Thanks for that live link - I saw them right around that time (three weeks before or so), will enjoy reminding myself.
― Tim, Thursday, 12 May 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
Only band I've ever seen where one of the road crew sprayed breath freshener on each microphone just before show time. Seemed appropriate.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 12 May 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
the way he sings the word "improvising" in "sound of crying", i'm like, paddy, never change
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
also "life of surprises" is so good too
"Only the boogie music ..."
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
I love Life of Surprises. Good advice throughout, not something you get much in pop.
"tell yourself that will have to do for now"
― woof, Friday, 13 May 2016 10:19 (eight years ago) link
Plane! Plane! Plane!
― clouds, Saturday, 14 May 2016 05:19 (eight years ago) link
can we please talk about "goodbye lucille #1 (johnny johnny)"
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
No we won't
― Why You Wanna Treeship Borad? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
That's it the perfect song? I'm all about "Donna Summer" right now
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
These days whenever I want to listen to Steve McQueen I nearly always reach for the accoustic re-recordings.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 07:43 (seven years ago) link
I finally found out the reasoning behind the initially annoying title and like it a lot now (and wanna hear other Goodbye Lucilles, even if they're crap)
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 08:00 (seven years ago) link
Oh, is it one of his "concept" albums we never get to hear?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 08:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, an album's worth of v different songs all named "Goodbye Lucille".
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link
Is he still in love with Hayley Mills?...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 10:35 (seven years ago) link
PS tribute next week in NYC. FAP?http://www.thehifibar.com/event/1185649-hey-manhattan-its-prefab-new-york/
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
my friend just told me about Prefab Sprout. i'm completely obsessed, and he said that this song "prefigured a whole era of modern music by nearly twenty years"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3H3lKt5_BM
i'm blown out of the water. this track is amazing and sounds like it came out today
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 October 2016 06:20 (seven years ago) link
def one of my favorite songs ever
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 20 October 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
The only posts that make up for the "NEW MUSIC COMING!?!" hope crushed to disappointment when a favorite band pop up here (Prefab, The Blue Nile, The Apartments, Romeo Void, etc.) are posts like these, someone discovering the band and falling for them. Like Scrooge McDuck in his money pool, a convert being able to dive into the entire catalog at once is enviable.
Highly, highly recommend Paddy McAloon's _I Trawl the Megahertz_ if/when you get around to it. Personally, I rate it up there with _Steve McQueen_.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
I still like "Appetite."
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 October 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
wild horses is an amazing track.
― mizzell, Thursday, 20 October 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
There's pictures of Paddy hanging with Spike Lee in London last week. Apparently theyre working on something together!?
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
voodoo up, rollmo down
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Great observation by that friend of yours, flap
― doug watson, Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
Jordan vs Steve
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
jord but also never make me choose
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
Jordan yeah.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
Jordan is Paddy perfecting Steve, which is really close to perfect already.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 24 November 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
I might go with Swoon over both of them.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 24 November 2016 01:49 (seven years ago) link
I was just looking at PS lps on discogs and they're a lot more expensive than they were 15 years ago. Like, not break the bank expensive, but last time I bought Two Wheels Good (Steve McQueen) on vinyl, it was about $3. It is not that now.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 24 November 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
Jordan. I think there are some wobbles in the first half (Machine Gun Ibiza), but it's completely immaculate Moondog onwards.
I forgot I started polling through the albums… I'll put up a SMcQ/2WG poll when I get five minutes.
― woof, Thursday, 24 November 2016 11:46 (seven years ago) link
I'll save you time...it's 'Bonny'...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
I'd think it would be Appetite.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
the acoustic Appetite on the reissue is like mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 24 November 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
i love both but steve mcqueen is definitely their best
it's got a much nicer texture & jordan's just a little too sprawling
― ufo, Thursday, 24 November 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
I'd think it would be Appetite.― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, November 24, 2016 1:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, November 24, 2016 1:24 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, that's the one that I'd vote for!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Picking between Bonny, Appetite and Goodbye Lucille is something I've always struggled with. Such perfect songs.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 24 November 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
the run of tracks from Bonny to Goodbye Lucille #1 is their peak, it's incredible
― ufo, Thursday, 24 November 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
Umm...why not throw Faron Young into that list just for good measure?
First three songs of side 2 ain't too shabby either.
― yugi ex, Friday, 25 November 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Struggling to get into PS besides 'Wild Horses' and 'When Love Breaks Down.' have listened to TWG and Jordan all the way through several times but nothing has stuck. was talking with my friend that turned me onto PS the other day, he mentioned how vicious and bitter McAloon's lyrics are delivery are throughout his records, he said they make Steely Dan's cynicism look like a party. i'm not hearing it though...
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 November 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
― yugi ex,
Horsin' Around is the only song on Steve McQueen that's less than brilliant.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 25 November 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
jordan took me a while to understand. can't imagine loving "when love breaks down" and being unable to apply that to the rest of steve mcqueen tho
idk if i'd characterize prefab sprout as more cynical than steely dan, in "a life of surprises" dude wrote one of the best and most earnest advice songs i've ever heard. "cruel" is sorta dan-ish in that it undercuts its own perspective
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 25 November 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
There's so many great lyrical moments on this album.
"Save your speeches, flowers are for funerals" vs. "You give me infra-red instead of sun" vs. "Wishing she could call him heartache but that's not a boys name"
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 25 November 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
definitely gonna keep listening because i'm in love with those two songs, especially 'Wild Horses'... i mean my god, talk about ahead of its time... my girlfriend thinks it sounds like Blood Orange though, and yeah, i've so far had no success turning other people onto the music of PS...
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 November 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
absence makes the heart lose weight
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 25 November 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
try "cars and girls"
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 25 November 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
word, i will!
xp ha i thought that lyric was "absence makes the heartless wager," which i'm not sure makes sense but the real lyric is better
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 November 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
"A Life of Surprises" is seriously about the best advice song ever, makes Steely Dan look like whiny teenagers
― albvivertine, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I love his penchant for advice - there isn't much like it in pop, I think, since at its best it seems actually wise - Life of Surprises is the high point but also love that scolding 'She is a person too / She has her own will' in Goodbye Lucille* - really the key thing to be telling moping lovelorn boys. In fact, all the way through to 'Girls, have some fun' at the end of Adolescence.
He's really profoundly uncynical I think. Even seeing through things, in anger or bitterness, he's very humane and very scrupulous about emotion.
*also 'what are you - 21? The world is a million'
― woof, Monday, 28 November 2016 11:30 (seven years ago) link
finally, a second poll:Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen / Two Wheels Good poll
― woof, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link