Clor Split up

-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), May 11th, 2006. (blueski)

does anyone know the label and/or release date for us yanks?

Just to say that I still listen to this album a lot. One of the best A sides I've heard this decade (er, 00s). What could've been! etc. Such a great statement of intent, which became, well, all of it.

Clor/ Clor is Number 1 in NMEs Top 100 ALbums You've Never Heard list this week
http://www.nme.com/layout/magImage.php

i've heard it and it's really not that good

who else was on the list?

found it

01.Clor <Clor>2005
02.Performance <(we are) Performance>2007
03.Jenny Wilson <love and youth >2005
04.Leadbelly <last session>1948
05.the shaggs <philosophy of the world > 1969
06.the wipers < is this real > 1980
07.young marble giants <colossal youth>1980
08.shonen knife <burning farm > 1983
09.jad fair <great expectations >1989
10.Felt <forever breathes the lonely word >1986
11.john phillips<john , the wolfking of LA >1970
12.bad brains <roir >1982
13.atlas strategic <that's familiar >2002
14.jonathan richman and the modern lovers <modern lovers 88> 1988
15.the electric prunes <underground >1967
16.the television personalities <they could have been bigger than the beatles >1982
17.the red crayola <the parable of arable land > 1967
18.love <da capo>1967
19.euphoria <a gift from euphoria > 1969
20.the field mice < skywriting >1990
21.satisfact <the unwanted sounds of satisfact >1996
22.eliane radigue <adnos 1-3>1975-1983
23.the zombies <odessey and oracle >1968
24.the associates <sulk >1982
25.magazine <real life > 1978
26.pop levi <the return to form black majick party > 2007
27.jay farrar / benjamin gibbard <one fast move or im gone :kerouac's big sur >2009
28.floraline <floraline > 1999
29.arthur russell <calling out of context > 2004
30.mccarthy <i am a wallet >1987
31.cluster < zuckerzeit >1974
32.the prisoners < thewisermiserdemelza>1983
33.the cardigans <long gone before daylight >2003
34.60ft dolls <the big 3>1996
35.thomas dolby <the flat earth >1984
36.jeffrey lee pierce <wildweed >1985
37.simple minds <reel to real cacophony >1979
38.ABC<beauty stab >1983
39.the bodines <played >1987
40.john cale <fear >1974
41.cocteau twins < heaven or las vegas>1990
42.crass <the feeding of the 5000>1978
43.eater <the album >1977
44.the dancing did <and did those feet >1982
45.organisation < tone float >1970
46.LFO <frequencies>1991
47.boards of canada < twoism>1995
48.motorbass <pansoul >1996
49.position normal <goodly time >2000
50.freestyle fellowship < innercity griots >1993
51. all night radio < spirit stereo frequency >2004
52.chick corea <my spanish heart >1976
53.nico < the marble index>1969
54.queen <queen >debut album
55.the kossoy sisters <bowling green >1956
56.the germs < GI >1979
57.orphan boy < shop local >2008
58.the pretty things < sf sorrow >1968
59.cardinal < cardinal >1994
60.the red devils < king king >1992
61.michael hurley< have moicy > 1976
62.jens lekman < night falls over kortedala >2007
63.curtis mayfield < curtis live !>1971
64.lizzy mercier descloux< mambo nassau >2003
65.XTC <white music >1978
66.serge gainsbourg < you're under arrest >1987
67.the for carnation <the for carnation >2000
68.jarcrew <jarcrew >2003
69.studio < west coast >2007
70.huggy bear < our troubled youth >1992
71.this heat <deceit >1981
72.superstar <palm tree>1997
73.skinnyman <council estate of mind >2004
74.jeffrey foucault <ghost repeater>2006
75.mclusky < mclusky do dallas >2002
76.suicide 1977
77.suicide 1980
78.the prids < chronosynclastic >2010
79.moebius and plank <rastakraut pasta >1980
80.fleetwood mac < mirage >1982
81.howlin' wolf < this howling wolf's new ablum , he doesn's like it . he didn'g lke his electric guitar at first either >1969
82.edgar 'jones' jones < soothing music for stray cats >2005
83.smif -n-wessun <dah shinin ' >1995
84.PETE ROCK AND CL SMOOTH < MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER >1992
85.DIAMOND D <STUNTS BLUNTS AND HIP HOP>1992
86.MOBB DEEP <THE INFAMOUS >1995
87.BRAND NUBIAN < ONE FOR ALL >1990
88.SHIT AND SHINE< JEALOUS OF SHIT AND SHINE >2006
89.90 DAY MEN < CRITICAL BAND >2000
90.SANDY DENNY AND THE STRAWBS < ALL OUR OWN WORK>1973
91.FANNY <MOTHER 'S PRIDE >1973
92.THE GO-BETWEENS <16 LOVERS LANE >1988
93.THE WALKMEN <YOU AND ME >2008
94.JUNIOR BOYS < SO THIS IS GOODBYE >2006
95.FIGHT CLUB < CAT FARM FABOO >1984
96.BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB < HOWL >2005
97.SUN RA < THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN DA >1965
98.JACKIE MCLEAN AND MACHAEL CARVIN < ANTIQUITY >1974
99.morrissey < bona drag >1990
100. the buff medways < steady the buff >2002

80.fleetwood mac < mirage >1982

the millions who bought it might disagree with the 'never heard' tag

yeah i mean the drill so far is to go 'lol as if no one's heard (album from the list)!' but i guess one has to bear in mind that the NME target audience is a good generation older than the average person on say ILX for example these days. i'm just very glad NME is introducing the cocteaus, leadbelly, felt and maccarthy etc to a bunch of 18 year olds. or at least trying. i mean.. who else is going to do that? it's especially heartening as NME at this time of year back in the day used to be a poll of bands' faves *from that year*. at least this is an interestinga and valuable alternative.

impressed by a couple of the shout-outs tho, partic to eliane radigue

never expected to see her mentioned in the nme, love zola jesus even more than i did already

nicky wire is a cock but his love of mccarthy does not go unnoticed

i know this post after post crap is nagl but <3 bodines

Any chance of a link to this piece?

i got a pdf from here

Smashing, thanks.

83.smif -n-wessun <dah shinin ' >1995
84.PETE ROCK AND CL SMOOTH < MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER >1992
85.DIAMOND D <STUNTS BLUNTS AND HIP HOP>1992
86.MOBB DEEP <THE INFAMOUS >1995

27.jay farrar / benjamin gibbard <one fast move or im gone :kerouac's big sur >2009
[...]
65.XTC <white music >1978

I don't get the impression these are in any meaningful order, if that's what you're driving at

52.chick corea <my spanish heart >1976

Is this meant to be a lost classic?!

Only jazz record on the list and all......

no, it's supposed to be a record that a reader of the NME circa 2010 would very likely not have heard

xpost not the only one, you missed

97.SUN RA < THE HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN DA >1965
98.JACKIE MCLEAN AND MACHAEL CARVIN < ANTIQUITY >1974

never even heard of the latter — and I'm a jackie mclean fan!

this is a reasonably interesting list imo

like...66.serge gainsbourg < you're under arrest >1987
is a pretty unusual serge album to choose

I think it's great really. This is exactly what I looked to the NME for when I was 13 - 18. And despite the fact it's loads easier to find out and hear new music now, there really are a lot of albums on here that you're not going to stumble across, especially if you don't venture out from indieville that often. Kudos to them.

I really like Guy Garvey a lot but his suggestion of BRMC's third album just appalls me however. Are they really the ones deserving of the props from his record collection? I can't see it somehow.

I mean, it's got Shit and Shine, Pete Rock, Sun Ra, The Buff Medways, Nico and LFO on it... it fucking rules right?

"like...66.serge gainsbourg < you're under arrest >1987
is a pretty unusual serge album to choose"

Glad I'm not the only person to think this. Bit of a Serge stan but never clicked with this one at all.

That said, a surprisingly good list from the NME but I'm a little lost as to who exactly it's aimed at (aside from 18yr olds, maybe). For every leftfield choice there are just as much "well-known-in-its-genre" canonical entries, e.g Da Capo, Odessey, The Infamous, etc.

yeah, there's some good stuff on here. not a massive fan of clor, but they probably were a bit ahead of the curve, to be fair.

although their use of toy keyboards and the singers weedy voice would unfortunately put me in mind of john shuttleworth.

i had the clor album in popular c2005 compression format mp3 and thought it 'unremarkable'

Tbf the list isn't ranked

Remember kind of liking the Clor album at the time but for some reason it gets blurred in my mind with the first Hot Chip release. I suppose it's the aforementioned toy keyboards and weedy voices, I guess.

I prefer the Clor album to any of the Hot Chip ones... not that really means that much. The Clor album (and any by Hot Chip) is a great EP.

Think I still have a promo cd of the Clor album.

Oddessey & Oracle, Da Capo, Zuckerzeit, several others I can't recall are all great suggestions for18 year olds. BRMC is not. Wish there was more jazz, kraut, and some Os Mutantes / tropicalia.

My response - http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/top-ten-records-you’ve-never-heard-if-you’re-a-15-year-old-boy-who-reads-nme/

this break up is still a crap decision.

i have been listening to this album a lot recently and such listenings have massively reaffirmed why this album was one of my faves of 2005, if not the decade ..

Thanks for the reminder, I will dig this record out again, do you know Baringtone? (singer's newest thing)

http://youtu.be/SAYxGBZLQuc

not heard of that !

ta for the pointer ..

turns out that luke smith from clor produced ternion by 'we have band' (last years album).

i picked this up today as a random £3 fopp special.

mainly due to the extra 26 minute remix album that supposed takes the league unlimited orchestra as its influence, and checking the credits revealed this nugget.