Marc Riley has made a far greater contribution to pop than his mate Redcliffe has or will, by the way.
I like how the Tindersticks embraced soul a little more on the last record. The downbeat end of disco, and the country side of Hi work beautifuuly for them.
Tim
― Tim, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
If its more soul tinged I might go for it. Nice to see them doing the theme tune to The Sins though (good What Is A Man cover). On balance classic - but perhaps they have boxed themselves into a corner.
― Pete, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I like some of the music. The backing to 'Can we start again?' is lovely. They're great for sending you off to sleep, too.
I've still got my 'City Sickness' single - is it worth anything?
― Nick, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jens, Monday, 5 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Actually all I was saying was that, back on the night show, it was customarily referred to on air and elsewhere as "The Mark Radcliffe Show". The phrase "Mark and Lard" only came into common use after they went daytime. And yes, I do think their schtick now is pretty cheesy, with an unhealthy professional Northerners' element coming in. Still the only intelligent and clever thing on daytime R1, though.
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 5 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
When you say that Marc Riley has contributed more to music than Radcliffe, do you mean with The Fall (agreed) or with the Creepers (can't comment because I've genuinely never heard them).
Out of interest, Tim, what will you be doing on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th March?
― Ally C, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
No, I don't actually know the difference between parody and pastiche.
― Geordie 'Uneducated' Racer, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kali-come-a-hunting, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― scott p., Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i don't know the records at all, but i'd really *really* recommend seeing them live.
― rener, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i know of: the one with the ballet dnacer on live at bloomsbury curtains that film soundtrack donkeys a simple pleasure the one before simple pleasures
what order did these all come in? my first one was the live album and i only bought curtains which wasnt as good at all.##
― ambrose, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
'Tindersticks' - '93 'Tinderstick's Second Album' - '95 'Live at Bloomsbury' -'96 'Curtains' - '97 'Donkeys 92-97' - '98 'Simple Pleasures' - '99 'Can Our Love... ' - 2001
I think that's right. They've also done a couple of soundtrack albums as well. And it's all good stuff.
― DavidM, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ktrey, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
http://www.tindersticks.co.uk/reissues.html
i'm implausibly excited about getting the remastered first album. maybe the 2nd, too, although i already have the bloomsbury set on cd and i never like the 2nd album as much as the first, anyway. but the first album...
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 11 March 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 11 March 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link
I checked the third album and that was nowhere near as good so I just stopped bothering with them.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link
If they'd released all this bonus material etc. as a boxset then I might well have been tempted (I'm a great big sucker for boxsets at the best of times) but being asked to fork out again for four albums I already own and a Greatest Hits I've already got every track on, to get this stuff just feels like a rip-off.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
101's currently cheapest if you're going to buy something else as well, otherwise by the time you've paid a quid for postage & packing it works out the same as Play (£7.99).
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the "old" un-remastered single disc versions of all those albums kicking around extremely cheaply once the new ones come out 'though....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link
The Bloomsbury Theatre one seems to be the only one that isn't still available in the original version.... if it's that good it might make re-purchasing the 2nd studio album a little more pallatable 'though.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:34 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 11 March 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 11 March 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 March 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 March 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 12 March 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
funnily enough the female vocals are by her out of huggy bear, greeham coxon's ex. endearingly nasal.
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 12 March 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
― holojames (holojames), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 13 March 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Saturday, 13 March 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I meant to post here! it's better than I was fearing and "man alone" does make more sense in context, and I love how "lady with the braid" blooms so gradually. I need to spend more time with this and the previous album too.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
that bit where the bass and strings play in unison >>>>
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
the "man needs a maid" cover is revelatory
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Lady with the Braid is one of my favourite songs. I'm not sure I'd like any cover of it but I really don't like this one.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
I've not got the new album at all (it's the first album by them I've not bought but it has sounded ignorable when I have played online) but I accidentally played the last Stuart A Staples album (I was playing something alphabetically before on my MP3 player) and it sounded incredible/just right.
― djh, Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
i guess no one's bumped this thread since the record came out but it's really fantastic imo― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:28 PM
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:28 PM
Oh man, it really is! Haven't kept up with their releases in the last decade or so (except for The Waiting Room, of which a cutout was handed to me) but this is gorgeous. I agree that the Staples' vocal loop in the opening track doesn't work (for me) but it turns out there's a Charles Webster (!) Mix that doesn't use the loop and is vastly superior. So I created an album playlist that swaps the original Man Alone with the CW Mix and ends with the CW Dub Mix and that's about perfect
― willem, Monday, 31 May 2021 09:21 (two years ago) link
Solo album
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/187737-david-boulter-lovers-walk
― djh, Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
^ Liking this a lot on a couple of plays.
Bleak but nice.
― djh, Friday, 18 June 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
It's captured me more than "Yarmouth". That might be words sucking me in a bit.
Tindersticks "Across Six Leap Years" included a couple of re-recordings from Staples' albums and ... some of the tracks here could as happily sit on their albums. That said, its very conceptual (by which I mean there is an over-arching narrative) and personal. It's beautiful.
― djh, Sunday, 20 June 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
Found a random compilation I'd made and put it on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kSYlZUZL66QSicP4dVPeB
I'm not sure if there was any criteria/rhyme/reason.
A CD-R worth rather than the "Bottle 1, Bottle 2" extravaganza posted further up. I do spend a lot of time on this thread talking to myself, drunk, don't I?
― djh, Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
Seems amazing that 1000 copies of the Boulter album haven't just flown out of the shops.
― djh, Monday, 5 July 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
It’s a very good album. I notice Monorail are stocking it too now.
― hamicle, Monday, 5 July 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that's what made me notice that it hadn't just sold out.
― djh, Monday, 5 July 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
idk I'm a massive Tindersticks fan but I'm not really interested in hearing this since Staples isn't involved.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 5 July 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
I'm not absolutely sure how the work is divided (never actually checked the credits) but it is worth hearing.
I've been less keen on Staples' voice on more recent recordings (though I think he's been trying to be creative and do interesting things).
― djh, Monday, 5 July 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
oh? I have to check that out then - what does he do, death metal growls? Belting tenor?
― StanM, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 05:57 (two years ago) link
Anyway, there's a tour with orchestra booked for next spring which I'm super looking forward to. The write-up on the website suggests that the sets may have a retrospective feel, which would be welcome. A "career-spanning" compilation is also planned.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 07:27 (two years ago) link
Enjoying this tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t3iOjLIDPI
I like the bits where the drummer is a bit "Animal from the Muppets". I'm guessing they disliked each other by this point.
I play "Ballad of Tindersticks" a lot. Best song about burn out, I think.
― djh, Thursday, 26 August 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
dud
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 27 August 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
Pondering a "rowdy" Tindersticks play list - "Fast One" and "4:48 Psychosis" being the obvious starting points.
What should be on there?
― djh, Monday, 30 August 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
"Her" off the first record?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
"City Sickness"?
― henry s, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
whiskey and water could be done in a pretty rowdy style
― akm, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 05:40 (two years ago) link
So far ...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xkrEf49hQpLCMZyyFoWnZ
― djh, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 08:32 (two years ago) link
gotta say, some beautiful Tindersticks energy on this new Liminanas/Laurent Garnier record (don't be put off by the cover)
https://theliminanas.bandcamp.com/album/de-pel-cula
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
There's a new David Boulter Xmas-y thing here:
https://claypipemusic.greedbag.com/
― djh, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
There's a lot of red.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 19 December 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
New career-spanning box set now up for pre-order:
https://shop.cityslang.com/products/past-imperfect-the-best-of-tindersticks-92-21-4lp-box-set-exclusive-7-inch
There's also an ultra-limited run of 300 clear vinyl copies via Rough Trade.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 17 January 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
It's a bit difficult to be very excited about that. And I love Tindersticks.
― djh, Monday, 17 January 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfAu_MmvEw
― djh, Saturday, 12 February 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
An instrumental playlist (draft/early version):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20d7vs21rgUxh8vS9fGJjt
Need to go back to the soundtracks with red wine.
― djh, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
Not sure if the recent David Boulter mini-CD has been posted on other threads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLM-b5kHJI
― djh, Thursday, 16 February 2023 07:12 (one year ago) link
My Tindersticks Spotify playlists:
Songs for the cathttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kSYlZUZL66QSicP4dVPeBNamed on the highly twee idea that my cat is happy listening to Tindersticks. A single CD best of.
A Tindersticks Discohttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bemoNJ96EBMOhClH4ZJ27The original versions of some songs covered by the Tindersticks interspersed with Tindersticks songs - think I'd originally meant to create a sort of imaginary Tindersticks DJ Kicks but got too drunk. (Curiously, I was pondering what would be the inspiration for their first album songs, the other day).
Bottle 1, Bottle 2https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qyrg5nOGWRfDofEbvF0fJSelf-explanatory. Supposed to cover the arc of an evening.
Closing Titleshttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/20d7vs21rgUxh8vS9fGJjtInstrumentals (Could do with being edited to include more soundtrack recordings).
A drunk shouts outside your windowhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xkrEf49hQpLCMZyyFoWnZRowdier tracks!
― djh, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 18:07 (eight months ago) link
I was just thinking about the first timr I met their one time manager James Endicott sitting in a van talking to Norman from Boy Hairdresser after the Primal Scream gig that had been Dinosaur (jr)'s London debut because of a Teenage Fanclub t-shirt somebody shared a photo of earlier.Like just a couple of minutes before I saw the thread revival.
Saw them in the Olympia in Dublin in the late 90s. Do enjoy the records too.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 23:27 (eight months ago) link
Thanks for the playlists, djh! Been curious about Tindersticks for a while but never checked them out, will have a listen to that cat one when I have a moment
― vexingvexillologist, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 12:38 (eight months ago) link
Are there obvious influences on "Her"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS50FPRMiQ8
By which I mean ... If I like this what (non-Tindersticks) music would I enjoy with my bottle of red?
― djh, Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:58 (eight months ago) link
God idk. I love that album so much. Whenever I feel like listening to Nick Cave or The National I mostoften just switch over the Tindersticks instead
― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:23 (eight months ago) link
Enjoying this, by David Boulter: https://davidboulter.bandcamp.com/album/five-nights-in-maine-soundtrack
― djh, Sunday, 3 March 2024 10:52 (one month ago) link
A friend asked if I'd make a compilation of what I thought Tindersticks would play on their tour later this year - they've not really followed them after their third or fourth album:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iU2G4AnPQ16fXelETcfVx
This is based on what they were playing in 2023 ... and doesn't include anything from "Distractions" (which I don't really know) or their new album. Threw in some recent tracks I like. Imagine that they play "Her" or "Marbles" or something as an encore.
Enjoy with red wine.
(As I did).
― djh, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:19 (two weeks ago) link
Another new David Boulter album coming up as well as a Tindersticks album this year.
Does anyone keep up to date with Dickon's projects? Or others?
― djh, Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:06 (six days ago) link
I thought his music for The Lost Daughter was excellent.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 19 April 2024 04:40 (five days ago) link
Thanks for the tip-off, bbee.
― djh, Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:12 (four days ago) link