Oh man, how come I'd never heard of (or seen) this album before? "Johnny's Dead" was released as a Slapp Happy single (or b-side), I know that much
― Tom D., Monday, 11 June 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Cosign for Moore's Out and Flying Doesn't Help. Great records that, for me, fit in the same stylistic family as Cale's Island albums and Taking Tiger Mountain.
DL "Stitch In Time" (if I recall the title correctly)if you just want to try one song.
Meanwhile my favorite Blegvad solo record is Just Woke Up, but I haven't ever seen a copy of the well-reputed King Strut.
― Jon Lewis, Monday, 11 June 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I always love mentioning how Anthony Moore wrote lyrics on Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and I love signs that David Gilmour is a bit of an art-rocker at times. What would've been great is if Moore just joined Floyd at that point in Waters place. That could've been interesting.
― dan selzer, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for the tip on moore's out -- I always liked flying doesn't help. I always took out for one of moore's later avant records, which are hit and miss, though scenes from the cloudland ballroom is five stars, like a longhaired fuzzed out cover version of stockhausen's stimmung, and the b-side has two long jams with members of faust.
blegvad's kew. rhone is fantastic, I like downtime, still haven't spent enough time with any of his other pop records. there's a later blegvad / greaves record unearthed, has anyone heard that?
― Milton Parker, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
-Unearthed- is the spoken word thing I mentioned, it's great. -King Strut- got reissued a few years back and should be available online. Peter hasn't done much since the -Choices Under Pressure- rerecorded best-of though he did do an observational piece on Barnsley called -Passing Through- which is fun but not critical. I can't wait for another volume of "Leviathan", a comic strip that is both funny and thought-provoking.
― Mr. Odd, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Out is a bit of a mixed bag, though it's more poppy, doesn't have the fuzzed out rock qualities of Flying Doesn't Help and World Service.
I think Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom and Secrets of the Blue Bag both preceed the other solo stuff, I thought they were early/mid 70s.
― dan selzer, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a live tape of Blegvad fronting the Golden Palominos where he does very rocked up versions of some of his solo stuff, including a killer Lou Reed-ish take on Special Delivery.
is this available online anywhere?
― akm, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Peter Blegvad has been contributing to Radio Free Song Club.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 12 December 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I finally got around to putting this up on youtube...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOikZPWNbU
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
That's a good'un. He just released another album with Andy Partridge, "Gonwards". It's a winner!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
ReR has released Peter's "Bandbox", reissuing "Downtime", "Just Woke Up" and "Hangman's Hill" along with a two disc set called "It's All Experimental" of outtakes, demos and lots of live stuff. I ordered early and also got "The Impossible Book - A Radio Play" starring Peter, Andy Partridge, David Thomas and others. There's my weekend listening!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
Finally listened to his original version of "Daughter."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2OfKvXdrA
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
I hope he made some money from that one, didn't a cover version appear in a movie?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Probably. Feel like the Loudon Wainwright version is the most well known.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 November 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
One of the most disturbing nightmares of a song ever: "Irma" from The Naked Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wn-qyDlcPY
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 20 November 2022 05:12 (one year ago) link
The Naked Shakespeare was a case of a talented writer and musician obviously trying hard but missing a spark somehow.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
xps Loudon Wainwright's version played over the end credits of Knocked Up iirc. I was shocked to find out it wasn't a Wainwright original.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
(xp) Pretty much sums up his solo career tbh.
― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Monday, 21 November 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
I've loved Acnalbasac Noom for years, but nothing else in the Slapp Happy extended universe really did much for me until I heard Kew. Rhone. for the first time earlier this year, and it was all I wanted to listen to for weeks.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 21 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
Yes yes yes!!! The "Kew. Rhone." book is also recommended: https://www.colinsackett.co.uk/kewrhone.php?x=93&y=76
― ernestp, Monday, 21 November 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Didn't know there was a book! Just ordered it.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 21 November 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
Great! Happy reading!Also it's worth linking to the Quietus article/interview (w/ Blegvad) about it (linked from the Uniformbooks/Colin Sackett page above):https://thequietus.com/articles/17243-peter-blegvad-interview
― ernestp, Monday, 21 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link