CLASSIC OR DUDLEY : POP WILL EAT ITSELF

No, that was album #2. First album was:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008O32D.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

..tho' it was originally blue'n'yellow, not red.

grrrrrrr to chronological whatsits ..

was wondering what that red cover release was .. i saw it the other day .. may have to go get it this week now ..

Greatest album has to be 'Cure For Sanity' imo, i cannot get tired of this.

xpost : " ..Cure for Sanity".. .. far too clean sounding for me (though i may be way off here as i haven't heard it in ages which seeing as i do like Looks or Lifestyle album makes sense ..

oh shit. wrong band. just.

I didn't mind a bit of the pWEI back in the day, good live band for hormonal teens to mosh up a sweat to, if I can use that phrase. We had a beer with the band just before one of their gigs in a Wolverhampton pub once, Clint was quite personable and friendly. He's still the only one of those Stourbridge/W.Mids band members I would still have a pint with, esp after hering that 'Stourbridge reunion' edition of Round Table on 6 Music the other week. Miles Hunt and Shit-for-brains from Ned's Atomic Dustbin still made me want to force feed them both a cricket bat.

Nope, but a nice shiny double CD from InstantLive of the night dropped thru my letterbox today - nice quality. A friend's getting the DVD, I'll have a peek to see what it looks like...

Clint's still got plenty of soundtrack work, this just happened because he discovered he could write songs with the others again (ie actually write songs for first time in ten years [The Beats on Lavish's album notwithstanding][note they split in first place coz main writer Graham had split already and Clint chucked a sook that the drummer was bringing in more music than he could]) and so they decided to dip a toe into being a band again for fun in case the writing goes anywhere

GET J0R BIDZ IN, BASS PLAYERZ!!!1!!

(nb this is not mine!!)

(nb i wish it was! 560 quid [so far] for a shagged Ibanez bass!!)

http://www.pweination.co.uk/pwei/sonic.html

10 minute preview now available in mp3 form .. i aint sure as its of very low quality, but there are aspects i definitley like.

http://www.myspace.com/vileevils

No Clint or Richard, though. Read the bio for more. But there's no hard feelings, apparently, as they've linked Clint's page in their top 8:

http://www.myspace.com/mansellclint

Has Clint's movie soundtrack work dried up then or something?

On fire lately:

# Last Night (2010) (completed)

# The Odds (2009)
# L'affaire Farewell (2009)
... aka Farewell (International: English title)
# Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
... aka Last Blood (Japan: English title)
... aka Rasuto buraddo (Japan)
# The Rebound (2009)
# Moon (2009)
# Blue Knight (2009)
# Dream from Leaving (2008)
# The Wrestler (2008)
# Definitely, Maybe (2008)
... aka Un jour, peut-être (France)
# My Mother (2007)
# The Healing Syndrome (2007)
# Wind Chill (2007)
# In the Wall (2007)
# Smokin' Aces (2006)
... aka Mi$e à prix (France)
# The Fountain (2006)
# The Big Forever (2006)

And there's talk/wishful thinking he might get an Oscar nomination for the Moon soundtrack.

As Duncan Jones says:

Got fingers crossed maybe the Academy will give Clint Mansell a nom tomorrow. Come on you little, gold, bald-headed bastard. do whats right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvgCGa0DGbE

wise up show em what ya got

lame brain's drunk again
stupid dumb-dumb gone plumb insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eofcyn-bsBA

fuck yes

I just remembered they covered Shriekback's "Everything That Rises (Must Converge)" a year after it came out!

the A-side was a cover done a year after the original too

stupid dumb-dumb gone plumb insane

apt description of Graham's decision, after spending five years driving the other ex-Poppies one by one away from his new band, to instead get a bunch of non-Poppies in and call it Pop Will Eat Itself

my older brother had 'this is the day' on tape and i listened the shit out of it. i made sure to check out all the namechecks on "can u dig it?" also. i guess people mock them for being a bit daft but they were ahead of their time! sounded like the future to me in 1990. i dont know much of their stuff outside that album though.

my fave track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHsBSVgPSJQ

1000x YES

a Ness guest for guest chess?

one of those was meant to be "guess"

And it's 2 CD reissue time!

http://idealcopy.american-data.net//Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=5013929150430

http://idealcopy.american-data.net//Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=5013929150539

Also The Looks and the Lifestyle but that one was eh-OK at best, a few songs aside.

a) you are incorrect
b) look at all those demos! including unreleased songs! and the chance for ppl who didn't buy a rare picture disc or a $20 import CD single in 1992 to get tracks like Part Man Part Machine and the On-U Sound remix of Bulletproof

also on that same page

http://idealcopy.american-data.net//Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=dtoxbox2

Price:$69.99 0_o

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Noise_Designed_by_a_Sadist

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Pweinewnoise2011.jpg/220px-Pweinewnoise2011.jpg

I, um, don't know what else to say

did pop eat itself yet?

Wasted part 1 has some Lydon/PILesque thing going on. maybe. Good album but imho lacks energy and conviction of their og stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f_2q7M7u14

There’s only one OG member involved on that album, tho

yup.
however, graham was given the all clear from clint to use the name as he was the heart and soul of PWEI.
also, pretty sure that Fuzz has helped out the new crew from time to time.

Fuzz, Adam and Rich have each done some live work here and there, and everyone-but-Clint did the UK 30th anniversary of This Is The Day tour last year (while a different lineup did non-This shows in the US). I was just saying "lacks energy and conviction of their og stuff" is fairly moot when 4/5 of "them" didn't do the og stuff (indeed, this album is the OG stuff by that specific band).

indeed.
i just love the fact that the other vocalist these days is mary byker.
you could not get a better extra to back up graham on vocals for PWEI.

ah yeah didn't know that, fair enough.

Thoughts on Anti-Nasty League, I'm kinda enjoying it so far (7 songs in)