Slapp Happy/ Anthony Moore (RFI, S&D, etc.)

Oh, how nice! Someone has one of the best World Service tracks up on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tQHxnMCzzA0

Fuzzed out remake of Lucia from Flying Doesn't Help. This may be one of may favorite things that any of the Slapp Happys ever did...

Posting for myself and the like 1 other person who'll care, but just got ahold of the lp version of Anthony More's World Service, and it is indeed very different from the CD. Includes one very good song that isn't on the CD, and a couple that are *very* different versions, usually better than the CD. At the moment, this would be my pick for his best solo album.

LP Tracklist is: Side 1: Run Right Back/Pieces of the Puzzle/World Service/Fat Fly [not on the CD. It's pretty good...kinda Robyn Hitchcock doing vocals on a Bowie Lodger track.].

Side 2: Broke'n Idle [very different, probably better than CD version. Kinda post-punk meets Talking Heads]/Outta Angels [very different, spikier than CD version, probably better]/The Argument [more skeletal than the CD version, but generally similar]/Nowhere to Run.

Heresy, I know, but Ça Va is by far my favourite Slapp Happy album. DK's voice has lost that screechy quality and sounds wonderfully rich and strange. The songwriting seems less self-consciously witty/wacky and is all the better for it. "Scarred for Life" is on every mix CD I've ever made.

It shouldn't be heresy -- Ça Va is an incredible album

you heard the live in tokyo version of 'Scarred for Life'?

no! where can I find it?

this is the official single disc release: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Japan-2000-Slapp-Happy/dp/B002MT3DEM/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1308161023&sr=8-3-fkmr0

which contains slightly different performances than this bootleg

single disc probably more listenable all the way through but I remember the bootleg has magic if you're patient

the crickets on the live version of 'Scarred for Life' really work

the best

Don't ask me why I've waited this long to REALLy spend time with Ca Va, the Slapp Happy reunion album from the late 90s. But man, it's totally GREAT.

i like the world service album a lot and i had it in my store for cheap forever and nobody would buy it so i finally just took it home so that it could get some love. maybe if i had written SLAPP HAPPY! in big letters on the front of the plastic sleeve or something? i dunno. damn heathens around here.

You should have written "Pink Floyd" on it. Anyway, great album in both its incarnations...

what do we think of this metal cover?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzVxmlyqpY

kew. rhone. the book

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/slapp-happy-faust-two-day-residency/

wait, which faust?

Cool news, would go if I lived close

Ha, "which Faust" was my first question when I saw this but it doesn't really matter. I am definitely going.

That has to be the highest ticket price I've ever seen at Cafe Oto.

It's probably the Peron/Diermaier version, they seem more active than the Irmler version and have played with various RIO types in recent years.

At 22:12 in this mix is a sick Japanese pop version of "The Drum": https://soundcloud.com/prtls/artist-mix-kero-kero-bonito

I almost fell out of my chair when I realized what it was!

I've run a cursory search to find the artist, etc., but no dice... Any help??

Whoops, guess I should clicked the link beneath the mix. Apparently it is "Love and Hates ft. The Pegasuss". Here's the album!: https://whitelilyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/l-a-h

I'm sort of convinced that "The Drum" is secretly the best song ever written, as all three versions of it (that I've heard) are amazingly great.

(Make that 4 versions -- forgot about "Casablanca Moon")

The Drum was my introduction. Adult Crash in NYC, I asked about it because of the Faust connection. They put on The Drum and I bought it. Never looked back.

Here's another great cover:

https://nonightsweats.bandcamp.com/track/whos-gonna-help-me-now

There’s something almost mystical to me about “The Drum”; like it’s the last song played around a campfire at the end of the world. I can’t really explain it...

"wardrobes flap in tatters/you and i grow old"
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:26 PM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the re-recorded casablanca moon is literally the first LP i ever bought

i owned acnalbasac noom also for a while a lot later but never liked it as much (perhaps just thru over-familiarity)

I didn't like it as much either fwiw.

Also, what a bizarre career Anthony Moore has had.

Really like that Love and Hates version, thanks morrisp!

Sure! Yeah, I'm like obsessed with it... that beat!

The Bandcamp page seems to be dormant (for other than streaming), but I found the track/album can be purchased on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006H2VHA2/

I have a theory that Charlie and Charlie is the plot of me, myself and Irene. Lots of similar references

World as it is today has the best screaming ever

Acnalbasac preference may also come down to which one you heard first

I think it must, because I cannot imagine anyone preferring the overbaked orchestral version

lyrics changes are a big dud there as well, not as good

What lyric changes?

major changes to Me & Paravati, at the least, pretty sure there are others but I'm not gonna listen to the vastly inferior version to find out

There's also some Zappa esque added backing vocals on one song that cheapens the material. With sleeve here

But in most other regards it's miles better.

Also the lyrics to "Me and Parvati" are better on "Casablanca Moon"!

fuck em up buff jeckley

xp OK now I'm convinced that these two albums exemplify the "liked the one you heard first" effect because Tom D is objectively wrong here ;)

Definitely seems dependent on which version of the album you heard first, for instance, I can't imagine why anyone would prefer the out of tune version of "The Drum" on AM to the one on CM.

Though "Dawn" and "Half Way There" are better on AM and "Charlie and Charlie" is better than "Haiku".

Definitely with you that drum is better on CM. Generally I prefer AM but some arrangements on CM do work better for me

I think I generally prefer Krause's vocal performances on "CM", and the arrangements in most (tho not all) cases.

I will also add that the chorus of "A Little Something" has intermittently popped in and out of my head for decades. (I prefer the "AN" take of that one, btw.)

(...although the outro of the "CM" version is very, very nice. Just listened to it.)

AM ALL THE WAY

I like the idea of ANvsCM preference being used as some sort of baroque but highly consequential litmus test -- like the final, decisive question on a job interview.

"which version do you see yourself listening to in five years time?"

A YouTube upload of their song "Therapy?" -- which seems to be a b-side from "The Drum" single -- was apparently posted by someone in Japan; so maybe they had a minor following there, which could explain the Love And Hates connection.

I find it so cool that -- in addition to "The Drum" being one of the best songs ever -- it's a song by a UK-German group that was covered by an NYC duo, which cover was in turn covered by a UK duo, and that cover was covered by a Japanese duo...

Also, what a bizarre career Anthony Moore has had.

For instance there's a couple of dozen soundtracks for experimental film directors like David Larcher, Werner Nekes and Dore O. to stand alongside his work with, er, Paul Young. None of his soundtrack work has ever been released apart from his the one for Dieter Meier's 1981 film "Jetzt und alles" - anyone ever seen this movie?

https://img.discogs.com/PXQpV1_T236YcNYaTUqur5m5IIc=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-766311-1359250094-2269.jpeg.jpg

The band Medicine's new album is a cover album called "Scarred for Life" - the Slapp Happy song...didn't expect that. (They also cover Zappa, Scritti Politti, Miles Davis...)

The band Medicine's new album is a cover album called "Scarred for Life" - the Slapp Happy song...didn't expect that. (They also cover Zappa, Scritti Politti, Miles Davis...)

― ernestp

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