― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 8 August 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 27 November 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
i think.
*damn*, i'm going to have to dig it out and listen again now, just to make sure.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 November 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
am gonna listen to "hardcore" next. haven't heard that since 1997.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 November 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 27 November 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
It didn't even come out till 1998 - this is impressive!
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
good point. i think "1997" has become shorthand for about four years of podding around when i first moved to glasgow. i can no longer differentiate between any of the memories. if it happened when i was living on kent road, my mind has it filed as 1997.
anyway. "hardcore" is disappointing. the first, title and closing tracks are great; the rest has left little impression.
but it's still "trees" i'm humming to myself as i liquidise my soup. (and no, that's not a euphemism.)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
My feelings exactly, still, except I think only the first and title songs are great and I think they're really great, like perhaps the best two songs they ever did. 'Help The Aged' is good too. The rest is meh.
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
"We Love Life" was a bit of a letdown, but its best tracks (the two-part "Weeds", "Birds in Your Garden", "Sunrise") rank with the band's best.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 27 November 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 November 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
So after those two (and the EP collection "Intro"), I'd say listen to "This is Hardcore", then "We Love Life", and if you're still with them, jump into the older stuff. "Freaks" is a personal fave of mine -- a disturbing, even gruesome near-classic record. Then grab "Masters of the Universe" (a collection of EPs from around the same time as "Freaks"), then "Separations".
I haven't heard their first album, "It".
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought that you were joking / When you said "I want to see youTo discuss your contribution / To the future of our nation's heart and soulSix o'clock, my place, Whitehall" / Well I arrived just after sevenBut you said "It doesn't matter" / "I understand your situationAnd your image, and I'm flattered / Oh and I'd just like to tell youThat I love all of your albums / Could you sign this for my daughter?She's in hospital, her name is Miriam / Now get down to the gist:Do you want a line of this? / Are you a (sniff) / socialist?""Doin' fine, yeah! / Buzzin' all the time / Just one hit / And I feel greatAnd I support / The welfare state / Oh, you must be socialist'Cos you're always off out on the piss / In your private member's barOh yes you are / Yer superstar / Well you sing about common peopleAnd the mis-shapes and the misfits / So can you bring them to my partyAnd get them all to sniff this? / And all I'm really sayingIs come on and rock the vote for me / All I'm really sayingIs come on roll up that note for me / The gist of all of this isDo you want hits or d'you want misses? / Are you a socialist, yeahSocialist, yeah / Socialist, yeah / Oh yeah""Yeah, you can be just what you want to beJust as long as you don't try to compete with meAnd we've waited such a long timeFor the chance to help our own kind, so nowPlease come on and tow the party line / Oh you owe it to yourselfDon't think of anybody else / And we promise we won't tellOh we won't tell, and we won't sell" / No we won't / No we won'tNo we won't
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
The things that some people have been criticizing them for, like the ott factor, are part of what makes their music so good. They're not afraid to go over the top; something they have in common with great pop music. Indie bands tend to try for the "tastefully restrained" approach far too often.
:-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Originally released on VHS in 1996 as F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.I.V.E and 1998 as The Park Is Mine. Two live shows on DVD for the first time.
Features 2 concerts recorded in London (Brixton Academy 1995) and Finsbury Park (1998) plus additional tour documentary from London to Japan. Directed by Rob Hurse and previously only avaialble on a Japanese laser disc. 5.1 Surround sound and dolby stereo.
Region 0, anyone can play it. You have no excuse.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― D. Bachyrycz, Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― D. Bachyrycz, Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
JARVIS COCKER & STEVE MACKEY The Trip (2006 UK 2-CD album set featuring a 35-track collection compiled by the founder members of Pulp and DJs / record collectors / music lovers extraordinaire with an amazing journey through power pop, expansive soundtracks, blues, alternative cover versions, junk shop breaks and genuinely unexpected musical nuggets!). ** released 06 March 2006 **
CD One:1. Carl Orff - Gassenhauer2. The Birthday Party - Release The Bats3. Porter Wagoner - The Rubber Room4. Psychic TV - Just Drifting5. Dory Previn - The Lady With The Braid6. Bob Lind - Cool Summer7. Gene Pitney - 24 Sycamore8. Animated Egg - Sock It My Way9. The Beach Boys - Feel Flows10. Bonnie Dobson - Winter's Going11. Arlo Guthrie - I'm Going Home12. Bobbie Bare - Don't Think Twice13. Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe14. OMD - Waiting For The Man15. The Human League - Rock N Roll16. Lieutenant Pigeon - The Villain17. Add N To (X) - King Wasp18. The Fall - Lost In Music19. Moondog - Pastoral
CD Two:1. Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl2. The Polecats - John I'm Only Dancing3. Electronicat - Wop Do Wop4. Johnny Wakelin - In Zaire5. Quixotic - Mortal Mirror6. Jonathan Richman - Egyptian Reggae7. Lee Hazelwood - Pour Man8. Screaming Lord Sutch - Flashing Light9. John Cooper Clark - Beasley Street10. David Essex - Rock On11. Georges De La Rue - Les Visiteurs12. Sonny Bono - Pammies On A Bummer13. The Everly Brothers - I Wonder If I Care As Much14. Dion - Purple Haze15. Neil Sedaka - Going Nowhere16. Ronald Binge - Sailing By
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 January 2006 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― elgolfo (elgolfo), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
(I still want this though)
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 27 January 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― stew!, Friday, 27 January 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 28 August 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 August 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 August 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Classic: EVERY SINGLE SONG THEY DID over 5:30 in length (except Sylvia). Check it out, it works. It's how I'd do their Best Of (with Lipgloss and Dishes tacked on perhaps).
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
But considering you don't like "Different Class" I can understand why you don't like it, as "Sylvia" sounds very much like a "Different Class" track.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Different Class is still a good album. 'I Spy' is the best song on it.
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Got a pair for Toronto, but only after trying nonstop for 15 minutes. Like Murgatroid I had some in my basket, went to pay, and they were suddenly gone. Was about to give up and refreshed another 10 times or so and got in, this time it worked. No rhyme or reason. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― KPH, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:45 (two months ago) link
Aw darn my ex works for live nation and I was excited to come share the code! Alas!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:40 (two months ago) link
I'd love the Spotify presale code
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 03:35 (two months ago) link
I don’t have a Spotify ex :/
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 10:37 (two months ago) link
Extra shows announced for Toronto, Brooklyn and LA, presales today at 11 am local time.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 14:07 (two months ago) link
got tix for kings on 9/14
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 15:40 (two months ago) link
got a ticket for 9/11 yeahhhhhhh
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:39 (two months ago) link
One more show announced! Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Sat Sept 21, on sale Friday 10 am
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:19 (one month ago) link