― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
My statement? Well, the bit about falling completely asleep on my feet in front of Sonic Youth is entirely true. I'm not saying Lush blew a new part in my hair and set the room on fire, but they were visually more engaging than Sonic Youth. But, y'know, I've never been a member of Sonic Youth's hallelujah choir, so ya might factor that into your assessment.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
The idea of getting paperwork or voicemail from Miki Berenyi seems really strange to me. It would be like having Kevin Sheilds fix your plumbing or something. You would sit there thinking "oh my god, oh my god, Kevin from MBV is snaking my toilet."
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
But as the others upthread note, "De Luxe" = winner.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 8 May 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Replace Spooky and Loveless with At War with Satan and What's THIS for...!, replace bubble bath and glass of wine with 40 oz of Crazy Horse and eliminate the reading material entirely and you have my solution.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 April 2006 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― BATTAGS, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
DESIRE LINES
oh man...
― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I found Lovelife for a dollar the other day, it's pretty rad. Very chipper for what appears to be a concept album about breaking up.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 25 January 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I've reintroduced Spooky into my rotation in the last month or so. Somehow, before, my attention had always drifted off by the time the album reached "Monochrome." So I was listening on shuffle the other day and that song came up and absolutely wiped me out; the choruses in particular and the bridge at about 2:15 are Lush at their melancholy best.
I'm really happy about my poor listening habits way back when, because now I get a new favorite song without having to buy another record. It's the small victories.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
spooky is the only lush disc i've never heard in full. i don't know why people are so keen to work with robin guthrie as a producer when he clearly isn't terribly good at it.
― electricsound, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"For Love" > "Sweetness and Light"
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm ... I've never been one to really pay too much attention to production, but I don't notice any thing overtly bad about Spooky. I mean, it sounds pretty damn good to my ears.
A quick scan looks like all their records were produced by him, except for Lovelife.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss Lush.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Early singles are obviously terrific, but Split is easily their best full-length - and one of my favorite records period.
― Pillbox, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(to elaborate on that) Split straddles the middle ground between Spooky and Lovelife and combines the strengths of both: buzzy power-pop & Cocteau/shoegaze dreaminess, whereas the other two LPs lean a bit too far in either direction.
― Pillbox, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember seeing a live performance of Covert on Paul King’s 120 Minutes, and being absolutely blown away, and really excited for Spooky. Then I came out, all slathered in worst Guthrie f/x — it frankly sounded like he didn’t have faith in the band and gilded them to death.There’s a superb remix of Superblast! by Gil Norton, and shows what Spooky could’ve been with more sympathetic mixing. That version is also on the video, peels the skin right off my face every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uU5DU7P83E
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 24 July 2023 00:08 (nine months ago) link
“Then it came out,” brb I got Dr Freud on the phone
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 24 July 2023 00:11 (nine months ago) link
I think Guthrie's production is what makes the best bits of Spooky so good (and much prefer it to Sweetness And Light). One of my favourite bits is the swirling guitar sound in Ocean that jumps between your left and right ears when you listen with headphones.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 28 July 2023 22:48 (eight months ago) link
I am anti-Guthrie on this. much prefer everything else they did apart from the Lovelife album to Spooky
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:28 (eight months ago) link
completely love the Guthrieness
― brimstead, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:31 (eight months ago) link
Her twitter follows are abysmal
― PaulTMA, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:36 (eight months ago) link
I think this has been noted itt
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:38 (eight months ago) link
tbh Emma wasn't much better, wall-to-wall FBPE, but maybe less TERFs
cool. binning them asap nothing was lost really
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:15 (eight months ago) link
what does "wall-to-wall FBPE" mean
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:17 (eight months ago) link
FBPE = follow back pro-europe. basically a Twitter siren for centrists for whom nothing matters but Brexit. NB I did not vote for Brexit just tbc. basically a load of "sensible" twats who "hate the Tories" but want to replace them with people who will enact policies that are almost exactly the same as the Tories but they might grimace a bit and say sorry before they do it.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:20 (eight months ago) link
wonder if a 'Glasgow' label will reissue them next
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:33 (eight months ago) link
ah see I keep seeing references to this but I don't know which label this refers to
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:34 (eight months ago) link
I appreciate Guthrie’s contributions. I’m not sure that Lush themselves were capable of making a great album 100% all on their lonesome. Guthrie’s production is no different than, say, the strings on Split that give that album the extra edge.
― Melomane, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:40 (eight months ago) link
I dislike both Guthrie’s Christmas tree production and how weak 60% of Spooky’s songs are. Found Emma’s twitter tedious but hadn’t realised Miki was a reactionary as well.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 29 July 2023 12:08 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-qPHoqr74This film on the criterion streaming?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:44 (three weeks ago) link
Yep, in the US anyway
― brimstead, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:56 (three weeks ago) link