The Sundays : C or D

>I listen to my "Goodbye" b/w "Wild Horses" single a lot

I went through a period last year of listening to Goodbye on repeat play - it would come round on shuffle and then I'd have to hear it several times in a row - by which I mean it's just heartbreakingly fantastic. The final section where Gavurin cuts completely loose and Harriet comes back in with "oh as the heavens shudder baby, I belong to you" makes this into pretty much the best single of the 1990s.

So erm, classic!

omg i'm breakin out the cassettes!

i used to imitate professional ice skaters in my basement on roller skates listening to the sundays - ah the life!

Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, to my ears, sounded like Cocteau Twins without Robin Guthrie's dreamy guitarscapes, but in their place something ordinary. Perhaps having listened to the Cocteaus before having heard of them ruined them for me.
-- acb (acb), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:24 (1 year ago) Link

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That comparison always strikes me as a bit odd actually. Where is the commonality? Not in the guitars, the singing, the lyrics, the song structures... May as well say "The Sundays, to my ears, sounded like The Bad Seeds without Nick Cave's unholy raving, but in their place something ordinary..."

Better comparison would be The Smiths crossed with Sugarcubes' "Birthday", surely.

nah, i get the comparison. if liz sang clearly around the time of heaven or las vegas, it'd be a pretty similar thing, i think.

and, what acb said and stephen quoted, i'm about to say this as a sundays obsessive (have their entire discography and about 10 bootlegs), that might be about right. but, that might also be part of what makes them great. but, hm, that's one to chew on.

i always loved the Sundays much more than the Cocteau Twins. the performance worked better for me, and i was happy to not have the guitarscapes on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. easily a favorite album from my youth.

i heard sundays before the cocteaus, by the way. if that might matter.

i think the less lush design of Reading Writing and Arithmetic (sans guitarscapes) made it feel less cluttered and more pure to me. i liked that it wasn't doused in ambient guitar.

my post before my last is silly. replace 'heaven or las vegas' with 'four-calendar', even though the syllables were clearer then, too.

this needs remastering!

and where can u get a cd-quality copy of DON'T TELL YOUR MOTHER in this day and age.

You can get it in most any dollar bin on the DGC Rarities volume 1 cd.

Or on Amazon.com for one penny.

wow! DGC rarities eh? really? that's genuinely brilliant advice. great stuff thanks!

hahaha, dgc rarities is CLASSIC! deserves it's own thread.

The DGC Rarities disc (volume one-and-only) is kind of great, actually! I found my copy a couple years ago and was surprised by how much fun it was to listen to. Teenage Fanclub, what might be Weezer's best song, a good That Dog track, St. Johnny sounding more like Dinosaur Jr than ever, a great weird Sloan thing, the only Hole song I've ever really liked ... I seem to remember even liking the CELL track on this.

Wait, I must have found a NEW copy, as I'm pretty sure I had this on TAPE back in the day?

Beck's maybe best song ever, "Bogusflow"

um. yeah. i wasn't kidding about fucking dgc rarities.

My January band for the last few years.

Good choice. :-)

I'm in a "I Kicked a Boy" kind of mood.

Haha, I was born in that born.

????

in that MOOD!

You were born twice. A special birth.

The rebirth of slick, like my gangsta stroll.

I Kicked A Boy!!!! gooood call

that album = this weather to the t

Yes, "I Kicked A Boy" is a damn good call! I tend to forget about that one. I should dig out that cassette download...

I Kicked a Boy is easily in the favorite three songs on the debut.

I especially love "My Finest Hour" (esp. the end, SHIIIIT!) and "Can't Be Sure".

Classic, i.e., I liked them and have since forgotten all about them.

xcept of course I Kissed A Girl is like echoing in my brain whenever i think of I Kicked A Boy

Which song/artist is that, Surmounter? "I Kissed A Girl"?

Jile Sobule.

The first album was so good that i never listened to anything that followed - but even only on one-albums-worth of merit, classic.

That album somehow helped me mourn the passing of The Smiths in a comforting kind of way.

Cortney Tidwell is surely the new Harriet Wheeler...

Jill Sobule yeah. who i actually liked for a while. she's actually really not bad. but she's no The Sundays.

Really wintry = "Joy."

Funnily enough, I think I first got hold of RW&A just after Christmas of my first year of high school -- I remember lots and lots of January listening to it. Like all-day, no-school, sitting in room listening to Sundays record over and over.

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I'm breathless about The Sundays. I'm serious.

i'm not buying it.

oh well too bad for you

thats not new sundays or what? are they still around

there is a young girl at the pharmacy in the grocery store who looks like harriet wheeler, grandmother hair and all.

they are rather breathless

It's the last part of "My Finest Hour" you know it...the last fucking 45 seconds or whatever it is that they do there...totally divorced from the rest of the song, but you know...

And then they go into "Joy" and by god I want to know what the hell else you want out of an album than this one.

You know when I met Harriet Wheeler at the club, I remember asking her what they were into musically and she said "oh you know the Smiths, Cocteau Twins" you know just what you'd expect! She also mentioned Jimi Hendrix, believe it or not.

I Kicked A Boy, too.

The Rolling Stones!

Fucking YES! WILD HORSES!!!!!

Certainly the best version of that song I have ever heard; but then I don't really understand the general heated adoration of the Burritos' take. The delicate touches that the Sundays added, the low-slung and high-flying guitar riffs and her dreamy way of singing it, seem to me to clean up next to any other reading of t that song - indeed it must be the greatest Stones cover I have ever heard. Virtually the greatest COVER I have ever heard, full stop.

these records (the first one anyway) seriously need a remastering and some kind of deluxe treatment.