― brg30, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim DiGravina, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― commonswings, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― B-Rad, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hamish, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― queenoftheharpies, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ess Kay, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
(MS?)
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
goosebump good.
― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul Cox (paul cox), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 7 June 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 7 June 2003 03:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 June 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 7 June 2003 13:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 June 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 7 June 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link
Just to keep things fresh, I'll say "House with 100 Rooms."
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 8 June 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 8 June 2003 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
And 'twas only $7!
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 9 June 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
(Coincidentally the other vote was from Ned, and the first time I ever heard Leather Jacket, a friend taped it to fill up the space at the end of a My Bloody Valentine C90. Ecstacy and Wine and The Chills, it was a lovely mixtap!)
― kate (kate), Monday, 9 June 2003 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:56 (twenty years ago) link
― joni, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
I enjoy all of Heavenly Pop Hits even thought some of it sounds hopelessly dated in that Smiths way.
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
Ick. Did you actually say that?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
Yes.
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
i can't pretend to understand someone not liking the go-betweens, but they're two very different sounding bands. GoB's recordings are all quite dry, acoustic sounding things (excepting the terrible mid 80s drum sounds on Springhill Fair) while the Chills stuff is a lot more floaty..
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 13 July 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything (everything), Thursday, 13 July 2006 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
today, "wet blanket"
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 3 May 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
today, in my neck of the woods, "Rain"...
― henry s, Saturday, 3 May 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Great Escape." At the end, it stops cold, and then after five seconds of silence you hear applause. All of a sudden, you realize that it was recorded live and that the audience was literally stunned. I cannot think of another musical moment quite like it.
"Submarine Bells" is a literally chilling end to one of my all-time favorite albums.
― mike a, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"Watching the Waves"
― Jazzbo, Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Yesterday: RainToday: Double Summer
Soft Bomb is better than I remembered. I had also somehow grown up in NZ without noticing how the Chills followed the great artistic tradition in NZ of combining an obsession with landscape and oceans, and death.
― paulhw, Sunday, 15 November 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAidYu9AFg
The Chills perform "Night Of Chill Blue"Live in Auckland NZ at the Windsor Castle, 29 June 1985
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 19 May 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
Heavenly Pop Hit is my fav but i am not an expert on the band and might very well have a different answer if I spent more time with their catalog. I also love the jellyfish album cover of Submarine Bells.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Sunday, 19 May 2013 03:34 (ten years ago) link
either "pink frost", "the great escape" or another chills song i have forgotten the name of which used to be on one of my compilation tapes roundabout 1987 immediately after "the great escape". i have tried to whistle the beginning, sorry the volume is very low, it is here. anyone a clue what the name of that upbeat, exuberant song is? i have listened to all the cds, i couldn't find it. and somehow it is the chills in one song really. a classic song if there ever was one.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 2 August 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
"rolling moon", their very first single
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 2 August 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
you are right, zappi. thank you. what a wonderful song!
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 2 August 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
after moving into a new flat recently i decided to order my vinyl alphabetically for once, and found i have 3 "kaleidoscope world" LPs! no idea how that happened, but if there is one album i don't mind having backup copies of ...
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 2 August 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Very positive notices from UK tour and without wanting to jinx anything - it does sound like a reality that there will be a proper new album sometime very soon. He has so many songs to choose from so will be interesting to see how it sounds.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 2 August 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Submarine Bells and Soft Bomb were, for a time, two of the best albums you could find as cutouts pretty much anywhere.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 August 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Personally I think that Soft Bomb was patchy - everything up til then very excellent.
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 3 August 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Flamethrower - I think David Kilgour dancing down the front. Great ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCDMF4Avl3A
Night Of The Chill Blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPcoElI0M4
Doledrums - Drinking Lots and taking showers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTzW2zvKUo&index=12&list=UUxgsA1KIuvmujFvQMKnTlow
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 3 August 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
SOrry but one more. why was not this song bigger than jesus? too great maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMK-hw14Bc&list=UUxgsA1KIuvmujFvQMKnTlow&index=10
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 3 August 2014 05:23 (nine years ago) link
New album is in the bag and should be out on Fire records later this year. Saw them in Ediburgh the other night and they were in fine form. Got loads of classics and the new stuff sounded good. Martin Phillips was in good health too.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Sunday, 3 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/oct/23/the-chills-comeback-album-silver-bullets-listen
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
liking this a lot
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 October 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
Imho, some great tracks and some just ok ones. But glad he and they are active.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
yeah, this is really nice. beautiful shimmery production.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
This is good! ("Molten Gold"!)
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 October 2015 12:36 (eight years ago) link
This album is probably as good as "Brave Words," if not "Kaleidoscope World."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 October 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Possibly as good as one of the greatest singles/EPs comps of all time? Ok! Haven't heard it yet but was glad to see "Molten Gold" got included.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Sunday, 1 November 2015 06:36 (eight years ago) link
This is really very good indeed, occasional cringe worthy lyrical moment aside.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 November 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
Oh shit, not Kaleidoscope World, I meant Submarine Bells! About as good as Brave Words, not as good as Submarine Bells. And certainly not as good as Kaleidoscope World. So, like: Brave Words<this one<Soft Bomb<Submarine Bells<K. World. (Not counting Sunburnt, which is his wandering the wilderness album)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 November 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
is there a US deal for it?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 November 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Not yet, but most of the us retailers I just checked have it listed as a reasonably priced import. (On backorder, unfortunately.)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 1 November 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link