yeah there was a lot of talk about SH on the Art Bears thread, I have never seen this one.
god damn "Scarred For Life" is such a great song. Hope they make another one-off reunion record someday.
― sleeve, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Anthony More on AMG:
Similar Artists * Uri Geller * Richard Youngs
― brains, hand-rolled (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I have "Karen" stuck in my head now thx to thread title and that is a damn good thing.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
No mentions of "Everybody's Slimmin' (Even Men And Women)"?? Wish I still had my 7-inch of that.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
it's on the ReR CD of Acnalbasac Noom.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
What are the best Peter Blegvad vocal tracks with Slapp Happy?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
As the years go by, (some of) Moore's stuff seems more and more underrated. "Out" in particular.
But at the moment I'm writing because I just learned that his kind of Berlin-era Bowie-esque "World Service" CD isn't the same as the lp version. I guess I never looked into it very much, as I didn't like it much on first listen (have since changed my mind). You know, Mutant Sounds planned to post the lp, but I don't see that they ever did. I guess I have to actually like pay for an album for the first time in god knows how long...
The live version of "Lucia" on the CD -- at least I think it's live -- is just killer.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, how nice! Someone has one of the best World Service tracks up on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tQHxnMCzzA0
Fuzzed out remake of Lucia from Flying Doesn't Help. This may be one of may favorite things that any of the Slapp Happys ever did...
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
Posting for myself and the like 1 other person who'll care, but just got ahold of the lp version of Anthony More's World Service, and it is indeed very different from the CD. Includes one very good song that isn't on the CD, and a couple that are *very* different versions, usually better than the CD. At the moment, this would be my pick for his best solo album.
LP Tracklist is: Side 1: Run Right Back/Pieces of the Puzzle/World Service/Fat Fly [not on the CD. It's pretty good...kinda Robyn Hitchcock doing vocals on a Bowie Lodger track.].
Side 2: Broke'n Idle [very different, probably better than CD version. Kinda post-punk meets Talking Heads]/Outta Angels [very different, spikier than CD version, probably better]/The Argument [more skeletal than the CD version, but generally similar]/Nowhere to Run.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Heresy, I know, but Ça Va is by far my favourite Slapp Happy album. DK's voice has lost that screechy quality and sounds wonderfully rich and strange. The songwriting seems less self-consciously witty/wacky and is all the better for it. "Scarred for Life" is on every mix CD I've ever made.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
It shouldn't be heresy -- Ça Va is an incredible album
you heard the live in tokyo version of 'Scarred for Life'?
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
no! where can I find it?
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
this is the official single disc release: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Japan-2000-Slapp-Happy/dp/B002MT3DEM/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1308161023&sr=8-3-fkmr0
which contains slightly different performances than this bootleg
single disc probably more listenable all the way through but I remember the bootleg has magic if you're patient
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
the crickets on the live version of 'Scarred for Life' really work
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
the best
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Don't ask me why I've waited this long to REALLy spend time with Ca Va, the Slapp Happy reunion album from the late 90s. But man, it's totally GREAT.
― dan selzer, Friday, 25 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
i like the world service album a lot and i had it in my store for cheap forever and nobody would buy it so i finally just took it home so that it could get some love. maybe if i had written SLAPP HAPPY! in big letters on the front of the plastic sleeve or something? i dunno. damn heathens around here.
― scott seward, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
You should have written "Pink Floyd" on it. Anyway, great album in both its incarnations...
― dlp9001, Saturday, 26 January 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
what do we think of this metal cover?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzVxmlyqpY
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 March 2013 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
kew. rhone. the book
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/slapp-happy-faust-two-day-residency/
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:58 (seven years ago) link
wait, which faust?
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Cool news, would go if I lived close
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
Ha, "which Faust" was my first question when I saw this but it doesn't really matter. I am definitely going.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link
That has to be the highest ticket price I've ever seen at Cafe Oto.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
It's probably the Peron/Diermaier version, they seem more active than the Irmler version and have played with various RIO types in recent years.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
At 22:12 in this mix is a sick Japanese pop version of "The Drum": https://soundcloud.com/prtls/artist-mix-kero-kero-bonito
I almost fell out of my chair when I realized what it was!
I've run a cursory search to find the artist, etc., but no dice... Any help??
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Whoops, guess I should clicked the link beneath the mix. Apparently it is "Love and Hates ft. The Pegasuss". Here's the album!: https://whitelilyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/l-a-h
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
I'm sort of convinced that "The Drum" is secretly the best song ever written, as all three versions of it (that I've heard) are amazingly great.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
(Make that 4 versions -- forgot about "Casablanca Moon")
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
The Drum was my introduction. Adult Crash in NYC, I asked about it because of the Faust connection. They put on The Drum and I bought it. Never looked back.
Here's another great cover:
https://nonightsweats.bandcamp.com/track/whos-gonna-help-me-now
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
There’s something almost mystical to me about “The Drum”; like it’s the last song played around a campfire at the end of the world. I can’t really explain it...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
"wardrobes flap in tatters/you and i grow old"― mark s (mark s), Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:26 PM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the re-recorded casablanca moon is literally the first LP i ever bought
i owned acnalbasac noom also for a while a lot later but never liked it as much (perhaps just thru over-familiarity)
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
I didn't like it as much either fwiw.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
Also, what a bizarre career Anthony Moore has had.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
Really like that Love and Hates version, thanks morrisp!
― emil.y, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
Sure! Yeah, I'm like obsessed with it... that beat!
The Bandcamp page seems to be dormant (for other than streaming), but I found the track/album can be purchased on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006H2VHA2/
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
I have a theory that Charlie and Charlie is the plot of me, myself and Irene. Lots of similar references
World as it is today has the best screaming ever
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
Acnalbasac preference may also come down to which one you heard first
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
I think it must, because I cannot imagine anyone preferring the overbaked orchestral version
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
lyrics changes are a big dud there as well, not as good
What lyric changes?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
major changes to Me & Paravati, at the least, pretty sure there are others but I'm not gonna listen to the vastly inferior version to find out
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
There's also some Zappa esque added backing vocals on one song that cheapens the material. With sleeve here
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
But in most other regards it's miles better.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
Also the lyrics to "Me and Parvati" are better on "Casablanca Moon"!
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
fuck em up buff jeckley
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
xp OK now I'm convinced that these two albums exemplify the "liked the one you heard first" effect because Tom D is objectively wrong here ;)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
Definitely seems dependent on which version of the album you heard first, for instance, I can't imagine why anyone would prefer the out of tune version of "The Drum" on AM to the one on CM.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Though "Dawn" and "Half Way There" are better on AM and "Charlie and Charlie" is better than "Haiku".
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
I remember it getting some media coverage but it wasn't a hit.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Kisses sweeter than wine was a minor hit
― Droni Mitchell (Ross), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
Yeah sorry I was taking about The Impossibles. Were they a UK band? Not finding much on them...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
Yes.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
Kevin Shields was involved in their first single (which featured a Dinosaur Jr.) cover. They probably would have had some indie chart hits execpt they were on a major.
― Gonk Steady Crew (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Hmm... they're not on Spotify, Wikipedia doesn't know them...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
I think they only put out a few singles. Sort of a made up band, but aren't they all?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
A YouTube upload of their song "Therapy?" -- which seems to be a b-side from "The Drum" single -- was apparently posted by someone in Japan; so maybe they had a minor following there, which could explain the Love And Hates connection.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
I find it so cool that -- in addition to "The Drum" being one of the best songs ever -- it's a song by a UK-German group that was covered by an NYC duo, which cover was in turn covered by a UK duo, and that cover was covered by a Japanese duo...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
For instance there's a couple of dozen soundtracks for experimental film directors like David Larcher, Werner Nekes and Dore O. to stand alongside his work with, er, Paul Young. None of his soundtrack work has ever been released apart from his the one for Dieter Meier's 1981 film "Jetzt und alles" - anyone ever seen this movie?
https://img.discogs.com/PXQpV1_T236YcNYaTUqur5m5IIc=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-766311-1359250094-2269.jpeg.jpg
― Scottish Country Tweerking (Tom D.), Friday, 14 September 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link
The band Medicine's new album is a cover album called "Scarred for Life" - the Slapp Happy song...didn't expect that. (They also cover Zappa, Scritti Politti, Miles Davis...)
― ernestp, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
― ernestp
...the Monkees...
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link