the Boo's fourth best album unless you include Learning To Walk than it drops down one more slot.
― Bee OK
I'm guessing you rate Giant Steps as the best (Only Geir doesn't) how would you rank the other albums?
Voted for New Brighton Promenade in the end, could have gone for Ride The Tiger, Everything is Sorrow, Four Saints or One Last Hurrah. Love this band.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
Agree that Bullfrog Green should have been a single. I like the psychedelic bit in that song but it feels a little tacked on. Ride The Tiger too - a good pop song that sounds like Carr wanted to 'weird up' and add some backwards shit in the middle 8. I love their weirdness, but on these tracks it sounds a bit forced. Not so much on Four Saints, which I'm glad is getting props here as I always thought I was alone in thinking of it as a highlight. If C'mon Kids had been full of tracks as effortlessly bizarre as this, it would have earnt its reputation as the most out-there Boos record. Speaking of which, I think it's a shame the band went to such lengths in covering up their little idiosyncrasies - editing the stranger bits out of their single versions and pretty much only releasing straight-up pop songs as A-sides (resulting in a skewed public perception of them as a happy clappy no-nonsense pop band).
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
i am moderately fond of Giant Steps but had not heard this album, so this thread inspired me to listen to it. kinda wish i hadn't. voted for track 1 because it's all downhill from there.
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Sad I missed this. Would've been a tough call between "Everything Is Sorrow" and "Bullfrog Green." Prefer Wake Up! and Kingsize as records but these songs are as experimental and successful as anything Martin Carr ever did.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
I remember we went to a 'preview' gig around this time. Arthur Baker was stood in front of us, seemed unusual at the time.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
Two people think Meltin's Worm is the highlight of this record???
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a huge fan and they are by far my favorite band of the 90's and i even own every single. i also have a slightly different order than probably most.
1. Kingsize2. Giant Steps3. Learning To Walk4. Wake Up!5. C'Mon Kids6. Everything's Alright Forever
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
1= C'mon Kids1= Kingsize3= Giant Steps3= Wake Up!5. Everything's Alright Forever
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
1. Giant Ste;s2. Kingsize3. C'mon Kids4. Wake Up5. Everything's Alright Forever6. Learning To Walk7. Ichabod & I
Looks like Kingsize should be the next album to get a poll. Really glad other people rate that album.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
1. Giant Steps2. Kingsize3. Everything's Alright Forever4. Wake Up5. Ichabod & I6. C'mon Kids7. Learning To Walk
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
1 giant steps2 everything's alright forever3 wake up4 c'mon kids5 kingsize6 learning to walk7 ichbod & i
― keythhtyek, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
1. fuck off2. you bollocks3. stick the 90s4. up your bollocks5. fucking indie6. wank7. wank wank wank wank wank
― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
ignore the troll
― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
anyways these list are interesting as everyone is having different opinions of what are the best album. Kingsize is interesting, when i was on the bravecaptain board it seems like a bunch of hard core fans really, really like that album. like the jewel of the Boo Radleys albums that casual fans seems to dismiss.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe i trolled another fucking indiestalgia poll
― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
kingsize is pretty good, let down by containing their most wretched track "free huey"
― ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
er, xpost
Kingsize prob the most Brave Captain-friendly album so
hard to disagree w/ NV's premise tbh
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
but every thread i see him post in it negitive.
this is ILM, it's a board to discuss music (iirc), if he is not interested in the thread than stay the fuck out.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
it it's
.. and yet the brave captain himself was very ho-hum about the album
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
It's a bored, dying album by a bored, dying band. Giant Steps is the only full length I return to with any frequency.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:23 (eleven years ago) link
Kingsize-era Boos has some great ideas let down by some very precious songwriting. I feel that Carr's lyrics became increasingly insipid after Wake Up, to the point where most Brave Captain material makes me reel.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
tbh, irrespective of my feelings about this shite, i crossed the line into boorish cuntiness and i'd like to apologise Mr OK
― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link