Kitchens Of Distinction -- S&D//POO/C or D?

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Oh, you've noticed it too? It's extraordinarily irritating. I've been in Best Buys with better selection, it's completely peculiar. Speaking of which, they're opening a Best Buy on 86th & Lex--are there any other in the city? They're good for rebuilding my stolen "canon" albums, since their cds are like $4.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, i have all of the albums (yes, even the last one which i bought for $2), and i've never been able to really get into any of them except love is hell, which i love(d...haven't listened to it in a while.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

they're opening a Best Buy on 86th & Lex--are there any other in the city?

There's a new one on 23rd and 6th Ave. Southeast corner.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 April 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Forget the compilation CD. Where can I find any KoD in New York? I've asked at Mondo Kim's. Zilch. I know they're out of print, but there's got to be something...

― justin s., Monday, 28 April 2003 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

www.stephenhero.co.uk is the site for Patrick's current nom-de-guerre, and according to the CD a KoD site should also be there (currently nonexistent, though). One Little Indian has reissued all the albums at mid-price, and the compilation itself was only eleven quid in HMV. Second disc is a bit disappointing - no "Elephantine" ("Elephantiny", though), the four acoustic versions are cack, and there are a few uninspired instrumentals. Why include "Margaret's Injection" (one of the most ill-advised attempts at a political song ever) and omit "Anvil Dub"?

― Andrew Norman, Monday, 28 April 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Where can I find any KoD in New York?

West Village. Go to Record Runner and Rebel Rebel.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

So, is it all the talk about Interpol allegedly ripping the Kitchens that has made all KOD absent in NYC? Or you seriously can't find any? That's absurd, as I figure ANY used CD store in the country has at least one copy of every CD for mere bucks a pop.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, drive to suburban pennsylvania. i paid no more than $5 per for each. (i found my copy of strange free world at the goodwill for chrissakes.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha I like the fact that any question about New York so far on this thread has been answered immediately by Alex, I was just going to ask where a pile more stores were and was like, you know, he's not bloody 411 for fuck's sake. "Does Rebel Rebel have blah blah blah?" I'm just going to get off my ass and go down there, I guess, instead of sleeping all weekend.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

did h*m@*il actually pip in something useful upthread?

Thanks very much for the cd Mr Ned. I are very happy. While looking for the tracklisting I was made even happier by the fact there is reissues & box set action happening. Now I must search out the finer indie stores in the area for such things.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 22 May 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Box set action! Post link, plz. And you're welcome!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Capsule is what I meant, but I guess its only 2cds now that I think about it. Shouldn't get you excited like that.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 23 May 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

You punk. *beats Mr. Noodles savagely after getting hopes up* Wait, that's rude of me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned displays his violent side. Between you and MC Stinkypants I got hattas on all side.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

re: Capsule

They left out their greatest B-sides! "White Horses" and "Spacedolphins"... :(

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 23 May 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

If somebody could find/digitize the original "Last Gasp Death Shuffle" single, along with "Into the Sea" and the original version of "4 Men," then along with everything I have we'd be able to create a complete B-sides/rarities comp...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 May 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I want a copy of this acoustic thing! Ned help me.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

because I am listening to "Smiling" now and its great as it ever was. "Hold me hard."

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean the B-sides on the second disc of Capsule?

Was thinking about them today myself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes sir.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

found Cpasule for cheap in record store. All is while with the universe.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

*hits NoodlesGrammarBot a bit*

I shall make what arrangements I can, Mr. V.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Unable to connect to NoodlesGrammarBot server. TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

REVIVE

In haplessly furrowing my brow, thinking of what to cover for an impending selection for The New Yorker's "Nightlife" section, I couldn't help noticing that uber-meh nightclub, Satalia (37 W.26th street) is playing host to an act dubbed FRUIT on July 21. Could this be that same Fruit that Patrick of the KoD started? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

They do that alot, and it really bugs the shizzat outta me.

Jebus. Did I really say that?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I think this would be a different band -- Patrick and Heidi Berry had a band going for a bit after the Fruit album, I recall that much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Ah, thanks Ned. Too bad. I'd have probably gone to check that out.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

So yes, still great.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone dig those Stephen Hero records? I got the first and liked it ok but didn't really follow up.

And as a relative newcomer to this board I must say this thread give me a great deal of pleasure. One of the things in life that makes me happiest is playing KoD for people, esp Death of Cool which is so, so, so, so sublime...

― Angsty, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Good on yer, sir. I should dig that out again tonight. (It also helps I've actually been to Tooting Broadway Station now.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am jealous of you Ned. God give me god to forgive me.
Ok, maybe jealous is slightly over the top but I love how that song ties those grand emotions to that one very specific and peculiar sounding place.

― Angsty, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I dug out The Death of Cool yesterday after noticing that there's a track on the new Tracey Thorn album called ... I think it was "By Picadilly Station I Lay Down and Wept." (I can remember nothing about the play -- or was it a poem? -- whose title originates this stuff.)

― nabisco, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

There was a over wrough novel by Elizabeth Smart called By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, very intense and hyper emotional. It's kind of interesting but also kind of embarassing. I think it was a Morrisey fave as well.
I'm also curious about the new Tracey Thorn.

― Angsty, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Right, that's the one. Funny that I've only seen British people making the reference -- I suppose because it's about the (English) George Barker? It'd seem to have some referential currency there that it just does here (hahaha possibly on the grounds that we IGNORE ALL CANADIANS).

― nabisco, Thursday, 29 March 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Not much love for this great band, huh? Their final album. _Cowboy & Aliens_, was almost as good as _Death Of Cool_. You could probably create a much better best-of from post-KoD than post-Chameleons. And I lurv the Chameleons.

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I was a bit divided on Cowboys & Aliens when I first heard it. I thought half was brilliant and half pretty bad. I think it had a lot to do with the production. I'm going to give it another listen when I go home tonight and this time I'll not skip the tracks I think I don't like.
I guess the lack of love must be in large part down to the whole "gay thing," because they really were pretty commercial in a way. Which is really depressing.

― Angsty, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Great, GREAT band. My g/f has been revising for exams recently so she just randomly pulls CDs off the shelves for background music, including Cowboys & Aliens at the weekend. I got back in from an errand and she proclaimed it "very good", high praise indeed. Capsule has kept popping up on my mp3 player recently too, reminding me of how spectacular Mad As Snow is too. Shame they didn't put the "proper" version of Elephantine on it though...

Very interesting little article about Patrick's return to medicine below, I don't think it's been linked to from ILM before, but probably one for fans only...

From Music To Medicine

― Bill A, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

weird that this got bumped; I just bought the two-CD best-of thing last week. no prior exposure to these guys, and I haven't really given it an in-depth listen, but so far I am really liking what I've heard (which basically amounts to "The Third Time We Opened The Capsule" 50 times on repeat).

― bernard snowy, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, thanks for that article link, Bill -- it's great to hear he is doing well.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

He seems to keep himself quite busy!
The Stephen Hero site has the whole Fruit album for download, it isn't half bad. It's no KoD mind you but still, he has charm in abundance.

― Angsty, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

vast rofflage at the spinal tap pic!

i'm almost tempted to e-mail him, but that would be very sad. i shall settle for saying that i loved this band like i have loved perhaps no other, and although i don't listen to them that much any more, it's only because i don't think i could bear the avalanche of long-forgotten (and in many cases deeply embarrassing) emotion it might unleash :)

i have the fruit album somewhere. "fucking relationship" was a big favourite of mine and byebyepride's circa 1996. or was it 1997? i forget.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

vast rofflage at the spinal tap pic!

Seconded! And yeah, revisiting them can be a hard experience on the psyche...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Been listening to Death Of Cool quasi non-stop for the past few months (thanks, thread!) and just yesterday, I've stumbled upon second-hand copies of Cowboys & Aliens and Love Is Hell. So excited, I don't even know which one to start with.

― alex in montreal, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i got a bunch of this stuff on vinyl now, bu thaven't had to to reevaluate yet.

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Patrick's new Stephen Hero album it out, if anyone is still listening. His voice is still great and Julian guests on one track - what a tease!

― Mr. Odd, Monday, 17 September 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

I've had everything but Love Is Hell for quite a while, and love it all pretty equally. Very consistent band. Still can't seem to track down that first record, though, and I've been looking for years...

― stephen, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

So you're saying you need a CDR burn, then.

(Nothing's turned up on Amazon? Odd, it did get a nice rerelease on A&M over here.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't do a lot of online shopping, too impersonal. Maybe it's time to check Amazon/eBay for this one though.

― stephen, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

ah yes, Amazon is loaded. i may have to look into that.

― stephen, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Just placed an order for the 2CD version of Capsule, very excited. Are there any key tracks on the b-sides/live/acoustic/etc. disc that I ought to pay extra-special attention to?

― stephen, Friday, 21 September 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

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Interesting direction for them to take, but definitely has some of that old magic. I could listen to those guitar lines in the bridge for hours. Can't wait for a high-quality version of this track and the rest of the album!

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 12:58 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Okay, excellent new interview at the Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/13414-kitchens-of-distinction-interview

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 September 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

Another lovely Wyndham Wallace feature.

― djh, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:48 (twelve years ago)

And a very nicely detailed playlist from Patrick here

http://www.3loopmusic.com/patrick-fitzgeralds-exclusive-playlist/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 21:24 (twelve years ago)

^ The Bitter Springs' "Ken"

― djh, Thursday, 3 October 2013 21:18 (twelve years ago)

thoughts on the record? i dunno how much is warm nostalgia fuzzy feelings but i dig so far.

― adam, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 19:41 (twelve years ago)

It's very good indeed -- sorry, thought I had posted on it here already. Very much a maturer band lyrically/sonically but it's still undeniably them, and the fact that they come roaring out of the gate with the first song is a good thing.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 19:43 (twelve years ago)

I've been giving Folly a few listens this week and am a bit on the fence so far, but I often take a while to really appreciate things. Definitely a few standouts, including "Oak Tree" and "Extravagance" but the one that really gives me the old-school KoD neck prickles is "I Wish It Would Snow", absolutely gorgeous.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Friday, 18 October 2013 08:57 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just a heads up, KOD will be playing a live in-studio set at KEXP tomorrow night 9pm Pacific. Stream it online.

― van smack, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 04:26 (twelve years ago)

Indeed!

https://www.facebook.com/events/578776285493023

http://kexp.org/events/instudio

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:33 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

The Lost Girls album finally came out! Cherry Red just released it with a bonus disc and it's damn good. Heidi Berry's vocals often bring to mind Sandy Denny and Linda Thompson and the addition of Patrick's sensibilities and early sampling / programming is very compelling.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 20:53 (eleven years ago)

Yeah it's a fun listen.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Anyone get the new box set? Unfortunately it seems to be missing "White Horses" and on Love Is Hell "Prize" has skipping on it, along with booklet printing errors according to some reviewers.

It's only the One Little Indian stuff so it doesn't have some singles.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 May 2017 22:46 (nine years ago)

Yeah the B-sides comp was slightly screwed up, so no "White Horses" (or "What We Really Wanted to Do," IIRC). My girlfriend, also a huge fan, ordered it -- it's nice, glitches aside, but the only tracks I didn't have were the radio sessions.

Patrick F was on the Tom Robinson show the other night -- great career-overview of an interview, well worth a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdfb2RIdGjI

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 May 2017 22:48 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

I'm game for everything Patrick is involved with. He's just released the second Oskar's Drum album with Yves Altana, it's very dark and heavy:

https://oskarsdrum.bandcamp.com/

The first one's very good too though not as immediate as this one. Frankly, I like these much more than the Kitchens comeback album "Folly".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:47 (seven years ago)

ten months pass...

Patrick's announced his new Stephen Hero album out in November will be his last album.

https://patrickfitzgerald.bandcamp.com/album/deciduous-eccentric

It's a lovely listen -- he very kindly sent me an advance the other day -- and it's a striking note to wrap up his career on. Here's the video for the single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsQeZx2dImA

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:24 (six years ago)

Did he give a reason for his retirement?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:43 (six years ago)

Maybe he just wants to chill?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:06 (six years ago)

???but he's been super chill this whole time???

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:36 (six years ago)

I hope he's not ill! I know he's a doctor, and his new single is called "Patient Here Myself."

― henry s, Friday, 27 September 2019 20:41 (six years ago)

I didn't get the sense from that in our exchange.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 September 2019 21:09 (six years ago)

Very obsessed with Kitchens right now. Was happy to see this revive a few days ago.

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:25 (six years ago)

five years pass...

The new Stephen Hero album, "Convalescence" is quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Zr_w9cxtQ

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 5 May 2025 18:46 (one year ago)

Also, no mention of this excellent record he did at The April Seven with Paul Frederick from Family Cat:

https://patrickfitzgerald.bandcamp.com/album/pop-tarkovsky-2016

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 5 May 2025 19:27 (one year ago)

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