― edger stewert (edger), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― edger stewert (edger), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey, I like that mistype!
Anyway, as I said on the "celebration" web page, I packed it after Giant Steps as it did everything I wanted to do musically. I note it did not inspire many bands to be as musically adventurous. How could you 'copy' being individual? Who could follow it?
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
OTMFM. Just this little section was enough to affect me enough as a teen to change the way I appreciate music for ever. You have no idea how much I love Giant Steps. As for "I've Lost The Reason", I always saw it as part of a triumverate of songs along with "Best Lose The Fear" and "Take The Time Around". For some reason these sound like they were written to sit next to each other.
It took me a long time to realise how sad and depressed the lyrics were to "Wake Up!" and I'm only just getting round to this fact with "Giant Steps". I guess GS is a concept album in nostalgia, uncertainty, being 23 - that stage between being a young adult and an adult when people won't take you seriously despite all your greatest ambitions. "Wake Up!" is a concept album about being 25 and being granted your independence and having the world as your oyster, but still feeling somehow unsatisfied with this pseudo-utopian setting, revealing itself to actually be a bigger burden than you had expected. And of course it's all set to the most wonderful offbeat psychedelic pop music.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Woops, my mistake, I thought you were talking about "If You Want It, Take It". No this song is a goodie and it kinda points towards how they'd sound on "Wake Up".
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Heartbreaking reallly.
I should one day learn to shut my gob about the Boo Radleys.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Realised a few years ago that I was so wrong and Giant Steps was their crowning acheivement and I'll echo everything dog latin has said, brilliant record. It was Martin's lyrics that pushed them over into greatness for me though right enough. Also the whole thing of them dreaming of being pop stars and being on TOTP as kids, actually acheiving it then realising it was crap whilst writing about this in the songs. Brilliant.
I've lost track of Brave Captain though I did like the first few releases. Saw him live at King Tuts and got to talk to him a bit on his first solo tour and he was a thoroughly nice chap and happy to give credit where it was due to the other guys in the band, didn't seem to be any animosity. He also played an absolutely blinding gig. Mind you, also saw him a year or two later with a different (inept) band and he was shit and since then I don't think I've listened to any BC stuff at all.
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