― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:38 (6 years ago) Permalink
http://download.yousendit.com/DE7C8DC44EE79F97
http://download.yousendit.com/FCD2053C3B705000
have also sent these to yr address. consider them a taster.
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:44 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:46 (6 years ago) Permalink
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:06 (6 years ago) Permalink
Classic indeed.
― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:18 (6 years ago) Permalink
― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:14 (6 years ago) Permalink
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:51 (6 years ago) Permalink
― A Tiny Footpath (Bimble...), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:02 (6 years ago) Permalink
― barnaby69 (barnaby68), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:30 (6 years ago) Permalink
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:21 (6 years ago) Permalink
I just dug out my copy of Houdini because I've been listening to a lot of AR Kane lately and was reminded of LFK. I'm glad others noted the connection, I think for it's the vocals that made the association most immediately. The most amusing part of this is that when I originally picked up the Buttergut EP when it was originally released, I loved the music but found the vocals to be a complete turn-off. Now, the vocals and lyrics are one of the most compelling parts of the record for me. Who says people don't change?
Regardless, this is a completely classic album and it's a shame that it's so thoroughly out of print and unavailable. I never picked up the follow-up albums but just scored them from emusic.
How are Sutherland's novels?
― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
If someone were to ask me right now, I'd name LFK as my favourite band, I think.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 08:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
Please to be telling me if there are any other records out there that do what Amelia does?
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 08:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
PLEASE.
Also did Jamie Watson ever produce / engineer / record anyone else?
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 13:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
Join me in my LFK love, please...
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
and we go full-circle, for this is the thread on which I first alerted NS to cardiacs!
need to get hold of 'amelia' and 'valentino'. amazon it is.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
Amelia might be their best.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
I saw them open for Medicine, way back when...took a first date, she spent the whole set with her hands over her ears...there was no second date!
liked them lots..."medieval hip hop", the Wire wag said...
― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
LFK, Laika, Pram, Moonshake, PJ Harvey, Stereolab...Too Pure was on a roll in those days, eh?
― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hell yeah. And even some of the obscurer stuff still works -- Minxus, for instance. Great album.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
not to mention Seefeel, Mouse On Mars, Th' Faith Healers, Jack, Electrane...such a range...affordable as imports, too...
― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
ElectraLAne...but you knew that...
lol shall we tell him
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
no, he needs to find out the hard way
― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
minxus were great, they got tagged as the poor man's pj harvey though. pity. minxus albums can be found in every bargain bin. when will luke stop making boring music with germans and make another bows album? will he ever?
― keythkeyth, Thursday, 20 December 2007 03:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ooh, two new (to me, anyway) LFK singles arrived today in the mail - I only ordered them yesterday.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
And it's Electrelane, kids.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
BUT NOT ANYMORE BOOHOO
wut, no love for teh Voodoo Queens?
where did it all go pear-shaped with Too Pure? Hefner? Billy Mahonie? Murray the Hump? earlier, even? Seely? the execrable Jack?
― Mr. Hal Jam, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
hefner great through the first album. jack first album great. i think when seely came it was the end. now supposedly they are good again but they aren't really. the bands all seem so small and tinny in comparison.
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 22 December 2007 02:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
Long Kill Fillie.
― jim, Saturday, 22 December 2007 02:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
The first seely record was passable, but I agree that that was the beginning of the end of the unimpeachable excellence that was Too Pure circa 1992-95. I still listen to a good many of those records and many of them hold up well so I don't think it's just nostalgia.
As far as their current roster: with the end of Electrelane, I'm just not very interested. Tracey and the Plastics is just dire.
― Bill in Chicago, Sunday, 23 December 2007 01:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
Bump.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
Good gosh a superduperuber classic.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 22 August 2008 08:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
Every so often I think Amelie might be the greatest British rock record of the last... god, twenty years.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 22 August 2008 08:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
For some reason forgot how much I loved "The Heads of Dead Surfers" until yesterday.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 May 2009 14:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
That's the Mark E Smith one, right? Damn straight it rocks. I need to give this band a full appraisal at some point, if only to appease Southall.
― BIG CHOO-CHOOS aka the steamtraindriver (country matters), Monday, 18 May 2009 14:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
Best band ever.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 18 May 2009 14:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Got Amelia off eMusic a few months ago. Pretty good stuff. One of those records that so totally passed me by, it makes me question how much attention I was actually paying at the time. What the hell else did I miss? Was aware of the band too, it's like they were hiding in plain sight. Anyhow, 'Kismet' seems to be the song I'm listening to the most, wherein they take their basic thing and heat it right up so that eveything starts shimmering just a little in front of your ears.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
Aye, Kismet's awesome; Amelia condenses their earlier work into really frenetic, highly intense packages. I love all three albums. There's a great handful of b-sides, too.
Something I wrote about Amelia a while ago:
http://whatwasitanyway.blogspot.com/2008/02/long-fin-killie-amelia.html
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
Jamie Watson, for reference, produced / engineered the first Snow Patrol album, before they were MOR bullshit.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
I know Jamie, he lives up the street from me. Hate to be pedantic, but Grant Macn@mara did the engineering on the Snow Patrol thing.
― Keith, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
I hate to do something quite so wankerish as this, but unless the sleevenotes are a lie, you're incorrect on this, Keith:
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 18 May 2009 19:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^this guy is bein' a bulldog today
― BIG CHOO-CHOOS aka the steamtraindriver (country matters), Monday, 18 May 2009 19:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's cos I'm 30, innit.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 18 May 2009 19:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
and to think i never wished you happy birthday
happy birthday nick
there now be happy
― BIG CHOO-CHOOS aka the steamtraindriver (country matters), Monday, 18 May 2009 19:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
happy happy happy
Hey Nick, no problem, and indeed it gives me a chance to explain how wankerish I was posting what I did. Happy birthday too!
Grant was my flatmate at the time, but it's Jamie's studio, so he understandably wanted to take the credits... He's done a bunch of things over the years, the Vaselines spring to mind, Idlewild too, but lots more. Grant certainly did a bunch of engineering on that record as I remember being in a pub with them after they'd all been 'at work'; however, I think my main point is a decade long beef about the Long Fin Killie thing, which Grant also did the engineering on... He did the remix of "Lipstick", which was the single, but wound up being credited as "programmed by Grant...", some way down the list from produced and engineered etc. which he was pretty pissed off by at the time, which I understand, as I watched him do it. So on occasion since then, I've tried to redress the balance!
Hope you had a great birthday.
― Keith, Monday, 18 May 2009 23:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
i missed these guys back in the day. finally got houdini recently, and i'm amazed. maybe it's the mancunian accent, but it sounds like elbow bites them so hard it's almost criminal, like witchcraft and black sabbath
― kamerad, Saturday, 5 September 2009 21:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
is luke sutherland over? the Music AM stuff was such a letdown.
― keythkeythkeyth, Saturday, 5 September 2009 21:50 (3 years ago) Permalink