Durutti Column: classic or dud

-- Bimble (grippledybu...), September 8th, 2004.

This includes Sleep Will Come! Which was (you're right) from that Brussels comp. Life is a beautiful thing. Are you going to make me pull those bonus tracks out HMMM?

Well why not, any excuse, really.

My friend is doing a DJ night in New York at this very moment, he does a night that is totally Manchester music. It's named Resurrection after the Stone Roses tune. He is spinning records right at this very moment. It's hard to believe.

I could talk for thousands and thousands of years about bands from Manchester exclusively, it is ridiculous. If that isn't the center of the musical universe I don't know what is.

http://earfarm.blogspot.com/2006/04/weekend-live-music_15.html

was this ever on cd? if it's gone by the time you get there, um, never mind.

The standout bonus track on Return of... is "Madeline" and y'all know it.

at any rate, i'll be leaving it up there for a good amount of time. enjoy.

There's nae colin here son!

CS: UK 1978 (Factory) [handmade promo]
2x7": UK 12/78 (Factory FAC 2) [silver gatefold sleeve, with stickers]
12": GR? 198? [silver sleeve; bootleg]

[disc/side one]
4:57 No Communication
3:16 Thin Ice (detail)

- "Produced by Martin Hannet [sic] and Laurie Latham
Exclusion
Vinny Reilly - lead guitar
Colin Sharp - lead vocal
Stephen Hopkins - keyboards
Phil Rainford - vocals July 1978
Tony Bowers - bass and vocals Oct. 1978
Dave Rowbotham - guitar and vocals Oct. 1978
Chris Joyce - drums Oct. 1978"
[several of whom later formed the band Simply Red]

- edition of 5000
- Released December 24, 1978, though not in the shops until January 1979.
- NB: the sound is that of a punk group, unlike subsequent releases.

~ Everything
~ IS REPAIRABLE
~ EVERYTHING
~ IS BROKEN

xpost fair enough. There was a picture in one of the music mags recently.

xpost haha

i didn't know that! which song?

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?
id=3HKOBIG0G3F730PEGFLPRY3C8H

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3HKOBIG0G3F730PEGFLPRY3C8H

Too damn drunk, etc.

"No Communication" is very a snapshot of the times. Very sub-Magazine. Mind you, Joy Div didn't arf crib the lyrics off for "Transmission".

So the LTM Durutti reissues are out -- four total: an expanded Lips That Would Kiss, Circuses and Bread and Fidelity, plus a 1981 live album from Brussels taken from a soundboard. The latter was the most interesting to me by default since I hadn't heard it before -- nice performance, one of the first times Bruce Russell had been part of the band and it's interesting hearing how he's testing the limits of the songs at points, more fills and other things, while Vini's singing is flatter and rougher given the mix. The interview at the end is a nice bonus as well -- plenty of complaints about the PA!

anybody else get a weird feeling hearing Vini's music in the film Jerry Maguire?...

not really. i hope they paid through the nose to use it though

I haven't heard that much DC, but if all those tracks on Best Of are better than "Future Perfect" well good christ.

why has allmusic.com failed to review the otherwise wonderful Time Was Gigantic...When We Were Kids LP?...

(it's true, what he said about time)...

It occurs me to me how much I wish there was a full length DVD of Durutti available. I don't think there's ever been one, has there? All I've got is a the Factory VHS "A Factory Outing" that has "The Beggar" on it, and the Umbrellas Under the Sun comp.

I found some clips on You Tube and MySpaceTV but unfortunately I'm having problems with my internet and sound right now so I can't vouch for specific clips too well.

The Japanese live album, Domo Arigato, came out on vhs years and years ago, there must be a conversion of it floating around. I also have seen a few files on torrent sites before, Fado Music Festival 1991 is one of them.

Durutti mania up in here. I'm listening to LC and actually enjoying it quite a bit, which is weird. I was always kinda disappointed in this album.
I remember a local television station that sampled a bit of this for their in between breaks. Brilliant.

disappointed by LC? does not compute

Song they sampled was "Jaqueline", I mean.

xpost

Yeah I'm not understanding why I was disappointed in it yet, either. Maybe it will become clear later.

Has anyone heard the Thieves Like Us song on the Kitsune Maison 4 comp? It's made more or less entirely from a sample of "Sketch for Summer" (I think, anyway; it's definitely something off the first album) and I'm not really sure what I think of it yet.

Colin Sharpe wrote the book "Who killed Martin Hannett?" and is described as 'his best friend' on the cover. (tbf, that may not have been his idea to call himself that)

It seems he was drafted in at the last minute to replace the previously sacked singer, so may not be the guy in the early DC pics. His task was also to write lyrics for the two pieces so far written, "No Communication" and "Thin Ice" (of which Alan Erasmus added a few bits too). After the further split (Mothmen that way, Colin and Vini this way), they did a few gigs together but basically packed it. About a year after the Factory sample, if I recall right, Vini and Martin did the album.

Actually, if they stripped the vocal off those tracks, they'd be fine as actual DCol tracks anyway: Thin Ice (detail) particularly.

That was a fine post, Mark! I had forgotten about the Mothmen connection. I shall have to play those two DC tracks now, I love them so much. I don't mind his vocals, either.

I had great fun last night with the Hannnett produced bonus tracks on the "LC" CD. I've long thought "Belgian Friends" was an especially exceptional song (like top 5 Vini for me), but I took a closer listen to the likes of "For Mimi" & "Self-Portrait" and wow, blew my hair back. I started seriously wondering if Mr. Hannett might have contributed to the bass lines on the latter. They seemed so much in his style of playing. Still the liner notes say Vini wrote these songs entirely, so who knows?