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The Texas‐Jerusalem Crossroads

Lift to Experience

3 February 2001

Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Psychedelic Rock

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Tracklist 11 tracks, 1:33:27

Disc 1

  1. 1Just as Was Told6:44
  2. 2Down Came the Angels5:40
  3. 3Falling From Cloud 94:33
  4. 4With Crippled Wings9:58
  5. 5Waiting to Hit5:20
  6. 6The Ground So Soft7:07

Disc 2

  1. 1These Are the Days8:42
  2. 2When We Shall Touch4:21
  3. 3Down With the Prophets6:41
  4. 4To Guard and to Guide You5:24
  5. 5Into the Storm28:57

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10/10

CAKE cross EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY.

5/10

Opened pretty strong, but then kind of settled into regular post-rock

10/10

I love when the user generator forces me to stop procrastinating and listen to albums I've always wanted to listen to. It pretty much always works out for the best, and this album is no exception. Perhaps one of the most powerful pieces of music I've heard in a while.

2/10

It took almost 13 minutes for anything resembling music to be played. This sounds like a theater arts majors attempt at a final project in which he is trying to be deep and intelligent. Shoegaze has to be the shittiest genre of music I've ever been forced to listen to. Also, is there any need for this to be an hour and a half long? 5 minutes is too much... In order to properly create a concept album, you need a few things. 1) musical talent, 2) vision. These morons have neither.

The last 2 minutes of the song The Ground So Soft is just a feedback loop. Why?!?

In the song Waiting to Hit, the singer talks about making a deal with God in which he will spread the "word of the Texas-Jerusalem Connection" in return for God giving him a hit song so he can have a big house on a hill. Still waiting for that deal to come through?

This is the closest I've ever come to not being able to finish an album....and that includes the infamous Einsturzende Neubauten album.....this isn't music, it's shit.

Favorite songs: These Are the Days

Least favorite songs: this entire dumpster fire of an album....

1/5

The song Into the Storm has 14 minutes of silence in the middle of it......omg I'm so done with this stupid fucking album.....

6/10

A lot of this album flew right by me.

10/10

This was spangly and interesting and kind of amazing. Not sure how they passed me by at the time, but I have a vague recollection of them. At times it feels like a double-album isn't enough to contain them.

10/10

Like a bizarre cross between At The Drive-In and Drive By Truckers, but more religious overtones than either.
A cracker I would otherwise never have heard; thanks for the pointer!

4/10

Just dragged a bit for me. Good in points a mess in others