I wish I'd got round to organising a celebratory party (by which I mean getting a decent bottle of red and sitting in a chair by myself; with Twiglets too, maybe).
― djh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
That 2nd record is still one of my all time favorite records. Fantastic from start to finish. Also one of the best designed LP jackets ever. Made me wanted to get properly tailored.
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
"Made me want to get properly tailored."
Yes, this completely. It wouldn't have been the same if they'd gone for trackies.
― djh, Thursday, 9 April 2015 06:41 (nine years ago) link
Any one bought the Singing Skies book? Is it a thing of beauty?
― djh, Saturday, 11 April 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
A 20th anniversary edition with them getting fitted for trackies on the sleeve would be great though.
― Position Position, Saturday, 11 April 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
Yes, they've earned the right to leisure wear.
― djh, Sunday, 12 April 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
Have enjoyed this, this evening:
http://concert.arte.tv/fr/tindersticks-la-philharmonie-de-paris
Perhaps it is old news.
Anyway, who knew you could get foot stands that are a bit like putting your foot on a monitor, eh?
― djh, Saturday, 20 June 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Planning lots of live shows, apparently.
A clip of some new music is on their website.
― djh, Thursday, 25 June 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
We Are Dreamers! https://vimeo.com/139451615
― djh, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
immediately recognisable as tindersticks but somehow sounding new. excellent, whets my appetie for the new album. the swiftian video is great too.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 24 September 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
Agree this sounds great, really like the droney menacing tone of it. Extensive European tour announced as well:
http://www.tindersticks.co.uk/tomorrows/concerts/
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Thursday, 1 October 2015 07:19 (eight years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/01/14/462671036/stuart-a-staples-on-tindersticks-the-waiting-room-track-by-track?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
― djh, Friday, 15 January 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Picked up 'The Waiting Room' yesterday. It's really good. I liked 'The Something Rain' too, so pleased with a strong follow up. Not watched the DVD yet.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
the Lhasa guest vocal makes me sad
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 25 January 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
It definitely sounds nicer on CD than via that link (possibly just that I'm listening to it differently).
― djh, Monday, 25 January 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
Early thoughts: some good tracks, less "coherent" than their early albums, some tracks sound oddly recorded (particularly the vocals and not in a good way).
― djh, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Current favourite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdhJyu1wGXc
― djh, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
a tindersticks song without stuart staples' voice. isn't that a contradiction in itself?
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
There are a few Tindersticks songs without Staples on vocals. David Boulter sings a few and Dickon Hinchcliffe sang a few in the earlier incarnation of the band.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
The only thing I really miss about the earlier incarnation of the band was the vocal interplay between members. I always loved the voices ricocheting off each other on i.e. "People Keep Comin' Around." It doesn't help that Stuart is gradually losing his way with vocal melodies (imo)
I do enjoy this album though, I'd love an entire album of discrete instrumentals like the ones on this album (as opposed to the more unified, theme-based soundtrack work)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 28 January 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
As I said upthread, the thing I really miss is the strings, the lack of which seems to be the major difference between old and nu-Sticks. Haven't heard the new one yet.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Thursday, 28 January 2016 10:05 (eight years ago) link
Any news on a release of the short films? Will they eventually make their way to a DVD/online once they premiere at that festival in February? Should I just get this album now and figure that out later?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 29 January 2016 02:41 (eight years ago) link
The films come on a DVD with the limited vinyl edition of the album.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 29 January 2016 06:24 (eight years ago) link
There's a CD + DVD version too.
― michaellambert, Friday, 29 January 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Some very good tracks on here ... but quite a few I already skip past.
― djh, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
I couldn't get into this one at all which is a shame as I thought The Something Rain was their best album since Simple Pleasures.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
otm. the something rain was so great, this i have problems to get into.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 1 February 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
This is a great read
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rank-your-records-tindersticks-david-boulter
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link
Good tip-off, Kitchen Person. Hadn't seen that.
― djh, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
Really digging this. Some tracks, like Hey Lucinda and How He Entered already feel like old favourites. My ranking of the albums would be pretty similar to David Boulter's - and Waiting Room would place about high mid-table for me at the moment.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
Think my order would go something like this
1. Tindersticks2. Tindersticks II3. Simple Pleasures4. The Something Rain5. Curtains6. Can Our Love...7. The Hungry Saw8. Waiting For the Moon9. The Waiting Room10. Falling Down a Mountain
Not really keen on those bottom three. The Hungry Saw is decent but nothing special. Love the top six.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
It's called Simple Pleasure. The lack of the plural seems particularly suggestive, I think.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Friday, 12 February 2016 02:43 (eight years ago) link
I was going to correct you on your previous post but thought better of it ;)
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Friday, 12 February 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Haha, you are quite right to correct me. There's a good chance I've been calling it that ever since it came out as well. Oh dear.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2016 03:10 (eight years ago) link
For a band I love so much I have to say they have very few front-to-back killer albums. Maybe just Can Our Love and Simple Pleasure.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
The debut is one of those long and sprawling albums where I wouldn't change a single thing.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
Tindersticks II is sprawling greatness from start to finish as well.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 12 February 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Tindersticks I I find just a little too sonically limited to be as sprawling as it is. I need to give II a relisten.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
Is the consensus II over the first one? II over everything?
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 12 February 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
I would say 1.Simple Pleasure 2.Can Our Loveā¦3.Curtains4.Waiting For The Moon/Trouble Every Day5.Ypres 6.The Something Rain7.l8.llNeed to spend me more time with all of the other ones. Ranting the first two last might be unfair but I never want to hear them.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 12 February 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
my top four are:
1. Tindersticks2. The Something Rain3. Simple Pleasures4. Tindersticks II
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 12 February 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
I listened to The Something Rain again last night. That is a great album. This Fire of Autumn is one of the best songs they've ever done.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
The first album edges it over the second for me. There's something fearless about it that I like, they weren't afraid of just trying stuff out to see where it would lead them. They became a lot more conservative after II, which is a great shame I think
― Position Position, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
If I was making a home-made "Best of Tindersticks" CD-R, it would probably include a lot of mid-period tracks and not much from the first two albums ... not because those albums don't include some of the best work but because I tend to see them as "complete albums" from which it would be weird to isolate tracks.
I didn't rate The Something Rain but must revisit it.
― djh, Friday, 12 February 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
top T-Sticks records:
1. Tindersticks 2. Tindersticks 23. Simple Pleasure4. The Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95 5. Donkeys 92-97
― kwhitehead, Friday, 12 February 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
This was the first poll I ever ran, back in 2009:
Can We POLL Again?: Tindersticks Studio Albums
Still can't believe the second LP did so badly in that poll, I also always thought it was the consensus pick and I'd still vote for it today.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 12 February 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Wow, that is a very surprising result. Always thought it was an even split between the first two albums.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
honestly i think simple pleasure makes all their other music semi-redundant!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 12 February 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
I wish someone would reissue Simple Pleasure. Vinyl copies are very pricey.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 12 February 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Definitely. I'd like them to do Curtains and Can Our Love as well. I've got the reissues of the first two albums but they're on Plain Records which has a bad reputation. I'm no expert but they sounded fine to me.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 12 February 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link