― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
Album of the year, anyway.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
Yup, on XFM.co.uk ("under Multimedia").
Truth, I started saying, "Oh God, more BS from B&S", but this new album is almost....happy-sounding.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
so, have B&S blanded out their sound to appeal to cockfarmers who don't like B&S? time will tell.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:54 (twenty years ago) link
And the weird thing about Dom's post is this comment from the band:
"The biggest studio creation and, ironically, one which Trevor was hardly involved in. This was the only song which wasn't fully written before we went into the studio. This was intentional, as we wanted a song Trevor could sing his teeth into. But Trevor didn't actually like the song. He did try a few things, but in the end, it was the band that saw it through. Tony Doogan mixed the song."
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:40 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
I don't think it's "blanded out" at all; except for those who think that any change is 'blanded' or 'sold-out' or whatever. That said, there is something very different about it (the singing maybe?) that makes me want to give up cockfarming altogether.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 9 October 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 10 October 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 10 October 2003 01:10 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Friday, 10 October 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link
Roy Walker is the most disappointing song on the album for me. But give the album a few more listens, Chris, for I certainly found the songs in the middle (I'm A Cuckoo, You Don't Send Me and Wrapped Up in Books) grew on me after I'd repeated them a few times. I think it's prolly better than Fold Your Hands overall...I mean there were a couple of songs on FYH which were complete dross - Family Tree and Beyond the Sunrise.
― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:45 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
I think you are wrong here. Stuart has the lead vocal on all the songs except Asleep on a Sunbeam and Roy Walker, as far as I can tell.
This is an extraordinary album, btw. I love it so much.
― jasiska, Friday, 10 October 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
Damn right! This track is a winner! (among some pretty stiff spots elsewhere on the LP)
Does this song bear more than a slight resemblance to "The Boys Are Back In Town" or am I just being swayed by the line about going to Tokyo to listen to "Thin Lizzy-o"?
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
That is either a compliment or officially the most Geezaesthetic comment ever made about a pop record.
(I haven't heard it.)
― the pinefox, Saturday, 11 October 2003 12:29 (twenty years ago) link
it is 'The Boys Are Back In Town' altered enough to avoid legal hassles.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 11 October 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 13 October 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
Gave it a couple more goes over the weekend, still saddened, and people are BOTM re: on broadway and Out in the country.
My favourite (for what it's worth) = the baseball-based acoustic number (don't have a track listing)
least favourite - either asleep on a sunbeam or stay loose
― chris (chris), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
I'm not going so far as buying IC's album though, I've made that mistake before.
― chris (chris), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:51 (twenty years ago) link
i) it does not really sound like it's by B&S; there are many bands in the world who don't sound like B&S so I don't really see the point of B&S becoming one of them.
ii) my suspicion is that the best thing about the record is the production - i.e. the songwriting is not very good. My opinion on this may change. This does not stop me enjoying the record.
I've not really made up my mind on this album.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 13 October 2003 10:40 (twenty years ago) link
I think I quite like it.
― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 13 October 2003 11:18 (twenty years ago) link
also on dear catastrophe waitress (the song) struan sings "town" and "clown" just like nico on femme fatale.
i think i like the album, but it does tail off a bit, esp if you find yourself caught in love which has horrendously trite lyrics.
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
I don't know whether the b&s practice of writing songs which are performed on Peel sessions or live but don't come out on records (or at least, don't for years and years) is something that a lot of bands do, but I don't get to hear about it coz I'm not into them as much, or whether b&s really do this more than anyone else. It is frustrating tho....I mean, I can understand why they delayed the release of Tigermilking on CD until '99 as the mystique surrounding the limited vinyl pressing did the band a lot of favours and stringing us along for so long contributed to b&s's success, but there is a bafflingly long list of unreleased songs. Ppl go on about Rhoda, presumably as it's the oldest, but what about Paper Boat, Magic of a Kind Word, Miraculous Technique? These 3 songs are better than most of the songs on DCW, IMHO.
The danger of doing this is that the live recording which we have heard becomes the standard in our minds and if the eventual release lacks something which we thought made the live versh great, then disappointment is the inevitable result. For example, I much prefer the versh of Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner performed on The Tube to the sparser recorded versh which eventually appeared.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
With regards to live gigs, some of the live sets I've heard are *very* good, far better than the album versions in some cases, plus there's the usually interesting cover versions. Paris from last year is especially good (I recorded it myself but thesound quality in that place was fantastic, and the songs were all good)
― chris (chris), Monday, 13 October 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link
'Magic Of A Kind Word' - rubbishy and probably written by departed Campbell
'Miraculous Technique' - pretty good. Maybe it will come out eventually, like 'Lord Anthony' and 'The Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner' did.
'Pocketbook Angel' - good but I guess Murdoch sees it as part of his juvenilia now. Especially as it contains that 'ooh arr - it's full of silicon chips', which doesn't really sit well with his new iPod and DVD kitted technodad image. 'Hurley's Having Dreams' is better anyway.
'Shoot The Sexual Athlete' is the best of all.
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 13 October 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 13 October 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 13 October 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
Mark E H *wishes* he remembers.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 10:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link