― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:45 (twenty years ago) link
JP some Microdisney / Mansions discussion here: The High Llamas: C or D? and here: Cathal Coughlan: Search & Destroy
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 September 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:20 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Jonathan (Jonathan), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 12 September 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 September 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
Lost in The Former West is good, but a little conventional for me. I love "Popemobile to Paraguay", though, and my heart warms whenever I read the unironic liner note: "Respect to all cover bands."
Also, I'd get the "Tima Mansio Dumps the Dead" EP. I still think their cover of "Shiny Happy People" is as fucked up and awesome as any Bomb Squad production.
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
"Angel's Delight" alone made Ministry sound about as fierce and subversive as the Fixx.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― AndreNY (AndreNY), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
On the topic Fatima Mansions, everything is worth checking...write to your favourite resissue label and start a campaign to make it available to a wider audience.
― AndreNY (AndreNY), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I still find much of the Fatima Mansions catalogue thrilling. Stylistically all over the place but coming together with a constant aggressive approach and sharp-as-nails lyrics. "Valhalla Avenue" was full of bile - "Go Home Bible Mike", "Evil Man", "Something Bad". Great singles cuts like "Hive" and his messed up covers including an unrecognizable "Everything I Do I Do It For You". I haven't checked but I imagine much of this material is way out of print, tsk.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
not that much out of print.
a double cd reissue of two of their classic albums was quite recent so copies are still easilyy available :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viva-Dead-Ponies-Fatima-Mansions/dp/B000UTOQLU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1261430995&sr=8-1
― mark e, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
That's cool, I missed that. I've got it all but it's a great primer for the uninitiated!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
EVIL MAN!!!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 May 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Love this, just beautifully brutal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDov3gE1nOY
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Monday, 7 November 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
I saw the FMs in mid-90s, met CC at a radio station not long after. Always liked "Ceausescu," "Only Losers Take the Bus."
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
I could see 'em being up your alley, I always liked the combination of on-edge anger and the Scott Walkerisms as a strange but necessary anchor.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 November 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I haven't gushed enough in this thread? Crikey. Good point re: Scott Walker, Ned - Cathal's one of the pull-quotes in the big box set. The Mansions were much more direct and abrasive in terms of their feelings but clearly found a guiding light in Walker.
Cathal's solo work has ranged from fantastic to unmemorable, but little has expressed the bile of Fatima Mansions. More's the pity, but as Robyn Hitchcock once said, you can't be 50 and still be a nihilist.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
Has anybody here ever heard the Bubonique CD, and if I ever see it in a used bin should I snap it up?
― henry s, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Had it, sold it. Pretty one-note-joke with minimal repeat playability. At one point he offered it as a free download on his site.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
am i the only one here thinking there was a huge resemblance to roland orzabal on cathal's vocal tone, esp during FMs most sedated moments? i mean, listen to pack of lies or the chorus to viva dead ponies for further evidence.
or this (one of my faves from the fatimas btw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loJQLinleWk
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 07:46 (twelve years ago) link
This band is really good.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to give them another shot thanks to this heads up. At the time they were scarily political and I just wasn't in the mood.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Trucks of my Tears (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Are the politics that much of a barrier? Frankly I love the raw power and bombast, it channels my own feelings.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 23 February 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
I was in the U.S. when it came out, it was during the Iraq War. Imagine listening to "Chow, Ceaucescu" on a packed commuter bus. I'm sure people in Ireland or the U.K. have a different take on it.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Trucks of my Tears (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 23 February 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s00zBdmEhLY
Wow, blast from the past. I guess it might go with hip-hop...
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Trucks of my Tears (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
if you can't shift this crate of brillo pads by fridayvengeancewill be mine
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
cathal otm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah, his righteous venom is good for these times.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
cathal vs jackknife lee = telefis
loving the stuff i have heard.
however, jacknife lee sorted out this as an extra treat that clearly cannot be released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp7kmbqOaBo
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link
ooops - wrong link !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MGiCxii7sE
That's great fun - Human League, Gang Of Four, and do I hear a bit of "Warm Leatherette"?
Really looking forward to more from Cathal after years of silence.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 20 January 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/32037-fatima-mansions-lost-in-the-former-west-review
― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 10 September 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
Good article about my favorite of all his albums. Keep music evil!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link