Huh. I wonder if that really was Nick Rhodes posting all the way back when?
― bad voise, it sucked, pick a seat (Trayce), Sunday, 20 March 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
given that the rest of the thread at the time was a bunch of socks arguing with itself, it seems unlikely. but "devilish results" does point towards someone with some kind of inside knowledge.
― lol kudso (sic), Sunday, 20 March 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Any other fans? I'm listening to the Compendium compilation and the tracks from & Love For All, produced by Andy Partridge, just jump out at me with their odd swirly sounds or interesting sounds.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 15 March 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
I really need more than just the first Lilac Time album.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
yeah, i've never been able to find a copy of that Dr. Calculus record. Anyone want to burn me a cdr of it?
dr calculus = best thing stephen did ..
no doubt stephen hates it now ..
― mark e, Thursday, 2 July 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
"I Love My Friends" is an total winner of an album, a bit like he thought, "I can outdo these Britpop shits at their own game". The CD with all the b-sides is even better with the addition of songs like "One Day One Of These Fucks Will Change Your Life".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
Yep, love that album, almost certainly my most-played record of his under any of his names/bands. Didn't realize it'd been reissued with those bonus tracks; I'll have to check that out. "One Day..." isn't one of the added ones though, that's the closer on my original.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
Oh right. It was reissued in 2006 with 7 bonus tracks. https://www.discogs.com/Duffy-I-Love-My-Friends/release/648547
"Keep Going" was the last great album he released, "Runout Groove" is solid if inconsistent and "No Sad Songs" was a dud.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
The new(-ish) album is beautifully melancholic. Love the last song.
From where wild strawberries grew. It’s about us and every band. “That was our time in the shade / No one but the driver got paid.” I had a dysfunctional relationship with touring. I saw it more as an extension of my social life. Or just a more out and about version of my life. I never saw it as work and as many will attest I didn’t really see myself as an entertainer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZ_Dom8yk4
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:19 (eight months ago) link
nice!
I only recently found out about this album, which he did with Nick Rhodes, revisiting songs they wrote for the first iteration of Duran Duran. Definitely not what you'd expect from any of these people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0YzzmD_BA
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:59 (eight months ago) link
Really fantastic long interview with him here on Sodajerker podcast
https://spotify.link/1nc7BCi78Cb
― piscesx, Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:34 (eight months ago) link
xp just heard that for the first time last week and was pleasantly surprised to hear nice a cover of the Jacobites’ Big Store
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 16 September 2023 18:02 (eight months ago) link
Stephen Duffy write big store!
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 September 2023 22:24 (eight months ago) link
wrote