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Question: urrgh, Foreign affair is so annoying!!!!! :: Total Votes:66 Poll choices Votes Statistics I believe that this track is a little repetitive but still good enough for me to be in the same room without fingers in ears. 31  [46.97%] It is painfully repetitive and uber dull!! 12  [18.18%] I felt like putting my fist down Mikes/Maggies throat when I heard it. 2  [3.03%] Its one of my favourite songs!! 17  [25.76%] Beautiful but boring. 4  [6.06%] Guests cannot vote

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ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 13:38 I do really like Maggie's voice... but I've never liked any of the Crisis album, except a couple of parts from the title track. Foreign Affair is no exception. Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 20:10 Quote (EeToN @ Aug. 01 2005, 03:10) No, I don't agree, it's a great song. I wish it would be even longer, it's wonderful to listen to it at night - and this is true for the whole Crises album. Anyway, it's really rare that you can't hear any kinds of guitars in an Oldfield track, I only know about these (except for TKF): Foreign Affair Bones The Trap Make Make In the Beginning The Sunken Forest A New Beginning The Spectral Army (only basses) Sunlight Shining through Cloud Broad Sunlit Uplands Firefly ...and even including TKF Foreign Affair was the very first one. Very interesting. Never thought about that. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 20:14 Quote (larstangmark @ Mar. 09 2010, 23:08) In High Places and Foreign Affair are fantastic tracks. They have a cold, chilly quality that sends shivers down my spine. In the case of Foreign Affair I can't help but thinking how perfectly it would fit on Patrick Bateman's walkman - cold, repetetive, cocaine-like digital synth arpreggios and lyrics that could be a synopsis for a cheap 1983 direct-to-video drama. All delivered by Maggie in a voice that expresses as much sadness as indifference. I have no about the intentions behind the song. But it's a cool shiny surface. As opposed to say...Magic Touch. Lars T A breathtaking share, Lars. Even when i don't know what you mean with 'cocaine-like digital synth arpeggios'. -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Delfín Group: Members Posts: 667 Joined: Nov. 2000 Posted: April 02 2010, 22:29 I guess it might just mean "very addictive" -------------- The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1980 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: April 03 2010, 01:58 I love foreign affair.......................... -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: April 03 2010, 04:32 me too, typical summer song.. i can feel the warm wind in my hair   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

trcanberra Group: Members Posts: 349 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 03 2010, 07:19 Not really keen on it - but don't need to skip it when it comes on either. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: April 03 2010, 08:36 Quote (trcanberra @ April 03 2010, 07:19) Not really keen on it - but don't need to skip it when it comes on either. Definitely a skipper, for me. The repetition is extremely annoying, and the singer's voice is irritatingly smug. Apart from "Moonlight Shadow", I don't really like any of the short tracks on the album. In "In High Places" Jon Anderson sounds as though he's drowning in a topographic ocean; the sparseness of musical ideas in "Taurus 3" is a bit insulting to "Taurus 2", with which, because of its name, it can't help but be compared; and "Shadow on the Wall" is just another soft rock song (which has the added annoyance of reminding me of Bob Seger, whose stuff I detest). A crisis indeed - of inspiration! Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: April 03 2010, 11:35 Quote (Delfín @ April 02 2010, 22:29) I guess it might just mean "very addictive" Or "makes your brain rot". Charlie's disgusting brain, Well, it's all black! That girl has a very black brain And it won't come back... -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

wendybunny Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Sep. 12 2010, 19:47 I can't say I'm a big fan of that track really. The rest of the Crisis album I enjoy a lot, but that song is a bit... I don't know. It just falls flat to me. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 12 2010, 20:53 Welcome to the group Wendy. Your posting something in this thread gives me opportunity to say something about the "Crises" track itself. I think Ugo criticized the "watcher and the tower" section for being pointless and repetitive (these weren't the words he used, but that's the gist of it). In my opinion they form rather a teasing and fascinating mantra, in keeping with the strangeness of the haunting and fascinating cover picture. (I can't listen to "Crises" without thinking of the colour green.) Back to top

wendybunny Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Sep. 12 2010, 21:01 Quote (nightspore @ Sep. 12 2010, 20:53) Welcome to the group Wendy. Thanks. : ) Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 13 2010, 08:58 Hello Wendy; - I usually skip Foreign Affair too - it's too smug and posh for me. Nightspore; - do you think of the colour green because the CD cover is very green? -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2263 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: Sep. 13 2010, 09:50 Repetitive yes. Boring NO. I never skip it but I do prefer the live version. And welcome to the nuthouse WB.   Back to top

wendybunny Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Sep. 13 2010, 10:09 Quote (milamber @ Sep. 13 2010, 09:50) And welcome to the nuthouse WB.   I must say it's a very nice nuthouse indeed. = ) Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Sep. 13 2010, 10:56 The only problem with "Foreign Affair" is that the ending section is repeated too many times. Two are enough. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1980 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Sep. 13 2010, 12:08 I love foreign affair.......................... -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Cooper Roy Group: Members Posts: 255 Joined: April 2010 Posted: Sep. 13 2010, 18:55 "Foreign Affair?" I should be so lucky   CR -------------- "I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave-and nothing but laughter to console them with.Laughter is my religion.In the manner of most religions, I admit my laughter is pretty desperate."                                                                    John Irving Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4761 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Nov. 11 2010, 00:50 Quote (wiga @ Sep. 13 2010, 08:58) Nightspore; - do you think of the colour green because the CD cover is very green? That's a good question, Wiga. The music has a kind of cold, sparse precision about it that reminds me of water - perhaps that's it. Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2263 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: Nov. 11 2010, 01:04 Parody Time. Momento Mori A new book to read A tome of 5 page story's None of them boring Semi detached you'll see Not a place you would be It really fills your quota Cant wait for Dakota       Back to top

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