― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
But as the others upthread note, "De Luxe" = winner.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Replace Spooky and Loveless with At War with Satan and What's THIS for...!, replace bubble bath and glass of wine with 40 oz of Crazy Horse and eliminate the reading material entirely and you have my solution.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 April 2006 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
DESIRE LINES
oh man...
― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I found Lovelife for a dollar the other day, it's pretty rad. Very chipper for what appears to be a concept album about breaking up.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 25 January 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I've reintroduced Spooky into my rotation in the last month or so. Somehow, before, my attention had always drifted off by the time the album reached "Monochrome." So I was listening on shuffle the other day and that song came up and absolutely wiped me out; the choruses in particular and the bridge at about 2:15 are Lush at their melancholy best.
I'm really happy about my poor listening habits way back when, because now I get a new favorite song without having to buy another record. It's the small victories.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
spooky is the only lush disc i've never heard in full. i don't know why people are so keen to work with robin guthrie as a producer when he clearly isn't terribly good at it.
― electricsound, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"For Love" > "Sweetness and Light"
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm ... I've never been one to really pay too much attention to production, but I don't notice any thing overtly bad about Spooky. I mean, it sounds pretty damn good to my ears.
A quick scan looks like all their records were produced by him, except for Lovelife.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss Lush.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Early singles are obviously terrific, but Split is easily their best full-length - and one of my favorite records period.
― Pillbox, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(to elaborate on that) Split straddles the middle ground between Spooky and Lovelife and combines the strengths of both: buzzy power-pop & Cocteau/shoegaze dreaminess, whereas the other two LPs lean a bit too far in either direction.
― Pillbox, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
ah but Split transcends the sum of its parts no? I'm with you in saying its one of my favourite records ever.
― Thomas, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
pillbox sort of otm, but to me those slow tracks in the last 2/3rds of split kind of kill its momentum. "lovelife" is my favorite lush song, though, and "kiss chase" might be #2
this was my favorite band in high school. it's been too long. those guitars + miki and emma's voices together was such a rush..
― winston, Saturday, 26 January 2008 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Winston, I'll give you "Never-Never" on you observation (though I still really like that song, I can see how it would drag for others), but if you're referring to "Desire Lines" or "When I Die," you're nuts.
― Pillbox, Saturday, 26 January 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no i loooove "when i die"! "desire lines" i would probably be more ok with if it didn't follow "lovelife" (let alone the previous 4 tracks)
― winston, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
completely love the Guthrieness
― brimstead, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:31 (eight months ago) link
Her twitter follows are abysmal
― PaulTMA, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:36 (eight months ago) link
I think this has been noted itt
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:38 (eight months ago) link
tbh Emma wasn't much better, wall-to-wall FBPE, but maybe less TERFs
cool. binning them asap nothing was lost really
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:15 (eight months ago) link
what does "wall-to-wall FBPE" mean
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:17 (eight months ago) link
FBPE = follow back pro-europe. basically a Twitter siren for centrists for whom nothing matters but Brexit. NB I did not vote for Brexit just tbc. basically a load of "sensible" twats who "hate the Tories" but want to replace them with people who will enact policies that are almost exactly the same as the Tories but they might grimace a bit and say sorry before they do it.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:20 (eight months ago) link
wonder if a 'Glasgow' label will reissue them next
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:33 (eight months ago) link
ah see I keep seeing references to this but I don't know which label this refers to
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:34 (eight months ago) link
I appreciate Guthrie’s contributions. I’m not sure that Lush themselves were capable of making a great album 100% all on their lonesome. Guthrie’s production is no different than, say, the strings on Split that give that album the extra edge.
― Melomane, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:40 (eight months ago) link
I dislike both Guthrie’s Christmas tree production and how weak 60% of Spooky’s songs are. Found Emma’s twitter tedious but hadn’t realised Miki was a reactionary as well.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 29 July 2023 12:08 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-qPHoqr74This film on the criterion streaming?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:44 (three weeks ago) link
Yep, in the US anyway
― brimstead, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:56 (three weeks ago) link