ODDITY! i really like the second disc of 'anthology' too. i'm probably in the minority on this but i <3 david kilgour solo, esp. 'here come the cars' and 'the heavy eights.' and getaway is totally underrated.
― Matt P. (Matt P), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 1 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Tally Ho! sounds a helluva lot like "Wishing Well" by Love is All
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 2 January 2009 07:01 (fifteen years ago) link
is that a spraypaint can on percussion in 'getting older'??
― electrodribble sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Beatnik, Slug Song and Billy Two deserve better.
― Bored of Canada (S-), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
poor Billy Two
― brains, hand-rolled (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost yeah Slug Song is pretty much dub....if only the people knew...
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
btw: absolutely thrilling show at LPR on Tuesday. Didn't expect them to sounds as "big" as they did. Place was packed as well. I had no idea they still had that sort of following. Song selection was almost perfect and they really appeared to be enjoying themselves. Not sure, however, what was up with D. Kilgour's "look" though. The headband and bandanna made him look like Mike Reno. They certainly brought it though.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
Washington DC tonight
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
i have been wondering about these shows! can't believe they didn't come anywhere near where i live, but would like to experience vicariously if possible. more deets please!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
urgh, so jealous. the clean are the best.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I don't have a complete set list but recall hearing "Anything Could Happen" and "Getting Older." They also did a nice version of "Drawing to a (w)hole. Also, the earlier part of the set they stretched things out a bit frequently getting into a hypnotic groove of sorts and, seriously, sounding a bit like Neu. Totally unexpected. Having been a long time fan but never having seen them before I expected them to be a bit rickety and shambolic but...they were the exact opposite. They were heavy.
They played about an hour and the crowd was very enthusiatic.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
OH MANthat is the exact iteration of the clean that i love! i'll pass the goofy shambolic stuff for the supergroovy side any day. extremely bummed to miss this!!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. cool that they're doing things from Vehicle -- that album is so good.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure, however, what was up with D. Kilgour's "look" though. The headband and bandanna made him look like Mike Reno.
Haha yeah it was weird. I've never seen them before so at first I thought "does he always dress like that?" but then Hamish joked about how "David's going for a cross between Dick Dale and Mark Knopfler."
http://distilleryimage2.s3.amazonaws.com/98466224af8f11e1a92a1231381b6f02_6.jpg
I took a phone photo but it didn't really turn out.
― dmr, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
ha, yeah, looks a bit like knopfler in that pic.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
the ones I remember from the setlist were Point That Thing (first song they played ... amazing), Anything Can Happen, Getting Older, Drawing to a Hole, and Tally Ho (last one before encore)
― dmr, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
it was headband + bandana + dark aviators
― dmr, Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds awesome - glad they've still got a following in the US. Really miss seeing them play all the time back in NZ.
Since this is the only active Nun-related thread, I'll repost this from the bandcamp thread -
the Dead C's Bruce Russell cherry-picks the Flying Nun back pages for Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment 1981-1986http://flyingnun.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-goThe Bilders' "Russian Rug" is all-time, and really nice to see Mary Heney get prominence w/the tracks from 25 Cents/the Shallows/Scorched Earth Policy/Victor Dimisch Band/etc alongside the Clean/Chills/Gordons/&c.
BTW "Hang Onto The Rail" (which a friend got to yell at Bob Scott when he stumbled on a staircase) & "Art School" were robbed in this poll.
― etc, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Did they play At the Bottom!?
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Flowers?
Anything from Mister Pop?
On which record can I find "point that Thing.."? It was amazing and seems like it went on for 10 plus minutes. Thanks.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
the album this thread's devoted to! or Anthology.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
All my favorite stuff on Anthology is from that album, but it's out of print. Is it worth tracking down a copy of the whole thing?
― rob, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
damn, that is lame that it is out of print. merge or someone should re-ish it. iirc most of it is on anthology (it's a pretty short album), but anthology is missing the cool acoustic interludes.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
it also boasts one of their best covers.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
by the way, de stijl is putting out here come the cars on vinyl and (i think) oddities too: http://destijlrecs.com/121.html
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh now that's good news.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Vehicle is the Clean at its strummiest, sort of the best fusion of its sensibilities and that of the Bats.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Here Come the Cars is great.
it is! i just saw this recently, pretty coolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiPC9YCUN9M
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Fun gig in DC last night although the sound was not mixed that well. David Kilgour was wearing an upturned on the sides straw cowboy like hat this time, with Bob Scott wearing a fisherman's one. Seems like a similar set from the other night. An hour and 15 minutes or so. Lots of Neu-ish sounding cuts, one that reminded me of Wire, another kinda Bowie-like, plus some jangly ones.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the details. Bob was rocking the same look in NYC.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Tally Ho" was again the last one before the encores. The Kilgours ranted about politics a bunch between a couple of songs. Dislike for Dubya and New Zealand's current head and the entire 2 party structure in the US of A
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha! that's awesome. i still want to know if they played "at the bottom"
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 8 June 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
it's an instrumental, if that helps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wux81gYHjQ
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 8 June 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmmm? Will have to check videos later when I have access to them.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'm pretty sure they played it the other night in boston, but tbh the sound was so weird and david's guitar playing was so ...loose... i can't be certain.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 8 June 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
OH MAN I can't believe I'm missing these! ;_; x 1000000
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 8 June 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah pretty sure they played "At the Bottom" in NYC toward the end of the set
I'm bad with their song titles
would have liked to hear "Beatnik"
― dmr, Friday, 8 June 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
hope that some live tapes emerge!
― tylerw, Friday, 8 June 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I checked nyctaper but it looks like he was at another show that night
― dmr, Friday, 8 June 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
sonofa!
― tylerw, Friday, 8 June 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it'll show up on free music archive -- this thing is pretty great: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Kilgour/Phoning_It_In_041005
― tylerw, Friday, 8 June 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhcfCw4vTE&feature=youtu.befrom last weekend. i need to move to NZ.
― tylerw, Monday, 10 February 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
anyone see 'em in chicago last night? friend said it was kind of a mess.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
There's discussion of it on the Chicago thread.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
ah... sounds like kind of a bummer!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Where?
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
That's a bummer, I read some interview recently with DK where he basically said that The Clean aren't likely to ever record again. When I saw them in 2010 they were fantastic.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
clemenza i'm surprised you hadn't heard them before, just because you seem very knowledgable about lots of other punk and indie from the era. Compilation was also my introduction to them, and still my go-to.
"Anything Could Happen" was the first one that really wowed me, and still one of my very faves of theirs. it's one of those songs that seems familiar, the very first time you hear it
― Karl Malone, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
I just didn't know them at all, although I realize now that Christgau reviewed them in the late '80s--there were a few New Zealand bands he kept up with--and I would have read those reviews at the time. They were good, but for whatever reason I never ended up buying anything.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
have you heard any of the many other bands in their circle? chills, bats, tall dwarves, etc. All worth while and amazing.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link
I have Submarine Bells, and once posted about the three songs I really like: "Tied Up in Chain," "I Soar," and "Effloresce and Deliquesce." Nothing by the others.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
Check out The Bats for sure clemenza. My favorite is their first LP: Daddy's Highway
― Evan, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link
Also I emailed the Cleaned Out comp (+ random bonus goodies) to those of you that requested it. Please report here if it worked?
― Evan, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:07 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the link, Evan, it came through without a hitch. You're a mensch!
― SemStark, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 04:56 (one year ago) link
Fantastic! You're very welcome.
― Evan, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
Evan: thanks, I remember the LP. Too expensive on Amazon, so I went the other route and downloaded it.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
Great, hope you like it. I love Robert Scott's taste for melody.
― Evan, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
I think he's a pop genius, and when you squint just right he really recalls '70s Eno.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
Pop genius is right
― Evan, Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
UGH! I just remembered I was supposed to send mp3s to people. I will try to remember to do that soon!
― Evan, Thursday, December 29, 2022 6:45 PM (one week ago)
Whenever works, no rush!
Marc Masters & John Howard talking about the Tally Ho 7":
https://wastoids.com/2022/12/22/the-spindle-the-clean-tally-ho-b-w-platypus/
― etc, Thursday, January 5, 2023 5:57 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Hey etc did you download your files?
― Evan, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
The sent link might expire soon, so just another bump to make sure it gets seen
― Evan, Friday, 13 January 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
Currently travelling in rural NZ so have been away from the internet - will see if I can download onto my phone tonight.
― etc, Saturday, 14 January 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
Don’t sweat it! I will resend if need be
― Evan, Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:39 (one year ago) link
Seeing clemenza get into the Clean does my heart good this Tues morning. Although I p much love every track on Compilation/Anthology Disc 1 I must admit that PTTSE is my favourite too, along w Getting Older & the live At the Bottom, which is the surf guitar/mutant disco mashup of my Michigan dreams
― everdose of cloverness (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
My favorite blog posted a nice rare tape recently. Note he is good about not posting and/or taking down links to commercially available music so worry not:
https://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-clean-left-by-soft-tape-1981-in.html
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
Hey, thanks again for sending that, Evan.
One of the nice things about the Clean's early stuff here is that so many Kiwi bands throw out a cover every now and then - here's surf band Planet of the Tapes with "Fish" on the second side of this 7" (~2:59 or so on this video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxsboiaSsgk
& here's an excerpt of Wellness doing a short and sweet dual-vocal take on "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" (nice to have a poppier cover as there's so many extended jams on it out there):
Last night was the first time I had seen Wellness play. I was hooked from their opening song. A cover of Point That Thing Somewhere Else by The Clean. Great band. pic.twitter.com/s2N5eR3d63— Paula (@paula_j_k) April 1, 2023
― etc, Sunday, 2 April 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link