Chameleons : Classic or Dud

I am having a Chameleons day today. "Script of the Bridge" is such a beautiful album. Perfect indoors winter music.

And it has "Second Skin" and "Pleasure and Pain", two of my favourite songs.

I always forget at first that June = winter where you are.

It works well for summer too, fwiw.

I need to get some more Chams, really, I'm totally loving them so much.

Good, good...

Get the Peel Sessions and Radio One sessions for great alternative versions.

Somehow I knew Ned would be in the corner nodding approvingly =)

YOU GUYS I FOUND SCRIPT OF THE BRIDGE ON VINYL IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE EVER BOUGHT

The full twelve song version, I hope.

Yes indeed! (WREK has the eight-song promo copy and I think it must have been played to death because the sound quality is terrible)

the only downside of this version is it doesn't have the spelling errors and subtitled "Up The Down Escalator"

80s vinyl is joy and love.

btw the Bimble freakout upthread is OTM

Conveniently enough, dig this:

With the full consent of the band a 25th Anniversary release of the Chameleons' album 'Script of The Bridge' is being scheduled for release, probably during December of this year, a little early but just in time for Christmas. A deluxe edition will be available comprising the album itself and an additional disc of extras, alongside a standard one -disc release with less extras for those who might not want to splash out the extra few quid for the full package. Both formats feature an updated sleeve by Reg along with re-vamped inserts and the label is currently exploring various options for re-mastering the original tapes. The Deluxe edition will only be available through mail order via a web site that the label is establishing for the purpose. I'll announce the URL as soon as I have it. The standard one-disc version will be distributed through traditional channels

Mark also says his autobiography is about ready to be published.

Well, if there's one album that desperately needs remastering, Script is it. This'll be the 4th copy I'll buy, having bought the 8 track LP, then the 12 track, then the CD (and sold the LPs, maybe you bought my old one?).

Man, I still didn't pull this album out yet. It's very easy to do, though, at least I know where it is unlike a lot of my collection right now (you wouldn't believe all the CD's on my floor).

Congrats on folks with the LP. I'm afraid I graduated to CD long ago, to my own detriment.

Will Mark publish his autobiography in the same year as Mark E. Smith?

In his autumn before the winter...

Haha, just reading way back up the thread Curt1s sez:

"Soul in Isolation" is really fucking entertaining if you imagine Birdy is singing "I'm a lime in here, I'm a liiiiiime, turn on the light."

I know I have said this before, but I keep doing this with "Swamp Thing", by singing "Picking up the pieces/Half alive in a nine 'til five/bacon eyes."

And the minute my brain registers "bacon eyes" I crack up giggling. IT IS TERRIBLE OF ME.

we were just talking about this at work today! our distributor has the strange times CD for $6.99 so all the music department employees own it now but script of the bridge is out of print so my colleague offered to burn it for me. them and the comsat angels are department favorites.

Yeah I'm having a real Chams/Comsats/For Against/Bell Hollow/Cure trip of late. Love those 80s moody bass riffs and sheerysqually guitars.

that's because you're in some kind of magical winterland.

Its pretty sweet right now with the grey and the misty rain and miserable wet cold!

sigh. sitting here in texas in june that sounds like a dream.

"Bacon Eyes", "I'm a Lime" Hahaaha, you guys are too much! And here I was feeling bad that I posted "Diamonds & Pearls" as the lyric upthread when it's "Denims & Curls" isn't it?

I've never heard of Bell Hollow before.

BIMBLE I WILL EMAIL U ABT THEM.

ned, someone, for fuxx sake, do something about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chameleons

seriously, it's horrid.

"The Chameleons' unique sound is quite often compared to U2's The Edge."

what the hell kind of sentence is that?

"The Chameleons released their first full-length studio LP, the critically-acclaimed Script of the Bridge, on the Statik label in 1983. The album features a blend of rhythmic electric guitar textures, all of which provide a moody and intense backdrop for Mark Burgess' haunting vocals. After their third release, Strange Times, in 1987 they abruptly disbanded following the sudden death of band manager Tony Fletcher."

something missing? basically.

the history part is so short and sad. let's go, obsessives! i am no expert, so i can't do it. just a mere fan of 24 or 25 year's standing.

I challenge the person doing the new entry to use the words "way better than shit like U2".

Whoa, I missed this. Um, will look into it.

Anyway -- I recommend the A Long Way From Home album by Black Swan Lane to all Chams fans. It's a new project that Mark is involved in, as one of the two lead vocalists. More of a Sound style album than the Chams, and not quite as aggro as either, but it sounds quite lovely anyway:

http://www.myspace.com/blackswanlane

Manchester UK / Atlanta, Georgia, United States

whoa

finally got into these guys with "strange times", recently! sure had been missing out. . .

Yes you had!

Misfortune 500 just surprised the shit out of me at my radio station's concert by playing "Paper Tigers" AND "Don't Fall"! (And I surprised the singer by singing along)

HALF ALIVE IN A NINE TO FIVE VACANT EYES

blaring Chameleons from my stereo now. I really believe everyone should blare Chamelons from their stereo.

Swamp Thing in my ears.

I'm going to play this album over and over until I get tired of it.

STOP STARING AT THE GROUND

Not too many hours from this hour

Primal scream and the TV screen

"we were younger then and the days were long and slow
but were wiser then, I couldn't say I wouldn't know"

I wasn't worried at all
I had someone to run to

I'm going to play this album over and over until I get tired of it.

impossible

True.

I must thank Curtis for that mention of Misfortune 500 -- I'd had that around as a promo mailing and had ignored it because the sticker was all 'if you like Interpol and the Editors...' leading me to go OTHER REFERENCE POINTS DAMMIT. But seeing as they obviously know their Chameleons I am suddenly intrigued.

did the Script Of THe Bridge reissue ever come out?

yes, it's basically out now.

THIS IS NOT MY HOME

drifting ghosts of glass

RANDOM QUOTED LYRIC OUT OF CONTEXT

Strange Times on repeat again.

This is the same thing I did the other night.

Strange Times on repeat again.

I'd like to see this giant fall

struck by lightning
die with the bullet in my head
right in the brain
right in the brain
right in the brain

I'm alive
Turn on the lights

the storm has come or is it another shower?

are you drunk?