― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 January 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
You're welcome! I'll post the Starfish one here too...
From the Kilbey post entitled "sel-fish"
it was nearly twenny yeers agothe cherch made that record in l.a.that one with that songthat song about the whatsisnamethe song that got used in that tv showyeah ya know the one i mean1987out of nowhereafter being dropped by warmer brothersand capitol punishmentwe were signed up by a-wrister records n tapeswho insisted that we come to l.a.so they could keep an eye on usthey say why dontcha work with waddsy wok-telland grog lady-aniwe thoughtokwhy not?that sounds ridiculousso we turn up in laand we get put in the oakwood apts on sepulveda, west laploog n i in one aptmwp n pk in anotherswimming poolbarbequeunderground carparklocked gatesthe whole dealfirst time i heard rap musici lying in bed the 1st morningi hear this 'orrible 'orrible loud noise coming up the streeti thought it was the end of the worlda car pumping out rap at a mighty volumea revoltin' way to wake upwe go down the studio to meet our pro-ducersgrog is a rude talentless macho buffoonhe owns the complexthe studio we're recording inhe thinks we're small fishand he dont bother hiding his contempthes "worked" on jackson brownedand dong hen-leeso boy hes a big-headed turkeywaddsy is a lot nicer n friendlierthey both snorting cokey-dokey like fiends, fiendssall the timeit dont seem to affect ww too muchhes pretty affablehe can see we aint too badgrog on the other hand is a messwhen hes just hadda snorthes clammy n enthusiastic ...for about 5 minuteshe wants to listen to everything at top volumethru these huge speakersi cant even bear to be in control roomits louder than a gig!so anyway we go to this soundstagein santa monicawhere we rehearse all the life outta the songsfor 4 tedious weeksthey start wearing down ploogys confidence immediatelythey try to start picking on me bout my voicebut im untouchable in my self-confidencebut they hurt pks n ploogs feelings all the timegrog especially treats us like second rate time-wasters"look at this" he screams out to ww one day"that fucking blah blah got a gig doing springsteen..""and youre stuck here with these useless australian nobodies"i said....grog looked at me searchingly and he cracked an ugly smirk"thats right.....thats fucking right...!"grog n waddsy didnae think much of u.t.m.w. neitherit was a kind of addendum to the rest of the albumi did most of it on my own in a little programming studioploogy didnt play on itthey didnt wanna waste their time putting real drums on itwaddsy even tried to dissuade me from putting it second on the record"you want em to hear some good ones before they get to that one!" he said...meanwhile we all had our own carsand were getting into our own adventuresparticularly ploogy who brought a constant streamof hippies, druggies, ratbags n rastas round our apt.we ate mexican food a lotand roamed venice beachgrog sent me n pk for singing lessons in hollywoodwe hadda crazy singing teachera guy whod played hercules n sampson in some b-grade flickshe talked about sex non stop between singing instructionshey steve do the girls in australia like to give head?he would ask every week between la la la la lashey steve i had a girl in here last weekshe said " im the queen of head jobs"i said get down on yer knees and win the titleetc etc etcin the middle of a c scalehe'd interrupt to tell meof his latest conquestand then straight back to the lesson as if nothin' had happenedi didnt learn nothin'but grog insisted the lessons were helping my hopeless voicehe hated pks voice even worse than mineand made him feel real bad about itone day waddsy stumbled on a huge cache of very very cheap cocainethe boys bought a small mountain of it and started sniffin'i had one line of that stuff n i felt sick for 3 daysgrog made a pig of himself with it the first dayand stayed home for a (blessed) weekwhen he finally reappeared his skin was greyand he lay on the couch softly moanin'but not saying muchgee i didnt have a lotta sympathy for the olde wankerwaddsy on the other hand just piled in harderhe seemed fucking indestructiblewith his diet of coke, winston ciggies, hamburgers, n sodapophe was always alert n on the ball3 months we were therespending so much money that we'd never recoup(we still probably havent)day in day out of insults n abuse from these 2 driving round la scoring pot n getting into troubleploogy screaming out at the merry barbequers at our apts"i dont dig your fucking altar!"arista pouring money into the recordhey its sold almost a million in u.s. alonebut we'll never see any moneycos it cost so much to makedays n days wasted buggering aboutmoving all over l.a. to other money eating studiosour stupid manager dont carehes already commissioned the huge recording advancenow he dont care or know ...if you listen to the recordits actually flat lifeless n sterilegreat songs, surebut the performance, the sounds are ordinarywe coulda got that in australia in a week or 2for a 20th of the money we spentbut what did we knowthese were the ex-spurtsbig shot american hard-assed turkeysthey knew best!anywaythe rest is historyutmw accidentally became a hitand everyone said "whatta great record!"is it really?it aint a patch on heyday or priestit was successful despite of grog n waddsynot because of....so there ya godont expect me to be all excited about sel-fishit was purgatory having to cope with grogwaddsy i gotta bit of a soft spot forhe does know a bit about music i guessnot the kinda music i like, mind ya..you dont hear much about grog these daysi mean i dont think his "producing" career went much furtherhe turned up at a gig after utmw wassa bit of a hittrying half-heartedly to ameliorate it with mebut i just fucking smiled at him likeare you fucking serious... i fucking hate ya!waddsy we worked with againthat was gafha halets all sing it now"i shoulda known better!"anywaytheres the short sordid history about our big onetoo much money...tho none for ustoo much cocainetoo much argy-bargyjust too muchcan ya believe it was almost 20 years ago?seems like only last century...more tails tomorrow!sk
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
There's not too many albums where I can immediately recall the time/place/emotional memories of my first listen. I picked up P=A the day it was released in March 1992 even though my CD player was dead-in-the-water. It's a long album and didn't fit on one side of a 90min tape (I did a lot of listening in the car) and my usual sloth and final-year-of-college ennui prevented me from buying a proper length tape and getting a new CD player until April. The upshot was that even though I had the album for over a month, I didn't listen to it completely until April 29, 1992... The day of the LA Riots.
My city is burning to the ground, here why don't I finally listen to the new Church album to take my mind off of things. OOPS! BIG MISTAKE!
These lines in "Chaos" I thought were especially prescient:
"Bang the gavel, it's lawlessnessI can't unravel the knotHalf this wretched town is starvingWhile the other half are bloatedEverybody hates the bastards in power"
Back to travellin'
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 27 January 2007 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 27 January 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link
evidently
― jimbo (electricsound), Saturday, 27 January 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimbo (electricsound), Saturday, 27 January 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"His gold won't buy him sleep His poverty runs so deep In winter he cracks, in summer he warps"
― Bimble, Saturday, 2 February 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ADRENALIN IS NOT MY MISTRESS
― Shoegazey Goth Metal Phone (Bimble), Monday, 12 January 2009 06:25 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWGFYFGjVaM
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:44 (nine years ago) link
^^^ A+++
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I just busted this album out yesterday! One of my last acquisitions from episodes of 120 Minutes that I had on tape 20 years ago and never quite got around to buying.
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
Released 23 years ago today!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
The cool thing on this set of material by the Church is that they really lay back on the tempos and drive giving the music alot of space. It's harder to play slow and keep the music interesting and moving, even the old jazz guys will tell you that. That space allows the music to breathe and gives it dynamics, perhaps best illustrated on the title track. I love Koppes solo with the big delay on that tune.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
New album is wonderful. Hearkens back to their early '80s run with lots of beautiful gothy synths in the background. Really great.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 October 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
Had to miss the tour stop here, sadly, but definitely need to catch up to the album.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
I picked up P = A from the Salvation Army a few weeks ago and have been pleasantly surprised. I mean, I knew it was a fan favourite but it was where I fell off the wagon as a yoof. (Along with Wish, from the same year, the drowsy jams with long running times I heard via radio were pleasant enough but not something I felt any need to invest in.)
But yeah, it's quite good. Though I would have dropped the opening/title track to get the total running time under an hour. It doesn't do much musically, thereby drawing too much attention to some rather dopey lyrics IMHO.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 8 June 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link