― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 6 May 2006 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link
i didn't know that! which song?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 May 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 6 May 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3HKOBIG0G3F730PEGFLPRY3C8H
― Sassy Frankenchrist (Bimble...), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Too damn drunk, etc.
― Durutti Buttocks (Bimble...), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link
"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".
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 May 2006 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― MY NAME IS FREEZER BURN (Bimble...), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Phil Knight (PhilK), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 10 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody else get a weird feeling hearing Vini's music in the film Jerry Maguire?...
― henry s, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
not really. i hope they paid through the nose to use it though
― electricsound, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't heard that much DC, but if all those tracks on Best Of are better than "Future Perfect" well good christ.
― lukas, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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)...
― henry s, Thursday, 17 January 2008 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Sunday, 2 March 2008 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― svend, Sunday, 2 March 2008 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
disappointed by LC? does not compute
― electricsound, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Song they sampled was "Jaqueline", I mean.
xpost
― Bimble, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm not understanding why I was disappointed in it yet, either. Maybe it will become clear later.
― Bimble, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Telephone thing, Friday, 7 March 2008 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 March 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, if they stripped the vocal off those tracks, they'd be fine as actual DCol tracks anyway: Thin Ice (detail) particularly.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 March 2008 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Bimble, Saturday, 8 March 2008 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-8lrlZx0g
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i've got a copy of the Durutti Column live in tokyo (Domo Arigato) on dvd. it's fantastic. actually beats newOrder's 85 japanese dvd by a long shot.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 March 2008 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I shall have to seek that out. I believe I might know where to get one of those, actually.
In the meantime I can't believe I neglected to post this one the other night, one of my major top 5 or 6 Durutti tracks here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhzG_3d7aM
― Bimble, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck me, that takes me back. That was my first exposure to Durutti, seeing that on "The Tube" in early '85. Thank you!
― Rob M v2, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 08:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay I've got the Domo Arigato on DVD now and I must say I'm not all that thrilled with it. The main problem is the trumpet and sometimes the violin are too far up in the mix. I want to hear more of Vini's keyboards & guitar. Some songs it works out okay on, though...
I mean I never had any problem with these instruments on the "Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say" EP, but there's a proper place for them in the mix and this isn't it.
"Belgian Friends" on keyboards is sweet, though. Yikes.
And the weird thing is that just before "The Missing Boy" started, I heard that riff in my head and prayed it would be the next song and it was. Sigh. I mean we've all affirmed that Vini is a genius, right? Have we established this yet?
Goose pimples on my flesh when he starts in with the "same old order" bit. What is the deal with his fingernails? Is he playing with this fingernails? The brilliance is blinding. I've definitely never heard a better version of "The Missing Boy". And yes I know it was written for Ian Curtis, you wankers.
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
And yes I know it was written for Ian Curtis, you wankers.
He was in Joy Division.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Sunday, 23 March 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Truth be told, I'm totally insane over "Self-Portrait" now. There is this part in that song when the guitar note/key changes entirely from anything you might expect and it kills me. Let alone the Martin Hannett's production. I decided I had to have this on vinyl. Cost me a fortune but I can't live until I have that on vinyl and can hear it on headphones. I will get to have "Belgian Friends" on vinyl too! What a thrill!
Still there are more great tracks..."Danny", "One Christmas For Your Thoughts"...
Haha! xpost
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought you meant to say Vini Reilly was in Joy Division, Rocket Scientist! Hah.
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
No, I just thought that since you kept us from telling you it was about Ian Curtis, I would tell you something else you already know.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Sunday, 23 March 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Heheh! Hey it's all good!
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
the DC song that Tony Wilson's ex-wife sings
which song is this?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 9 June 2008 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i get along without you very well
it has now been reissued! (on the LTM 'circuses and bread')
― electricsound, Monday, 9 June 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone heard the new album yet? Any thoughts?
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
geez... it only seems like a few months since the last one..
looking forward to it though...
― Jack Battery-Pack, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Can I just say, and I'm sorry if I said it before...
"Silence" is one of my favourite songs by anyone ever since the beginning of time. "You Don't Say What You Mean/You Don't Mean What You Say". Top 5 fucking songs ever for me, I think.
That song kept me sane as a young teenager when I was in hospital. It's likely to bring tears to my eyes. One day soon I'll get the gumption to post the sleeve to my blog.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't believe 'black horses' hasn't been mentioned in this thread. So gorgeous.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 25 December 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
walked through shin deep snow all over Cap. Hill and Volunteer Park listening to Durutti Column yesterday. perfect! tony wilson was right, Durutti Column are due a reassessment. Vini Reilly is at the very top of my list of musicians to see in concert before they die.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 December 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that would really be something to see him, wouldn't it? I've thought the same thing before, but I just don't think he ever comes over to the U.S.
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 25 December 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Of course one can travel but I'm not currently in a position to do that, so...
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 25 December 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to his mid-'90s album Sex and Death the other day, what a gorgeous overlooked gem of a record that is!
― ilxor, Friday, 26 December 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
kooky are remastering/reissuing the first four albums as a box set - good chance to get without mercy easily on disc for the first time in a good while
― lolsdale street (electricsound), Thursday, 14 May 2009 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.kookydisc.co.uk/2009_02_01_archive.html#3761157670806880963