someone should write up an alt-canon that has this at one end and sonny sharrock's 'black woman' at the other
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
Anyone still looking for a copy of this. I ordered it from the website two weeks ago thinking I'd probably get told it was out of stock or something. It just turned up today and is the version with the single. I'm delighted.
http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com/product/life-without-buildings-any-other-city
$29 with shipping which seems like a great deal.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 3 May 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
I just ordered it and it seemed to go through, so I hope I'm successful as well.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 May 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
After a few days of not hearing anything I did email them to check they had it in stock. They got back to me within minutes saying "Yes, we have a copy for you. Enjoy your record" It took another ten days to arrive and they didn't send a confirmation email but here it is. It looks great but haven't played it yet.
I feel bad for the people who have paid over a hundred dollars on eBay for a copy.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 4 May 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
I just got my copy in the mail yesterday. IIRC, my shipment confirmation came from USPS or some third-party mail forwarder, not from WYR, so maybe it got flagged as spam? I don't get the impression that this was a terribly limited release, or if it was, maybe most shops just didn't get it. WYR in the states and Rough Trade for Britishers seem to have plenty.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
Mine just came today. I just emailed WYR yesterday to see why it was taking so long and he said they'd just received the re-pressed stock but that he'd found some leftover RSD stock there at the office and sent it out last week. I wonder if the re-pressed albums include the 7".
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
They are full of shit. I ordered them on May 4th and I mailed them last week and this is what they said.
"If you read teh description it says
"Reissue of Life Without Buildings LP. These copies do not includethe 7". Stock will arrive around May 30th and will ship out after."
BUT! I ended up finding a few extra LP+7" versions and sent one ofthose your way yesterday. Expect the record next week.
Kevin"
My email still has the link to the one I ordered
"Life Without Buildings - Any Other City$24.99"
If it would have been the normal version then it would have been 19.99. I haven't checked my mail box yet.
― svend, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Amazing how they found some......
― svend, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
He can lie to me all he wants as long as he holds up his end of the bargain. Now that the (RSD version of the) record is in my possession, I no longer care.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
this thread just reminded me of the existence of erase errata
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
nightlife was an astonishing record
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 07:09 (ten years ago) link
classic review:http://www.nme.com/reviews/4076
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
classic indeed!
― mmmm, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah this album is incredible. total magic eye thing.
― imago, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
and while the vocalist is undeniably the star, i am not sure this would have worked with a more vigorous or in-any-way-pointed musical backdrop, nor a more ambient one - it's pretty perfect autumn music
― imago, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
ting ting!
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
love some of the mini crescendos in these songs, those still kill me after all this time- look back and say that i didn't!- my lips are sealed (mad as a seal?)- looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss!
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Agreed but it's funny how the vocals put most people off. I think it's all the repetition.
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
imago so otm.
all time album!
I'm hoping Sue did something with Underworld.... she is mentioned in the liner notes of Drift episode 2. One of the guys recently discovered the album and met with her.
― maffew12, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
did a dj set a few months ago during a happy hour thing I was doing and played Life Without Buildings in a set with Anne Clark, Leslie Winer and Algebra Suicide. One young woman in the audience lost her shit. It was a good set.
― dan selzer, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss! looookin in your eeeeeyyyyeeessss!
impossible for me not to hear this as "lookin in your arse", but that somehow doesn't distract from the power of the song.
"if i lose you if i lose you if i lose you, to her to her to her" is a thrilling in media res opening too
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
in the loosin the loosin the loos("leaves", really, i guess)
if i lose you *to her*? I only hear "uh huh" -- same on lyrics sites. She then goes on to elaborate, "in the street".
― maffew12, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
that live album too, right? goddam
― maffew12, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
i always heard "to her," or i guess in her accent "to huh"
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
ooh ooo
― maffew12, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Love this album and it makes me so happy how it has a mini fan-club on here.
I go back to their Pop Life cover a lot.
― kitchen person, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
The music is so lush too. Sometimes I want an instrumental version of the album so I can also use it as background jam mood music.
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
it's 'the huh, the huh, the huh', you can hear it pretty clearly here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5G_jvyDo8
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
clearly "uh huh" to my ears from that
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
uh huh? nuh uh
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Oh weird, now I hear "the huh, uh huh, uh huh" each time she repeats that part.
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
yuh huh
my favorite is the one about Laurel
― maffew12, Friday, 27 September 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
ok but she's definitely saying, "looking in your arse," right?
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
i always hear arse too tbh, but that's cos i want to
back at 'the leanover', it took me ages to work out where i'd heard the phrase 'i like you mostly late at night' before ('sea song' by robert wyatt obv)
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
mbv mbv mbv mbv mbv more mbv hi fi.
Have embarrassed myself on a least a couple of occasions by drunkenly telling the guitarist of this group how great they were.
― Stevie T, Friday, 27 September 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
correct protocol imo
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
if i lose you *to her*? I only hear "uh huh"
Am I missing something here? It's clearly "if I lose, If I lose, If I lose you in the street"
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Friday, 27 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
yeah "if I lose"
― Evan, Friday, 27 September 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
the many ways the many w-w-ways
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Friday, 27 September 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
dddddddays like television
― flopson, Friday, 27 September 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
'leanover' lyrics would be a good poll
― flopson, Friday, 27 September 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
guys ffs it's "a Fallujan street". it takes place in Iraq.
― maffew12, Friday, 27 September 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
the album was released two years before the war in Iraq started
― Clay, Friday, 27 September 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
I..um..... think about that and post back?
― maffew12, Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
Haven't listened to this stuff yet but just found a yt user who's uploaded an australian radio session...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnZItwxx_jg
(that's track 1 of 5)
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
...and also a live show at the cavern in exeter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fyeX1vAQOU
(track 1 of 9)
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
i <3 lwb
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:15 (three years ago) link
We don't drive. We walk everywhere,
― krankymusic (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
'Liberty Feel-Up' always reminds me of the Blue Aeroplanes circa 1986 when they really had that beatnik poetry meets Tom Verlaine guitar thing dialled like a fine-tuned engine. '14 Days' hits that spot too
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link