― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
Search: Excuses for Travellers. Great album (their 3rd). Fave track: "Prayer for the Paranoid". Gives me goosebumps. "Out of Tune" has some good upbeat tracks (search "Who Do You Love" and "Some Kinda Angel")
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 January 2004 10:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Friday, 30 January 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:20 (twenty years ago) link
― John 2, Friday, 30 January 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
This is kinda really understatedly nice. The kind of record I could immerse myself within. I'll listen to their other ones too.
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Sunday, 8 March 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this is the best one aside from the debut. I really didn't care for the most recent one.
― akm, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently the most recent one is a bit too cursory and pop-oriented...this, however, is langorous and intriguing, and the opening track is the sort of thing I wind up obsessing over and sticking on repeat for ages
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i love 'spoon and rafter'. the first track reminds of spiritualized's 'let it flow'. they had a bit of ambition on this record that they seeming sloughed off for the last one which was as dull as his solo records are.
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
the first five tracks are all superb! "battle of the broken hearts" is a sort of breezy ambient epic that manages to be both poppy and totally spacious (even though, I agree, the first one is a sort of transcendent redemptive 23rd century devotional)
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Best songwriting is on Excuses- "Prayer for the Paranoid", "My Life In Art", "In Love With A View", etc. It's really the only one I still listen to though "Tomorrow's Taken" and most of the debut remain a personal fave. Haven't heard the latest. I do have a soft spot for Halstead's first solo album, haven't heard his latest either.
"There's a full moon in the sky it makes me gladThat there's something pure in something that I had"
Ok, not exactly Cohen but that first album meant a whole lot to me five or six years ago.
I couldn't really get into that long Bluebird song on Spoon and Rafter- I mean it sounds nice I guess but...that's about it.
Overall, Halstead sounds more often like he's phoning it in rather than inspired.
― ColinO, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe I'll give Spoon and Rafter another shot if I can find it.
― ColinO, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
All the albums are on Spotify, which is where I'm listening to them. Way prefer Spoon & Rafter to the debut on first impressions, although "Candle Song 3" is pretty damn great.
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Sunday, 8 March 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG there's an Ulrich Schnauss remix of Bluebird Of Happiness on Spotify!!!
― they probably drink corporate water (country matters), Sunday, 8 March 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I think this record *might* be better than any Slowdive album
― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Monday, 14 June 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
have only heard the first three albums. i like Out of Tune best (probably the only one), going to make it my point to seek out this album.
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i was so bored by the third album that i never listened to this one. in fact i'd completely blocked out that there was a fifth M3 album, though i partially blame rachel goswell's crappy solo stuff for that
i stand by my first post upthread
― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i will never know why they left their best track from the out of time sessions ('this road i'm travelling') off the album. though i guess at least it got decent exposure in whatever film it was in that i can't recall at the moment
― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it was in election
― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
??? "This Road I'm Travelling" is the seventh track on the U.S edition, not sure if it's different for other versions. that might also be my favorite song by them...
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
well there you go. at least the US office was more sensible
― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Always glad when cuts from Out of Tune pop up on a playlist.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
one of these bands where I'm quite happy with the albums I got - but feel no need to ever purchase another
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ok you guys who haven't heard this one are competely missing out
― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Was quite tempted to go and see Halstead in Oxford.
Was he any good?
― djh, Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
only the goat, dj. only the goat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sjkCAO0_Ds
"bluebird of happiness (ulrich schnauss version)" (2003)
― "guys, remember andy?" remember him?! i am him!! (Austin), Friday, 30 December 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
had a longass gushy post all written out, but nah. fuck that.
definition of a classic, period.
― "guys, remember andy?" remember him?! i am him!! (Austin), Friday, 30 December 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
^Never heard that version… beautiful.
― that's not my post, Friday, 30 December 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
yeah that's the best thing either of them have done (and i like them both!)
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 30 December 2022 04:57 (one year ago) link