The full twelve song version, I hope.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes indeed! (WREK has the eight-song promo copy and I think it must have been played to death because the sound quality is terrible)
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the only downside of this version is it doesn't have the spelling errors and subtitled "Up The Down Escalator"
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
80s vinyl is joy and love.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
btw the Bimble freakout upthread is OTM
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Conveniently enough, dig this:
With the full consent of the band a 25th Anniversary release of the Chameleons' album 'Script of The Bridge' is being scheduled for release, probably during December of this year, a little early but just in time for Christmas. A deluxe edition will be available comprising the album itself and an additional disc of extras, alongside a standard one -disc release with less extras for those who might not want to splash out the extra few quid for the full package. Both formats feature an updated sleeve by Reg along with re-vamped inserts and the label is currently exploring various options for re-mastering the original tapes. The Deluxe edition will only be available through mail order via a web site that the label is establishing for the purpose. I'll announce the URL as soon as I have it. The standard one-disc version will be distributed through traditional channels
Mark also says his autobiography is about ready to be published.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, if there's one album that desperately needs remastering, Script is it. This'll be the 4th copy I'll buy, having bought the 8 track LP, then the 12 track, then the CD (and sold the LPs, maybe you bought my old one?).
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, I still didn't pull this album out yet. It's very easy to do, though, at least I know where it is unlike a lot of my collection right now (you wouldn't believe all the CD's on my floor).
Congrats on folks with the LP. I'm afraid I graduated to CD long ago, to my own detriment.
Will Mark publish his autobiography in the same year as Mark E. Smith?
― Bimble, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
In his autumn before the winter...
― Bimble, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, just reading way back up the thread Curt1s sez:
"Soul in Isolation" is really fucking entertaining if you imagine Birdy is singing "I'm a lime in here, I'm a liiiiiime, turn on the light."
I know I have said this before, but I keep doing this with "Swamp Thing", by singing "Picking up the pieces/Half alive in a nine 'til five/bacon eyes."
And the minute my brain registers "bacon eyes" I crack up giggling. IT IS TERRIBLE OF ME.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
we were just talking about this at work today! our distributor has the strange times CD for $6.99 so all the music department employees own it now but script of the bridge is out of print so my colleague offered to burn it for me. them and the comsat angels are department favorites.
― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm having a real Chams/Comsats/For Against/Bell Hollow/Cure trip of late. Love those 80s moody bass riffs and sheerysqually guitars.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
that's because you're in some kind of magical winterland.
― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Its pretty sweet right now with the grey and the misty rain and miserable wet cold!
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
sigh. sitting here in texas in june that sounds like a dream.
― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"Bacon Eyes", "I'm a Lime" Hahaaha, you guys are too much! And here I was feeling bad that I posted "Diamonds & Pearls" as the lyric upthread when it's "Denims & Curls" isn't it?
I've never heard of Bell Hollow before.
― Bimble, Friday, 15 June 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
BIMBLE I WILL EMAIL U ABT THEM.
― Trayce, Friday, 15 June 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
ned, someone, for fuxx sake, do something about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chameleons
seriously, it's horrid.
"The Chameleons' unique sound is quite often compared to U2's The Edge."
what the hell kind of sentence is that?
"The Chameleons released their first full-length studio LP, the critically-acclaimed Script of the Bridge, on the Statik label in 1983. The album features a blend of rhythmic electric guitar textures, all of which provide a moody and intense backdrop for Mark Burgess' haunting vocals. After their third release, Strange Times, in 1987 they abruptly disbanded following the sudden death of band manager Tony Fletcher."
something missing? basically.
the history part is so short and sad. let's go, obsessives! i am no expert, so i can't do it. just a mere fan of 24 or 25 year's standing.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I challenge the person doing the new entry to use the words "way better than shit like U2".
― PhilK, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa, I missed this. Um, will look into it.
Anyway -- I recommend the A Long Way From Home album by Black Swan Lane to all Chams fans. It's a new project that Mark is involved in, as one of the two lead vocalists. More of a Sound style album than the Chams, and not quite as aggro as either, but it sounds quite lovely anyway:
http://www.myspace.com/blackswanlane
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 November 2007 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Manchester UK / Atlanta, Georgia, United States
whoa
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 November 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
finally got into these guys with "strange times", recently! sure had been missing out. . .
― andi, Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes you had!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Misfortune 500 just surprised the shit out of me at my radio station's concert by playing "Paper Tigers" AND "Don't Fall"! (And I surprised the singer by singing along)
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 30 March 2008 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
HALF ALIVE IN A NINE TO FIVE VACANT EYES
blaring Chameleons from my stereo now. I really believe everyone should blare Chamelons from their stereo.
Swamp Thing in my ears.
I'm going to play this album over and over until I get tired of it.
― Bimble, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
STOP STARING AT THE GROUND
― Bimble, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Not too many hours from this hour
― Bimble, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Primal scream and the TV screen
"we were younger then and the days were long and slow but were wiser then, I couldn't say I wouldn't know"
― Bimble, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I wasn't worried at all I had someone to run to
― Bimble, Sunday, 4 May 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link
impossible
― stephen, Sunday, 4 May 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
True.
I must thank Curtis for that mention of Misfortune 500 -- I'd had that around as a promo mailing and had ignored it because the sticker was all 'if you like Interpol and the Editors...' leading me to go OTHER REFERENCE POINTS DAMMIT. But seeing as they obviously know their Chameleons I am suddenly intrigued.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 May 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
did the Script Of THe Bridge reissue ever come out?
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, it's basically out now.
― stephen, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
THIS IS NOT MY HOME
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
drifting ghosts of glass
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
RANDOM QUOTED LYRIC OUT OF CONTEXT
― stephen, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Strange Times on repeat again.
This is the same thing I did the other night.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd like to see this giant fall
struck by lightning die with the bullet in my head right in the brain right in the brain right in the brain
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm alive Turn on the lights
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the storm has come or is it another shower?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
are you drunk?
― stephen, Monday, 5 May 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, John Lever's new band:
http://www.myspace.com/bushartmusic
...which is rather Chamslike. But the vocalist is the weak spot, to put it mildly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"THIS RECORDING WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED LOUD"
on every Chameleons & ex-Chameleons album ever
The vocals don't ruin the songs at least. Guy sort of sounds like he's trying to be Jaz Coleman lol
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
classic music that is not afraid to bury you in meaning and feeling. no holding back in restrained cool fashion for these guys. it's all on the sleeves.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 8 May 2008 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
that is very true
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 May 2008 07:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm. Well, alright. See I heard this um..."Dear Dead Days" song tonight that was the early version of Soul In Isolation and then I really flipped my goddamn lid. And then I realized it was on something called "Here Today...Gone Tomorrow" which I didn't know about except I found a picture of an LP called that that I remember owning from the familiarity of the sleeve to me. It had a rectangular picture of the band with a lot of green leaves around it. So I'm kindof confused because I think the (dbl) CD has a different sleeve (and tracklisting!) than the LP. I really don't know what I'm doing here. Maybe someone can help me. I don't understand why I recognized the LP sleeve but not this song "Dear Dead Days"? And yes I realize the dbl CD contained a live gig for the second CD and all that.
Won't someone help my bewildered ass? I'm rooting around in tender memories here and I'm not sure of anything. Thanx.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 10 May 2008 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Bimble struggles to remember sometimes, but all the same, tonight he remembered exactly what the face of one of his early grade school teachers looked like. I must have been 9 years old and suddenly earlier this evening I remembered this one teacher's face incredibly clearly. And her mascara. It was really wild. I mean, for all I know that woman could be dead now. How many years ago was 1980 again?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 10 May 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Autographed copy of Mark's autobiography, View From A Hill, just arrived in the mail. The finger-pointing begins on page 2.
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
A good friend of mine had his baby shower today, because he's expecting a baby girl. When I walked in to this party, he was playing Strange Times. I was utterly hypnotized. I couldn't move. I only wanted to hear it again and again and again. I couldn't socialize with the people there, nothing. I was paralyzed. I could only stand there in the kitchen with my wine glass and sing along. I didn't care at all about anyone. What was wrong with these people that they didn't care that Strange Times was playing?
Anyone remember "I'll Remember"?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 4 August 2008 07:11 (fifteen years ago) link