FELT (Go Kart Mozart, Denim)... Lawrence is amazing!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

I just had to let that out... also.. I am looking for a copy of Forever Breathes The Lonely Word on CD.. anyone?

Todd E. Jones tejones@kforce.com

― Todd E. Jones, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i was disappointed with the go-kart mozart album, nice sleeve design (check the martin parr boring postcard bull ring), but found it rather flat. denim i remember being ok though. i have a pink felt cd, i cant remember it though. i'll play it tonight

― gareth, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Sounds like you've got Bubblegum Perfume, Gareth - the Creation round- up. If it turns out you play it tonight and don't think much to it, I'll be only too willing to take it off your hands for a good price. Let me know!

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

desperate to get denim 'on ice' the song 'it fell off the back of a lorry' is one of the best songs i have ever heard.

― ambrose, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I love Felt (but have no records) [my bid for indie-country crossover stardom starts right there]. The albums are great, and they're pretty high up on my 'must buy' list, but I haven't actually seen them anywhere for ages...

I have Back In Denim, which is ace ("in the seventies there were Osmonds, there were lots of little Osmonds..."), but I got pissed off with the singles from 'On Ice' and never bought it.

Also have the Go-Kart Mozart album, which is patchy (but I forgive it everything for name-checking Poing by the Rotterdam Termination Source).

― emil.y, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Felt albums on cd are very difficult to find, in my experience.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

'Denim On Ice' almost a permanent fixture in the bargain basement of the NNG R+T (and no doubt many other similar establishments.)My fave Denim track - 'We Are The New Potatoes' from their 'Novelty Rock' EP.

Jane Suck died in 77....

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

ER nHg (Notting Hill Gate)

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I wish that were the case in the states -- I finally had to have someone burn me a copy (thanks fernando!).

― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I forgive it everything for name-checking Poing by the Rotterdam Termination Source

isn't that just a rehash of namechecking Ravesignal III (and where did it all go wrong CJ?)

― gareth, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Nicole, the Cherry red albums are all still available on CD, on for example Amazon.co.uk. The Creation ones are out-of-print, I think, but GEMM.com has loads of them.

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Thanks for the tip! That's what I get for just checking record shops.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I have got "Absolute Classic Masterpieces" which is a kind of best of. Quite nice to listen to. The best track is the one with Liz Fraser if I remember well. Felt is a little bit a myth I feel. They sound like an amateurish band. Which can be charming. But one record in my collection is definitely enough.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Felt was great, but it seemed like it was fronted by a man who mainly provided the background. Maurice Deebank.. now that's an amazing guitarist. As was Martin Duffy on keys.

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Mick Bund was also in Felt for a while. Whatever happened to Maurice Deebank...one of my favourite guitarists of all time (I might even say "favourite of all time" were it not for Vini Reilly). The strangest Felt album has got to be "Train Across the City" - all instrumentals, Lawrence isn't on it! Some of the tracks are pretty good though. My favourite is "Spectral Morning".

― MarkH, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

They dropped MD off after a gig and never bothered to get in touch again, is what I heard.

He surfaced on a St. Ettiene track "Paper" which he co-wrote. I don't know which album or single this track was originally on, but it's on the Smash the System comp.

I prefer Deebank-era Felt to Duffy-era Felt, although I'm not fond of MD's florid classical-style playing. They sound best when he's kept on a tight leash e.g Penelope Tree or Mexican Bandits. "Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty", the debut, is a classic, and it's downhill from there IMHO.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

It's a shame Maurice Deebank hasn't done more since Felt, his guitar playing was so unique -- the classical touches added a certain something that's lacking from a lot of other guitar players.

― Nicole, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The MAURICE DEEBANK Solo CD "Inner Thought Zone" is quite good. I listen to it almost every single day at least once during work on my cpu. All instrumental... it's just like old FELT stuff.... "Ignite The Seven Cannons.." instrumentals only more tightly produced. The CD was re-released with more tracks. He went into the studio to make new tracks. I heard he's living with a girl in SPAIN.. Did anyone hear the song PAPER he co-wrote with St. Ettiene. It was the b-side to the AVENUE single. Todd

― Todd E. Jones, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

yes, "Paper"! It's also on an earlier St Etienne comp "You need a mess of help to stand alone". Somehow I didn't realise/had forgotten this was Deebank and maybe I'd also been put off this track by the lyrics, which include "Only love can mend a broken heart" (remind you of anything?). I will certainly check out the Deebank solo cd tho.

― MarkH, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

There's a pretty great "classic album's revisited" type article on Back In Denim in this month's Mojo (by either Ian Harrison or Roy Wilkinson or Andrew Harrison, one of those three); also it mentions that the Go-Kart Mozart Tearing Up The Charts album finally gets a release next month, staggeringly amazon seem to back this up. New Product Hurrah!

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow! THAT IS EXCITING. I loved the last album. I gave it a rave review in the village voice, but i don't think too many people bought it in the states:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0043,seward,18841,22.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

gee, this is truly the only new record i have been so excited to hear in years. he's my hero though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

I need to finally get some more Felt stuff here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

i just know that by the time i get back to the shop where i saw old copy of Denim on cd it will be long gone - thanks to the article.

grr.

i always kept meaning to pick it up .. but never plumped up the hard earned for it ..

i suspect a lifetime of regret to follow on now ..

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

they had a fairly decent little write-up on denim in the brit-pop issue of mojo.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

I can see nothing wrong with any of the three Denim albums and the Go-Kart Mozart one. I love them all. Each one is a logical progression of his strange art. Ditto for being excited about this new one.

― everything, Monday, 11 April 2005 14:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'm kinda rabid, but i don't think he's ever put out a bad record. from "Index" to the last one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is the Denim stuff still in print and, if not, doessomonewanttoyousendit? I feel I deserve it for shelling out $25 a pop for the import Felt reissues way back when.

One of my my fav moment was when Select interviewed a bunch of people about the Exciting New Oasis album and Lawrence Hayward was like, "Oh god I hate it when musicians start singing about their kids.... They should be singing about fucking in the bushes, not their stupid families."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

t is still the case the three Denimses to date are the records Most Urgently In Need Of Reissue ever (& Kenickie, etc).

Obviously a new Denim album would perhaps be even more glorious, Denim Takes Over has been on the cards since, um, about 1997 maybe? I love the idea that in Lawrence's mind there is zero overlap between Denim and GKM and that they serve entirely different purposes and appeal to totally different audiences, and songs are specifically written either for one or the other.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's a Lawrence solo track on Ekkehard Ehlers' forthcoming compilation album Childish Music (Staubgold 60). It's called "Falling Down A Dam Of Mashed Potatoes", unsurprisingly.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

also it mentions that the Go-Kart Mozart Tearing Up The Charts album finally gets a release next month, staggeringly amazon seem to back this up

This is great news! I was just ranting to someone this weekend that Lawrence has never even received half of the recognition that he deserves.

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

That's great!, adding it to my Amazon wishlist, etc.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

I can sell someone with PayPal a copy of Novelty Rock in good nick, and it will not cost US$25.

― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

Novelty Rock currently on sale for £1.99 in Oxfam, Streatham High Road.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 05:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

can you buy it for me marcello? i'll pay the postage!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 05:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

i love felt, but could someone give me an angle on the go-kart mozart stuff? because i just can't get into it. it's funny, but not that funny?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 05:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think that might be part of the funniness.

Mooro, can you link to that ETA song again?

Please and thank you.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 08:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

So, this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00097HDW2/ref=cm_mp_wli_/202-7893692-0081442

is being released the same day as this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00093UQUC/ref=cm_mp_wli_/202-7893692-0081442

Wich I think it's a very happy coincidence.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I pre-ordered it from the Cherry Red site about a week ago. I didn't expect it to arrive before the 30th, except, it just turned up in the post today.

I've only just got hold of the St Etienne! Overdosing on Most Antipated Records For Several Years, today. I should probably listen to it now.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 14 May 2005 08:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Antipated", yes, the excitement, you see.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 14 May 2005 08:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

OMG. Alex, how is the new Go-Kart Mozart? I can't believe nobody has asked this yet.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah, does it have any real songs on it or is it another joke album?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 02:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

*splutter* JOKE ALBUM?

If you can't appreciate the towering majesty of songs like "Drinkin' Um Bongo" then I feel sorry for you.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 02:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

well, at least the liner notes were funny.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 02:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

Retort pouch OTM. Also, "Plead With the Man", for instance, rarely fails to move me to tears. Almost.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 06:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'm not buyin' it. in either sense of the word.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

i am, tho i spent longer reading the inner sleeve than i did listening to the record last time. didn't someone use some of the band name suggestions? i seem to recall they did... lawrence was spotted at the water rats in kings cross about a year ago checking out the tyde (sigh) he looked like he'd been living under a hedge.

― cw (cww), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

FYI: All of the 10 original Felt albums -- Creation and Cherry Red titles -- were reissued on CD just about a year ago in those annoying little replica cardboard LP sleeve things, so they shouldn't be too hard to come by now. I don't think they were remastered or anything, but they are out there now.

― Hutlock (Hutlock), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

(it is really great, by the way)

It is less psychotic than the last one. It is not dissimilar to Novelty Rock, perhaps. At first I thought it was just an album of "Summer Smash"seses... I don't want to say that it has more 'depth' than that, because, that would be pretty wanky. But. They are "real" songs, yes.

Also, as last time: recommended listening, lyrics to track from next album, bandname suggestions (Shoes & Socks! Salamanda Palaganda!), 'new records to look out for' etc etc. The whole package is a beautiful thing, there is certainly no question at all of this being some kind of sub-Denim pissabout (not that I thought the last album was either, but I gather that others kind of did).

On $|$|< the other day I located a guy who was sharing an unreleased 1998-era-ish version of Denim Takes Over. This was quite surprising. "Trangressions", "City Centre" and "Delta Echo" from the new GKM are also on this, and "At The DDU" apparently previously existed as "Lorra Laughs, Cilla". I need to lavish more time on the rest of it, but, fantastic.

The (Bob Stanley) review of Go-Kart Mozart in the current Uncut includes teensy interview wherein Lawrence claims that a third album will be out later this year, I can't remember if he was referring to Denim or GKM. But the prospect of either is pretty glorious.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

GKM

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 283 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i mean if you want to talk about diminishing returns, we can talk about almost everyone else i was listening to in the 80's who wasn't lawrence.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

I prefer if the people I like keep releasing stuff regularly, even if the quality is uneven. Almost everyone who waits 5 years or more between releases has lost the plot and it usually shows.

― everything, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

xxpost He's been mentioning it occasionally in radio interviews and Q&As recently. He said it won't emerge if the new GKM is "a hit".

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

He's been cagey about exactly what it will entail, but said people will be likely to "reference Felt"

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

nah i believe in the post novelty rock / reflective album, he was talking about it on monday, he claims he has all the songs written.

i dunno, the bits from the film suggest a denim on ice style opus, more ambitous than the last one, i have high hopes for it & there's mini lp out straight after . i think the lack of activity has to do with other factors than creative aridity.

plus, tearing up the album charts is a bit of a stunner on the quiet, maybe not as much of an jaw dropping experience as wigwam, but in terms of the sharpness of the songs i think it surpasses it. donna and the dope fiends! electric rock and roll! transgressions!

― cw, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't think the likelihood of lawrence creating a great record has anything to do with his grasp on the plot...

― cw, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

"the plot" for him has usually been to create an album with a specific concept, a feel, a unified package with the songs sharing some important common elements, sounds, themes etc. To write songs that complement the specific and unique group of musicians that are brought together to record the album. And to package it accordingly.

The problem with the last album was that it felt like a random collection of songs that collectively had no identity. Packaging was nothing special either.

― everything, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

hmm yeah i dunno i feel like this record promises to be properly odd, uncomfortable, obtuse & a bit like brumburger on a budget, i think the lack or resources kindof forces lawrence in on himself.

in terms of recycling denim take over (which i've never heard!) he has always insisted that he would never waste a song. plus the older songs on the last one were in no way the best. but yeah the overarching concept wasn't there.

― cw, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah since I was think that out loud, he's gone on the record explaining upcoming releases will be clearing the decks for this particular 'novelty' era, so it kind of makes sense.... Though at the time I was watching the film, it was confusing to see him pretending to record songs which had been recorded in the late 90s.

I wonder where Denim ends and GKM really begins, though. Probably seeing Denim as the 'major label' band and GKM as the 'b-side band'. The Denim take over stuff is definitely closer to Denim On Ice than Novelty Rock or Instant Igloo, though. 'The Sun' sounded very polished (with some new overdubs) on Mark Radcliffe's show the other day. Songwriting-wise, not too removed from a certain kind of Felt pop sound, either.

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

*thinking

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I should wait and hear the new one before getting too judgemental I guess. For artists like Laurence, albums have always been more than just a collection of tracks and since we are now in this post-album world, that again may be a problem with Tearing Up The Album Charts. It's the only one of his albums which I do not own a physical copy of. I've never seen the real cover. I've probably only listened to it straight through once or twice.

― everything, Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Then the run of albums from Back In Denim (1992) to Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture (1999) is four proper albums (one double) over 7 years

more like 10 years. back in denim was at least a couple of years in the making before it's final release. not that this changes your point you're making.

― fit and working again, Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm so surprised people seem to prefer Instant Wigwam to Tearing Up The Charts. Always thought Wigwam was like a bunch of novelty B-sides with a few proper songs thrown in, kind of exactly like Novelty Rock. We're Selfish Lazy & Greedy, Here is a Song and Mrs. Back to Front are the only songs I really go back to on there. Tearing Up felt more like a real album to me with some of his best songwriting. Glorious Chorus, Listening to Marmalade and City Centre are up there with his best. The only track that seems a bit throwaway is Building Site and that's just too much fun.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

plenty of treasure on both albums. i listened to Tearing Up tons when i bought it, but for some reason i do go back to wigwam more often. i think they compliment each other nicely though.

― scott seward, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did you preorder the new album already Scott? Limited signed vinyl copies available.

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/westmidlands-exd.asp?id=3681

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kitchen, you don't like Sailor Boy? I'm not a huge Go Kart Mozart person, but that song is unmatchable

Anyways, I guess there has been talk of him doing a singer-songwriter project forever. It was supposed to be his "Berlin". I guess the story is that in the late nineties Alan McGee wanted to put out a record by him, but only if it was in that mold as opposed to the novelty stuff.

I think it could be really amazing to hear him working in that particular idiom once again, but hoping that it would be more like Poem of the River-era Felt as opposed to some of the serious songs on Denim on Ice eg Don't Bite Too Much Out of the Apple, Myriad of Hoops

― dell (del), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

has this been posted here? it's so good!

― dell (del), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

"two drummers and a couple of sax/ i think he's headed for the cut-price racks"

― dell (del), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

So this isn't supposed to be out till June 25th but I just noticed Amazon.com are already selling it. Anyone ordered it yet?

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Dog-Streets-Kart-Mozart/dp/B007R2X6LE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1339685465&sr=1-1

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

Six of the listed songs are on "Denim takes over", you know.

― Rob M Revisited, Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:56 (11 months ago) Permalink

There's some discussion about that upthread ;)

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

Oops, sorry! I'm recycling like Lawrence :)

― Rob M Revisited, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

xxp eight

― fit and working again, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

ah, I figure after never really repeating himself with Felt he deserves to be cut a bit of slack in his dotage...

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:17 (11 months ago) Permalink

The only songs I've heard from Denim Take Over are the title track and the ones that ended up on Tearing Up The Album Chart so to me this is like a whole new album. Wonder if he still plans to release that mini album in a few months too?

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

I heard it was shelved.

― everything, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

Got my copy (from Amazon) a few days ago. New overdubs (and in some cases new lyrics) and better quality mean the Denim Take Over songs sound a lot more vital here. And the non-DTO songs kick ass too, especially White Stilettos in the Sand, Spunky Axe, and Electrosex. Whoever said upthread that they were expecting this to be more of a Denim on Ice-style epic was right on. It's funny, before I heard it, I was thinking I didn't draw much of a line between GKM and Denim (post-Back in Denim, anyway), but this definitely feels more like a Denim album. Much bigger sound than either of the previous GKM records.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

Album of the year

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 01:31 (10 months ago) Permalink

Only played this a couple of times, have to say I'm a bit disappointed. Something about the production that is a little messy in places. I thought this would be Denim On Ice part two but the songs are lacking something. Really hope this is a grower, those first two Denim albums are two of my favourite albums ever.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 04:20 (10 months ago) Permalink

Ah yeah, those are two of the best albums ever, so I'm not really surprised this isn't quite at their level. But as much as I like the other GKM albums, I'm really appreciating the grandiosity of this one. Can see what you mean about some of the production messiness, but the songs are there imo.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:19 (10 months ago) Permalink

I think after all the waiting I was expecting a bit more from the album. I have no doubt it will grow on me but I'm pretty sure all the Denim and GKM albums were really instant with me. It is really nice to have him back though, can't believe it's been seven years since the last album.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:47 (10 months ago) Permalink

This album is really very good. Early days, but probably my fave of the GKM records (recycled or not!).

Lots of "funny" here, but... as with Sparks, the songs seem just as harrowing as they are humorous (often at the same time).
Like "I Talk With Robot Voice" is funny, but...

That make any sense?

― mr.raffles, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:09 (10 months ago) Permalink

Two thirds through the new CD and it sounds to me like the peak of of GKM and the natural successor to Denim On Ice in terms of sound and songwriting.

What was due to appear on the mini album? If OTHDS uses up all the the remaining Denim Take Over songs, then what's left?

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Monday, 25 June 2012 15:04 (10 months ago) Permalink

Think the mini album is supposed to have New World in the Morning on it. Not sure what else...more new stuff I guess.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:13 (10 months ago) Permalink

This has grown on me a lot. It's not the masterpiece I was hoping for but I'm getting a lot more out of now. I really think it could do without a lot of those extra vocals especially at the end of The Sun and the shouting in Come On You Lot, it sounds a bit clumsy in places. Some songs and moments sound a bit too similar to those on Denim On Ice especially when the kids choir comes in and he says solo for the solo in one song. I think White Stilettos In The sand and Retro Glancing are my two favourites at the moment but it keeps changing.

Hope the mini album still comes out soon, I think it is supposed to follow three months later but I'll believe it when I see it especially as these were both supposed to be out years ago.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:43 (10 months ago) Permalink

yeah the toasting on the sun is horrid, but the rest of this is a total triumph. total lawrence.

― cw, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:26 (10 months ago) Permalink

I really wonder what Lawrence's distinction between Denim and GKM is these days. This album sounds like it should say 'Denim' on the cover.

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 08:10 (10 months ago) Permalink

and while there may not be any 'hit singles' on here, I could easily imagine 6Music playlisting 'Retro-Glancing' or 'Electrosex' if they had any taste left

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 08:12 (10 months ago) Permalink

Greetings from Denmark. Great to have Lawrence back with a superb album. He has not lost his grip despite all the hardship he seems to have been through. Personally I prefer the new songs (especially, Electro Sex, White Stilettoes..., Come On... and Retro-Glancing), but it's kind of Lawrence to include the last unreleased Denim Take Over songs for his longtime fans. Anyway, the Denim and GKM songs blend together well (like the 70s and 80s retro aesthetics of the cover), and in this way the album is a perfect way for him to say goodbye to his "mustard" period of the last 20 years (cf. some of the latest interviews) - although I'm not sure I want him to do that, especially not when, as is the case on ...Hot Dog Streets, the material is consistently good (i.e. not silly, grating or anonymous).

Well, so much for my opinion, here's a question I hope someone can help me with: What's Mickie Made the Most about, i.e. who are all those people mentioned? I've been googling some of them, but I'm not sure I've been on the right track.

Actually, any thoughts on the the lyrics of the album and insight into their references would be much appreciated.

― Arthur'sMother, Sunday, 8 July 2012 12:39 (10 months ago) Permalink

Definitely Michael Head of Shack, for one

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Sunday, 8 July 2012 15:22 (10 months ago) Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak_Records

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Sunday, 8 July 2012 17:03 (10 months ago) Permalink

Mentioned: Mickie Most, Ricky Wilde, RAK Records, Mick Head, Gary Shaw. Wikipedia can tell you who they are but knowing doesn't necessarily help explain what the song is about.

― fit and working again, Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:53 (10 months ago) Permalink

Just another collection of Lawrence icons.

― fit and working again, Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:56 (10 months ago) Permalink

I think it's a bit of a "kids these days" rant. ie. back in our day we had great icons like Mickey Most and Gary Shaw, now the kids just go the club and come back and play FPS games. It's a rewrite of "City of the Dead" from Denim Takes Over which emphasises this theme a bit more.

― everything, Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:53 (10 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

New interview:

http://thequietus.com/articles/09948-lawrence-interview-felt-go-kart-mozart

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2012 14:22 (8 months ago) Permalink

it's a good 'un. Lawrence is very open about certain things, other stuff not so much.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Thursday, 6 September 2012 14:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

"What happened to young Gary Shaw?
Played for the Villa
He don't play for them no more"

― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:20 (5 months ago) Permalink

Any word on that GKM mini album? There was a now-show 6music session a couple of months back, which was annoying

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:36 (5 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Not concerned with fame, huh....

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 24 February 2013 00:44 (2 months ago) Permalink

wow never seen that before. hideous shirt, I assume that was 88-89? i wonder if there's any more where that came from.

― cw, Sunday, 24 February 2013 14:40 (2 months ago) Permalink

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.