The Clean - Compilation

the ones I remember from the setlist were Point That Thing (first song they played ... amazing), Anything Can Happen, Getting Older, Drawing to a Hole, and Tally Ho (last one before encore)

it was headband + bandana + dark aviators

Sounds awesome - glad they've still got a following in the US. Really miss seeing them play all the time back in NZ.

Since this is the only active Nun-related thread, I'll repost this from the bandcamp thread -

the Dead C's Bruce Russell cherry-picks the Flying Nun back pages for
Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment 1981-1986
http://flyingnun.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-go
The Bilders' "Russian Rug" is all-time, and really nice to see Mary Heney get prominence w/the tracks from 25 Cents/the Shallows/Scorched Earth Policy/Victor Dimisch Band/etc alongside the Clean/Chills/Gordons/&c.

BTW "Hang Onto The Rail" (which a friend got to yell at Bob Scott when he stumbled on a staircase) & "Art School" were robbed in this poll.

Did they play At the Bottom!?

Flowers?

Anything from Mister Pop?

On which record can I find "point that Thing.."? It was amazing and seems like it went on for 10 plus minutes. Thanks.

the album this thread's devoted to! or Anthology.

yeah. cool that they're doing things from Vehicle -- that album is so good.

― tylerw, Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All my favorite stuff on Anthology is from that album, but it's out of print. Is it worth tracking down a copy of the whole thing?

damn, that is lame that it is out of print. merge or someone should re-ish it. iirc most of it is on anthology (it's a pretty short album), but anthology is missing the cool acoustic interludes.

it also boasts one of their best covers.

by the way, de stijl is putting out here come the cars on vinyl and (i think) oddities too: http://destijlrecs.com/121.html

oh now that's good news.

Vehicle is the Clean at its strummiest, sort of the best fusion of its sensibilities and that of the Bats.

Here Come the Cars is great.

it is!
i just saw this recently, pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiPC9YCUN9M

Fun gig in DC last night although the sound was not mixed that well. David Kilgour was wearing an upturned on the sides straw cowboy like hat this time, with Bob Scott wearing a fisherman's one. Seems like a similar set from the other night. An hour and 15 minutes or so. Lots of Neu-ish sounding cuts, one that reminded me of Wire, another kinda Bowie-like, plus some jangly ones.

Thanks for the details. Bob was rocking the same look in NYC.

"Tally Ho" was again the last one before the encores. The Kilgours ranted about politics a bunch between a couple of songs. Dislike for Dubya and New Zealand's current head and the entire 2 party structure in the US of A

haha! that's awesome.
i still want to know if they played "at the bottom"

it's an instrumental, if that helps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wux81gYHjQ

Hmmmm? Will have to check videos later when I have access to them.

i'm pretty sure they played it the other night in boston, but tbh the sound was so weird and david's guitar playing was so ...loose... i can't be certain.

OH MAN I can't believe I'm missing these! ;_; x 1000000

yeah pretty sure they played "At the Bottom" in NYC toward the end of the set

I'm bad with their song titles

would have liked to hear "Beatnik"

hope that some live tapes emerge!

I checked nyctaper but it looks like he was at another show that night

sonofa!

maybe it'll show up on free music archive -- this thing is pretty great: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Kilgour/Phoning_It_In_041005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhcfCw4vTE&feature=youtu.be
from last weekend. i need to move to NZ.

anyone see 'em in chicago last night? friend said it was kind of a mess.

There's discussion of it on the Chicago thread.

ah... sounds like kind of a bummer!

Where?

That's a bummer, I read some interview recently with DK where he basically said that The Clean aren't likely to ever record again. When I saw them in 2010 they were fantastic.

Feel free to c/p my description from the other thread -- I'm on zing. The show was fun to talk about afterwards and started well, but kinda plopped rather than sizzled.

I do wonder whether DK was playing so poorly bcz he was out of it, bcz he didn't give a shit or out of actual hostility to the crowd

Yeah i saw them in 2010 too, they were great but their songs do fall apart instead of end properly so I thought that was just their thing. On that point alone (referenced on the other thread).

fine if they don't feel compelled to make another record, but i guess I'd hope they at least enjoy playing together from time to time.

oh wait i saw them in 2007 i dunno what i was thinking

here
It started off ok, DK had his back to the audience and was pretty far out with the solos, and then each song would just kinda plop at the end, right when I was hoping/expecting it would take off. This happened over and over, there were some comments about the president, drones, riots, and pleas for small talk between songs (Hamish seemed lucid and normal, Bob did too) and then around 10 they stopped playing, disappeared behind the curtain for a while (longer than usual) and then came back sans DK, who was nowhere to be found. An audience member got on stage and asked him to come back "You've inspired so many of us to play music, we want to hear you" and he never came back so that guy's friends sang/played Tally Ho with 2/3 of The Clean.

Hamish and Bob sounded good though! I got to see Hamish's rather weird drumming style.

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:45 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

Going to the Brooklyn show tomorrow night. I hope it's better. The LPR show a few years back was outstanding.

But now that I recall, DK seemed a bit loopy that night as well. But they sounded great. Where can I see this "Chicago thread?"

✶✶✶✶ Chicago MMXIV ✶✶✶✶

thx mizzell

http://www.undergroundbee.com/2014/08/19/the-clean-and-boogarins-at-lincoln-hall/

http://www.undergroundbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/L99A2922.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Moneyfornothing2.jpg

the sunglasses and bandanna briefly made me think of mike reno

and sweatband

this is a bummer. they've become one of my favorite bands over the last couple of years and were pretty great in 2007 from what i recall. also strange why David is touring if he doesn't want to. these american shows don't seem to be a great money-maker?

i forgot to mention that there was one point where either bob or hamish said something like "you don't understand us anyway" or something to that effect
that was the only moment that genuinely bummed me out
otherwise it just didn't live up to my (admittedly high) expectations

i also think their first song was PTTSE and the played Fish later but who cares

Seeing clemenza get into the Clean does my heart good this Tues morning. Although I p much love every track on Compilation/Anthology Disc 1 I must admit that PTTSE is my favourite too, along w Getting Older & the live At the Bottom, which is the surf guitar/mutant disco mashup of my Michigan dreams

My favorite blog posted a nice rare tape recently. Note he is good about not posting and/or taking down links to commercially available music so worry not:

https://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-clean-left-by-soft-tape-1981-in.html

Hey, thanks again for sending that, Evan.

One of the nice things about the Clean's early stuff here is that so many Kiwi bands throw out a cover every now and then - here's surf band Planet of the Tapes with "Fish" on the second side of this 7" (~2:59 or so on this video):

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

& here's an excerpt of Wellness doing a short and sweet dual-vocal take on "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" (nice to have a poppier cover as there's so many extended jams on it out there):

Last night was the first time I had seen Wellness play. I was hooked from their opening song. A cover of Point That Thing Somewhere Else by The Clean. Great band. pic.twitter.com/s2N5eR3d63

— Paula (@paula_j_k) April 1, 2023