I got really sick of them, I feel bad about that. They were creative and original at a time when, you know, American bands were kind of stagnant, but by Ready to Fly I was sick of them.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
you were probably sick of yourself, and everybody else.
― fortyyearslearning, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
From what I can tell, these videos have not been posted. For me, they're both bittersweet (passing of time etc) and also a reminder of how great they were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyyad_u7W7A&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bZN_FBrUc&feature=relmfu
And for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeuy8PD0bFM&feature=related
― paulhw, Monday, 30 April 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
man that "in session" version of joed out sounds AMAZING. so much better than the original.
guitar tone is so great and it's allowed to breathe and ~reverberate~ properly.
his voice is in fine form, too. solid.
― dell (del), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
wait the verlaines released an album in feb 2012? "dark riff" sounds pretty good but maybe i'm being influenced by the titlekinda sounds like ian curtis singing ?!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, the new(ish) album is actually rather great! Which is something of a relief, because the last one (Corporate Moronic) was sort of awful and so I had feared that he had totally lost "it". But it appears he does, in fact, still have at least a bit of "it."
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Wow @ the new album being called Dunedin Spleen. I'm excited.
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 11 April 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link
Didn't vote but impossible to choose between the 2 winners so glad I didn't.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:50 (five years ago) link
new album
https://verlainesband.bandcamp.com/
― fortyyearslearning, Thursday, 30 May 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
Not to mention, old album. Or rather, collection:
https://verlainesband.bandcamp.com/album/juvenilia
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
Ah from 1987...I remember liking that comp
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
i always thought that was an album! did not know it was a comp
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Wishing Graeme all the best.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/%E2%80%98it-what-it-%E2%80%99-downes-philosophical-about-diagnosis
― Grantman, Saturday, 5 December 2020 09:14 (three years ago) link
:(
― Evan, Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Some positive news:https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/downes-keen-be-back
― Grantman, Monday, 31 May 2021 09:44 (two years ago) link
Good to hear!
Anyone heard "Dunedin Spleen"?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 31 May 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
The poll results have inspired me to listen to Bird-Dog for the first time. It's the only LP up there I never got around to in the 90s! Boy is my face red, etc.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link