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
DON'T LET THESE DAYS OF DOUBT TURN HIM INSIDE OUT
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 4 August 2008 07:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Tony Fletcher Walked On Water EP.
This one goes out out to the man I lost. Where is he now? The one I lost. Where did he go? I know I drank too much, I know. I ruined it all. It's all my fault. But where is he now? Where did he go? He used to post to ILX, but no more. How I miss him. Jesus. Wouldn't he only rep for this EP? Chameleons were one of his fave bands. And he's gone now. I'll never forget him. Goodbye, Mitch. Goodbye. God. I'd give anything to hear from you, but you are gone. Forever gone. Goodbye.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
God I'm so sorry, Mitch. God I'm so sorry.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 04:30 (fifteen years ago) link
You have to hang on to your childhood.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
FUCK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoOuVL5nn5M
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:7FGMmZES7J8cRM:http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/16227.jpg
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Look, I was only in high school with this album. I'm about to cry.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't give a fucking living fuck if it isn't Chameleons I don't care. I'm going to go back to my high school days and no one can stop me.
With the sun in your eyes...
out the back door silently he creeps a sense of excitement you've no hope of finding with the chains that bind your feet
but why this weakness no one knows the vacant faceless voices on the phone bring words that offer no consolation when you're all alone
Beaten on the brow of history a union forged in slavery in all that's hope and decency a hope for you and a hope for me every woman child and man to those who'll chain you if they can the babe you're bouncing on your knee needs your help now can't you see?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
bimble, this one's pretty good too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hINpXuwE1nE
― stephen, Sunday, 10 August 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck I just can't function damnit.
"Is It Any Wonder" playing loud now my neighbors are going to kill me.
Thanks, Stephen.
It hurts me in my heart, this music, it hurts me.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't do it.
I'm playing Mad Jack now my neighbors are going to kill me. I can't do this.
Please tell the one I love that I love this goddamn album. Please tell him.
STRANGE TIMES.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
NO PRESSURE NO PAIN
Come up here, set us free
dagger in our hearts
THIS IS NOT MY HOME
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Nobody hears cause nobody cares. I wanna look 20 but I can't deliver. The time has come for us to scatter Caution To The Wind
Caution To The Wind Caution To The Wind Caution To the Wind
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Just drifting ghosts of glass
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I Love "In Shreds"
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm surprised to be the 1st person here to mention "In Shreds".. It's possible Interpol may have stolen their sound from this song.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking In Shreds you guys are going to slay me.
I've already cried real tears about this goddamn Strange Times CD.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
They told me to turn it down, the motherfuckers. My landlord and everything.
I don't care. Damnit, I just don't care. Chameleons.
I can't turn it down in my brain.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
IN SHREDS IS SLAYING MY SOUL
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry...
― stephen, Sunday, 10 August 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Stops them feeling small that's all Look, I'm not going to quote all the lyrics, anyone who knows anything knows that I'm dying here. I'm fucking dying if this isn't the best music in the world.
SAYS THE SPIDER TO THE FLY NICE TRY
Every day you're crucified If you can't look them in the eye nice try vices embraced in times of crisis THAT'S ALL
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 11 August 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It must have been like this before but my memory's hazy
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 11 August 2008 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought this was about Ian Riese-Moraine at first.
― jaymc, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha. I know. What happened to Ian anyway? That guy had some really cool taste in music for being so young! I asked another ILXor what happened to him and it was like I think someone here scared him or something. I'm not sure. I think someone here scared him and he left ILX.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
-- stephen, Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Sorry I just now got this. You dropped a Cure lyric in there. Nice one, dude.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha ;)
― stephen, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Hearts Fail - interesting Chameleons influenced band from SAN ANTONIO, Texas
Hearts Failhttp://www.myspace.com/heartsfail
Influences the Chameleons UK, the Cure, the Sound, the Smiths, the Comsat Angels, Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Killing Joke, the Church, the Mission, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, the Psychedelic Furs, New Order, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, NIN, Placebo, Muse, David Bowie, Interpol, Mana, la Ley, Depeche Mode, V.A.S.T., Tori Amos, Bjork
― djmartian, Friday, 12 September 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I have even more appreciation for "Soul In Isolation" after reading Jack London's "The Star Rover", the book the lyrics of the the song are based on.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 12 September 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
In side project news, a Reegs reissue is forthcoming:
http://www.myspace.com/thereegsdefinitivecdset
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 April 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice!!!
― ilxor, Sunday, 5 April 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I know this gets tossed around a lot, but they really were the best at what they did weren't they? It's not often that a band writes songs this good and captures them on record so perfectly. They had prettier guitars than the Smiths, more vivid daydreams & nightmares than the Cure, lightyears more energy than U2...
― dirty south? clean it up with Orbitz (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I know I love 'em.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been listening to them a lot lately. Rediscovering What Does Anything Mean... especially. Still not as perfect as Script..., but pretty damn close. It also struck me that Editors try to sound like them a lot. I'm probably the last person who's realised that.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
They had (...) more vivid daydreams & nightmares than the Cure
Man I love me some Chameleons but I'll challenge this. I've not heard a Chameleons song as daydream-y as "Let's Go to Bed," "The Lovecats," "Catch," "Friday I'm in Love" or as altogether bleak and torturous as "One Hundred Years," "Siamese Twins," "The Top," "The Kiss" et al.
That is to say, yes, the Chameleons are of course great, but Cure embody those two extremes -- daydreams and nightmares -- a lot better than Burgess & Co. ever did (not that they were necessarily trying for that, of course).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Chameleons vs Cure poll would be a bloodbath of regrets ;)
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, I'd probably have to side with The Cure, but for unfair reasons (I first heard The Cure when I was 7, I first heard The Chameleons when I was 20, the former are integrally ingrained in my psyche and the latter are a great fucken band I discovered through ILM)
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm. I got into them both at round about the same time -- ie gloomy adolescence -- and while I think the Chameleons have moments of undeniable godlikeness, I wouldn't really put them in the same league as the Cure ... it's not just about daydreams and nightmares, as ilxor so eloquently puts it, but about the range and scope of what they did. Even after all these years, the Cure can still surprise me.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Like with a surprisingly dull, middling new album in 2008 (a handful of tracks aside)? ;-)
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Er, well ... I really liked it to begin with ... umm ... yeh, OK.
But it's funny: I've just put on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, which is (oddly) the album of theirs I've probably listened to the least, and there's so much going on there -- so much to love -- that I find myself thinking, fuck it, I can forgive the (not insignificant) dross when there's stuff as good as this in there.
Sure, the Chameleons suffer in this comparison by having a much smaller body of work to choose from. But, er ... tough :)
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ok I was stretching it w/the Cure
― dirty south? clean it up with Orbitz (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
more vivid daydreams & nightmares Echo & the Bunnymen
^^ there we go, works better w/the analogy since the Cure were more eclectic than these other bands
― dirty south? clean it up with Orbitz (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
where is the love for what does anything mean, basically?
― cutty, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
That's long been my favourite one, apart from the shit poem on the cover.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone talks about script and strange times, seemingly ignoring the better album in between. it's not as dark as script, seems more jangly/proto-shoegazery, and seems less straight "rock" than strange times.
yes, it is my favorite as well.
― cutty, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's suffered a little cos it hasn't got a 'Second Skin' or a 'Soul In Isolation' on it, but really, 'Perfume Garden' and 'Intrigue In Tangiers' are two of the most vivid songs that Mark Burgess wrote.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
The drummer from the Chameleons is doing a Chameleons tribute band as support to the Comsat Angels in October
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"Home Is Where the Heart Is" is where it's @
― funky house sceptic system (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days 12"
― uncannydan, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
comsat angels reunion?
― cutty, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link