Skot watches that show, surely. He'd know if that song was played!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't see it! hope they got paid.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that's what i said too!
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I’m dead and dank and rotten My arms are wrapped in cotton My corpse loves you, let’s marry...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 April 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Bid Raggett
― dell, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
One of my favourite songs ever.
― zeus, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Was some of the above referencing the Iggy Pop/Fatboy Slim cover of He's Frank? How weird...wonder how it'll do.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 10 May 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I'll pick up their new comp tomorrow
― van smack, Saturday, 10 May 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link
just checked iTunes, Heroes (Original TV Soundtrack) features Brighton Port Authority-He's Frank (With Iggy Pop).
That's wild.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 10 May 2008 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/BrightonPortAuthority
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtqcn6pYTrA
― dan selzer, Saturday, 10 May 2008 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay woah woah woah. That is a really weird ass Monochrome Set cover, that BPA.
Are you trying to tell me this is fucking Iggy Pop with...
god I'm really confused.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 10 May 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Im conflicted about that cover - it still sounds a great song, but its not a particularly interesting cover.
― Sandy Blair, Saturday, 10 May 2008 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't help but like it. I love Iggy, the song would be great no matter who does it, and the beats are catchy.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 10 May 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I just want to know how it came about...Fatboy Slim's got a stack of Rough Trade singles? Iggy suggested it? Some producer somewhere told them about it?
I don't think it's that great a cover myself, though the original is mighty fine. Fatboy Slim had a lot of Rough Trade and postpunk stuff in his collection years ago and was clearly a fan of that era - so I'd suspect him of putting it all together. Iggy, not so much.
― deedeedeextrovert, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i vividly remember hearing jet set junta on the western conn state univ radio station in about 1982, at the dawn of my musical awareness, and i never knew who it was by, and now i see its monochrome set. i only ever heard it once, but the tune would pop into my mind even 25 yrs later, most recently during an uruguay wc match.
― exuding an aroma of lolz (Hunt3r), Sunday, 20 June 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
where did you live that you got wxci? i owe that station soooooooo much. i heard so many things in the 80's for the first time on there. i still have early 80's tapes that i made of their broadcasts. the list of bands they taught me to love is almost endless. god bless them.
― scott seward, Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, ive seen you reference it over the years, i couldnt remember if i ever posted back to you on that. i was in wilton until 85. signal wasnt too clean, but it was enough to learn a lot.
― exuding an aroma of lolz (Hunt3r), Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
my off-radio tapes were pretty shitty- bad signal xci and bad signal lir, but there were few record stores available to me and the other radio stations were.... kids today are spoiled you know, anything u want at the touch of a keyboard etc.
― exuding an aroma of lolz (Hunt3r), Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
my cousins lived in wilton back then. maybe you knew them. the howards. ash, amanda, holly. they were nice. not very new wave though.
― scott seward, Sunday, 20 June 2010 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a band i never quite got round to checking out, but the samples of this new Early Recordings LP have whetted my appetite. is this Velvets-y sound typical of their later stuff too?
― (+) (+ +), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Monochhttp://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPGset
― dro™ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
If you didn't know, Bid suffered a aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage at the end of July. About half the people who get those die, but he's doing all right. There will be a period of rehabilitation though. In the meantime, Scarlet's Well has been dissolved and the Monochrome Set will be starting up again at some point in the future. The new Monochrome Set will be a sort of Scarlet's Well/Monochrome Set hybrid band, the name change seeming to be more of a question of booking power and finance than an actual shift in musical direction.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i honestly think i liked this song so much when it came out cuz it was just bargain bin monochrome set. never occurred to me until just now! bought the well well well EP and the first woodentops album just based on this song. turns out i just liked this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBZKSQoEIM
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i first heard monochrome set in 83 or 84. fell instantly in love. well well well must have come out in 85?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Awww, Woodentops are GREAT! Monochrome Set is much greater, however.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw The Monochrome Set performing at Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona. It was really great, though there were a bit too much 90s stuff for me, but still, seeing Bid, Lester & Co was fantastic.
― zeus, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Touring the States! Or a chunk therein:
27/05/13 - Bowery Electric, NYC, USA28/05/13 - The Saint, Asbury Park, NJ, USA29/05/13 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, USA30/05/13 - PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA, USA31/05/13 - NYC Popfest @ Knitting Factory, NYC, USA01/06/13 - The Record Collector, Bordentown, NJ, USA
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty much the only reason I'd support the secession of Texas is so when somebody said a band I loved was touring my country there'd be a better than 1 in a 100 chance they're playing within 1000 miles of me.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
Eligible Bachelors is great! I dunno why it's not up there in the canon of stuff like Smiths, Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera etc?
I bet Clientele is huge fans
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
"Volume, Contrast, Brilliance Vol. 2" just came out:01 Something About You (1985)02 I Wanna Be Your Man (1978)03 Cilla Black (1983)04 The Greatest Performance Artist In The World (1983)05 Reach For Your Gun (1985)06 Fly Me To The Moon (1978)07 Love (1985)08 Whoops! What A Palaver (1985)09 I Want Your Skin (1989)10 Stories From The Book Of Love (1986)11 White Lightning (1987)12 Wisteria (1987)13 Bella Morte (1989)14 Swing (1986)15 Black Are The Flowers (1991)16 Jack (1991)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Wow, two new studio albums since Platinum Coils too... Super Plastic City and Spaces Everywhere! I love Bid so much.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/tapete/products/the-monochrome-set-1979-1985-complete-recordings-6xlp-6cd?mc_cid=407acf8d96&mc_eid=2e56297982
I want, but so pricey!
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
No tracklisting?
Who wants to split the cost with me, I'd go for the CD set at half that price in a heartbeat, you can have the LPs.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 22 December 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
Actually, I take it back. Here's the details:
https://shop.tapeterecords.com/the-monochrome-set-1979-1985-complete-recordings-boxset-preorder.html
That doesn't seem complete to me...?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 22 December 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
What's it missing? I don't have a record player.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 22 December 2017 06:51 (six years ago) link
Missing:Jacob's Ladder (single version)Andiamo (alt version)Get Style & Twitch Cilla Black (both from the Brazillian release of "The Lost Weekend", these were demos and not officially released at the time)
All the BBC session and solo stuff from "Volume, Contrast, Brilliance Vol. 1" (but I guess that's outside the scope)
So fairly minor, I suppose though I do love those one-off singles from Bid and Lester Square.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 22 December 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
Cherry Red released a 3CD expanded "Eligible Bachelors" with the "Fin" live album as well as a bunch of non-lp cuts and radio sessions. I'm most curious about the stuff listed as "Rarities", are those just demos for the next album that never happened?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
Don't know and don't own it but looks like it's previously released singles-only trax, b-sides, etc. Typical Cherry Red shoddy marketing etc blah blah blah.
― everything, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
So I’m trying to make sense of the MS discography but on Spotify at least it’s basically like 15 compilations.
The “tomorrow will be too long” comp is basically the first two albums, but... are they actually the first two albums? Are they re-recordings? The production value seems different from a lot of other MS material from the same era.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 7 March 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
They are actually the first two albums. Can you explain what you mean by different?
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 07:39 (five years ago) link
Well for instance this is “Martians Go Home” from one of the other comps: https://open.spotify.com/track/4iTIQsuKRV5kkADH1mSQac?si=39VVFJ8jSuGPWmeiS0AFog
And this is from “Tomorrow”: https://open.spotify.com/track/4jO2nzsT58E23CCTVu8jc9?si=-_tvtbimS66cd17CWIxWEw
This is “Love Zombies” from the Volume comp: https://open.spotify.com/track/19Rt3NwlD3eMlJ7Yz7bp1Q?si=SMn80_6JQEmloqY1XL4kEg
And this is from “Tomorrow”: https://open.spotify.com/track/13azUQ8XftGPu7ZnpO60nV?si=G4lxcfeKRXOOfh3JhxSZWw
Maybe the other comps are pulling versions from old 45s rather than the album cuts? It’s just hard to tell since everything pre-Eligible Bachelors is scattered in collections.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
"Love Zombies" from the Volume comp is a BBC session version.
Monochrome Set's catalog is poorly documented, with live, session, demo and single versions (which were often quite distinct to the LP) popping up all over the place.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Volume Contrast and Brilliance is mostly Peel sessions and singles.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Okay, that all makes sense. Pitfalls of the streaming era - no liner notes to help make sense of what you’re hearing. I’m just glad to know I do in fact have the first two albums to listen to!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Can't wait for the show tomorrow night, no lie.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
back to the Peter Murphy thread with you
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Joke's on you -- I'm seeing both of them tomorrow! (Early show for Peter M, then over to the Rickshaw.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
unfair!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
aw well, got to see Mazzy Star last week anyway
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link