― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 7 November 2003 12:09 (twenty years ago) link
d.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 7 November 2003 12:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 7 November 2003 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 7 November 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
same here dan.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
well if you wanna like post-dylan cobblers then fine mista perry.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
You know the person at work who *always* comes out with the most *obvious* jokes, always parrots the standard line on the issue of day, always gives you 'fun' advice like 'don't do anything *I* wouldn't do'? They're not hateful, quite amiable even, but ultimately.....you'd rather do anything than have to converse with them. Well that's the Charlatans. Standard issue. Ordinary. Does What It Says On The Tin. Fuck them.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
the Charlatans are nothing like that Dr C, you're thinking of Travis or Athlete perhaps.
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
ah re-assurance and reliability...
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
This is a context/ubiquity issue, isn't it? The Charlatans were never shoved down our throats over here and we weren't inundated with 800 bands doing the same thing unless we wanted to be, ergo some of us in the US have developed very different attitudes towards "the obvious targets".
Also, I think I can count the number of Happy Mondays album tracks that I've liked on two fingers, only I don't actually have any recollection of them. For a good long while Primal Scream and Happy Mondays were duking it out for Most Overrated Singles Band In The UK in my mind, but then I realized that outside of "Slip Inside This House" I thought that _Screamadelica_-era PS was irredeemable shit across the board.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 7 November 2003 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
the one charlatans fan i met was a very nice guy. he liked ocean colour scene, paul weller and so on but i conversed with him though i lost touch after college...for me its not to do with the fans but the music just relies so much on that organ and i never feel the others are contributing too much to the sound (this is from listening to a handful of singles, which after listening to them neevr encouraged me to go any further with it).
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
No, I'm thinking of the Charlatans.
I think it is a context thing, Dan, but not an ubiquity thing. Certainly a very useless thing.I mean they're not vile like Primal Scream, they're just not....anything. A bit baggy, a bit Roses-y THEN whooo! Timmy discovers Blonde on Blonde and Sticky Fingers and we get a youth club version of The fucking Rolling Stones fronted by Booby Zimmertwat. I mean did we ever need them? Why aren't people more fucking critical? They didn't even come from Manchester properly. Hell - even the Inspiral Carpets were better.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
It's my way of weeding out the wheat from the chaff. The 'classic or dud' conundrum is how I have always viewed music. Snap decisions, good or bad, in or out. I don't want 'average'. I'll come down harder on 'average' than 'crap'. It's just my way - it's of no importance what I think anyway.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 8 November 2003 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 8 November 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 29 August 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I was at an upscale bar tonight that I didn't willfully choose to be in with some people I wasn't particularly interested in knowing and I managed to identify after a long period of thought that the song I heard played over the PA in there was one of their absolutely classic b-sides "Occupation H. Monster". Unbelievable. Thank goodness it was finally released on CD years later in the US otherwise...
― Bimble, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
theme from the wish!
― f. hazel, Friday, 13 July 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I did hear "Weirdo" a couple of weeks ago and felt inexplicably happy.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Up To Our Hips sounds awfully fresh lately. I think I underrated it upthread.
― dlp9001, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
'flower' is a terrific song
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 13 July 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you know why I don't have the Some Friendly album anymore? BECAUSE I AM A DUMBASS, that's why!
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 July 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
No! I'm wrong! I just found it in my CD stacks!!!!! WOOOHOO! POLAR BEAR IS FIRST!!
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 July 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Charlie Howard is OTM.
― HI DERE, Saturday, 14 July 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa
Download the new Charlatans album for free
― Davey D, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yikes, four songs in and feeling like this is gonna be worse than Simpatico.
― Davey D, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned you promised to change Norwich to Northwich 5 years ago. sorry to nag and all that :-)
― Thomas, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Their last couple albums are pretty decent...
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 27 September 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
The great survivors of their scene, really. Would have seen them last Saturday but other stuff came up.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
Does any 90s album by a major act, on a major label, which was a major success (a UK No. 2), have as cheap-looking an album cover as Us and Us Only?
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
I don't know, when was Bloodflowers released
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
It's from February 2000 but I had that on my mind before I posted.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
If nothing else the Bloodflowers aesthetic would turn up all over the place around 2016-2020
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
tbf it's hard to think about these lads without the words "Happy Shopper" springing to mind
― the sex lives of quoll-ish girls (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure how it came up randomly on YouTube, but I heard "The End of Everything" for the first time in thirty years. Sounded fab.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 February 2024 14:47 (two months ago) link
whoa them vibes flowing from somewhere— i truly threw on dwsts because i am self teaching me some guitar and want to figure that opening guitar patch, then I immed by chance hit SNA and this thread was revived. now on to “the sound of everything” which i cannot recall ?also i scanned this thread and sweet jeesus 22 UK top 40s?? i need to remove my _obscure cvs singles_ posting on them
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Friday, 23 February 2024 15:18 (two months ago) link
The Charlatans are definitely obscure in Centennial, CO hell it's obscure here in the Los Angeles area.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 24 February 2024 05:57 (two months ago) link
...love those first four, five, six Charlatans albums...― Bee OK, Wednesday, February 21, 2024 10:00 PM (two days ago)
― Bee OK, Wednesday, February 21, 2024 10:00 PM (two days ago)
Hell of a run if you ask me, even if they are just an average band.
Some Friendly (1990)Between 10th and 11th (1992)Up to Our Hips (1994)The Charlatans (1995)Tellin' Stories (1997)Us and Us Only (1999)
― Bee OK, Saturday, 24 February 2024 06:02 (two months ago) link
They were obscure even when Tim Burgess was living here and DJ'ing at Goldfinger's every week!
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 February 2024 06:52 (two months ago) link
i saw them here about year ago with ride, they were p good. he looked great, pretty spry. not sure who was there for which band, but show seemed v well attended.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Saturday, 24 February 2024 15:23 (two months ago) link
Funny, “The Only One I Know” just popped up on one of my Spotify mixes today. Guess they’re in the air.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 February 2024 21:07 (two months ago) link
These guys were a damn good band. Listening to the self titled (a big teen fave of mine) a lot lately. Tellin' Stories is really good too.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:00 (one week ago) link
Telling Stories is GREAT, such a badass rhythm section
― brimstead, Sunday, 21 April 2024 15:45 (one week ago) link