PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

also coolest band ever to have girl's lyrics song by song on one page of booklet, next to boy's lyrics song by song on another page of booklet (italian flag cd)

*well, better than mine.

wait, are you my stalker? oh well, sorry if this isn't about wolf eyes. i did see them a couple times about 6 weeks ago.

no change there then

There's a CDr of the set. Ridiculously limited like that 1st _The Inside Ov A..._ record (the graveyard one).

I seem to remember it getting reviewed in the album section of the NME and getting 0 out of 10. So that's them and Stereolab then. Maybe there should be a "Who got 0 out of 10 in the NME" thread.

I seem to remember it getting reveiwed in the album section of the NME and getting 0 out of 10. So that's them and Stereolab then. Maybe there should be a "Who got 0 out of 10 in the NME" thread.

Is this one of the rare b sides?

And Turk, I'm sorry if I've caused you any anguish - just an innocent enquiry ;-) - I'm a Tube Bar alumnus '96/'97 vintage, see?

the Field Mice were unavailable for comment.

So sad, to end up being eaten by a whale. A victim of his own deathlist really. It makes me sad, in the same way remembering drinking fizzy strawberry vodka in the park, with a girl you no longer know, listening to a tape she made you of The Fat Tulips, Cellophane, 14 iced bears, the Marigolds, the McTells and the latest Bouquet single, Blub!

Let this most odd thread live on forever!

They will be sorely missed. ahoo.

*HONK*

some guy who runs a metal/noise label in Glasgow posted on his Instagram stories today that the biggest disappointment of 2023 was the bloke from Prolapse being an abusive dick at Mono in Glasgow, and all the bald blokes in the audience did nothing about it.

what's all that about? as far as I can see Prolapse played at Mono in 2022, not this year. maybe it was one of them solo? or was this guy completely unfamiliar with Prolapse and took Tina This Is Matthew Stone seriously? couldn't find anything about it online

they played Mono in October last year, maybe that's what he's thinking of?
when they recorded Tina in the studio for the 1st album the producer really thought they were having a fight and hitting each other in the vocal booth
they recorded a new album in Wales this summer, should be getting released next year

I think that's probably what happened, bit embarrassing for the guy tbh, I think he's older than me, I'm sure he probably doesn't have as much hair as he used to

I saw them in London last autumn and the worst thing that happened was their t-shirts apparently stinking of fish because they'd been sat in a lock up somewhere for 25 years. I bought one and it did not smell of fish fwiw

saw them last night and… it was a lot of fun! well, esp the first half. donald skinner had a funny turn or something, and carried on playing sitting down and some of the oomph and chaotic energy went out of it. i was like… don’t you want to check he’s ok?

one of the new songs v good. the other… needed practice.

then due to engineering works which it wasn’t clear were happening i ended up in bromley at half midnight. ;_;

I was going to go last night but Melt-Banana were playing in Brighton and I opted for the gig that didn't involve hours of travelling (sounds like that was a good idea re engineering works). hoping due to the recording of new songs they'll be playing again next year

subsequently learned that the guy I posted about last year who I think grossly misinterpreted their stage performance is in Coffin Mulch who I saw a couple of months ago and are really good, and can confirm that he isn't in fact bald

I was in the support band (Kylie Monologue) for the London date. They were self adminttedly a bit rusty. New stuff sounds good; not a major departure. Guess they will be back over when the new album comes out next year.

Gideon Coe on 6 Music just played a forthcoming track from Prolapse

Prolapse - On the Quarter Days
https://bsky.app/profile/6music.bsky.social/post/3lktpdj4xib2b

sounding intense and noisy

On Spotify now. Pretty good!

And said track is now up for streaming/purchase:

https://prolapse2.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-quarter-days

Plus, we got video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-MDNcozGgY

More! Cha Cha Cha 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNMeGgG37C0

Unless I'm missing something somewhere else, you know there's a whole new album out right?

https://open.spotify.com/album/5TNi3y1BQPDXLVfXegk4dz?si=A-ctOXGtToKoLfJn0IzeUw

Very well aware!

Very well aware!

*hiccup*

Just listened to The Italian Flag for the first time while reading this entire thread. Would describe the experience as 'life affirming'

The reunion album is tremendous, one of my faves from last year. Amazing that they still have that unique vocal contrast still working perfectly.

EXCEPT ONE

tempted to see em live in August...

currently in London recording new material

Ok this is amazing lol I always thought they were some kind of tuff guy post Am Rep noise band line Unsane or something

I love the suggested polarity in the premises of these old Classic or Dud threads. Sometimes i miss it

See you there lj

in your banana suit?

This thread was/is magic (was, as it stretches back 25 years to a time when there wasn't even a consensus that the band had broken up!) Last year was another year of belated discovery for me, in that two 90s-00s bands with names that I'd heard repeatedly back in those decades, but that I'd never actually HEARD --- and had no idea what they even sounded like --- became two of my all-time favourites. On the US side, it was the fantastic US Maple, partly inspired by an ILM thread or two; on the UK side, Prolapse, initially inspired entirely by this thread. Which is hilarious, as when I took the time to re-read said thread from the top today, I realized it's almost entirely made up of in-jokes and references that a non-fan such as I had no right undertanding. BUT somehow, all this thread's dubious reports served to make Prolapse a No 1 priority on my must-hear-next list, and I was glad to find that they've kept or regained control of their catalog, and its all easily available digitally on Bandcamp. How did I miss them first time 'round? I know that they initially had some connections to the Too Pure bands of the early 90s, at least that's where I first heard their name, and I heard (and even saw) most of them. But not this sextet, which turns out to have been one of the most original, funniest, and musically-challenging Rock Groups of their time. And the best news of all: they are one of those rare groups that have recently reunited and continued exactly where they left off with absolutely no discernable drop in quality (or major bulge in waistlines!).'I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face' (2025) picks up in a completely convincing way where 'Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes' (1999) left off (and since the latter record quickly became one of my Favourite Rock LPs Of All Time, i'm in heaven.) Prolapse, not satisfied to have simply come up with one of the most unwelcoming band names of all time, have come up with scads upon scads of the best song title evah AND written the songs worthy of those titles ... they've managed to find a way of making guitars and basses with shouting on top sound like something brand new under the sun. AND the thread revive above after the 'two months pass' title suggests that there's a new record in the making as well! One can only hope that the super 'Cha Cha Cha 2000' is indicative of a just-around-the-corner re-assessment of the late Klaus Dinger's ridiculously great (if not just plain ridiculous) post-La Dusseldorf discography (mostly) issued under the 'La! Neu?' moniker. Kudos to Prolapse for simultaneously adding a third 'Cha' to the title of Dinger's deathless set-closer, while cutting the length in song time to just under three perfect minutes, from the half-hour La Dusseldorf original (not to mention the transformative out-of-body experience that is the 2-hour 'Cha Cha 2000' on La! Neu's double-CD 'Live in Tokyo 1996 Vol 1'!) –– Can't wait for the next Prolapse! (erm ...) --- thanks for the inside tip, X Post Zappi! And X post also to the June 2026 statements just above from 'Blues guitar Solo Heatmap etc' and 'rameau in the main room (dog latin)', both of which make points worth making.

That's funny, I recently decided to extrapolate a small genre/movement/vibe from disparate strands of 1997 postish-rock and both US Maple and Prolapse made it in: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/acoleuthic/wandercore/

I'll be at the London gig, and am somehow even weighing up the Ipswich one too as my friend will be at that one

Scottish Mick was also in a short-lived band called Cha Cha 2000 in the '90s. The love for Dinger runs deep.

Tbf it was also the wider Prolapse cohort who got me into La Düsseldorf back in those days and often I do think they were the actual greatest krautrock band of all time, yes, better than Can or Faust or even Neu themselves - well, what am I saying, it wasn't "the wider Prolapse cohort", it was zappi. It's all his fault.