man you're behind the curve!
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link
I listened to a 7" of 'Stereo Girls' the other day. It was better than I remembered. Where can you get their albums nowadays, though? Amazon seems to come up with nothing.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago) link
Blasphemy!
― Ryan WS (fffv), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
are liliput good? i just allmusic-ed them and they're in esteemed company: the slits & the raincoats.
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:21 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
Yes!
Now listening to "Eisiger Wind" on repeat.
― Ryan WS (fffv), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
downloading that mp3 now tho & eyeing up that liliput/kleenex reissue on amazon.
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 January 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
Search: Nightclub LP and Kinky Cinema CD (59 minute long 60 track! compilation)
Destry: Sexy World LP
Also worth a punt if you like the Kleenex/Lilliput thing were The Yummy Fur's contemporaries Lung Leg.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 15 January 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 15 January 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link
Ha -- listening to Kinky Cinema, trawling thru the archives for YF discussion, and I come across Douglas' post just as "Liliput" starts playing!
― David R., Friday, 8 August 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
THE YUMMY FUR ONE-OFF REUNION GIGS FOR GM 15 YEARANNIVERSARYNext year GM celebrates 15 years in 'Tha Biz' with some special events.The first being a one off gig by the main band we used to put rekkidsout by in the nineties, Glasgow;s THE YUMMY FUR, who featured acouple of members of Franz Ferdinand and were fronted by John/Jackienow of 1990s. TYF play Glasgow (Sleazys) on Jan 7th and London(Buffalo Bar) on Jan 9th (tickets for London will be onwww.wegottickets.com from Dec1st)... the group includes John, Brian and Paul Thomson back togetheragain. (Following these 2 shows the band play a couple of dates in theU.S too!)
― James Mitchell, Monday, 16 November 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Following these 2 shows the band play a couple of dates in the U.S too!
What?? That's crazy talk. Austin, TX please?
― city worker, Monday, 16 November 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome! Brian and Paul, celebs though they may be, may be surprised at John's pulling power after the show..
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 November 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
should i not have sold my yummy fur LPs and CDs?
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
If I'm unable to get into the Glasgow gig due to Sleazy's being swamped, then I'll be deeply miserable.
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Full 'Shoot The Ridiculant' video makes it to Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8G3Xtx3xwM
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The Yummy Fur - 2009 North American Tour DatesJan 14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Neck Tie (England Belongs to Twee)Jan 15 Brooklyn, NY - 171 LombardyJan 17 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo (Part Time Punks)Jan 18 San Francisco, CA - Cafe du NordJan 20 Portland, OR - TBA (Suicide Club)
― mizzell, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Jan 17 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo (Part Time Punks)
Nice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Brooklyn tnite (show moved to Market Hotel, 1142 Myrtle)
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 January 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw them in London on Sunday.
A little under-rehearsed but a lot of fun.
― jellybean (back again) (Jill), Friday, 15 January 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/027002/f1/nlc002290-v6.jpg
― President Keyes, Saturday, 16 January 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I totally forgot about The Yummy Fur. I totally forgot I made this thread.
― fffv, Saturday, 16 January 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I went to that one, it was a fun gig.
Are the 1990s any good?
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 16 January 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty boring imo and nothing like The Yummy Fur really
― i swear on my life i feel so powerfull (musically) (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 16 January 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw them play a couple of songs at a gig a few years ago but cannot remember a thing about them.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 16 January 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The 1990s are poppier, less Fall-y
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 16 January 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
They're back!
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-yummy-fur-reuniting-for-fall-north-american-tour-w-bodega-future-punx/
Nov 23 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer *Nov 24 – Los Angeles – The Echo *Nov 25 – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop *Nov 27 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *Nov 29 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern *Nov 30 – Vancouver – Biltmore Cabaret *Dec 02 – Toronto – Adelaide Hall ^Dec 03 – Brooklyn – Elsewhere Zone One ^Dec 05 – Philadelphia – Kung Fu Necktie ^* w/ Future Punx^ w/ Bodega
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Holy moly, ok!
― city worker, Saturday, 13 July 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
Amazing, but wish they would tour the UK, one of my 3 favourite bands and never seen them live
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 July 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
Was expecting the comic, but Chester Brown went kinda nuts anyways.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 14 July 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Jade Green from Lungleg has just uploaded this brilliant footage from I think 94 or 95
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3dK4bVbF8
Also I'll be seeing them live in just a couple of weeks!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
Amazing! Rest of the channel is worth checking out inc. Lung Leg footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-onf93bdBVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODy_mysNDzI
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
There is no Lungleg thread on ILM, for shame!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fYD2Rf6LVc
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Don't they have a message of singles and whatnot that's uncollected? Would love a comprehensive sweep up of that stuff.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link
There's a career-spanning compilation coming out next week but it's an overall best of:https://shop.rockactionrecords.co.uk/browse/rock-action-records/products/the-yummy-fur-piggy-wings-lp
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 10 October 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
signing and gig at rough trade east on the 24th
― koogs, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
Circa 2005 there was talk of a compilation and reissues on Bada Bing records but nothing came of them. Shame, as they would have benefitted from the Franz Ferdinand mania of the time (I even remember seeing a photo of the YF in a tabloid article about FF). Would be nice if the singles are not all vinyl tips but they don't strike me as the sort of band who would look after their masters
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
rips
Yeah when I saw news about a release I was a bit annoyed it's just a best of. Most of their stuff is way OOP, I have a bunch of singles but only 1 album. My local record shop was playing the Sexy World LP the other day and I went and asked how much it was but it was their personal copy and not for sale!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
I might see if I can get to that rough trade gig though, it's pretty near my office and I am in the office that day
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:49 (four years ago) link
i have the first couple of eps but don't recognise any of the track titles. (mainly because the eps had names that weren't track names. Kodak Nancy Europe, Music By Walt Disney But Played By Yuri Gagarin Thus a Political Record...)
wikipedia says there was already one comp - Kinky Cinema (Guided Missile CD, 1997) but discogs has no details.
― koogs, Thursday, 10 October 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
It is on discogs but you have to search for it, for some reason it doesn't show on the main Yummy Fur page
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
Kinky Cinema has a lot of re-records on it, despite having a billion songs on it it's not even comprehensive of the band up that point
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
Off the top of my head (it's been years since I've heard it), tracks from this EP and later singles do not appear in their original superior forms https://www.discogs.com/The-Yummy-Fur-Music-By-Walt-Disney-But-Played-By-Yuri-Gagarin-Thus-A-Political-Record/release/401865
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
That one is on the Seven Unlucky Sevens Slampt compilation, which I do have!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
So happy to see interest in The Yummy Fur.
Kinky Cinema is fantastic, but does include many re-records / alternate versions, it isn't at all a comprehensive selection. (Most egregious omission for me is 'Typical of Boys' which I've uploaded to Youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVdV3Pe5_s
There is a comprehensive TYF fansite here which has a proper discography.
http://www.mcgazz.co.uk/yummyfur/
I've been trying to get hold of everything in one form or another in order to put together a proper compilation for myself, would like to share it on here but right now nothing is available to buy and nothing is on spotify, only a few things on Youtube too, so ideas welcome. If people can make decent rips of the early EPs that would be great too of course.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
you might try contacting here? https://www.instagram.com/mckeowntyler/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 February 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
Ah, there he is. Tyler now?
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 29 February 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Gimme Cigarettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFDyK5uiew
Pro-cigarette propaganda, not one of their best tbh, good melody on chorus though
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 1 March 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
180bpm!
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 6 March 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
Gimmick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poRypC7SIrU
A kind of carnival sound, still ends with "fuck you" - also, that drumming!
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
Found a Girlfriend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDes12wq9k
Very low-fi early demo, clearly from a warped tape, some good playing with rhythms, sounds a bit like early The Fall.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Oh and thanks Tracer Hand, I have been given the ok!
Nice :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
The Dummy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jki2vNm5B0o
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
Prostitutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zrPBVMCMeE
I got prostitutes, prostitutes, prostitutes on my wallThat cheap Sam Fox from the telephone boxShe's not a barbie dollThese are real hard girls trying to make some cashWe are just dumb punksSteal their calling cards 'cause it makes us laughIt's very hard to grow up, yeah
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
I feel like I must have been assuming some kind of alternate persona when I made this thread. but 16+ years later and I'm still here and I still love this dumb band.
― fffv, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
They're not a joke pop band (yes I do accept that the surface of this band is much like a cartoon)
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
by which I mean yes!
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Always a pleasure to listen to.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
Yummy Fur vs The Stooges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0beBwTQoXg
Five seconds of noise, five seconds of silence, that's what yr getting.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 12 March 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
The Monotony Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-CICHcS0Q
An admittedly skippable one works well for a day when it's unlikely anyone wants to listen anyway.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Discord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UYRB7o4t24
A fast! cover version of the Peel session version of the Fire Engines original, actually great, just wish it were a bit longer.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 March 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
(Still posting these despite everything because got to have some little spark of joy in my day)
Our Peppermint Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCfxhSXzjQ
This one, I think, is quite Cardiacs.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
Thank you for posting these, Camaraderie. I'm following this and listening...
― city worker, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Cheers city worker
This is Super-8 Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz47ZyaX2Ys
Sounds cheeky
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
This is the last of the really early demos, however we are not going to move to much higher production values for quite a while.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
On to Music By Walt Disney But Played By Yuri Gagarin Thus A Political Record - their first proper release.
This is 'Goosebump' - bit of a low-key start to the EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkzl9tVsCx8
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
Always thought it was funny how he nails the anxiety of the subject matter in the 7" version, but sound like he can't be bothered when it appears on Kinky Cinema
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 19 March 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
I'm still hoping for a comprehensive list of single versions I need to track down.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 19 March 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
The re-recordings of MBWDBPBYG tracks on Kinky Cinema are some of the weaker bits on there. I'm actually going to post the re-make of Father Ubu Says because of the way he changes the lyrics to ones about how much he hates the song.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 19 March 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
"I was only 23 when I wrote it..." etc.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 19 March 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
Shrinky-Dink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-j6e0b8Xgo
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 March 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
Pink Pop Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYXBbsWZjQ
Stuttering rhythms give way to a bit of low-fi power pop, then synthesis
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:23 (four years ago) link
The re-recordings of MBWDBPBYG tracks on Kinky Cinema are some of the weaker bits on there.
Is everything on "Kinky Cinema" a re-recording?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
No, it's a mix of early demos, mid-period demos, re-recordings and new experimental bits in roughly equal proportions.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
oh and the first ten tracks are the Kodak Nancy Europe ep
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
Kabuki Actors Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRfG2ji8co
There! is! no! Santa! Claus!
This one is fairly new to me as I never had this EP, and there wasn't a re-record on Kinky Cinema.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
So, I totally love this band and know these records really well but it's been hard to get into this thread. Breaking up something like Kinky Cinema (which is 60 >90 second songs) into individual tracks feels quite academic, like putting a frozen tissue sample under a microscope. Which is fine, even potentially revealing but to my ears reduces it to something like a historical artifact.
IMO, this would work better record-by-record than track-by-track.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
It will make more sense when I get to more substantial releases.Will continue this tomorrow as I finished a Twitter thing which was taking up all my time.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
The 7" singles and EP's are their most substantial releases! IMO
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
They are! But I want to give time to listen to both sides of Supermarket / The Career Saver for example.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
Ok, here we go again.
Candy Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_csKFu6iQ
Candace June Clark (born June 20, 1947) is an American actress and model. She is well known for her roles as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 film American Graffiti, for which she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Mary Lou in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 April 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
I suspect checking out TYF references might be why I ended up going to film school.
Part one of a Chinese-themed double, this one mixes a falling-down-the-stairs bit with a more conventionally tuneful bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0e8_rd2ig
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 April 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link
Mao Tse Tung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_4_z5ZKLw
Funky Mao
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 April 2020 08:48 (four years ago) link
Father Ubu Says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHmBCIM3qRY
A song with lots of swears. Later on there will be another song to apologise for this one.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 April 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link
Frankenstein A Go-Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dJbzvzJfvg
It's time to go go
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
The Opptical Meat Dress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPdicUuqlI
This is one of my favourites, so many things happen in 50 seconds, that slap bass at the start. It's almost a Cardiacs song.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 09:05 (four years ago) link
Hm I should get back to these. One day.
Anyway, here is the greatest song ever recorded. It sounded wrong on the Piggy Wings CD, so I fixed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLA5-Ju01G4
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 June 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
Kodak Nancy Europe >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 12:52 (ten months ago) link
Playing with Bis, Art Brut & Lung Leg in September
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/bis-saint-lukes-tickets/13446804
(Less excited to see Bis & Art Brut (though both are fine) but am hovering over buying a ticket to see Lung Leg / TYF on the same bill even though it means travelling up from Cambridge to Glasgow somehow)
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:38 (one month ago) link
I saw that - same tbh, not that bothered about Bis and not really a fan of Art Brut but that looks like a fun gig
was gonna go to see Lung Leg in London about 18 months ago but there was a train strike on so I couldn't
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:48 (one month ago) link
I remember there was a reason I couldn't go, completely escapes me now.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:06 (one month ago) link
Missed out on that Lung Leg show for the same reason. Even though I would enjoy seeing bis, not sure I can justify a trip for this though.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:17 (one month ago) link