"SAME OLD THING YEAH I KNOW...Everybody does it" The Slits' Cut POLL

I think I like the Peel sessions more than the album :/
FM is a great song!

The Peel session are indeed great. There's another session they did for the second album, pity they didn't include it with the expanded reissue of "Return".

a "second disc" has NEVER, EVER been more worth it in the entirety of bs coin-scraping reissues EVER, if it's making the Peel Sessions properly available again!!

I can't really state that strongly enough! Cut is ace, yes, but the Peel Sessions oh man, there's no shame at all in preferring them to the studio album, none at all.

Yeah, but this also sounds like those fabled 'demo tapes' that the "Y" album was 'supposed' to be...

.. although no "Number One Enemy" ?

didn't really read the above posts properly in my glee there...

didnt Return of the Giant Slits get reissued a couple years back as well...did Dennis Bovell produce that one too?

referring to this:

i always feltd. bovell flattened out and muffled their ideas somewhat on cut (compared to what he did with the pop group on "y", for example) — i like the very scratchy monochrome sound for a while, and then i drift away
by contrast, i've been playing "return of the gigantic" all weekend, which is amazing

(i've still got my giant cut wall poster though — the other jazz insects gave it to me as a birthday present!!) (we were produced by d.bovell also — WE PUT IT IN GIANT LETTERS ON THE SLEEVE as he was a million times more famous than us)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:37 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

oh man I missed this, sounds awesome.

I think mark s was referring to an orig copy, but I'm not sure.

"Return Of The Giant Slits" got reissued a couple of years ago with a bonus disc of remixes. Amazon's got it for $11 used.

Anyone seen Viv Albertine's new band Limerence? They are coming to my town in Feb.

I saw her play solo a couple of months ago, just her & guitar. Funny, bitter songs she wrote around her divorce mostly. No Slits songs. Seems v nice.

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/the-slits-cut-round-13-toms-selection/

Just a brilliant, brilliant album. How can you pick a favourite song?

This album was like a bolt out of the blue when I first heard it *very* late in my musical education. The various remixes and demos that have come out on expanded editions don't tempt me, but the original studio LPs and the Peel sessions are just impeccable. They really make me see the world through different eyes when I listen.

It certainly manages the trick of capturing a moment in time and yet sounding pretty timeless.

would have gone for grapevine cos its an extra on the CD copy i bought for a girlfriend, but i guess it had its own poll recently.

http://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/the-slits-says-they-never-received-royalties-for-debut-album-cut