Kind of wish I had gone with Desire As now. Can't argue too much with those results tho
― J. Sam, Saturday, 12 May 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
Can't believe this actually finally finished, but glad I accidentally gave it a year-and-a-half runtime. Good turnout.
I thought I'd voted, but it let me vote again yesterday - Desire As.
Shame about Blueberry Pies, but it's lots of moments I like ('ask me what the time is… my eyes shift and slide', 'Hello stranger – the stranger I've become') that don't quite come together into a song I love.
― woof, Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
Voted When Love Breaks Down. I had recently written a song with a similar title when that record came out, which obviously wiped the floor with my own efforts
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
I've only just discovered this album but oh my god where has Bonny been my whole life???
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 16 September 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
Whoops how did that post twice
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 16 September 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
it's that good
― flappy bird, Sunday, 16 September 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
Damn
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 16 September 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
It's a conspicuously front-loaded LP really. It's time I refreshed my memory of the second half/lower-ranked tracks...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 September 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
Gee, some of the second half does indeed feel pretty unfamiliar, still. I suspect I know the deeps cuts on both Swoon and Protest Songs more intimately. Weird. (Certainly not about to claim that either of those have a sequence that matches the first side of SM/TWG though.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 September 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link
moving the river is the sleeper hit for me. also surely been discussed but some of the acoustic versions of these are mind blowing -- desire as, whoa.
― anza808, Sunday, 16 September 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
it is a totally amazing record and the second half is very good but like
maybe an unparalleled side a i'm just saying
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 21 December 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
I *really* got into "Desire As" and "Moving the River" immediately after my September post. My use of the phrase "front-loaded" was intemperate and regrettable.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 22 December 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
The second half is just a different sort of perfection to the first.
― yugi ex, Saturday, 22 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Best first 7 track run of any album ever. And it's a shame that Desire As comes after Horsin' Around 'cos it could so easily be 8.
― triggercut, Saturday, 22 December 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
all my insights from retrospect
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
Apparently 35 years ago today we released this @Prefabsprout beauty. A work of love and tears produced by the unsurpassable @ThomasDolby, the fifth Sprout. pic.twitter.com/3qRmR36YbL— Wendy Smith (@wendyfinnandmax) June 22, 2020
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
NO YOU WON’T!
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
You give me Faron Young It's Four in the Morning
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
^ me one month ago
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
bonny changed my life
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
11/10
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
Actually I liked "Bonny" so much it took me a while to realize the rest of the album is also very good
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
^^ me too
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
When I see that cover it reminds me how much Michael looks like the writer Graham Linehan.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
The 2005-reissue is one of the best things in existence
― Mule, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Recently converted to the cult of Sproutism. What a wonderful feeling.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 June 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
it's good stuff
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 4 June 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
I enjoy some similar acts like Danny Wilson, but there's still something elusive in the appeal of this record for me. "Bonny" is probably my favourite.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
For example, some of the synthesizer/sampler overdubs seem gauche and awkward, and make it hard for me to see this as a work of impeccable taste and class.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
Took me quite a while to take to this iirc
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
idk i understand those as complaints about other ps albums but steve mcqueen is so perfectly smooth
― ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
Yes that’s true
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 04:45 (two years ago) link
some of the synthesizer/sampler overdubs seem gauche and awkward
Maybe that's why I latched onto Swoon more easily. At least the awkwardness (bizarre 'bo-be-bo' vocal embellishments, dense lyrics, weird rhythms) was awkward in a way that didn't bring to mind many of their contemporaries. (Kinda superficial though. In the wake of that poll last year I struggle to find all that much from any part of McAloon's oeuvre that I can easily dismiss.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 4 June 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
My conclusion after listening to about half their albums in the past couple years: confounding. Steve McQueen and Jordan are incredible, Langely Park very good, Swoon intriguing but too hard to get my head around, Megahertz nearly unlistenable. And all those albums have their defenders on ILM. Hard to think of a band that swings in that quality that wildly
― Vinnie, Friday, 4 June 2021 08:57 (two years ago) link
Alright, hyperbolic on that last line, but this band really does go all over the place
― Vinnie, Friday, 4 June 2021 08:59 (two years ago) link
Woah, hard disagree on Megahertz
― building a hole (NickB), Friday, 4 June 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link
megahertz is all about that title track
― ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
title track is mesmerizing, can wreck me on the right day
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 4 June 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
Completely agree. Hard to listen to at work, risking watering eyes.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 4 June 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
These days Megahertz and Swoon are my two go to PS albums...although SM and JTC are both up there too!
― yugi ex, Friday, 4 June 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
You offer infraredInstead of sun
― The Way Dub Used to Be (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 June 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
My love and I, we are boxing clever
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 3 June 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
This album is the best when driving singing along loudly with other people in the car less familiar.
At the time it didn't seem odd slotting PS into rotation with R.E.M. or the Cure but looking back they really stand alone. Reading Dolby's retelling of his time with the band was lovely as well, recommended.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Saturday, 4 June 2022 05:35 (one year ago) link
I hear you've got a new girlfriendHow's the wife taking it?
― Keep the Aspidistra TikToking (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 4 June 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
lol very otm
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 4 June 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
acoustic steve coming to vinylhttps://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/15660
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Ooh voodoo chili ooh
― Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 March 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
one of the greatest moments in musicI count the hours since you slipped awayI count the hours that I lie awakeI count the minutes and the seconds tooAll I stole and I took from you― omar little, Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:14 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
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