Tindersticks : classic or dud

That 2nd record is still one of my all time favorite records. Fantastic from start to finish. Also one of the best designed LP jackets ever. Made me wanted to get properly tailored.

"Made me want to get properly tailored."

Yes, this completely. It wouldn't have been the same if they'd gone for trackies.

Any one bought the Singing Skies book? Is it a thing of beauty?

Yes, this completely. It wouldn't have been the same if they'd gone for trackies.

A 20th anniversary edition with them getting fitted for trackies on the sleeve would be great though.

Yes, they've earned the right to leisure wear.

Have enjoyed this, this evening:

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/tindersticks-la-philharmonie-de-paris

Perhaps it is old news.

Anyway, who knew you could get foot stands that are a bit like putting your foot on a monitor, eh?

Planning lots of live shows, apparently.

A clip of some new music is on their website.

We Are Dreamers! https://vimeo.com/139451615

immediately recognisable as tindersticks but somehow sounding new. excellent, whets my appetie for the new album. the swiftian video is great too.

Agree this sounds great, really like the droney menacing tone of it. Extensive European tour announced as well:

http://www.tindersticks.co.uk/tomorrows/concerts/

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/01/14/462671036/stuart-a-staples-on-tindersticks-the-waiting-room-track-by-track?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Picked up 'The Waiting Room' yesterday. It's really good. I liked 'The Something Rain' too, so pleased with a strong follow up. Not watched the DVD yet.

the Lhasa guest vocal makes me sad

It definitely sounds nicer on CD than via that link (possibly just that I'm listening to it differently).

Early thoughts: some good tracks, less "coherent" than their early albums, some tracks sound oddly recorded (particularly the vocals and not in a good way).

Current favourite track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdhJyu1wGXc

a tindersticks song without stuart staples' voice. isn't that a contradiction in itself?

There are a few Tindersticks songs without Staples on vocals. David Boulter sings a few and Dickon Hinchcliffe sang a few in the earlier incarnation of the band.

The only thing I really miss about the earlier incarnation of the band was the vocal interplay between members. I always loved the voices ricocheting off each other on i.e. "People Keep Comin' Around." It doesn't help that Stuart is gradually losing his way with vocal melodies (imo)

I do enjoy this album though, I'd love an entire album of discrete instrumentals like the ones on this album (as opposed to the more unified, theme-based soundtrack work)

As I said upthread, the thing I really miss is the strings, the lack of which seems to be the major difference between old and nu-Sticks. Haven't heard the new one yet.

Any news on a release of the short films? Will they eventually make their way to a DVD/online once they premiere at that festival in February? Should I just get this album now and figure that out later?

The films come on a DVD with the limited vinyl edition of the album.

There's a CD + DVD version too.

Some very good tracks on here ... but quite a few I already skip past.

I couldn't get into this one at all which is a shame as I thought The Something Rain was their best album since Simple Pleasures.

otm. the something rain was so great, this i have problems to get into.

This is a great read

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rank-your-records-tindersticks-david-boulter

Good tip-off, Kitchen Person. Hadn't seen that.

Really digging this. Some tracks, like Hey Lucinda and How He Entered already feel like old favourites. My ranking of the albums would be pretty similar to David Boulter's - and Waiting Room would place about high mid-table for me at the moment.

Think my order would go something like this

1. Tindersticks
2. Tindersticks II
3. Simple Pleasures
4. The Something Rain
5. Curtains
6. Can Our Love...
7. The Hungry Saw
8. Waiting For the Moon
9. The Waiting Room
10. Falling Down a Mountain

Not really keen on those bottom three. The Hungry Saw is decent but nothing special. Love the top six.

It's called Simple Pleasure. The lack of the plural seems particularly suggestive, I think.

I was going to correct you on your previous post but thought better of it ;)

Haha, you are quite right to correct me. There's a good chance I've been calling it that ever since it came out as well. Oh dear.

For a band I love so much I have to say they have very few front-to-back killer albums. Maybe just Can Our Love and Simple Pleasure.

The debut is one of those long and sprawling albums where I wouldn't change a single thing.

Tindersticks II is sprawling greatness from start to finish as well.

Tindersticks I I find just a little too sonically limited to be as sprawling as it is. I need to give II a relisten.

Is the consensus II over the first one? II over everything?

I would say
1.Simple Pleasure
2.Can Our Love…
3.Curtains
4.Waiting For The Moon/Trouble Every Day
5.Ypres
6.The Something Rain
7.l
8.ll
Need to spend me more time with all of the other ones. Ranting the first two last might be unfair but I never want to hear them.

my top four are:

1. Tindersticks
2. The Something Rain
3. Simple Pleasures
4. Tindersticks II

I listened to The Something Rain again last night. That is a great album. This Fire of Autumn is one of the best songs they've ever done.

The first album edges it over the second for me. There's something fearless about it that I like, they weren't afraid of just trying stuff out to see where it would lead them. They became a lot more conservative after II, which is a great shame I think

If I was making a home-made "Best of Tindersticks" CD-R, it would probably include a lot of mid-period tracks and not much from the first two albums ... not because those albums don't include some of the best work but because I tend to see them as "complete albums" from which it would be weird to isolate tracks.

I didn't rate The Something Rain but must revisit it.

top T-Sticks records:

1. Tindersticks
2. Tindersticks 2
3. Simple Pleasure
4. The Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95
5. Donkeys 92-97

This was the first poll I ever ran, back in 2009:

Can We POLL Again?: Tindersticks Studio Albums

Still can't believe the second LP did so badly in that poll, I also always thought it was the consensus pick and I'd still vote for it today.

Wow, that is a very surprising result. Always thought it was an even split between the first two albums.

honestly i think simple pleasure makes all their other music semi-redundant!

I wish someone would reissue Simple Pleasure. Vinyl copies are very pricey.

Definitely. I'd like them to do Curtains and Can Our Love as well. I've got the reissues of the first two albums but they're on Plain Records which has a bad reputation. I'm no expert but they sounded fine to me.

not OOP on CD