A Very Lonely and Sparsely-attended Thread Wherein We Discuss the 'Special Edition' re-releases by Gene Loves Jezebel

Promise is spectacularly brilliant almost in spite of itself.

The cover of Discover is entirely embarassing, but it's a great record. I'd forgotten how much I loved "Desire," especially the "ZHUUH-ZHUUH" sneeze part in the chorus.

"Psycho!Psycho!Psycho!PsychobeSIIIIIIIIIIIII...LENT!"

OTM! HAHAHA. haven't thought of these guys in 20 yrs. an old friend "dated" one of the twins briefly. can't remember which one.

is x-mal douchebag next in line for the Special Edition treatment?

Saw some variant of the band five years back, I think, opening for a variant of the Mission. Glory days had passed.

But yeah, lots of GLJ reissues at Vinyl Fever now, which I imagine would be my friend Erin's fault as she's always loved them to death.

I laughed so hard at this that I practically spilled coffee all over my step-father's computer.

Wait, what? Siouxsie rereleases? After I finally knuckled under and bought A Kiss in the Dreamhouse? Buggeryfuck.

My only memory of the band was when they were on "the tube", seeming dressed in pyjamas, and looking like a fucked-up-in-the-head-and-not-in-a-good-way vers. of hanoi roxx. I remember being amazed when I read that they'd done some decent business in the st8s. :-/

From looking around at pictures, I believe I had Immigrant, but don't think I ever had Promise. I think it would be fun to hear their earliest material. I might just spring for this after all.

I heard a single the other day by Gene Loves Jezebel, I could have sworn it was like a track off a Black Sabbath album. I mean there was nothing different from it, I mean it's really good actually, it's called "Shame". But if you went back in a time machine ten years ago and played it to somebody, a Black Sabbath fan would really get into it.

"SHOO-SHUH!"

Listened to Discover yesterday and all turned a blissful 1986 all over again. Why must music suck such a big bag of bean-paste slathered cocks today?

REVIVE COS I SAID SO!

We just need Jay to post here.

man I tried to like these guys way back when, I really did -pretty sure I even saw 'em play at some point. my then-girlfriend thought they were OK early on ('84 I think), which was weird, because we were pretty much mirror images of each other - if I liked it, she liked it, vice-versa, conjoined-twins kinda schtick we had goin. By the time "Heartache" was all over KROQ though - I dunno it sounded kinda like soft-goth Asia/09125 Yes to me.

man I'll give it up for this "Bury Your Head" track once it gets to the chorus though, fuck yeah

soft-goth Asia/09125 Yes to me.

Bahahahahahaaha....ouch!

WHEAT FARMER!!! HAVE YOU SEEN MY COW!!!

love that song.

at some point, i owned, like, FOUR gene loves jezebel albums. the first three and a LIVE album. for real, a live album. i don't own any anymore. i would listen to the first two again if i had them.

You should, they're great.

Don't think I've muttered it in full on this thread but "Bread from Heaven" still works as a snarling anti-Thatcher blast (specifically regarding policy towards Wales) sublimated into this moody crawl of far-in-the-distance drums, ghostly echoes of feedback and vocal keening. Too oblique for its own good maybe -- I didn't realize what the song was about until I stumbled across an explanation for it in an interview by one of the brothers -- but one of the better overtly politicized songs of the time that works still.

Shit I now have to go out and buy every GLJ album, thanks.

Always happy to help.