What can I say? I'm shocked to even be digging this out of my collection to play. I even tried to sell it once, just figured it was something I enjoyed at the time but was through with. Luckily the shop wouldn't buy it off me, so I kept it.
If you'd asked me before today how any of the songs went, I probably couldn't have told you. Sure I'd found it useful as a DJ a couple of years ago, but I only played "Brighter" cause I remembered that as my fave, along with "Waves". I haven't played the whole thing since it came out. There was a Slowdive/Catherine Wheel thread not too long ago where I admitted that I never ever pull out Slowdive, and wondered if I should feel guilty about that. "I just never feel the need". I was far, far more fanatical about Ride in 1991 than Slowdive, but then I don't tend to play Ride much now either.
Today though I got into a certain mood of sadness due to certain events, a sadness that was deep or just different enough to cause me to rather miraculously hear a song from this album in my head. I wasn't even sure which one it was since of course it isn't an album I remember very well. It turned out to be the first track "Spanish Air" and so I pulled it out, played it, and let the rest of the album play too. I don't think I ever realized how sad this album was. I feel strange that I've neglected it all this time, as it's really quite brilliant.
But then in 1991, there was so much good new music to choose from. I still consider '89-'91 to be a renaissance as far as British indie stuff goes. I was into the "baggy" thing, the "shoegazing" thing, and what was coming out of Liverpool in those days was great as well (La's, Real People, Top).
I'm just stunned that this album has somehow come back to me after all this time. Certainly influenced by the Cocteaus (even the sleeve apes the motif of the Cocteaus' Lullabies EP - girl swirling around to the point that her skirt is up), but a damn sight better than Mojave 3. (I recall liking the first Mojave 3 album a great deal but the second one made me lose interest altogether and seemed to be aping Bob Dylan at times)
I also appreciated Monster Movie, another post-Slowdive project, but compared to Just For A Day? Not even close.
Opening up my ears to old, unlikely things, and wondering what you lot think...
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Factor in one of the top albums of the 90's as its follow-up and you've got a Slowdive album that I rarely feel the need to play.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― jason., Friday, 15 April 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
try it at 5:00am
― Vestigial Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link
is there a compilation of those first three singles/EPs?
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah....the 90's. A much simpler time.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link
'tis called Blue Day
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
yaarggh.. i guess i can get "catch the breeze" on just for a day. i just hate missing out.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― the dreamfox, Friday, 15 April 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― John 2, Friday, 15 April 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
what were they?
my copy came with a second disk: 'Blue Day', a compilation of (most of) the first 3 singles as mentioned above. but i've a feeling you're talking about something different.
the Morr music tribute cd (Blue Skied N' Clear) is good, people like isan and mum doing slowdive covers...
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 16 April 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i think it's a beautiful record but to be honest it was a disappointment after the gobsmackery of the first three EPs.
That pretty much covers it for me. I had the first three EPs, but I was far more into the noisy groups like Ride, Boo Radleys and the Pixies at the time. I didn't buy the album, and I think I've only heard it once. By the time it came out the backlash against Shoegazing was already starting up.
Oddly enough I got really back into those EPs in 1993, so I bought their second album and the In Mind stuff, but the first album is still a gaping hole in my collection. Should I bother getting it?
― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― bkjj40a, Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(Spencer, are you already back from Brazil?)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 16 April 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 16 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Did you arrive just yesterday? If so, I forgive you for not coming out last night. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
WORST. BONUS. TRACKS. EVAH.
It's really only 2 out of the four, but they are so goddamn bad i can only listen to souvlaki if i cook up a playlist omitting the bonus tracks.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
i put erik's song on a mix once and my friend was all "is this from the soundtrack to less than zero when robert downey jr is on the phone in his bedroom?" wtf
― kephm, Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
this kind of production (turn of 80s/90s "dream pop") has turned around from seeming like it was dating badly to seeming like really nice period production
'meh' on Just for a Day's sound, but I will say that this:
wishy washy and empty sounding
perfectly characterizes all the third-generation (-plus, now?), creatively bankrupt shoegaze revival stuff.
Bethany Curve? c'mon.
― bassace, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link
also many of those bands don't have two halves of a tune to rub together
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL OUT THIS ALBUM AFTER ALL EVEN THOUGH I'D BEEN THINKING OF IT A FEW TIMES THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL IT OUT AREN'T YOU
― Hot Pants Floyd (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 05:28 (fifteen years ago) link
This is my #1 going to sleep album of all time. If I'm not counting sheep by the time the "Waves/Brighter/Sadman" trilogy of awesomeness cues, I'm sure to be off to blissful slumber shortly thereafter.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL OUT THIS ALBUM AFTER ALL EVEN THOUGH I'D BEEN THINKING OF IT A FEW TIMES THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE ME PULL IT OUT AREN'T YOUyou'll thank us later
― bassace, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
tell us how it went
― bassace, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link
As I was going home from the club tonight, the words "to believe in everything" came into my head and I racked my brain trying to figure out what lyric that was from. I finally got home to look it up, but a Google search didn't do me much good right away...it took a bit of looking...it's "Catch The Breeze"!
― gods jangle the key change (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 11 January 2009 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't where to put this which popped up as related video when I was listening to the youtube tracks of the 2018 poll. An amazing performance of an amazing song. I also love the parts where you see that blond girl with pony tail in the audience which is just about to break into tears. I am not too familiar with Slowdive but this semms like their top song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZhG9YSY_c
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 7 January 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
I am not too familiar with Slowdive but this semms like their top song.
TBF, it's one of Syd Barrett's top songs.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
I knew i had heard that title already somewhere...
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 7 January 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
TBF, the title and lyrics are James Joyce.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 7 January 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
To be fair, the Slowdive version extends and improves on the Syd Barrett original tremendously. Or let's say it translates it adequately into the shoegazing nineties.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 7 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
Hell, I'll take Slowdive 2018 over 90s Slowdive. I love that they're still playing it and have claimed it as their own
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
Yeah the current tours are just phenomenal -- I loved all the early 90s shows of theirs I saw but this is next level time.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link