The bit at the end of 'The Man With Salt Hair'?
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
This thread is making me want to listen to this album right now. The Telescope & Bonfire/Man With Salt Hair/Game of Eyes run is one of my favourite parts of an album ever.
I really miss this band.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
We don't appear to have talked about the Serpents or the Infinity Chimps on here much...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
the social worker tries, she triesto work out the game of eyes
Good to see some love for this album. It's my favourite of theirs but I don't see it talked about often - not that I see Gorky's talked about enough at all.
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Blooooooood Chant....
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
All those early Ankst single/album covers were ridiculously great. Talk about making a distinct look for a band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
xxxpost:
I dunno, part of me thinks that Gorky's had ran their course by the time they split. Euros used to be prolific and consistently good, now with his solo career he just seems to be prolific... there's the odd good moment here and there though, I think. Richard and John Lawrence were much less prolific songwriters in Gorky's, but they always managed to come up with some sterling stuff... and I can't help but think they lost a little something when John left the band after Gorky 5. They left behind a great deal of good music, though! Even now I'm taken aback by how good some of their B-sides like 'Lucy's Hamper' are.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:21 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Totally agree... especially the sleeve for 'If Fingers Were Xylophones'!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
http://images.45cat.com/gorky-s-zygotic-mynci-if-fingers-were-xylophones-ankst-1.jpg
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
These all look like they should be the cover of a fantasy series. You know, Susan Cooper or something:
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-379127-1131174104.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-565473-1132181513.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-565474-1132180566.jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-2669374-1295807054.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1673794-1295821691.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-576150-1295874982.jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I remember buying those EP'S/singles, it was so exciting to bring them back home every time. Great artwork and some incredible B-sides. The 20 compilation they put out a few years later is one of the best albums I own, almost every song is a winner.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
The fact that at the age of 29, I am actually older than Euros was when the Gorky's put out their final album Sleep/Holiday, just blows my mind!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
* deletes loads of new music off iphone *
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
* loads up all the gorkys for train journey tomorrow *
actually i did listen to Barafundle not long ago and didn't find it half as god as i used to.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
think that one hasn't aged so well. how i long... is what they call 'timeless' tho
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Half as god is still pretty divine, ho ho. *is killed*
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
I still like Barafundle a hell of a lot... it's kinda like a halfway house between their Ankst work and the less "mushroomy" stuff they did afterwards. So on one hand you've got the beauty of 'Sometimes The Father Is The Son', and then on the other you've got the delightfully batshit 'Meirion Wyllt'.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
The 20 compilation they put out a few years later is one of the best albums I own, almost every song is a winner.
I should get that even though the only songs I'm actually missing are the two from the "Gewn Ni Gorffen?" single.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
My god, I'd forgotten how much of a gem 'Methu Aros Tan Haf' was!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5L68LxfuaU
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
In looking back over this thread I'm reminded of how many random lyric/spoken word bits they had that stick in the brain. They were extremely good for that.
"There's no need to worry!""Why's that, Johnny?"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
― Ned Raggett
I think you're only missing the one song which is called 12 Impressionistic Soundscapes, it's hardly essential. I only bought it for that song and just to have all the EP's on one CD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_oSKYiM8ZM
I thought about getting rid of all the singles as I really don't need them but I want to keep them just for the artwork.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
That bit before one of the 'O, Caroline' songs on Tatay where it's all like "For fucks sake, John" is a great moment too!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dgWxAE--w
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
WHEN YOU HEAR THE CAPTAIN SINGYOU KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW YOU SHOULD TAKE OFF THAT RING MARY-ANN!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
As for their albums, Tatay is still my favourite all the way through. Barafundle and Bwyd Time would be close behind. I've gotten rid of a lot of albums over the last few years, Sleep/Holiday is the only Gorkys I've managed to part with. Walking For Winter and Pretty as a Bee are the only keepers on there.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Tatay is just too much fun, it captures their crazier side with some moments of real beauty so perfectly. Yffordd Oren and Kevin Ayers are two my favourite Gorkys moments.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
'Happiness' isn't too bad either, but yeah, totally with you on Sleep/Holiday. Tatay has some wonderful stuff on it... the whole of the 'Anna Apera' suite! ('Gegin Nos' in particular being a favourite).
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Oh god, 'Y Ffordd Oren' is absolutely perfect, one of their best ever songs!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah Happiness isn't too bad. I think Mow The Lawn was their first and maybe only weak single.
Y Ffordd Oren would join If Fingers Were Xylophones and Game of Eyes in my three favourite Gorky's moments.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Contemplating DJing 'Game of Eyes' at Indietracks now, not sure if it'll work - as good as they are the songs aren't necessarily dance-floor fillers.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
I'm obsessed with Cristina despite the awful "magazine-a" rhyme
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
^^^their best song
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
balladic twee-prog stalker folk executed with just the right level of inexplicable wonder and beauty
― imago, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
'Christina' is good and all, but wouldn't make the cut in my own personal Gorky's Top 20.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
― emil.y, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'Barbed Wire' might work!
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Wouldn't Poodle Rockin' be an obvious choice to put in a DJ set? If Bwyd Time was longer maybe that would work?
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
I don't like Poodle Rockin so much, tbh.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
Nah it's one of those crap singles they did - every album seemed to have a silly rocker on it for a while viz Sweet Johnny, Mow The Lawn.
Pretty As A Bee is so beautiful but the only one I like off Sleep/Holiday. Man, that's a band with a weird career arc
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Bwyd Time now. How were they only teenagers when they made this? Love Oraphis yn Delphie
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 07:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0sF4--G3sI&index=5&list=PL0778A7FBC4C07F55
Solo but dang this song is my favorite song of all time right now.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 2 May 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
https://thealbumwall.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/happy-birthday-barafundle-guest-post.html
Some nice words about one of their best albums.
Their solo careers have been really disappointing.
Have any of you heard John Lawrence's stuff? Oh. My. God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAXEjG2VC4
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
That...I did not expect.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
When he left, the band became much less adventurous.
Euros' solo career has just been a string of middling or just ok releases. There have been a couple albums that are almost worth listening to a few times, but he hasn't written a great song in years. I always feel like he just isn't trying, but clearly he just lost it...
― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 8 April 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
I guess you're right but I think he does well with competition and company like most people
I saw them live in 99 or so and they were very good - on the Long to See tour
― calstars, Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Jonny was pretty middling, too, and he was matched with an equally (at least at one time in his life) talented partner.
I've listened to everything Euros has done and hold out hope he'll write another great song. He was a fantastic songwriter at one point in his life. Truly unique and wonderful.
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 9 April 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
With a voice as sweet as honey.
Absolutely love gorkys
How i long still my favourite and an album i listen to after 10 or whatever years
Will have to relisten to barafundle
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 10 April 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link