― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Alba, I'm glad there's been a spate of Groky threads cos it's made me listen to them loads recently and I think I'm starting to realise they could well be up there with Pavement, Blur and the Boo Radleys as one of my favourite bands.
I even went so far as to burn off a CD-R of the best of their non-weird chillout "How I Long"/"Dyle Fi"-style ballads and they've been the recent soundtrack to my sunny lunchbreaks.
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Er, I didn't mean "Apart from" - I meant "As well as"
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Richard from the band has a country-rock sideproject which I saw the weekend before last. It was pretty nice. Dunno if they've recorded anything
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I should note that my renewed interest in GZM was inspired by realising that every time I was disappointed by some highly rated prog/psych/folk album it was because I wished it was more like Barafundle.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
PERFECT!
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 4 September 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci is one of the best compilations I have ever heard. So perfectly sequenced that it's hard to believe the songs weren't actually recorded for this end. Search that.
― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
They were very good at that Peel thing.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― enjoy bell woods, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci have decided to call it a day and split up.
Richard, Megan, Euros and Pete would like to thank everyone who came to the gigs and bought the records over the years. The re-issues of the first three Gorkys albums - Patio, Tatay, and Bwyd Time - will go ahead as planned and will be released before late 2006.
:-(
This is shit news, first band break up I've been upset about in ages!
And slightly bizarrely, it's currently the number 2 story on the BBC online entertainment news page. Hmm.
― JimD (JimD), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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― LC (Damian), Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― mynci madness, Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― LC (Damian), Sunday, 28 May 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually, Spinal Tap was at the forefront.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
"I say: oren, mefus a chadno!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
We were listening to something the other day (not sure what it was exactly) from when they were really really young where one of their dads comes in at the end of a song and yells at them for the noise. It was great.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Arguably, they were already starting to change direction on Barafundle, which increasingly seems to me to be both a "transitional" record and their most focused work.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Well, of all the solo careers, his is by far the absolute worst, so I'm not sure what did or didn't happen, but I don't think he would've done the band any good in the end.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Richard James is probably the blandest, but he has some pleasant highs.
Euros veers too far into kitsch on almost all of his albums, and the experimental ones are total busts IMO. I think he just rushes his songwriting.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
I think with Gorky's it was basically the usual case of the band being greater than the sum of their parts. I reckon if they all collaborated as they did back in the early days of Gorky's, they could come up with something really good.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
I've always wondered if perhaps John had contributed some songs to what ended up as SDT because he's completely absent from the writing credits, which seemed otherwise unusual as he was all over the others, to the extent of having three solo compositions on Gorky 5.
― PaulTMA, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I always found that unusual too, given that he didn't leave the band until after the LP was completed... it's hard to say what happened there. Either he was going through a dry spell as a songwriter, or he had songs and the band didn't record them for whatever reason - either they didn't fit, or he'd already thought about doing solo stuff. It's hard to say, because not much has really been said about Lawrence's departure.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
see, SDT is overall a 'weirder' album than Gorky 5 so the idea that he was the experimental guy sdoesnt really float
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
and his stuff on Gorky 5 is about the most straightforward he ever did
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 16 April 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
I listened to Sleep/Holiday recently because of this thread - haven't listened to it for years, but was surprised to find I only dislike 3 songs on it.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Another year, another substandard Euros Childs album. Anyone listen to 'House Arrest' yet?
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNI0WFeiZHI
*sigh*
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Those Gorkys albums still remain painfully unaffordable and practically non-existent in LP form. Who can fix this? Also Richard James put out a moody instrumental (synth?) album which I scanned through on bandcamp.
― slightlydazed, Thursday, 13 July 2023 06:04 (nine months ago) link
It's near criminal that you can't hear Bwyd Time anywhere other than YouTube. I'd love a reissue
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 13 July 2023 08:31 (nine months ago) link
I wonder if there'd be lots of interesting unreleased stuff that could be used for expanded versions. Euros has certainly be very prolific as a solo artist.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:39 (nine months ago) link
*been very prolific
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:40 (nine months ago) link
i’ve loved a lot of those Euros albums - his recent all covers album was especially good. It’s just prohibitively expensive to order the LPs in the states.
― slightlydazed, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 07:06 (nine months ago) link