Tindersticks : classic or dud

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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I can't wait!

just be prepared...apparently it's *very* unpleasant

I have to confess that I gave up on "Trouble Every Day" for its grim-ness ... but the soundtrack is one of my favourites.

Is there a better song to be listening to when you open your second bottle of red?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9MY-tQbpw

Possibly the 'Can Our Love' EP, or Travelling Light, but you make a pretty strong case.

Just testing out the theory that *this* might be the right track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmHvU8w6hQ

I don't think you have the right to cut off one track from their first album. It is of one piece, one long trip into a night soaked in red wine and fogged in fume.

That's a good point, well made. But this isn't about "best track" or anything like that - it's about the track that would seem right when you were opening your *second bottle of red*.

Travelling Light for me, in that case!

* Opens second bottle of red, pours a glass, plays "Travelling Light" *

No, not quite right.

City Sickness?

The first album is the only example of an 80-minute album that completely justifies its length

Can anyone inform me on these recent re-issues? If I understand well there are vinyl re-issues of the first three albums or so? Funny thing is that I saw a cd-reissue of the first album with a second disc that contains demos. Amazon lists a cd re-issue of "Curtains" as well from last year but it's only a single disc, whereas at one point (2004?) there was a 2cd version. So I guess the conclusion is that there are different cd and vinyl re-issues here?

the second album is better. xp

^ God, I could see this turning nasty.

the truth is that from the first three albums there's everyone's favourite T album and they can decide which tracks they'd add to what is their preferred album to make it actually the best for you.

Unless you think Simple Pleasure is the best.

Yeah ... but ... I'm testing out the "you've just opened a second bottle of red, what Tindersticks song should be playing?" question.

'Until the Morning Comes' might work.

If You're Looking For A Way Out.

no

Dying Slowly.

Mistakes
My Oblivion
Blood
Factory Girls
How He Entered
Tiny Tears
Another Night In
Can Our Love
No Man in the World
Kathleen

all immediately spring to mind

That's a good list but I can't make a judgement. Am well beyond "just opened a second bottle of red".

My first Tindersticks album story: I'd been travelling in Australia (99 into 2000) and while I was there my folks came to visit. We were in a hotel room in Melbourne and my mum called her doctor. Unbeknownst to us, she'd been having tests for breast cancer and the doctor told her, over the phone, that they'd need to see her urgently when they got back. They left two days later, and I caught the bus back to Sydney where I was living. I was in a weird state of fragile delirium anyway, reeling from the news, and the understanding that I wouldn't see them again for six months, and for whatever reason decide to play the first Tindersticks album. I'd had it for a number of years and sort of knew it - more like I knew certain streets on a city map rather than the totality of the city itself. Well, the journey was 24 hours or so, and I played it pretty much the whole way, letting auto-reverse deal with switching sides as I drifted in and out of sleep. I think we all emerge from journeys like that changed anyway, but I'm sure I walked off the bus in Sydney forever altered. Something had shifted in my understanding of mortality and my relationship to my parents, and somehow the album had become woven into that process, become something approaching metabolised, incorporated. I still see the album as architectural, and certain sections are like stumbling along obscure corridors and alleyways, others like walking into sunlit courtyards, light doubling water-caught in pools. For all that, in 25-odd years of listening to it, I don't feel like I've ever reached its centre. It's a glorious enigma.

now that is a post.

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"Factory Girls" is one of those great "missed [by me]" Tindersticks songs (These are generally from Hungry Saw and Falling Down a Mountain) ... Thanks for pointing it out ... though I think it would be better placed around 2/3 down the second bottle.