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― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 15 December 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
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― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
His current collaborator may appal a few contributors to this thread, though - if they don't already know. Lord knows XX could do with SD's help, and SD could do with XX's cash.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 11:07 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 13:02 (twenty years ago) link
I don't think he's so much embarrassed about the collaboration, as embarrassed about the way it's been reported (i.e. why is XX associating with this loser?)
And yes, it might produce some decent records.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― the tinfox, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
Beastie Boys Vs. Stephen A J Duffy
― Esther Hoover, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:00 (twenty years ago) link
― aztec moon, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― aztec moon, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000BOG1MG.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― aztec moon, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Just heard some new tracks on his Myspace. Sounds great! Here's an interview. http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1252260266&channel=495713462
― Rib Dinner, Monday, 22 October 2007 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
If anyone's interested, I'm selling my copy of Keep Going.
― Madchen, Monday, 22 October 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
also, Dr Calculus is now available via usual download stores. remastered and with extra remixes/tracks (though to be honest, the extras are classic 12" of the time, ie very little difference, just an extra drum loop here and there) though the album itself, is as gloriously mad in 2007, as it was all those years ago.
― mark e, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Revive! been listening to Music In Colours and Astronauts quite a bit of late. Ahh, lovely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ar9LCIkqOI
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 13 December 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
His new one is ok but not great - and I adored _Keep Going_. It's just missing something - a spark, clever lyrics? I can't put my finger on it. But everything else with the name Lilac Time on it is a keeper.
― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Keep Going is a tremendously enjoyable album; well crafted from front to back with an utter lack of shock or awe. It's measured and mature in a way that only a guy who's been kicking it for three decades can fashion. Also, I've always been a sucker for his buttery vocal delivery, it makes my ears feel good.
― suspecterrain, Sunday, 20 March 2011 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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