This month's Classic Pop mag has a fantastic long interview; they've really been through some shit, i had no idea. Cracking episode of Sodajerker here too. They seem to be in a very good mood of late; amazingly!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4aBnSKodONCeCoVGww28gi?si=2569cc0492ee48b0
― piscesx, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLEeETqgSFA
― Maresn3st, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
Really liked the vocal analysis, I think I realized something unusual was there when I've tried to sing the song myself (and sound bad). Now that he points it out it's very clear to hear how Curt has to slide up to the right note many times
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
And back to Tipping Point, bonus track "Secret Location" is dope, reminds me of the upbeat tracks on the latest Tame Impala album
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
Lol I just saw Brad already made that comparison
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
"Break It Down Again" just came on and I am really liking it, though at the time I yawned at it for seeming out of date
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
Trying to remember how Chris Morris described "Sowing the Seeds of Love"??
― djh, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:30 (two years ago) link
xp I like it too, it's a really nice single. I threw that on to my copy of "Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits)" as an extra.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
https://consequence.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/darker-waves-festival-lineup-2023-new-order-tears-for-fears-poster.jpg
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:35 (ten months ago) link
Posting here instead of on the New Order thread, this is right in my back yard
Clan of Xymox!
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:37 (ten months ago) link
It's all truly ridiculous and still somehow perfectly appropriate.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:55 (ten months ago) link
tempted by this one since I couldn't make Cruel World.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:57 (ten months ago) link
I know many people planning on going one way or another and I hope everyone has a good time and you could not *PAY* me to go to something on the beach in HB on a Saturday night.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:59 (ten months ago) link
I did a lot of beach parties in high school on the beach in Huntington Beach. Meet at the stacks. Only problem for me is I don't do festivals.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 01:10 (ten months ago) link
Lineup is so good it seems fake
The idea of seeing X'ian Death on a beach in the OC is making me giggle. Looks totally awesome
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:05 (ten months ago) link
Thought B-52s did a farewell tour already?
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:34 (ten months ago) link
KISS did one in the 90s
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:42 (ten months ago) link
That many acts in a single day, how do they even do that? They must all share the same gear.
― henry s, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:44 (ten months ago) link
that just wrapped up so I guess this could be considered a finale. I've actually never seen them so that's part of the reason why I'm tempted by this (along with the Cardigans, who are never going to tour the US if their FB comments are to be believed)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:19 (ten months ago) link
iirc the B-52s have stopped touring but said they’d still play the occasional festival and suchbonkers lineup but seeing as i couldn’t get it together for cruel world, which was literally seven miles from my house…
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:42 (ten months ago) link
Pre-Tears For Fears Graduate appearing on Mike Reid's Runaround children's quiz show in 1980! What a strange (and not very good) band, what were they trying to be? Now a-gih a-gih a-gih gooooooooooo!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Il4Sh9TQQ
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:32 (seven months ago) link
kind of a new wave take on 60s mod pop?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:44 (seven months ago) link
really hate that madness-esque turnaround thing at the end of the verses
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:46 (seven months ago) link
when i say that madness-esque turnaround thing, i might actually mean ian dury-esque, but you know what i mean
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:50 (seven months ago) link
New wave take on mod with a fucking flute?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 11:53 (seven months ago) link
weren't there some mod/garage/freakbeat-type bands with flutes? like the troggs or someone
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:17 (seven months ago) link
I'm not saying it's not a weird thing btw, just groping for some sort of context
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:18 (seven months ago) link
what were they trying to be?
PJ Harvey
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:25 (seven months ago) link
(xp) "Wild Thing" had an ocarina on it. Never mind the mod thing though how many new wave acts had a flautist in their ranks?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:30 (seven months ago) link
(xp) lol
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:31 (seven months ago) link
I read "ocarina" as "cocaine"
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:31 (seven months ago) link
Annie Lennox was a flautist, there's flute on a couple of Eurythmics tracks. Not sure she ever used it in the Tourists though (I have never listened to the Tourists)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:37 (seven months ago) link
But that's by the bye really, the flute on that song is very much part of its 60s-ness imo, the new wave bit is the production and clunky chorus
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:41 (seven months ago) link
Plenty of flute examples in and around the era. Genesis and Jethro Tull (of course); Tears for Fears love their prog. But "Down Under" was only the next year, and not long before we get to "One Night in Bangkok." That TFF song def. sounds more like the '60s than 1980 to me, disco-y Ian Dury turnaround bit aside.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:11 (seven months ago) link
Kraftwerk had flute through Autobahn
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:24 (seven months ago) link
not sure they were going for a prog thing really, this was how they were presenting themselves at the time...
https://bluehatrecords.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/elvis-should-play-ska-flyer-with-tour-dates.jpg
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:28 (seven months ago) link
uncanny how the logo on the kick drum resembles a 'play' icon, that was clever of them
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:32 (seven months ago) link
I'd say they were just young and confused because the flute calls to mind capering prog folk before it does the groovy 60s.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:35 (seven months ago) link
yes to young and confused plus also throwing whatever instruments they'd learned as kids into the mix, just cos it seemed like a good idea at the time
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:37 (seven months ago) link
some more footage here that has them sounding somehwere between xtc, secret affair and madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuFviRPwzc
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:43 (seven months ago) link
“Elvis Should Play Ska”. A light jab at Elvis Costello, after the famous rocker took a swipe at the genre, the track is filled with the up-strummed chords, a spiky guitar solo and some fantastic drumming. No horns, but the track is so bouncy and catchy they aren’t really needed.
Wonder if this song was written before 2 Tone took off. The skank of "Detectives" and "Chelsea" seems an odd thing to object to.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:44 (seven months ago) link
The album is pretty good IIRC but then I like this sort of thing.
Elvis Costello, after the famous rocker took a swipe at the genre
Wait, what? At the least EC was pretty tuned in to and in tune with 2 Tone.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:57 (seven months ago) link
kind of interesting that Mark Hollis started out making fairly similar music in The Reaction as their careers maybe followed somewhat similar paths through the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlxZ8FW2q8g
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:00 (seven months ago) link
xp I took it as a bad choice of words and what they meant was Elvis having done skaish tunes
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:03 (seven months ago) link
more like "took a stab" perhaps?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:06 (seven months ago) link
They sound more like XTC than anyone else tbh. The mod connection seems like a bit of bandwagon jumping.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:07 (seven months ago) link
would imagine that xtc's influence was pretty strong in that part of the country
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:16 (seven months ago) link