* deletes loads of new music off iphone *
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
* loads up all the gorkys for train journey tomorrow *
actually i did listen to Barafundle not long ago and didn't find it half as god as i used to.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
think that one hasn't aged so well. how i long... is what they call 'timeless' tho
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Half as god is still pretty divine, ho ho. *is killed*
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
I still like Barafundle a hell of a lot... it's kinda like a halfway house between their Ankst work and the less "mushroomy" stuff they did afterwards. So on one hand you've got the beauty of 'Sometimes The Father Is The Son', and then on the other you've got the delightfully batshit 'Meirion Wyllt'.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
The 20 compilation they put out a few years later is one of the best albums I own, almost every song is a winner.
I should get that even though the only songs I'm actually missing are the two from the "Gewn Ni Gorffen?" single.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
My god, I'd forgotten how much of a gem 'Methu Aros Tan Haf' was!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5L68LxfuaU
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
In looking back over this thread I'm reminded of how many random lyric/spoken word bits they had that stick in the brain. They were extremely good for that.
"There's no need to worry!""Why's that, Johnny?"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
― Ned Raggett
I think you're only missing the one song which is called 12 Impressionistic Soundscapes, it's hardly essential. I only bought it for that song and just to have all the EP's on one CD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_oSKYiM8ZM
I thought about getting rid of all the singles as I really don't need them but I want to keep them just for the artwork.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
That bit before one of the 'O, Caroline' songs on Tatay where it's all like "For fucks sake, John" is a great moment too!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dgWxAE--w
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
WHEN YOU HEAR THE CAPTAIN SINGYOU KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW YOU SHOULD TAKE OFF THAT RING MARY-ANN!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
As for their albums, Tatay is still my favourite all the way through. Barafundle and Bwyd Time would be close behind. I've gotten rid of a lot of albums over the last few years, Sleep/Holiday is the only Gorkys I've managed to part with. Walking For Winter and Pretty as a Bee are the only keepers on there.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Tatay is just too much fun, it captures their crazier side with some moments of real beauty so perfectly. Yffordd Oren and Kevin Ayers are two my favourite Gorkys moments.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
'Happiness' isn't too bad either, but yeah, totally with you on Sleep/Holiday. Tatay has some wonderful stuff on it... the whole of the 'Anna Apera' suite! ('Gegin Nos' in particular being a favourite).
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Oh god, 'Y Ffordd Oren' is absolutely perfect, one of their best ever songs!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah Happiness isn't too bad. I think Mow The Lawn was their first and maybe only weak single.
Y Ffordd Oren would join If Fingers Were Xylophones and Game of Eyes in my three favourite Gorky's moments.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Contemplating DJing 'Game of Eyes' at Indietracks now, not sure if it'll work - as good as they are the songs aren't necessarily dance-floor fillers.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
I'm obsessed with Cristina despite the awful "magazine-a" rhyme
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
^^^their best song
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
balladic twee-prog stalker folk executed with just the right level of inexplicable wonder and beauty
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
'Christina' is good and all, but wouldn't make the cut in my own personal Gorky's Top 20.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
― emil.y, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'Barbed Wire' might work!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Wouldn't Poodle Rockin' be an obvious choice to put in a DJ set? If Bwyd Time was longer maybe that would work?
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
I don't like Poodle Rockin so much, tbh.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
Nah it's one of those crap singles they did - every album seemed to have a silly rocker on it for a while viz Sweet Johnny, Mow The Lawn.
Pretty As A Bee is so beautiful but the only one I like off Sleep/Holiday. Man, that's a band with a weird career arc
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Bwyd Time now. How were they only teenagers when they made this? Love Oraphis yn Delphie
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 07:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0sF4--G3sI&index=5&list=PL0778A7FBC4C07F55
Solo but dang this song is my favorite song of all time right now.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 2 May 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
https://thealbumwall.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/happy-birthday-barafundle-guest-post.html
Some nice words about one of their best albums.
Their solo careers have been really disappointing.
Have any of you heard John Lawrence's stuff? Oh. My. God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAXEjG2VC4
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
That...I did not expect.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
When he left, the band became much less adventurous.
Euros' solo career has just been a string of middling or just ok releases. There have been a couple albums that are almost worth listening to a few times, but he hasn't written a great song in years. I always feel like he just isn't trying, but clearly he just lost it...
― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 8 April 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
I guess you're right but I think he does well with competition and company like most people
I saw them live in 99 or so and they were very good - on the Long to See tour
― calstars, Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Jonny was pretty middling, too, and he was matched with an equally (at least at one time in his life) talented partner.
I've listened to everything Euros has done and hold out hope he'll write another great song. He was a fantastic songwriter at one point in his life. Truly unique and wonderful.
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 9 April 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
With a voice as sweet as honey.
Absolutely love gorkys
How i long still my favourite and an album i listen to after 10 or whatever years
Will have to relisten to barafundle
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 10 April 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
Barafundle > How I Long > Bwyd Time > Spanish Dance Troupe > Gorky 5 > Other stuff
It's all good though. That John Lawrence thing is pretty out-there huh?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 10 April 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm pretty much fine with your ranking, but Patio & Tatay are exceptionally good, as is the odds and sods compilation (which contains many songs from the first couple releases anyway).
I've never been able to get into Sleep/Holiday, but I suspect it isn't as bad as I thought it was. I need to give it another chance. "Mow the Lawn" is just really bad. I always hated those obvious "rock" singles labels seemed to force on bands.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 10 April 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHzBOdFIs3g
John's doing his thing, I suppose. I kind of remember enjoying an Infinity Chimps album back in the day.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 10 April 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
I honestly think Patio is one of the greatest debut albums ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPb409jrb4
In its own class.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
Patio is one of their best releases, particularly on the CD version with all the extra stuff like 'Dean Ser' and 'Hi ar Gan'
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
i think i only gave patio a cursory listen... IIRC it's quite garage-rocky compared to the stuff that came after?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it's quite garage-rocky in places, particularly on stuff like 'Barbed Wire', but I hear traces of post-punk in there on stuff like 'Dafad Yn Siarad' and 'Sally Webster' ... the psychedelic folk thing wouldn't kick in until Tatay, which is sorta a middle ground between Patio and Bwyd Time.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
i just can't believe how young they were when they made all this music. Bwyd Time is an exceptional psychedelic record and they were, what? 6 years old or something when they made it
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
nice american music club t shirt there
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
Euros Childs would have been about 20 when Bwyd Time was released. The last Gorky's LP (Sleep/Holiday) was released long before he turned 30.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
And he's released nothing of note since. :(
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
I saw Gorky's live in '97 and thought they were great, then saw them again a couple of years later and thought they were shit. Prime example of "I only like the early stuff" for me unfortunately - I like most of their stuff up to and including Bwyd Time. Barafundle and Gorky 5 are OKish in parts I suppose although haven't listened to either in years. I think Spanish Dance Troupe was the contemporary album for the 2nd time I saw them so never listened to it, they seemed to go from this awesome psychedelic racket to strummy acoustic boredom.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Some of their prettiest songs are on Gorky 5 and Spanish Dance Troupe!
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link