any views on the 'raw and the remix' versions?
― Bob Six, Monday, 31 December 2007 20:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
I love this thread.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 01:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
Timely revive...good Dolly Parton cover version here.
― dabug, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 02:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
Revive again.
I heard "Good Thing" on my way to Citarella yesterday, and it made the clouds part. Great stuff.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
did they do anything better than that?
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like "the Flame" as well. And "Tell Me What". And "Johnny Come Home" is flawless.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
WEIRD. I've been listening to "Blue," "Johnny Come Home," and the glorious "Don't Look Back" all week, "Don't Look Back" is a 12-string cousin to the Beat's "Best Friend."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
'blue' is amazing
― electricsound, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Raw & The Cooked was being advertised, on pink & grey posters, on bus stops in February 1989. It is for the memory of those days, and the prominence they had then in British life, that I have what fondness I have for the band. And 'She Drives Me Crazy', surely a #1 45 back then, will do as the musical emblem.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
As I said upthread, it's still remarkable that they scored two #1 hits and adlbum stateside.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
They are rated quite highly on amg
Now I can groove to FYC when the mood strikes and all, d then there's this: Then, and I actually really respect Jo-Ann Greene as a critic, but there are bold, unqualified proclamations, anof course, there's "She Drives Me Crazy," which features the most unique, and instantly identifiable, beat/riff combination of the decade.
― Pillbox, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
Whoa - that post got all sorts of fucked up. I'll try again
They are quite highly rated on amg
Now I can groove to FYC when the mood strikes and all, and I actually really respect Jo-Ann Greene as a critic, but there are bold, unqualified proclamations, and then there's this: Then, of course, there's "She Drives Me Crazy," which features the most unique, and instantly identifiable, beat/riff combination of the decade.
― Pillbox, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdIAbHzxmg
lol awesome dancing
― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 01:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
god, "Don't Look Back"
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
"I'm Not The Man I Used To Be" is absolutely killer.
― Euler, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Can't argue with that.
― when i was your age i was thinking about how to kill people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 December 2009 18:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
good thread, good band
― Cunga, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
one of the first tapes i ever owned
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
checked. i do have the finest on my hard disc (so i can drop various tracks onto my wifes mp3 player as she loves'em). so, thats today sorted. i actually got the 2 cd edition of the finest that came with an extra disc of time stampled remixes. one track i seem to recall featuring the cookie crew !?!classics : the flame, good thing, blue, don't look back, i'm not the man i used to be, funny how love is (the echo'd trumpet opening is very sweet), etc.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 May 2011 07:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's a tragedy that this song has more or less fallen into obscurity when it should've been, like, the biggest single of that year and on the radio for years to come:
Also:
i wonder if i will always be obsessed with pop music from 1987-1992
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, April 6, 2004 2:53 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cosigning as hard as I can. The only era that's any competition for '70s AM gold in my heart.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 05:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I remember making my dad listen to The Raw and The Cooked when we were driving somewhere and that's when he explained to me what falsetto was. Good album, but also educational.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 05:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
And the videos were super instructive on the Kubrick stare. Educational band all 'round.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 10, 2009
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
It peaked at #11 in the States but it's better than "Good Thing." Not many bands stapling 12-string Beat guitar and sequencers in 1989's top 40.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
So I just went ahead and made this happen:
Forgotten late-'80s/early-'90s pop singles
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink