I think I might now know where that envelope is.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think Reading Writing and Arithmetic is pretty solid, though I'm not as crazy about Wheeler's voice as some. It's that fashion for faux-naive, girlish-sounding voices in early '90s alternative music that dates it a bit. Cf. Kim Deal and Edie Brickell.
― o. nate, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
faux-naive, girlish-sounding voices in early '90s alternative music that dates it a bit
One of the only styles from the 90s I'm still fond of and wish was as widespread now as it was then.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
And yet, if the Sundays came back, they would still have a massive amount of goodwill.
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha that's a great story about the lyrics sheet! very Rough Trade.
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
their cover of Wild Horses is ... somethin else
― surm, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:26 (3 months ago) Permalink
just imagine Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon necking
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
ok now what
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:49 (3 months ago) Permalink
Now take your shirt off.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:51 (3 months ago) Permalink
Always makes me think of Buffy's prom
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:08 (3 months ago) Permalink
Glad pop culture never ruined this song for me. I still think of just listening to it in my room and pining for Harriet.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
ditto
― Cunga, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:23 (3 months ago) Permalink
it breaks my heart
― surm, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:27 (3 months ago) Permalink
Where did they go?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:44 (3 months ago) Permalink
READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC is one of my favorite albums of all time. Equivalent in quality, IMO, to The Smiths' or The Stone Roses' debut LPs.
― Tyler Burns (burns46824@yahoo.com), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:51 (3 months ago) Permalink
mmeeeeee too
― surm, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
Equivalent in quality, IMO, to The Smiths' or The Stone Roses' debut LPs.
I am offended on behalf of The Sundays.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
o SNAP!
― surm, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:53 (3 months ago) Permalink
Correct, though, that this is one of the finest albums.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
Blind gets a lot of stick but imo Goodbye is the best thing they ever did. It has serious bite, none of the whimsy of the debut that doesn't really appeal, and the multiple guitars at the end absolutely slay me.
― ledge, Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:18 (3 months ago) Permalink
I love them so much that I even think Static & Silence is great, adult contempo synth horns and all.
― The Apple Dumpling Gangbang (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:22 (3 months ago) Permalink
agree that "goodbye" is an all-time great song! "those stories were a good read... they were dumb as well" is undeniably classic.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:41 (3 months ago) Permalink
I've listened to RW&A a few times recently, influenced by the fact that it was released 23 years ago this month. 23 years. That's a lot of memories, but every time I listen I still remember listening to it when it first came out; it was my getting ready to go out music, of all things. And, as dear old Bimble wrote in this thread: "I'm 18 years old again when I hear this music.", but it sparkles with the same quiet power even now, and Harriet's voice is pretty, but never drippy or girlish - there's a steeliness to it, and, although her lyrics can be somewhat impressionistic, they also contain lines that are straightforward, brusque or barbed. I do love her phrasing, though. This go around I'm being particularly haunted by "Joy", and how she sings the line "Well you saw him/and you can hardly know", which gives me shivers.
― DavidM, Thursday, 31 January 2013 19:13 (3 months ago) Permalink
― DavidM, Thursday, 31 January 2013 19:18 (3 months ago) Permalink
I don't anticipate them ever falling out of my all-time top five artists.
― The Apple Dumpling Gangbang (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:38 (3 months ago) Permalink