The View From Stow Hill (Demo)
11. Black Square
12. Futurology

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I guess the 80% of people who think it's 8 or more must be drinking with james huh
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Old 05-07-2014, 19:02
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I can't rate it as yet, as I'm waiting patiently for Monday. It does worry me that it received so many great reviews, and yet, I can't get that excited about anything that I've heard from it. WMTTB and EGDM are both pretty good, but that is all. For me, it would be a stepping stone between KYE and Lifeblood...at the moment (KYE, I rate... Lifeblood, I don't).
However, give me a week and I may feel differently. RTF started as a 4/10 and is now a 7/10. Futurology could go either way at the moment.
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I guess the 80% of people who think it's 8 or more must be drinking with james huh
They'd like to be.
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