I'd like to announce the formal release of _The Five EPs_ by Disco Inferno

I'll have full details later, but Ian Crause contacted me earlier today to confirm this news.

* Its current release date is September via One Little Indian

* Fuel, the designers of the original single sleeves, will be doing a new cover for this collection.

There's other news but I'll save that for later. I'd just like to say that this is really one of the most enjoyable pieces of news I've ever received, and I'm very, very glad to have played a small part in the story of the band. I can't thank them all enough for the work they did all those years ago.

Anyway. Just wanted to pass that on to everyone.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6iK5oZSY-Go/Rsru2vIuPdI/AAAAAAAABD0/4s1Q3rs028w/s400/yay.jpg

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

Color me insanely excited for this, will be ordering as soon as it is physically possible.

neat!

hey, that's fantastic news...it's been a long time comin', but REALLY looking forward to this now.

Thrilling news! This was long, long overdue.

Whoa

I will part with whatever amount of shekels they ask for for a copy. They deserve it.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

:-)

This is great news! Another eager customer here.

Ned, you state your role in this great occasion with great humility. As one of the many Disco Inferno fans who can trace their appreciation directly back to you, let me just say thanks for keeping the flames burning these past years, and congratulations on helping to make a dream come true.

Just did what I could. Much thanks.

Srsly Ned you're the reason I discovered these guys.

cool now i can finally pay for them :)

Hey Ned you'll finally be able to find out what the correct track titles are for 'A Rock To Cling To'!

They were actually called "Deef the Wonder Horse" and "Fred, A Carpenter's Tale"

Great news, can't wait!

although i welcome this news, am i the only one who feels like something somewhat private might get torn away? i mean, disco inferno was always that group i could go to when i met another music nazi... but i guess di go pop and technicolour got rereleased without my world falling apart... still, they are my secret weapon of "i am better than you" death-to-nazis...

there'll always be something else

yeah, this is def good news

although i welcome this news, am i the only one who feels like something somewhat private might get torn away? i mean, disco inferno was always that group i could go to when i met another music nazi... but i guess di go pop and technicolour got rereleased without my world falling apart... still, they are my secret weapon of "i am better than you" death-to-nazis...

― zingzing, Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yeah, 'cause there's going to be a huge advertising campaign, placards at HMV, video hits, the works.

Hooray for Ned!

Ned is a HERO

brilliant news!

About ten years overdue, but hey, I'll take it anyway. Nice work, Ned!

Congratulation Mr. Raggett!

Congratulation to NEDGMT for their upcoming album.

i missed-out on this group the first time around. i've heard almost nothing from them.

is what's currently available on emusic a good and/or representative sampling of their work?

By the way, Ned, you introduced me to this band also. I treasure my CDr copy of The Five EPs and I will buy the shit out of this formal release as well. Cannot thank you enough for introducing me to this collection of tunes.

I only really got into this band last year and had been holding off downloading the EP's until they got re-released, I finally caved last week. I knew this would happen!

I'm really excited though, they are an incredible band.

OK, my curiosity has finally gotten the better of me. Mr Raggett, what was your role in this band?

bongos obv

"The Long Dance" has appeared on many a mix, congrats on the release.

What exactly are the mp3s I have been listening to, just a mutt fan comp?

skip:

Ned has offered CD-Rs of the long, long out of print 5 EPs, gratis, for almost a decade. D.I. is appreciated today on ILX and in the larger world far more than in their own day in no small part due to Ned's enduring fandom.

Thanks, that's good to know. I saw them at the Purcell Room sometime around '95 or so. It was a pretty uninspired gig tbh and the frontman acknowledged as much with his parting words from the stage, which were something like "thanks, that was pretty shoddy". In fairness it was a totally unsuitable venue for them. Don't know the studio releases, will check them out.

In fact now I come to think of it I'm fairly sure they were supporting some other band that night but I can't remember who it was.

Excellent news.

Thanks for the info Sanpaku. I would see the two full-length albums at Amoeba all the time and kind of took it for granted that the 5 EP's was a proper compilation.

There's other news but I'll save that for later.

I'd like to think this involves the esteemed Mr. Raggett writing the liner notes for a compilation he basically willed into existence. It would certainly gel with the timeline of his being contacted ~5 months before the release.

But, I suspect we'll know more when the time's right.

finally be able to replace that low quality cd-r rip some guy burned for me ;)

Thanks all -- first, just to clear up a quick point that's weighed on my mind a bit since reading some of the initial reactions, I had no role at all in the plans for a formal release! I had heard some rumblings here and there over the last couple of years but Ian's note to me yesterday was the first formal confirmation. So I'm sorry for any confusion that may have resulted.

To answer ilxor's post just upthread -- sleevenotes will not be included with the collection, per Ian's wish, but I will receive a credit in the liner notes, which I'm more than fine with. Good friend/ILX veteran donut b., who helped in the initial creation of the project, will also get a much deserved credit. I've been lucky enough to be in a number of liner note mentions here and there over time -- Jennifer Gentle, Bobb Trimble, among others -- but this is the pinnacle so far.

I am however planning some sort of story or something to appear concurrently with the release and will be talking to a couple of folks this weekend at EMP about it. At the very least, being the person doing this for a decade is a story in and of itself.

Speaking of which -- as you might guess, this also means the end of the CDR burning project, which I'm more than happy to stop now that this is occurring. There are a couple of folks who have outstanding requests for a copy out -- I hope nobody minds if I ask them to be patient at this point for the formal release. This is a task that I was glad to have done all these years and which I am even gladder is no longer necessary. The work will stand for itself.

Ned, just curious -- approx. how many CDr copies do you think you burned/distributed over the last decade?

^^^ DMCA STOOGE

Dude don't blow my cover!!

I retreat from lurkerdom more or less once every 5 years, so this time I'd like to say: thanks Ned :-)

In response to the DCMA stooge oh wait -- not sure. I certainly wasn't burning them every day or even every month.

And you're all welcome, of course!

Could I ask which of the following 6 releases does not count as one of the '5 EPs'?

Science
Summer's Last Sound
A Rock To Climg To
The Last Dance
It's A Kid's World
Second Language

I own the first four of the above on 12" vinyl and then I sort of lost interest in DI at around 1993 (for some crazy reason). So I'd be interested in getting the final 2 releases in a physical format.

Science, right?

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/unauth/disco_inferno/the_5_e_p_s/

#6 unauthorized/bootleg release of all time

OK, thanks. I never know how to define these things, to be honest. Science has 4 tracks and ~20mins running time, A Rock To Cling To has only 2 tracks and ~12 mins running time, but none of that probably means anything!

xpost

Yeah Science is the one out, it got reprinted on In Debt anyway.

This is fantastic news. I'll definitely be picking this up, as I hope everyone who Ned sent a copy to will as well.

Good, in that case I'll be picking this up -- be great to get Kid's World and Second Language.

As Vinnie noted, _Science_ was the missing one -- being on _In Debt_, it was more readily available, though aesthetically I do consider it of a piece with the other five (the continuing impact of "Waking Up" and "Fallen Down the Wire," for example). To a large extent, Disco Inferno 'started' there, though the earlier recordings were key in them finding their feet (and there's a slew of beautiful songs to choose from like "Emigre.")

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I'll join in the joy! Many years ago sent me a cd of the 5 EPs which is so valuable to me I keep the cd in a small drawer that contains the few items I won't hesitate to grab in an emergency (house fire, earthquake (unlikely in DC)). I will buy the official version several times (gifts for friends). Thank you, Ned!

Many years ago *Ned* sent me a cd

ned sent me one too, and these guys are great!

thx again ned

I uh borrowed this off the internet and it is my favourite DI thing, excited for a real release - pretty great news

Hope that Ned will send me a cdr of the album when it comes out tbh.

Very good news.

Now if only Hamilton Bohannon weren't almost entirely O.O.P, which is even more nuts than the DI EPs having been ; )

this i'm gonna buy

Hey guys, I've been lurking this message board for quite a bit, and this recent news made me incredibly crazy and happy.

Also, I noticed Raggett mentioned about "other news" being released soon. Might that be related to these quotes of his (from another thread)?:

"At LONG last I have finally found the interview I did with Ian Crause back in 1994. Seriously, this tape had been eluding me forever. I'll be digitizing it and figuring out how best to share in as part of a larger project; more details soon."

"He said indeed. The larger project is forthcoming."

...maybe.

(But it would be separate from this reissue. Ian does know about the tape and was interested to learn about it.)

Just saw this news - way to go, Ned! Do you happen to know if they plan on releasing a vinyl version?

I've been asked that -- at present, no idea.

Playing "Love Stepping Out" just now reminds me why I did this all in the first place. It's rare for me to say that music can literally give me chills, and yet.

I only recently discovered the earlier stuff ("In Debt" is on emusic) and man alive I love "Falling Down the Wire".

Ok, 6 - 7 years of lurking and I somehow missed Ned's DI evangelism. Just checked out a few songs on youtube, and need to get my hands on The 5 EPs. I'll be coughing up the money in September, but want to be able to listen in the meantime... Anyone willing to help me get a copy?

Damn, I was hoping the interview would be included with the Five Eps reissue.

Well, can you at least give out a basic idea of what the interviews consists of?

It was done around the American release of D.I. Go Pop, so pretty much that era.

"love stepping out" is so beautiful.

reminds me of durutti column.

i would submit this band's name did them zero favors.

Posted this in "I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less, but hey:

Not exactly $1 on these, but I've been looking for these damn things for so long that it's worth sharing... I found two of the five legendary Disco Inferno EPs (Summer's Last Sound and A Rock to Cling To) for $3.99 each. Two down... three to go.

Of course, all five are being reissued in a few months, per Ned's thread. But I couldn't pass these up in good conscience.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, May 8, 2010 10:15 PM (3 days ago)

I've had a chance to see a rough design of the artwork for the collection, and it's a keeper.

nice!

hey ned i know i should just search and all but i love 5EPs, what to get next by DI?

Well there's not much of a catalog to search for (which is both good and bad, obviously):

In Debt, which is the collection of their first single, album and EP in one place. It starts in full on Joy Division/Durutti Column worship mode but by the final tracks is something else entirely, you can sense the transition happening.

DI Go Pop, which was released in the middle of the EP releases, as it were. Tim Finney put it best when he said that its 'deliberate rejection of beauty' acts in excellent contrast to the EPs, but it is often equally beautiful and wonderful.

Technicolour, which was the final release while they were a going concern. Recorded after the horrific instrument theft and is more of a 'straightforward' rock album than anything else, but still worth the listening.

There's also the Mixing It EP taken from a radio session, plus a variety of unreleased demos from Technicolour that surfaced. And that's pretty much it.

I should also say that DI Go Pop and Technicolour were both reissued by One Little Indian a few years back but I don't know about their in-print status now; similarly In Debt has resurfaced from time to time. Oddly enough the first American issue of In Debt was by the Coctails on their own label!

DI Go Pop and Technicolour were both reissued by One Little Indian a few years back but I don't know about their in-print status now

These reissues can still be had new for $12 apiece on Amazon... looks in-print to me!

And what a bargain!

Also, looking upthread a bit, you can get both Technicolour and In Debt via eMusic:

http://www.emusic.com/artist/Disco-Inferno-MP3-Download/11580018.html

Guys, Technicolour is excellent. Don't sleep on it just because it's not as "experimental" as DI Go Pop or the preceding EPs.

Just sayin'!

That'll do, Ned. That'll do.

I've no doubt.

Everybody I know is getting a copy of this for Christmas. Even my aunt.

Is this CD only or will there by vinyl?

yeah wondering this also

i'm probably one of the few who prefers di go pop over the collected eps, still excited obv

My understanding is that there will not be a vinyl release at this point.

That's a shame, but understandable! Will probably buy a flac release if that is happening?

M@rk R. reflects on DI in today's Resonant Frequency (complete with ILX/Ned Raggett reference!): http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/7821-resonant-frequency-71

It's funny, though-- even though the conversations around music are so important to me, they are not everything. There's something wonderful about revisiting music that seems to have been forgotten, and having it be a private pleasure that you carry around like a secret. It's a feeling most music obsessives can probably relate to: You're listening to something and you've never really talked about it with anyone and you're not even sure if you're hearing it "right" or where it might fit or what it might mean. For example, I never knew anything about the English band Disco Inferno while they were active, but someone on a message board burned me a copy of the group's out-of-print EPs years ago, and I was shocked by how much good music was on it. And there's one song in particular that has haunted me ever since, and the way I've experienced it represents how much works for me at one end of this continuum.

Some days, Disco Inferno's "Love Stepping Out"-- with its simple repetitive sequencer, half-spoken lyrics that weirdly mix an expression of romantic longing with violent imagery, and sampled crowd noises that seem to come from an amusement park-- is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. But after all this time, I'm not sure I've ever heard it with anyone else in the room, and I've never written about it or discussed it with anyone in any depth. It's something I listen to and think about and am moved by, but there's no record anywhere of my enjoyment of it, and it's not something I've really talked about. I know almost nothing of the conversations around it. And there's something nice about this feeling, too, to commune with this sound with very little context. Music that could, from another perspective, seem dead because it's not being shared turns into something intimate that sparkles with a very specific kind of life. Sometimes I listen to "Love Stepping Out", and it feels like I have the only copy of it in the world, and it ceases to exist whenever I put it back on the shelf.

"someone" on "a message board"

That's really nice and I've kind of always felt a similar way about Disco Inferno. I guess the band would prefer some more recogniton and money though.

I must have spent about $75 total tracking down all the EPs in the mid 90s

A quick update, reconfirmed via Ian C., that the current release date will now be early November. Otherwise all still good to go.

Awesome.

i'm totally head over heels for d.i. go pop and i just got a tattoo of the radar logo last week...i havent had the chance to hear any of the eps yet so this is very exciting

Ha that makes two people I know of with that very tattoo. It's the new Germs burn.

I think you'll be very, very pleased with what you hear.

So some news:

The release has been slightly delayed again until early next year, but my understanding is they're ironing out last formalities and technical details for the sleeve and so forth. So slight bummer there, obviously, but everything still on track!

Ian mentioned to me that the remastering process brought out details he had forgotten in many songs, or allowed him to hear them in a new way, so that's cool to hear indeed.

I'll have a brief personal essay about my fandom and thoughts about Disco Inferno in the next issue of Yeti, due for release shortly. There's also another project well underway.

There's also another project well underway.

???

And that's all I'm going to say about it for now.

Ach, you tease!

They're doing an album with MBV. It's almost finished.

Dre will be handling the remixes.

Well that's all fine and fucking dandy but who's doing the cover art???

Hipgnosis.

http://www.operatingtheatre.org/images/discologo.JPG

A vision.

Anyway, ilxor, as I said in the opening post to the whole thread...

* Fuel, the designers of the original single sleeves, will be doing a new cover for this collection.

And I've seen it and I can assure you it's quite something.

Thank you Ned Raggett for serious reply to joek question. :)

The suspense is killing me waiting on this release. Haven't looked forward this much to something for so long. Yes, I am sad like that.

When I get some more information from Ian, I will put some details about the release on the DI myspace page.

No update on the date of release but it is forthcoming.

I did receive something the other day, though. With thanks to Ian, and with his permission:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/5158516856_70e74c5429_z.jpg

It really is one of the most amazing moments of my life to finally see this.

Tease!

Looks great though, can't wait to hold that in my hands.

Oh wow, that's beautiful!

I remember one time a TV ad came on for a burger called the Baconator, and the moment it was over, my husband said, "I want it!" and drove out and got one. That is the kind of feeling I am having now, but with that CD instead of a Baconator.

i really like the cover. perfect for the music inside.

Fucking wow.

Will there be vinyl?

According to Ian, no. (This was asked and answered above...)

Ned, just got my copy that Ian kindly sent me. I am at work and couldn't wait to get home to listen. I am at my desk, headphones in and I am not doing much work.

It sounds sonically stunning hearing these tracks on a proper CD for the first time.

A review will appear here http://crumbsinthebutter.art.officelive.com/default.aspx

very soon!

I can't but agree to all that.

I'm looking at that cover and all I'm seeing is a stickman running up the inner curve of that soundwave. Tell me it ain't so...

I have only had one look at my copy and that isn't a stick man. Looks more like a crack in a building.

Stickman it ain't. Just some farm/building complex in the original shot.

And writing a review of this is going to be hard, as I have far too much excitement running through my head at the moment to remain sentient!

And all was well with the world. xp

In a weird way, I'm actually very glad I *don't* have to write a review of this. I'm interested to hear others' takes.

Ned, are you sure you don't want to? haha
It is going to be a challenge but I suppose I should just say what I have been saying about this band for so long!

Actually, here's an idea.

Maybe we could get the people from this thread to write a little about this release and we could make that into a review.

If not, it is down to me to spew forth vignettes of loveliness!

Meantime the forthcoming issue of Yeti, now available for pre-order:

http://yetipublishing.com/

...features an article of mine on the band and my fandom. Might be of interest to some here so I just wanted to let folks know about it!

?

Oddly you can already buy it from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/5-Eps-Disco-Inferno/dp/B00424PF1E/

'Temporarily out of stock'

Still due sometime in the next few months, am checking on any further word.

I know I have all these songs, but I still want this.

It will come.

Also wanted to remind everyone about that Yeti issue I linked a few posts back.

i love that article ned!

Thanks!

Unless various searches mislead me, I'm surprised no ILM poster has ever gone for an "In Snarky Water" pun.

I have word of a formal release date -- Sept. 12.

yesssss

going back to the thread start:

* Its current release date is September via One Little Indian

clearly Ned was right all along about September, just never told us 2011, right? ;)

Mm.

Pitchfork going to be 10.0ing this bitch and hoovering up all of Ned's cred.

What matters is the music gets heard. The rest is gravy.

i hear Ned is going to guest-review this for Pfork, give it a 10.0 and baffle all the Sleigh Bells-loving hipsters

day after my birthday! :D

Okay folks, it took way longer than I ever figured but!

--

Disco Inferno
‘The 5 Eps’ released 12/09/11
One Little Indian
CD + Digital Cat. No. tplp1082cd/ tplp1082dl

"We're hated... and the reason we're hated is that we're 'pretentious' enough to try for something"
Ian Crause, quoted in Melody Maker, March 5, 1994

“The whole is much greater than the sum of it’s parts… one of the most creative uses of sampling I’ve ever heard. It sounds like the future. I’m still figuring out just how cool they are.”
Ben Goldwasser, MGMT quoted in Q Magazine, January 2011

Almost entirely out on their own, out of step with the times, Disco Inferno were widely ignored and underappreciated during their (pre-internet) existence. Remaining largely unknown beyond a small but slowly expanding cult of devotees, they were probably the most ambitious and isolated band of the '90s. Over the three-year span (1992-95) that this compilation covers, they were also quite simply, jaw-droppingly great - a virtually peerless group mining a steady stream of uncompromising, pioneering recordings. One of the first wave of 'post-rock' acts (and perhaps it’s ultimate example), they combined avant-garde aesthetics with a basis in solid pop hooks, credibly depicting suburban alienation and national decay through embittered, intelligent lyrics.

Whilst it's now almost second nature for a band to incorporate digital technology into their armoury, you'd struggle to find anyone who went anything like as far as DI. In 1992, they took the quantum leap from their modest beginnings to totally rewire themselves and become the most radical, forward-thinking guitar band on the planet, with a revolutionary sample-based approach that was simply years ahead of the curve. Whilst numerous acts were making use of the sampler and MIDI technology, no other band integrated it so thoroughly into the process. DI didn't simply tack on a dance beat or spice things up with the addition of a few novel sonics or quirky quotations. The technology was hard-wired into the very heart of their music. Veering between the deeply challenging and the downright catchy, they continually attempted to push themselves forwards, resulting in two unrivalled albums and a dazzling collection of EPs that consistently redefined the boundaries.

Track-listed chronologically, this compilation gathers together for the first time all five long-out-of-print EPs which were originally released between 1992–95*, a period bookended by their radical rebooted re-emergence in Autumn 1992 and their depressingly premature demise in Spring 1995. Whilst these tracks were never originally conceived to fit together as a coherent whole, the compilation nevertheless functions perfectly as a sequential overview of the band’s development and the sheer breadth of ideas they explored. Even when comprising just two tracks, these releases were clearly construed as EPs, rather than singles in the established, album-marketing sense. Only one of them ('It's A Kid's World') was actually taken from an album. Regularly clocking in at between six and eight minutes long, each track received equal billing. There were no below-par b-sides, no dead weight. The release of each EP (on both CD and 12" vinyl) set down a fresh marker, became the latest in a series of stepping stones leading further out in creative investigation of a set of different angles / approaches. As though functioning as the experimental R&D for the two albums, they didn't just raise the bar for themselves, but consistently rewrote the ground-rules. They never dwelt on a formula, but continuously strove to push forwards exploring new possibilities.

Regardless of the injustices of history, DI were without doubt a trailblazing, unique, utterly important band. With huge ambition and integrity, they rejected the easy routes and rewards. Setting themselves directly against the stylistic regression and rabble-rousing bluster dominating Britpop and grunge, against the bland facelessness of so much of the dance / electronic scene, DI ought to have been widely championed as an antidote, a vital blast of nonconformist bravery and brilliance. In reality they received very little coverage. Buried away for way too long, their recorded legacy continues to offer revelations to the open-eared and actively inquisitive. Whilst it may have been their curse to have been overlooked throughout and long past their short existence, the chances of some overdue recognition rescuing them from the limbo of obscurity have nonetheless recently risen. In 2004, One Little Indian reissued both Rough Trade albums, targeting in particular the US market, where 'Technicolour' had never previously been released ('Go Pop' had been licensed to US indie Bar-None back in 1994, but inevitably achieved minimal sales), and where the band had never toured. The notoriously low-marking Pitchfork site's 9.3/10 review of the 'Go Pop' reissue resulted in a swell of activity across internet message boards, and appears to have left a continued wake of interest. Certainly more popular now than they were during their creative peak, you might detect either direct influence or certain similarities in the likes of The Third Eye Foundation, Hood, Epic45, Piano Magic, Deerhunter (particularly offshoot projects, Lotus Plaza and Atlas Sound), Matmos, Animal Collective, Black Dice, The Avalanches, The Books, Battles, and No Age. But no-one has really come close to replicating their awesome output and utterly singular aesthetic. Whilst digital music technology has evolved dramatically, becoming smaller, faster, cheaper, and consequently far more widespread, Disco Inferno's inspired approach and consequent sound seems unlikely to ever be reproduced without seriously compromising its futurist spirit. Littered as pop history is with unsung heroes and buried brilliance, few bands are so deserving of such recovery as Disco Inferno.

*The original Eps were: Summer's Last Sound (Cheree, 1992)/ A Rock To Cling To (Rough Trade, 1993)/ The Last Dance (Rough Trade, 1993)/ Second Language (Rough Trade, 1994)/ It's a Kid's World (Rough Trade, 1994)

w00t!

That press release is hilarious. They think they're some pretty hot shit, don't they?

Whatever OLI wants to do, I figure.

fuck it. It's all true.

Loving DI Go Pop just right now. Very loud.

That's September, right? Not December? Right?!

Correct.

The notoriously low-marking Pitchfork site's 9.3/10 review of the 'Go Pop' reissue resulted in a swell of activity across internet message boards, and appears to have left a continued wake of interest.

o_O

This is incredible news, and I missed this thread until today (I was away from ILM for years). I still treasure the CDR Ned made me so many years ago; it contains some of the most gorgeous moments in my entire music collection (or anyone's!). It doesn't fit as neatly into the whole post-rock pioneers / sampler-wielding narrative, but I LOVE the earliest JD/Durutti morose delay pedal exercises sooooo much. If you haven't heard In Debt, you really have to.

still havent myself. i love everything else though!

i'm glad these are finally coming out since I sold off my originals on ebay the second ned announced this was happening...what, 2 years ago?

Ha, not THAT bad. A year, three months, but yeah, longer than anticipated. Just a couple of months now...

hey ned. i've got the head over heels and the elemental eps, but is there any other ian crause material out there? i read something a few years ago where he said he was planning to release some new stuff, but haven't heard anything since. figured you might know.

Sorry for the delay -- there's nothing formally available but he is working on solo work again. I've been lucky enough to hear a brief snippet but since he's still fine-tuning what he would like it to be I'd be hesitant to go into details. If it turns out to be what he hopes for it'll be quite remarkable; it's very recognizably 'him' without either being DI or the solo work.

thanks for the update. the thing i read (which i can't find for the life of me, but it was some comments he left on a blog,) made it sound like he was very ambitious about it. i can't quite recall what he said, but i think he said something about a double (or triple) album. i could very well be wrong though.

That's about right; it's certainly a pretty ambitious project given not only its relative length but how he'd like it to be heard. We shall see!

Meantime I've had a chance to see a layout of the CD booklet in full. A month to go!

Tom E. on the reissue and the band in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/11/disco-inferno-reissue

lots of good reviews popping up. one review said something about "a live ep" (which could be the mixing it session), and that got me thinking... is there any di live material out there? a video would be very informative...

Yeah I'm starting to see it all get written about as well. I still can't believe it's finally here!

so i'm guessing you don't know of any live stuff then? don't be holding out...

Nope, couldn't tell you about that!

i think you're holding out. and that makes me sad.

Seriously, I know of no planned further archive releases or the like. Can't put it any plainer!

stop mocking us with your secret knowledge ;_;

http://pitchfork.com/news/66965-ned-raggett-denies-knowledge-of-forthcoming-disco-inferno-live-album/

Damn, found out.

Meantime, a nice piece here:

http://unreliablewitness.posterous.com/in-the-end-its-not-the-future-but-the-past-th

So Amazon US doesn't have it yet... is it a UK only release?

i am bored at work and clicked on this thread. reading through, everyone sounded so excited! but still i had no idea: what does this band sound like?
then i clicked on ned's link.
i am listening to "second language" right now and

i
love
it

is any of their stuff instrumental? is the singing minimal? i don't mind it terribly, but the music is awesome.

With only a couple of exceptions, all their songs have vocals, but often said vocals are delivered in understated fashion or otherwise intentionally buried in the mix.

As far as I know this is a UK-only release.

some of their stuff is instrumental. the best stuff has singing.

trying to write about this record this week broke my fucking brain and i've been listening to this shit for a decade now.

thanks to NED RAGGETT.

You're welcome!

Pfork review, I'm guessing?

It had better be a Best New Music, or Reissue, or whatever they call it. And a 9+!

i don't mind the vocals too much really, just wondering
"summer's last sound" is great too -- so much to listen to

up on spotify now btw

yeah "Summer's Last Sound" is the song that made me go "just wait a goddamned minute, this is a revelation"

totally going to listen to the rest on spotify when i get home
i thank the cosmos for making me wonder who the hell "disco inferno" are

up on spotify now btw

Could you post the link for that?

also the two songs i've heard so far kind of remind me of ashra/gottsching? is that accurate throughout their various EPs?

I wouldn't've immediately said so but then again that's not been a frame reference all these years for me when it comes to them -- interesting parallel, though!

it was the first thing i thought when i heard my first disco inferno song...roughly 15 minutes ago
they are difficult to google without "essex" or "crause", that's for sure

ned, here you go: http://open.spotify.com/album/7EiX13wWXfjKqq4Eh2Gwm5

Thanks!

only 2 songs available on spotify in US :(

lots of youtubes though
http://www.youtube.com/artist/Disco_Inferno

I can see how Love Stepping Out is reminiscent of Gottsching

they are difficult to google without "essex" or "crause", that's for sure

This is an understatement.

yeah i mean the real elephant in the room wrt to crause's guitar playing has the initials v.r. but theres some softer side of kraut there.

Looks like it was moved from the 13th to the 20th. I used to get imports from CDWow, but it's been kinda crappy lately, and been using importcds. Exchange rate is pretty good right now, at 1.58.

Yep, physical release is delayed a week it would seem. I'm interested to hear more about what, if any, remastering was done. The few things that I've read have made brief reference to an improved sound.

I'm also hoping that this coming out prompts someone into selling their copy of 'The Last Dance' so I can complete my collection, though I think I've missed out on the initial rush of people thinking "better sell while it's still worth something".

As far as I know, OLI had no access to master tapes, so the versions on the new compilation are the same as the CD EP versions. I don't think any further remastering was done on them, but I will check.

there is no mention in any of the press release stuff of any remastering.

I'd assume there'll be a general balancing of the levels, as mastering needs to take place just to sequence them on the CD (Kid's World is probably louder than Summer's Last Sound, for example), but nothing needs doing with EQ or whatever, in my opinion.

I can say that Ian told me he was at some sort of listening session last year which sure as hell sounded like a mastering session, but I'll have to review my mail.

yeah i mean the real elephant in the room wrt to crause's guitar playing has the initials v.r. but theres some softer side of kraut there.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, September 12, 2011 4:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

I bought DI Go Pop, two of The 5 EPs, and The Guitar and Other Machines at/around the same time, not knowing there would be any kind of connection. Kinda got smacked in the face by it -- "Red Shoes," "Don't You Think You're Funny," etc.

Ordered this off One Little Indian's site on Monday and it came in the post today, I haven't been in any shops so I don't know if it is actually out yet (wasn't sure if the delay mentioned upthread was US-only). Sticker on the front proclaims that it's 'digitally remastered and compiled for the first time'. Nothing in the sleeve credits about remastering/production etc though so presumably it's just been normalized or whatever?
Really excited about this, I had no idea about Ned's 5 ep distro until this thread started, so I'm not really aware of many of the songs on this. Stoked!

yeah, I don't believe the mastering job was a huge deal...
part of the reason for the whole delay in the release is due to the fact that the band originally approved (ie supposedly listened through in full to) the master after which One Little Indian pressed up a few thousand copies before then discovering that there was a huge mastering error - about two thirds of the way through the album, one of the tracks started, cut out and then replayed the previous track. doh! think two or three thousand copies had to be destroyed... following that, the whole package which was originally just a thin 2-page booklet was redesigned and expanded with photos, reviews and full-length liner notes, which also led to further delays... but hey, what's an extra 6 months or so when you've been waiting 15 years...
yet to see a copy, but sounds lie it looks good!

I got a copy almost a year ago, with the two page booklet. Ashamed to say that I never noticed the error - in the middle of "At the end of the line" it skips back to a few seconds of the beginning of "The atheists burden". I guess I have something of a collectors item now...

what does the new booklet look like? how are the liner notes? love to see a scan...

Liner notes are nice, (the press release at I'd like to announce the formal release of _The Five EPs_ by Disco Inferno is a kind of edited highlight of it all), can't remember who they're by. The only complaint I'd have is the scans of reviews from Melody Maker seem pretty poor quality. I would've thought you could just get scans from the newspaper library or something?

The notes are really good to me at providing some sort of context for DI - they weren't something I'd ever heard of before ILM, so to see just how much of a minority concern they were is interesting.

The liners draw on a combination of selections from Ian Crause's Crumbs in the Butter overview from a couple of years back and a new set of interviews with Paul, so it's half familiar already, in a way!

"There is going to be an interview with Paul (DI bass player) and I am asking all the DI fans on here for questions. If there is anything that that you would like to ask Paul, reply here and I will use the best questions for the session. Cheers."

from http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disco-Inferno/

nice.

* http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disco-Inferno/131240070285233

It had better be a Best New Music, or Reissue, or whatever they call it. And a 9+!

thine wish is granted

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15814-the-5-eps

It's probably no accident that they drew the attention of Rough Trade itself toward the end of their career,

weird and inaccurate sentence

yeah, not the greatest bit of writing - and it says "Between roughly 1991 and 1996, Disco Inferno wrote two albums and five EPs that comprised this.... " That should read 92 - 95...

Lovely review!

I swear I read p4k reviews in much faster time when they used size8 font... these are starting to feel laborious.

But fun review, loved fluid interjection of history with the review.

Yeah, it really was one of the better reviews I've read on there in some time.

ought to shift a few copies of the record with this kind of press dropping... brilliant news for DI... at long last!

too bad it's only available from third-party sellers on Amazon.

Pitchfork reviews, even not great ones, make a big difference in sales. </obvious but worth repeating>

But at the same time CD sales are a fraction of what they used to be, even with great press.

I am ashamed and embarrassed I hadn't heard these guys until now.

do you...like them?

Awesome review Jess, inspired me to listen to the OG Ned version very loudly in one sitting yesterday evening and be totally floored all over again.

do you...like them?

gettin' there -- "Love Stepping Out" the highlight so far. Your review has helped.

finally Alfred is ashamed and embarrassed. Weird that it took Disco Inferno of all things to make that happen, but beggars can't be choosers they say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFpfNFvnfM

Ya gotta start somewhere.

yeah, not the greatest bit of writing - and it says "Between roughly 1991 and 1996, Disco Inferno wrote two albums and five EPs that comprised this.... " That should read 92 - 95...

― dh, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

q: what does being off by a year give or take have to do w/whether or not the writing was good? a: nothing.

i dont like to jump in on these things because who cares but fwiw the original submitted draft read 92 to 96, which *is* correct because if anyone actually looks at the sentence they'll see i'm including technicolour in there.

no idea what jim was on about considering you know they were on rough trade, courted by one of its founder, etc, but whatevs.

q: what does being off by a year give or take have to do w/whether or not the writing was good? a: nothing

one element of good factual writing would be factual accuracy afaik

no idea what jim was on about considering you know they were on rough trade, courted by one of its founder, etc, but whatevs.

my point was that it wasn't near the end of their career at all, they weren't even halfway through it as far as i can tell - the lion's share of their releases were on RT!

just pedantry on my part, nothing more

"fwiw the original submitted draft read 92 to 96, which *is* correct because if anyone actually looks at the sentence they'll see i'm including technicolour in there"

- sorry... i know it's a bit pedantic but i think technicolor was WRITTEN in 1994-95 and then left on the shelf for a year or more... the band had actually split up by early '95, so i think you'll find that nothing at all was written in '96...

http://thequietus.com/articles/07056-a-new-nineties-an-introduction-part-one-main-feed-the-collapse

not directly about DI, but a great piece of writing that addresses the 90s

I LOVED Hydra Calm but they lost me after that. Too "ambient isolationsim" for my tastes.

Wow, that is a fucking great article.

Speaking of 90s. I have a mix going up soon on french website Hartzine that opens with the recent Seefeel ep and contains old Locust, Disco Inferno and Pram tracks. Ready for the lost generation revival zeitgeist.

I LOVED Hydra Calm but they lost me after that. Too "ambient isolationism" for my tastes.

Exactly why I love their entire career! (Also, Dan, I'm a touch surprised you didn't lock into their sense of rhythm throughout their years because it is there; my good friend Stripey and I are both similarly obsessed with Main's work for precisely that reason.)

Dan: Me too, and that sounds awesome! I eagerly await the 20-year 4-CD + DVD deluxe reissue of Insides: Euphoria in a couple years...

just heard that part 2 is in fact an interview with ian Crause... can't wait!

Nice! I take a tiny amount of credit there, Neil asked me a few months back if I could put him in touch with Ian C.

I haven't heard the following Main releases since college. I just remember really not liking a lot of that, and Scorn. Too much ambient drone, not enough motorik. I'll re-visit.

It's implied motorik -- the sense of rhythm is not in how he creates an overall pulse or groove but how his use of the various elements is essentially rhythmic, layered and collaged, even at its quietest and theoretically most open-ended. Once I figured out that was how to approach it I went from 'nice enough' to 'holy shit, revelation.'

here you go:

http://thequietus.com/articles/07144-disco-inferno-interview

Thank ya!

unbelievably great to see the political / social context spotlit and utterly reaffirming to hear ian remaining as focussed and angry and sussed as ever. i've not met him since interviewing him in 94, but seems like he's a very honest, hardcore autodidact - practices what he preaches, pulls no punches, would rather be skint and keep his integrity than sell himself short... i'm bloody glad they'll never jump on that pension-fund reformation bandwagon... It's a mark of sustained integrity

He's right on about Britpop.

http://open.spotify.com/album/7EiX13wWXfjKqq4Eh2Gwm5

oh that link was already posted. ah well, bloody great to see anyways.

Hai, in-case anybody cares about such things there are 3 DI live recordings on D!m3ad0zen at the moment, they are:

1992-01-31 Rails Club, London
1993-01-20, Powerhaus, London
1993-06-08, Garage, London

All master recordings I think.

Watch this space.

*whistles idly*

*cracks knuckles*

bring it on already Ned, bring it on! :-)

(nominated Dave Howell's sleeve notes for this for the De Capo best writing book)

A fine nomination. Something else may yet excite your interest along those lines.

But if this helps:

I'll have a brief personal essay about my fandom and thoughts about Disco Inferno in the next issue of Yeti, due for release shortly. There's also another project well underway.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 15, 2010 7:23 AM (1 year ago)

???

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, October 15, 2010 7:30 AM (1 year ago)

And that's all I'm going to say about it for now.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 15, 2010 7:30 AM (1 year ago)

Ach, you tease!

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, October 15, 2010 7:38 AM (1 year ago)

This is the last day of the tease.

if you know something is going to happen but can't say anything about it then it might be better to say nothing at all about it

It is NOT a reunion, if that's what you're wondering. No, it's just another project I've been working on, completed and ready to go. You'll see.

Ned Raggett recites DI

a disco inferno poster?

there seem to be rumors that they will play primavera sound this year. or at least the idea was proposed at some point in time by some person somewhere.

A 12" vinyl box set version of the 5 EPs would not be unwelcome.

xpost -- those rumors were brought to my attention the other day; Paul Willmott confirmed they were just that.

And here ya go!

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8758-disco-inferno/

Enjoy.

Oh wow, look forward to reading that!

Hope you like it!

Saving that for a quiet moment tonight, looks great!

Only read the first bit on Summer's Last Sound so far, but this is fantastic reading and kudos to Ned for making this happen. I really, really hope we get more things like this on Pitchfork in the coming months.

I was hoping Neddy was going to start a tribute band, Disco Infernot.

Nice piece. Some slightly uncomfortable reading in some places.

great article, ned. some of the first new info i've had on di in years. i had no idea michael johnson produced last dance (or maybe i did, but i didn't connect it to the new order engineer). it makes perfect sense...

the most intriguing little bit was that stuff about rejected charlie mcintosh material. do you know anything about that? also, i've never really found anything else that mcintosh worked on. any suggestions?

(and just to let you know, all the album covers are coming up negative on the ipad. maybe it's just my ipad--it doesn't seem to like pitchfork's site too much right now.)

Wow! Well you'd hinted that something was up Ned but still this came as a more than welcome surprise (though I really should scroll down on Pitchfork more often!). Hopefully there are still some surprises left with DI in the near future. With this, the long overdue formal release of the 5 EP's and the recent emergence of a handful of live recordings it really is an exciting time for us devotees.

What a joy to read the band speak so openly about their complex and often emotionally fraught history. I'm sure Ned was digging for the answers to some of the questions that have came up throughout the years in ILX threads as well. Now we know at long last, and with some relief, that even Ian can't remember the lyrics to 'D.I Go Pop'!

I'm guessing that there's some folk here who bought the CD of The 5 EP's out of obligation to the vision of seeing it released more than anything and have probably only listened to it a handful of times, if at all. To many of us the songs are so familiar and ingrained that we rarely feel the need to listen to them any more. If that's the case then you really should dig it out, turn it up loud and read through this oral history. Believe it or not, those wonderful songs just got better!

Thanks all! More cohesive responses later...

yeah, that was a fantastic read. loved it.

awesome stuff

wow vinita comes across *really* badly there

Terrific article, Ned. Thank you.

Excellent. Just enjoyed a wonderful hour reading that article along with hearing the EPs.

Thanks, Ned. A wonderful article. Quite inspiring to learn more about the ideas that shaped the music.

Okay! Believe it or not there's some more news to share! Paul Willmott contacted me just now and among other things said:

"You may already be aware, but OLI are planning to release the 5 eps on limited edition double gatefold vinyl, which i'm pretty made up about. You may want to pass this news on."

Also, Paul is doing an Exotic Pylon guest mix this Friday...

http://t.co/L4s5k41U

YEEEEEAAAHHH... That is amazing news.

That interview has been making me ponder the relationship between labels and bands. Che come off quite badly in the quotes but I'm not sure how much a label has to *understand* their bands. Likewise, Rough Trade asking the band to re-record material could be interpreted as interfering or caring enough to push a band.

(Full disclosure: massive Disco Inferno fan and know Vinita).

i'm just now catching up on ILX but wanted to post here & say Ned's DI piece last month was AWESOME! thanks Ned.

Too kind!

Ooh vinyl. Nice! Great news

Indeed . . . . but when?

Shall I sell my "Entertainment" 7"?

God no. That's not one of the EPs in question.

good news on vinyl!

Meantime a quick note on Twitter from the Vivid Riot blog:

@NedRaggett Ned, got a new solo track from Ian Crause. Will be posting it online later! It's a corker!

http://www.mixcloud.com/VividRiot/ian-crause-more-earthly-concerns/

Oh I like this. This is good. Saw the "coming soon" pop up on the DI facebook page y'day and woke up to this this morning. Yay!

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I'm pretty sure "A Rock to Cling to" samples and loops a portion of Galaxie 500's "It's Getting Late" from Today.

Hmm! I could see it...

Do we know what MBV song 'D.I. Go Pop' has as it's main sample?

for some reason i keep thinking it's 'when you wake you're still in a dream'

"While Memory Drawings is an ostensibly instrumental project, Music For Another Loss also features a second disc comprising Yvonne Bruner-led vocal versions of many of the first disc’s tracks, alongside a clutch of total reinvention remixes by Rachel Grimes, Dakota Suite, Piano Magic (featuring Disco Inferno’s Ian Crause on guitar) and Bracken."

Interesting.

Still waiting on those vinyl reissues.

The 5 EPs vinyl should be out in 3/4 weeks... It's on gatefold double vinyl... have also seen t-shirt designs (DI logo in white on black or orange on sky blue) which also should be out for sale really soon...

Nice.

Would buy a t-shirt.

t-shirts! awesome!

DEFINITELY am buying a t-shirt. keep us posted.

just got one of each through the post now... they look VERY nice!! not sure when they go on sale, but i will find out and post news

Just got a press mailout from OLI:

A.R. Kane release Complete Singles Collection on the 1st October 2012 and Disco Inferno ‘The 5 Eps’ Limited Edition Double Vinyl released on the 27th August 2012. Both A.R. Kane and Disco Inferno are to be re-issued through One Little Indian’s new Totem imprint, details will be coming shortly.

And I can also say -- now that I've seen a proof of it! -- that the liner notes for the vinyl collection will be a slightly edited version of my Pitchfork piece. Looks really nice!

Also relevant:

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/24/disco-infernos-the-5-eps-to-get-limited-edition-vinyl-reissue/

Please note -- 500 copies total!

WOW... Very excited for this!

Just received my shipping notice for the 5 EP's on vinyl!

Me too. :D

Vinyl arrived today and it is beautiful. Listening to it now. Got a nice little book of Ned's oral history piece as well - fantastic bonus!

:-)

I thought an update on the thread might mean further reissues by the band.
Didn't think any of the others had been redone since the mid 90s but now seeing that One Little Indian did the Goes Pop lp back in April.
Still In Debt & Technicolour are still only available in nearly 20 year old editions.
If you can get In Debt at all, rising prices on Amazon at least.

Yay Fact Magazine:

http://www.factmag.com/2012/08/29/disco-inferno-the-5-eps/

Doesn't Jonny Mugwump have connections to the brilliant-in-their-own-right Position Normal?

he is the man behind exotic pylon records, if that helps

just got my 5EPS vinyl... looks utterly gorgeous! full liner notes on the gatefold inside, plus a great 7"-sized booklet with Ned's oral history... feels like a brilliant document... and a great job by FatCat's Dave Thomas doing all the design work...

Got mine as well. Such a strange, weird and wonderful feeling.

I want one of these shirts so bad.

http://www.discoinfernoofficial.com/di_index.html

Picked up my copy today!

Charlotte Church also got hers:
https://twitter.com/charlottechurch/status/243458174332571650/photo/1/large

Okay which one of you is secretly Charlotte Church?

Ned, obviously.

I had to start somewhere.

Really, Ned, Gavin Henson?

I was young and naive!

Why yes I am as happy as all get out:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A2tjdJ9CcAA7rRs.jpg

I've never felt less bad about ordering a shirt for a band I've never seen.

ilx favicon font...

I think I will order one come payday.

Logo looks like a stripey bobble hat imo

Ha!

The quality of those tees look a little suspect, how are they Ned?

Side C of this vinyl is utterly perfect. Damn.

Ha, that's more the quality of my phone, I'm sure. The T-shirts themselves look fine! Haven't run 'em through the wash yet or anything.

I'm gonna have to buy one. Give some more money back after listening to an (ahem) CD rip all these years.

I think it must have been you that sent me the CD back in 2001/2. No other strangers on the net were sharing the CD at that time, I guess.

I guess it was! I pretty much was the person doing that all this time, but obviously it broke out into the wild over the years. Happily.

Hey all, a new podcast from Paul Willmott is up now on the FatCat site:
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/site/news/new-podcast-by-paul-willmott-disco-inferno-now-online

I bought two of these of vinyl. I have no idea why. Total panic buy.

I thought it would sell out quickly and I'd burn my copy out and wish I'd bought another at the time, I was beyond reason. Low and behold though, it's fucking everywhere to be found online, even Charlotte Church has a copy!

It's often the way. Does anyone know how many of the vinyl albums were issued?

I did the same thing with the first Clams Casino Instrumentals vinyl. I thought I'd play it away from its grooves it was on so much - so I (probably drunkenly) bought another. Aaargh. FFS.

xpost -- my understanding was that the run was 500 total.

xp - The first CC one I got was the coloured vinyl though, and urban legend says they die sooner. I think. Is that true? Probably not.

Oh right. Not that many then - esp. if some of us are buying two.

Some things just aren't fair. Why don't people want to hear this wonderful band?

That's totally not in any way a dig at you by the way IA!

I didn't buy two copies of it looking to gain anything financially in the future. Heck, I have most of them of CD and vinyl as it is and I'd never part with them. There's just something very special about seeing them together on one LP, in order, with a cover and everything. I kinda hoped Ned's review and feature on the band and the unanimously gushing reviews they got would pip peoples interest a bit. Then again they are one of these bands I just can't see beyond. Despite the complexity and restless ambition of their music I always imagined them to be quite inviting and appealing from the get go. Maybe that was just me. Either way it's a physical thing now and I don't think that's detracted from any of its enduring magic.

http://fuckyouneilkulkarni.blogspot.com/2012/09/disco-inferno-ep-review-1994-new.html

Essentially an uncut version of Neil's Quietus interview with Ian.

Paul Wilmott mix up at FACT: http://www.factmag.com/2012/10/29/fact-mix-354-disco-inferno/

And I should start a new thread for this but for now:

Ian Crause has just announced details of his first song release for almost 14 years.
The track, The Song of Phaethon, is an 8 minute track based on the ancient myth of Phaethon, the boy drove the sun into the world. The track will be the first of 2 about the myth, the second being the latter half of the story.
He's described it as some of the most radical music he has released and says the track will be available to download in the near future from Bandcamp. Exact details of the release will be passed on as they become available.

And in case you were wondering about "More Earthly Concerns" from earlier in the year:

MECs was a track posted for people to hear that I was still alive and in full charge of my musical faculties after so long away and when I still had the expectation a record label would be interested in me, which they’re not. I have also been working on structurally (though not sonically) more conventional songs which I had intended would make up an album. Now I’m thinking to just release them as individual tracks. But this track mentioned above is probably the best statement of intent, musically speaking. The other track you mentioned was free to listen to but it will be released properly in time. My guess is that this first release will be followed by a selection of the other tracks I’ve been recording, which are generally pretty political, and the second Phaethon track will follow them.

All that from

https://www.facebook.com/discoinfernouk/posts/384163368326234

he's an interesting cat

I somehow missed the first run of this on vinyl, but I found a copy yesterday (did they repress it I wonder?). It sounds absolutely magnificent, probably one of the best sounding new pieces of vinyl I've ever bought. Whoever mastered this thing should win an award.

It's chills-all-over good. I've always been in love with the texture of the bass on their records, and that intro to "From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sky" just almost melted me.

Was that booklet reprint of my Pitchfork piece in your copy?

Sadly, no!

glad I snagged that vinyl when I did.

"From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sky" sure sucks.

no

What he said.

Damn. Fuck. We're fucked. I've been listening to 5 eps / Go Pop / Technicolour pretty much non-stop on a random loop today. It's incredible music but it seems to make so much sense now in this prejudiced ill unenlightened country. I'm sick and I've drunk too much. What has happened?

Heard the "Last Dance" on the radio recently