LILYS - Classic / Dud + Search / Destroy

also what was his response when you asked him about it?

Ah well, it was in a very noisy club, I was DJ'ing/trying to concentrate and I was kinda drunk and he's so frigging tall and I was a bit overwhelmed really, so I can't really remember.

Okay, I have located my 4 CD copies of Lilys' Better Can't Make Your Life Better:
1) US edition #1 on Primary/Elektra (tracks #10-11 = The Sammael Sea/Returns Every Morning)
2) JP edition #1 on east/west Japan with bonus: Welfare Murder Plot/Baby's A Dealer (aka Who Studies The Past? subpop single of the month)
3) UK edition #2 on Che (remixed with strings, bassoon, bass harmonica, etc.), tracks #10-12 = Touch The Water*/Returns Every Morning/More Than That Is Deserved
*Apples In Stereo cover
4) JP edition #2 again on east/west Japan with bonus tracks which look like it is the Services For The Soon To Be Departed EP tacked on.

2) JP edition #1 on east/west Japan with bonus: Welfare Murder Plot/Baby's A Dealer (aka Who Studies The Past? subpop single of the month)

welp there's one for the wishlist

cover arts:
1-2 have the pink/blue hand diamonds on peachy/yellow background
3-4 have the red/yellow hands on ocean blue back ground

Would love to hear those tracks on the first two.

y'all want #2 then? I can U/L the full CD and then just the last 2 songs.

pls pls

yes would like to hear those! had no idea this record was so complicated.

me too, thanks!

*uploading now*

:D
i spent a good part of last night trying to find video of the time i saw these dudes play at no life records in 96 or 97? no luck, though i could swear that someone was filming.

JP edition #1 on east/west Japan with bonus: Welfare Murder Plot/Baby's A Dealer (aka Who Studies The Past? subpop single of the month)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/odb00f90qag4nd9/Better%20Can%27t%20Make%20Your%20Life%20Better.zip

If you just want Which Studies The Past?
http://www.mediafire.com/file/bslxwe8b8rpg29t/Which%20Studies%20The%20Past.zip

I think in 97 his backing band was The Beachwood Sparks en totale so that would make sense. Aaron from KXLU/Aron's/NoLife was his drummer for a while there.

oh yeah --- i think that was before i knew who beachwood sparks were...

Listening to this for the first time in a long time "Who Is Moving?" is really ace.

love this band

steve, can you put the uk version up too? thanks for this!

at your request.

*U/Ling now*

fuck i love the way 'welfare...' is mixed

Wow, never thought I'd hear a CD sourced Which Studies The Past. Very cool, thank you!

1998 remixed/alternate BCMYLB:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/su2e7jb8ly546ah/1998%20-%20Better%20Can%27t%20Make%20Your%20Life%20Better.zip

So I guess the way Kurt wanted them labeled is 1996 version vs. 1998 version.

A-B "Returns Every Morning" just the drums... pretty nuts.

what i can pick up: oboe, bass sax, bass harmonica, cello (quartet?), drums to the FRONT, tambourine, a little more crunch out of the rhythm guitar.

"welfare"'s opening organ/bass riff sounds like an homage to "it's so hard to fall in love" eh?

"Paz En El Hogar" sounds radically different as well... the 98 version cut by a minute or so.

So, are there any weird-ass japanese versions of Precollection/The Lilys?

Doubtful, seems like only major label stuff or certifiable indie hits got Japanese bonus track treatment.

thx steve, you da man

Yep, thank you Steve!

Awesome. I wish there was more rarities from their early to mid nineties days, too.

There was a whole instrumental demos bootleg called "Send In The Subs" that was post-Eccsame I want to say?

thx shasta!

Is that bootleg in the same vein as Eccsame?

I think it was bridging from Eccsame to A Brief History... I had it once (digitally) and now can't find it at all... it's on ebay japan though funnily enough.

err it was on ebay japan, last year.

It has to be on the filesharing networks, it's 14 tracks over 62min, "released" around 1998 iirc?

Never heard this Welfare/Baby single before, awesome!

1994:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGBX75Z3Ubo

1996:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjY271yvCw

1998:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y4CTUcfBEk

Thanks so much for these!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3tHAGrhmls&feature=related

^^I can't ask for much more than an acoustic version of Claire Hates Me ^^

i dug it, but would have liked him to sing out more

I know styles have changed but there is something so refreshing about seeing such average looking joes playing shoegaze in that 1994 show. I grew up in a rural suburban town so I relate to guys that look like they could be in any old cover band on the outside, but are into messy music like stuff identified as lo-fi or american brand shoegaze.

Yeah he sounds a bit shy, I agree.

Shoegaze is my favorite genre to strip down in that way, since the melody is already so buried normally, but the progressions tend to be really wistful and bittersweet so it just sounds gorgeous.

So just saw the full band Lilys set at Chickfactor last night.

Very magical for me. Set list:

Claire Hates Me
Ginger
Any Place I've Lived
Dandy
Can't Make Your Life Better
Baby's a Dealer
Black Carpet Magic
High Writer At Home
February Fourteenth

Oh jeez, High Writer, I love that song

Yeah, it was an interesting choice! But I love it as well. I'd have melted if they played Radioitricity but I can't complain.

I would have too!