Tindersticks : classic or dud

But nothing beats the Odyssey cover. I didn't know it was a cover for many years.

I'd have to make room for "Can We Start Again?"

Tellingly, there's nothing here from the second incarnation of the band, which accurately represents the nosedive in quality that took place. The only recent song I would put on this drinking CD would be "Hey Lucinda", which dates from the first period anyway.

re: songs they've covered, I got curious about the full list myself. I think this is all of 'em (at least in terms of the studio recordings):

Pavement, "Here"
Odyssey, "If You're Looking For a Way Out"
David Bowie, "Kooks"
Otis Redding, "I've Been Loving You Too Long"
Townes Van Zandt, "Kathleen"
Lee Hazlewood, "The Girl On Death Row"
Lee Hazlewood, "My Autumn's Done Come"
Four Tops, "What Is a Man"
R. Dean Taylor, "Shadow"
Ann Peebles, "One Way Street"
Tom Waits, "Mockin' Bird"
Hot Chocolate, "Put Your Love In Me"
Psychic TV, "Just Drifting"

the nu-era still produces 3-4 great songs per album but it's definitely a different feel.

There's also the Bond theme "We Have All The Time In The World".

And you could almost have "Take Me" by George Jones, which is on a Chris & Carla album but is effectively a Tindersticks song as they all play/sing on it.

if there's ever anyone else, i'll understand, and kill him

"I've Been Loving You Two Long".

See, I really was drunk.

Could definitely have included more from "Simple Pleasure". "How He Entered" is from the most recent album.

"I've Been Loving You Two Long".

best otis redding song about a ménage-à-trois.

a very, very successful ménage-à-trois,

Post "curtains" I think this band have only had 2-4 good songs per album. But what songs they are! I say that as a huge fan. The hungry saw is pretty great.

New album in June:

https://tindersticks.bandcamp.com/

Weird. Only just heard this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyyVEiXCawQ

Like it so much more than the version that appeared on the album.

Will they ever tour the states?

i liked em way back when but damn that singer went to the dentist a lot

Great band. After the 2nd album I had the impression they are finished they are just repeating themselves. But somehow they managed to come back. I really enjoyed the something rain.

Tindersticks. Bottle of red. Jazz chair. Quietly contented.

Weird. I love Tindersticks but played "Falling Down A Mountain" and "The Hungry Saw" so little that playing them now feels like playing new albums, more or less.

"Pink Up" on the new Spoon album giving me mildly Tinderstickian feelings.

Are there (m)any more covers that on the list above and the emails that follows? Feels like there should be more.

You'd think so, but not that I'm aware of!

Felt sure that I'd be able to make an awesome CD based on their covers ...

"i liked em way back when but damn that singer went to the dentist a lot"

i don't know what that means

I feel lucky to have caught them live 3 times, once with elliot smith, once with someone else, don't remember; and last doing a film festival gig in front of Clare Denis snippets. would love it if they'd come to the states again. I imagine it's very expensive for them.

New album from Stu-y:

https://tindersticks.bandcamp.com/album/arrhythmia

Giddy with excitement about my Stuart Staples listening party at the weekend.

Me, the cat, a bottle of red. Enjoyed the new album. A curious one.

It is quite curious. Can't say it ranks among Tindersticks/Staples best, but even mediocre Staples is still Staples.

Memories of Love is gorgeous. I love the gamelan-ish end section.

Did not know he released a new album, here's a selection of albums that inspired it. Great read.
http://thequietus.com/articles/24862-stuart-a-staples-interview-tindersticks-favourite-albums

Listening to the most recent Thomas Belhom record based on the blurb here - extremely cool, definitely shares a lot of DNA w/ Tindersticks

Lots of those make absolute sense in the context of the new album. 'Music For A Year in Paintings' reminds me a lot of 'He Loved Him Madly'.

I took a stab at making a decent 'sticks retrospective that could feasibly fit onto one CD80. It's basically impossible, even with "Trouble Every Day" not being on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/6MrId9bvkrLkQorrk1Q3YJ?si=q37N7NQdQiKiseMQsLU0tg

where the fk is Travelling Light, you madman?

I only had room for one duet in that style and I slightly prefer "Buried Bones"!

madman!

There's a genuine risk that I might get drunk and order all Staples' favourite albums (that I haven't got already).

It's a Tindersticks night. *Opens second bottle of red*.

Put on the second album tonight and happened to pay attention to the lyrics on “My Sister” for the first time. Dark.

to say the least!

Does anyone have some guidance on the best way to acquire the first two albums, at least, on vinyl? Per Discogs, there are a ton of editions and reissues just of those two records and some can be quite expensive.

did stuart et al do the score for the new claire denis? i don't recall seeing this mentioned in the reviews, but they've been working together consistently for 20 yrs.

I have and am happy with the Music on Vinyl pressing of the second album. Don’t have the first so can’t comment on that. I think there are versions on Plain; the label has a poor reputation so would avoid those.

I also have the MOV pressings of ‘Curtains’ and ‘Simple Pleasure’. Both have been expanded to include the full contents of the deluxe CD versions. Fine for the latter, the original album was a single LP, but a bit awkward for ‘Curtains’ as the original was a double LP at 45rpm. The reissue sounds ok, though I’d rather they’d replicated the original.

the full contents of the deluxe CD versions.

jeez, are they like five LP sets or something?

Both doubles! There’s a lot squashed into the ‘Curtains’ reissue. Given that the last two copies of the original pressing to sell on Discogs went for €150 and €160 I’ll stick with the £20-whatever reissue.

Gummy, The High Life score is by Stuart, rather than Tindersticks.

It’s been a long time coming - Stuart began work in 2014 - but finally 'High life' is ready to meet the world.
Starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, and set on a prison ship travelling through space, the film has an extensive original score written by Stuart, and includes a new tindersticks song, ‘Willow’, which is beautifully sung by Robert himself.

Toronto International Film Festival

More details soon.

Thank you for the input!

i couldn't be more excited to see that shit.

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