fifty-fifty clown for that gorgeous vocal at 1.58
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 9 October 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
btw does anybody know why lou reed appears to have a songwriting credit for road, river and rail?https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tpud4qhwn5kyt6eu3ifsum2j4gm?lyrics=1(at the very bottom)
― palko, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
i didn't know how much i liked this band but 'fotzepolitic' just came on some sort of random spotify thing and hooooooly shit where has this been all my life
― imago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
turns out the rest of the album is slightly less imago-tastic. but man, that song. that ENDING. why doesn't it go on for eight minutes? whyyyyy
― imago, Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
the last song is my favorite
― understood by moron level and above (brimstead), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
"frou-frou foxes in midsummer fires"
― understood by moron level and above (brimstead), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
that was up there too, along with 'pitch the baby'
― imago, Thursday, 23 November 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
This album is so good that the two songs that received no votes are fire
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 November 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
Fuck an ILM for zero votes for "I Wear Your Ring" in this poll.― Tim F, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:56 (six years ago) Permalink
― Tim F, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:56 (six years ago) Permalink
me otm
― Tim F, Friday, 24 November 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
this album is redonkulous
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:31 (six years ago) link
I have listened to it since age 15 and it just gets better
biggest crime is wolf in the breast getting no votes, the song's outro smokes
this album has held up the most in the cocteau's canon for me. Victorialand and Love's Easy Tears were always my go-to favorites, but Heaven or Las Vegas is their perfect dream pop record.
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
I have fallen hard for this record…I heard it vaguely at the time, but oddly heard Four Calendar more, based on a co-worker playing it a lot in the office in 1994…
the title cut made me cry as I was walking around Prospect Park on this glorious spring day, watching little girls play and thinking that my 16 month old will be doing that soon. Its the slide after the choruses that gets me…is it Guthrie or Raymonde that played the —I hesitate to use the following term— solos?
― veronica moser, Friday, 11 May 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
How did I miss this poll? I'd have gone for Fifty-Clown. Liz's voice sounds like a choir of angels there.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Fifty-fifty clown of course.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
Yeah that track is gorgeous. Re the solo - the fairly-literal video shows Fraser, Guthrie, Raymonde performing (vocal, Gretsch, Fender VI) as well as Mitsuo Tate (Jazzmaster) and Lincoln Fong (?) (Strat) who were in the touring band. I think it shows Guthrie doing the solo on a hideous green PRS.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnYw4EwYGc
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Oops, no, Ben Blakeman on Strat. Neither he nor Tate played on the record I believe.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
yknow, being that I'm a novice, It's hard for me to hear who the artists that 'fluenced them might be. They did something with Harold budd, but I don't hear minimalism. Were they into eno and the berlin trilogy?
― veronica moser, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
It doesn't help much but I know they were way into The Birthday Party at the outset, it's why they sent their demo to 4AD.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
best album ever
― flopson, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
Kinda surprised at the low showing for Iceblink Luck tbh
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
I hear my baby crying
― Free jazz baser (Ross), Sunday, 13 May 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
I love that you can hear Liz's (quite strong!) Scottish accent on Road River and Rail. Does she do that anywhere else? It's particularly strong in the chorus and on the title-line.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Rrroad Rrrivurr and Rrray-ull.
Rrright?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
Love the anecdote that Simon Raymonde was delighted she'd written a song about fishing - y'know, "Rod, River and Reel".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 31 August 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
+1 for I wear yr ring
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 31 August 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link