Lloyd Cole And The Commotions: Classic Or Dud

LC played both those Cohen covers at his recent Seattle solo show. His voice suits them.

apparently, it's no secret that LC will be drinking in the halt bar.

But then he nicked our bassist, and I've never forgiven him. ;-)

It's 'Famous', not 'Dirty'.

He spends too much of his time, live, playing Leonard Cohen songs.

It is sweet, that you post such things when you don't like Lloyd Cole.

LLOYD COLE.
THE COMMOTIONS.
THE SINGLES. (I think.)

Excitingly, it includes a DVD.

I will find a Try Glasgow More thread for this too, because it has already been mentioned here.

I might start being a huge Lloyd Cole fan for the duration of this little revival.

Lloyd Cole. The Commotions. The Singles. This is the best we could come up with for a title to replace the soon to be deleted 'The Collection'. The new release will actually live up to it's name. Singles only, hits and many misses. Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? is schedules to go to radio as a single 20 years after it's original release.
There is a bonus DVD which will hopefully satisfy those who have been looking for the videos we made. All are included. The package contains absolutely no new material and some of the mixes have been shortened ever so slightly to fit all 21 songs on the audio disc. The artwork is really nothing to do with me, the project isn't either really, I saw no reason to stop them doing it and they are supposedly doing TV ads prior to the release and our reunion shows.

Release date in the UK is Sep 27.
Track Listing
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions:
Perfect Skin
Forest Fire
Rattlesnakes
Brand New Friend
Lost Weekend
Cut Me Down
My Bag
Jennifer She Said
From The Hip
Lloyd Cole:
No Blue Skies
Don’t Look Back
Downtown
She’s A Girl And I’m A Man
Weeping Wine
Butterfly
So You’d Like To Save The World
Morning Is Broken (single edit)
Like Lovers Do
Sentimental Fool
Baby
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions:
Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
Bonus DVD
Perfect Skin
Forest Fire
Rattlesnakes
Brand New Friend
Lost Weekend
Cut Me Down
My Bag
Jennifer She Said
From The Hip
No Blue Skies
Don’t Look Back
Downtown
She’s A Girl I’m A Man
Weeping Wine
Butterfly
So You’d Like To Save The World
Morning is Broken
Like Lovers Do
Baby
Sentimental Fool
Mainstream (bonus video)
Fool You Are (bonus video)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/homeentertainment/story/0,12830,1316522,00.html

Not that interesting, actually. Except the vibrato bit.

Lloyd lived in 'The Pennines', if that's how you spell it. Could this be 'Glossop'? It certainly isn't 'Derbyshire', or is it? The plop thickens...

Lloyd wanted to be Isaac Hayes. (I think he's making this up.)

It is funny how you and he still have the same voice, up to a point.

Today I saw the DELUXE RATTLESNAKES. It looked nice, but even with 40% off (Virgin closing down sale) it was still pricey. Besides, I had my doubts. The I went to WHSmiths and read The Jerry Nipper's piece about it, which was all I could have hoped for and more, and it confirmed my doubts. He only gets on to the extra disc in the last paragraph. I think that says it all.

There is quite a lot of Jerry Nipper in that issue, but still nowhere near enough.

It is thundering and lightninging. I predict it will reach London in about 35 minutes.

I am listening to GENE PITNEY.

This will remain a high point in years to come. Oh, I TALKED TO LLOYD.

Cor.

What did he say? What did you say? And what did he say? And what did you say? etc.

Should more be said, here, about the gig, in the bar?

I am quite excited, thinking about it.

Are you trying Glasgow then, pinefox? Or are you just excited on Glasgow's behalf?

I don't know about another event.

I want Cookie to spill all, somewhere. Maybe I should ring him, and get him to do it on the telephone! If he has a telephone.

This thread (http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=5071804) mentions Lloyd being in a pub. I've decided in my head that we may convince him to do an impromptu set, but this is what may be termed "wishful thinking".

Except, Buffalo wasn't on "a fierce pancake", well not the original version. Jeez, if they had to add the track to the album, why bullet 'eager bereavers' which is also brilliant? (Chrysalis records, that is, not the band...) Apart from that, yes.

(Slowest follow on/reply to post ever? 3.5 years?)

I only have one phone, currently. The house phone does not work. I wish I knew why.

More on the gig: The Commotions looked GOOD, one or two not even much older, one or two older in perfect trajectory.

Some Lloyd Banter:
"I'm trying not to talk as much between songs, because I've realised that I sound like Brian Clough".

(after a raucous, fizzing Sean Penn Blues) "If there was any doubt as to whether I was too old for this...........not any more".

My friend Carey said she liked the ambiguity, there. There isn't really any, though, I suppose. We know Lloyd well enough to know what he means.

Some kind of vaguely remembered setlist:

Rattlesnakes
Why I Love Country Music
From The Hip
Charlotte Street
Cut Me Down
Lost Weekend
Speedboat
Sweetness
Brand New Friend
Mr. Malcontent
Mainstream
Perfect Blue
2CV
Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
My Bag
Sean Penn Blues
Perfect Skin
Jennifer She Said
Forest Fire

The order is wrong, but those are the songs, as far as I remember them.

The set and the banter sound magnificent.

Could the trouble with the phone be the blood?

To-day?

But then I read the contents and warmed slightly. And did not buy it.

I kinda went off him when we went to see them at wembley arena, and it was all so 'another day another gig' dull for him, seemingly.

Last night at the Barras - the anticipation in the air, me feeling like a fraud after last week, the awful support artist ("please buy my album..."), the smell of the place once again.

Lloyd to rapturous crowd: "This is weird, isn't it?"
Rapturous crowd: "YES!!"

He looked GOOD, clean shaven and from a greater distance - if he'd dyed his hair, you could almost have been fooled into believing it was 1984 again, if you wanted it to be.

Add to previous set - Four Flights Up and Patience. Cor.

Neil Clark is some kind of demi-god, I suppose. His lines are so articulate, aciculate even, carving their way through sweaty air and hearts and bones and plastic pint glasses.

Lloyd: "I don't know if I speak for the rest of the band, but I'm really old."

I read something about 'Rattlesnakes' being an album of instant nostalgia; I don't know if this was nostalgia or not - it was poignant, certainly. People around their forties rushing down to the front to be close to Lloyd, having grown out and back into that kind of devotion perhaps, or never having lost it but simply having nowhere to place it, to make it relevant; my friend's brother's tale of catching the minibus after school in '85 to see The Commotions play; songs relating to old girlfriends; the final, grand last stand, LC gathering the troops together for, what, not even a bow, just the sense and grace and excitement of being a band again, before walking off. That was moving. A long way down, indeed.

What, Simon Pegg out of Shaun of the Dead?

In other Lllllloyd news: Dave Eggars 'I was a teenage Lloyd Cole fan': http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1353957,00.html

Perhaps because the song is actually based on Renata Adler's novel, ahem, 'Speedboat', Dave?

Must read Cook's reporting back!

And thanks, Doc.