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― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 27 June 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
best recommendation ever
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Please, for the love of god, if you love music buy "Find A Way Out". You'll be very pleased.
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
When I first heard that they were going to put out the anthology Find The Way Out, I decided to go back and play every album to get ready for it. Worth buying because the remastered songs sound just a bit richer. I would play only one for a solid week or longer then on to the next one. I Love them but was going to be honest with myself and if anything didn't hold up I would have to admit it. Are they really the best band from the 90s bar none? Well I was going to find out.
Learning To Walk was still some glorious white noise. Everything's Alright Forever has some amazing pieces of music on it. They matured quite a bit from those first three E.P.'s, but not the greatest thing. Compared to other things around this time that was similar it's really good but compared to the Boos stuff, sub par. Still really don't give much thought behind Ichabob And I despite owning it.
I was absolutely floored on my rediscovery of Giant Steps. I have played other albums by them moreso recently and haven't played it for a while. It really is their White Album and should be the one that they will be remembered for. So many things ideas and sounds are put on to this record. Truly a masterpiece that many fans say they never were able to touch again. Have loved reading what Martin and the fans have written about this album on the web site. There are some hard-core fans of this very album, astonished to hear that. Some of what Martin wrote about the sound of this album: "I just listened to the album now in headphones for the first time in an age and I can hear Surf's Up/Smile/Pet Sounds, Spiritualized, Suede (well, Bernard Butler), The Flaming Lips, London Calling by The Clash (I think all the dub on the album sounds like the people who made it hadn't heard an awful lot of dub music) Moose, Dinosaur Jr, Sugar, MBV, Forever Changes by Love (of course), Goffin/King, New Order, The Beatles, Spacemen 3, Gershwin. It all sounds very old fashioned to me but that's from a distance of ten years, I could never make an album like that now. I heard Os Mutantes about seven years later and realised that we hadn't done anything that hadn't been done before. I wanted everything to sound like a bootleg, like the Smile CD that we listened to so much in those days, with mistakes and talking and all that stuff but I don't hear as much of that as I thought I would." http://www.booradleys.co.uk/giantsteps
Next came Wake Up! which I like to call their Beatles album. A stage they needed to go through at the time. It's the least sounding Boo Radleys album that they made but was surprised because I enjoyed more then I remember. Better than most Britpop albums around this same time but give me my band back.
I wanted loud, I wanted aggression, I wanted creativity, I wanted C'mon Kids. The record buying public hated this album after the last one. I couldn't be any happier; this is what the Boo Radleys were all about. Maybe throwing in too may ideas on each song but a song like "Bullfrog Green" takes my breath away.
There are times in your life where certain albums mean so much to you that it's impossible to put into words. Kingsize is one of those albums for me as it came along at the perfect time. It seemed to speak for me and not just about me. There is no other album I have played more since its release in late 1998. One flaw is that "Free Huey" doesn't work and I skip it each and every time I play this album. I guess "The Future Is Now" is sort of out of place as well and would be a much stronger closing with "Song From the Blueroom" but I don't mind at all. About a year later I bought the U.S. version of this album for one extra song called "Put Your Arms Around Me and Tell Me Everything's Going To Be OK." It seemed to be the perfect song to close their story. This album is the most misunderstood album of theirs but it's by far the most rewarding.
So yeah classic, everything and that is not going into some of the best B-sides of any band. Hope to see remastered versions of these albums some day along with the B-sides story that needs to be told. Band of the 90's and happy the quit when they did and didn't keep putting out stuff past their peak like it seems SFA have done.
"Just a simple song but God I love it. Embedded in me, so bittersweet. I'm addicted, I'm a melancholic. Sing it again. I'll be your friend forever."
― BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Next stop...probably EAF.
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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― edger stewert (edger), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey, I like that mistype!
Anyway, as I said on the "celebration" web page, I packed it after Giant Steps as it did everything I wanted to do musically. I note it did not inspire many bands to be as musically adventurous. How could you 'copy' being individual? Who could follow it?
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link
OTMFM. Just this little section was enough to affect me enough as a teen to change the way I appreciate music for ever. You have no idea how much I love Giant Steps. As for "I've Lost The Reason", I always saw it as part of a triumverate of songs along with "Best Lose The Fear" and "Take The Time Around". For some reason these sound like they were written to sit next to each other.
It took me a long time to realise how sad and depressed the lyrics were to "Wake Up!" and I'm only just getting round to this fact with "Giant Steps". I guess GS is a concept album in nostalgia, uncertainty, being 23 - that stage between being a young adult and an adult when people won't take you seriously despite all your greatest ambitions. "Wake Up!" is a concept album about being 25 and being granted your independence and having the world as your oyster, but still feeling somehow unsatisfied with this pseudo-utopian setting, revealing itself to actually be a bigger burden than you had expected. And of course it's all set to the most wonderful offbeat psychedelic pop music.
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― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Woops, my mistake, I thought you were talking about "If You Want It, Take It". No this song is a goodie and it kinda points towards how they'd sound on "Wake Up".
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Heartbreaking reallly.
I should one day learn to shut my gob about the Boo Radleys.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Realised a few years ago that I was so wrong and Giant Steps was their crowning acheivement and I'll echo everything dog latin has said, brilliant record. It was Martin's lyrics that pushed them over into greatness for me though right enough. Also the whole thing of them dreaming of being pop stars and being on TOTP as kids, actually acheiving it then realising it was crap whilst writing about this in the songs. Brilliant.
I've lost track of Brave Captain though I did like the first few releases. Saw him live at King Tuts and got to talk to him a bit on his first solo tour and he was a thoroughly nice chap and happy to give credit where it was due to the other guys in the band, didn't seem to be any animosity. He also played an absolutely blinding gig. Mind you, also saw him a year or two later with a different (inept) band and he was shit and since then I don't think I've listened to any BC stuff at all.
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Just found this sublime acoustic version of Everybird from a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovwtpD26ng
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 30 July 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
Rob playing bass AND a bit of hi-hat too? Nice!
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link
Why is C’mon Kids not on streaming?
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
are you also in the USA? might have something to do with Mercury records’ rights
― brimstead, Friday, 18 August 2023 04:40 (one year ago) link
It's on Spotify in the UK, um, kids .
― Mark G, Friday, 18 August 2023 05:39 (one year ago) link
Boo
― Bee OK, Friday, 18 August 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
At it not being on Spotify US
― Bee OK, Friday, 18 August 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link