The Tea Party: Why do they suck?

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from the Wikipedia page (re Edges of Twilight):

The album also includes a hidden song which features a spoken word performance by folk legend Roy Harper, who is a personal friend of the band.

Seriously!? That is doubly weird!

I think I saw the band muddle through one of those Ottawa tulip fest/canada day gigs and it was awful. nothing like the really surprisingly awesome performance by (good god) Big Sugar.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I was never a big fan of the Big Sugar recordings, but live (at least early on) they was pretty primo.

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

a complete aside, but last year i sold a sealed copy of their self-released first CD for over $200 on ebay. when i was a teen, my mom dated Jeff Burrows' dad, and i had stacked of that CD... gave em all away of course, but kept two.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Ahhhh......I still remember the young girls swooning at the feet of Jeffy as he emoted @ The Coach.

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I have been a fan for 9 years now and I fully grasp that it's not everyone's music.......but, you have to accept that apart from their last "commercial" albums, they had a great sound and a heralding darkness of prose that spoke to our inner personas. I don't know about him personally being a fuckhead?, although I did meet him backstage a couple of times, but he is intellegent and knowledgable guy....I have to give him that. I asked him some pretty deep questions and his answers blew me out of the room. Surely even a fuckhead can be humbled by getting off the drugs, starting over musically and having a child! Give him a break.....you never truly know anyone until you have walked a mile in their shoes and besides, I personally feel that he has tried hard as he could to stay true to his music and when he felt it was all going awry......he got out! You guys are harsh! Soften up some eh?

― Nehema, Thursday, 11 May 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying to figure out if Google linked up permanently with ILX over the last couple of days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 May 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Their darkness of prose heralded my inner persona? Somehow I never got that call.

(Sundar u rule)

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 11 May 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

these guys are total dicks imo

― it's always random in wackydelphia (history mayne), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

One of the worst bands I ever heard.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

I was recommended their song "Psychopomp" and am really digging it. shame the singer's big-headed in every sense of the word.

― D. Joe, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link

There are a bunch of jams on that album.

― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link

I like “Correspondences”

― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link

I wrote upthread kind of nastily about this band but I actually still put on Edges Of Twilight sometimes

There is a kind of hipster bar in Toronto and in 2008 or thereabouts, my friend Duncan was hosting this recurring night there. Management went to Duncan as he was onstage with the band and told him that Jeff Martin was there and wanted to get onstage and play a song. Duncan iirc was somewhat hesitant but decided to just go for it. Jeff Martin came onstage and began playing “Jammin’”. And a certain point Duncan repressed his giggling enough to lean over to a live mic and say “listen to what the wise man is saying”

― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link

Sounds about right.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 March 2019 03:28 (five years ago) link

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