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Blue Bob

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unless you're a real lynch fan and see "what he's getting at"in his films and music,you'll probably dismiss this as boring or riduculous.but if you're a fan of the weird and dark stylings of this modern day artistical genuis you're in for a real treat!buy it.

The latest musical creation from David Lynch and John Neff is one massive quasi-minimalist experiment that will definitely get you into a mood. A very strange mood. In that sense it truly is brilliant. Dark, mono-melodic yet richly layered with unusual guitar pedaling techniques, the songs create audioscapes that blend a 1950's feel with an indescribable disturbing weirdness that is best described as, well... "Lynchian". Neff's humorous, memorable, semi-gravelly rock vocals morph and change character throughout each song and work especially well in the audio palette the two have painted. I highly recommend BlueBob AND Eraserhead if you're craving a different kind of ear and eye saturation experience.

As part of the recent changes in Lynch's art work from the last 10 years, M. Lynch is now exploring more in details the instinctive part of his artistic process. But by keeping in touch with his inner stages of creation of his earlier work and artistic process, BLUEBOB remains still in that little dark corner of mysteries in which Lynch is king. Put simply: directed for music lover.

Cool. An interesting mix of genres. Lynchian lyrics, and some great scratchy vocals. Worth picking up if you're a fan of Lynch or of great music that's a little bit wierd.

If like me you are a fan of "Twin Peaks" and films of David Lynch, then I'm sure you have noticed a recurring theme in some of his work, that of "the mill". This album is like an ode to the rhythmic, industrial sounds one would find in a place like the Packard Saw Mill, or if you were out with Frank one night and drove past the mill in Lumberton, layered over with good old fashioned Americana sex appeal wrapped inside of one of Lynch's dream sequences...

If you have seen Mulholland Dr. then you have heard some of this music before (mostly towards the end). Also if you have seen Fire Walk With Me then you have heard this type of sound (the scenes in Canada with Jeac).

Over all a very fun trip into Lynch's world, and a great album to have sex to!

I was quite disappointed with this album. I'm a pretty big fan of David Lynch's films, especially his stranger, darker ones. And I'm fascinated by the soundscapes that he creates. So when I read that this album is "based on the pounding machinery of the smokestack industry...inspired by machines, fire, smoke & electricity..." I thought that this could be my album of the year. Others here call it "dark, weird," and so on, so I took a chance. But this album is hardly remarkable; it's just 2- or 3-chord guitar music with some heavily reverb'd lyrics groaned over it. If it was played in the background during 'The Bronze' scenes in "Buffy," I'd never even think to question it. There are dozens of bands that sound like this, and I dismiss them, so why cut Lynch any slack? I think I was hoping for Eraserhead and instead got something far more mainstream and boring than I'd ever imagined. If you, like me, thought that this might be industrial, or perhaps even as off-beat as, say, 'The Residents,' you're in for a disappointment. This isn't nearly weird enough to be interesting or memorable. Sorry, Mr. L.

Brian Eno made an album called THE DROP. He described it as (paraphrasing): "Jazz played by a space alien who's never heard jazz, but has had it described to him."

There's nothing "alien" or space-like in the sounds in BLUE BOB. The album is down to earth, raw, and gritty. But it reminds me of early rock/rhythm and blues as you might imagine it, not how it actually sounds.

This is one of my favorite albums. Yep--I checked it out because I'm a Lynch fan. But after a year, BLUE BOB more than stands on its own.

I play the thing relentlessly, especially when I'm in the game room shooting pool and enjoying beverages. It's an excellent album, and it holds up to repeated listenings better than most music. It's unusual stuff, full of the humor and darkness you'd expect, but most tunes are *very* accessible.

I'm a huge Lynch fan, so I got this CD. But there's not really anything about it that makes me want to give it repeat listens.

'Good Wood' is an album recorded by a different David Lynch altogether, not the film director who is also part of Blue Bob. That was almost as bad as the time I was reading a review of The Elephant Man on Amazon and someone thought that the actor John Hurt and bluesman Mississippi John Hurt were one in the same. Some people are just so stupid.

That Mr. Lynch is capable of making some of the most striking and original films of recent past may be acknolledged. That he is also a celebrated photographer and art painter is known by many.
But less known is the fact that that the man likes to play a little tune on the guitar once in a while: acoustic (which can be heard on the 'Good wood' album) and electric: which resulted in this 'Blue Bob'.

David likes to toy with both of them. He writes the lyrics (as he did for the two first Julee Cruise albums), plays the percussion and does the singing. With all this, he is accompanied by one John Neff, so in a way we could talk about a two-man-formation.
But David really has his moments here. The sound is all too familiar for his die hard fans who know David's film feature debut 'Eraserhead'. Soundscapes filled with machinery, bouncing steele, hydraulic pumps, hissing steam.... The album has become a nihilistic, brooding and almost industrial sounding record with which David just seems to have fun with. Tongue-in-cheek-fun that is. You never quite know when he is taking himself seriously or just jamming with a good sense of black humor behind it.

The most stand out song must be 'Mountains falling'; never sounded an electric guitar that grimm, lustful, steamy, erotic and haunting like on this song, an 8-minute-plus ode to an unidentifiable 'you' Mr. Lynch sees in a dream.

Lynch uses this song partly in his genious magnum opus 'Mulholland Dr.', as also the song 'Go get some', the latter used as backing music for a steamy lesbian scene with Naomi Watts.
David Lynch has proven to be that flamboyant artist again, untouchable, childlike, and surreal at times, although this one is not so much for the eye as it is for the ear.