Lilac Time/Stephen Duffy Classic or Dud?

Revive! been listening to Music In Colours and Astronauts quite a bit of late. Ahh, lovely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ar9LCIkqOI

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.

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.

Huh. I wonder if that really was Nick Rhodes posting all the way back when?

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.

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.

I really need more than just the first Lilac Time album.

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 ..

"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".

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.

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.

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

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

Really fantastic long interview with him here on Sodajerker podcast

https://spotify.link/1nc7BCi78Cb

xp just heard that for the first time last week and was pleasantly surprised to hear nice a cover of the Jacobites’ Big Store

Stephen Duffy write big store!

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