Search & Destroy: Flying Nun

It's truly great...and forthcoming review somewhere soon.

good news - vehicle might be my fave clean release, even moreso than the early stuff. amazing guitar sound.

listening to it now, oh man, it is so good. best band.

Oh come on, those strummy Wedding Present and Unrest albums are awesome, there's room for everyone here.

pl don't bespoil this thread
w/ the wedding pres

(people don't like prime Wedding Present? Bizarro.)

Oh don't worry, there are plenty of WP fans who love the Clean too.

Personally, I found Vehicle not as compelling as the early stuff and have a real soft spot for Modern Rock!

Yep - agree with Gerald M-B. I like Vehicle of course but it does not have the dark, anarchic kind of vibe that early Clean has - would like to see Compilation reissued with this kind of lavish treatment personally.

Isn't the first disc of Anthology a complete set of early Clean? That's my go-to over Compilation.

Modern Rock has "Secret Place," right? That's a nice song. "Vehicle" I always thought was where Robert's Bats-y writing started to be just as prominent as Kilgour's writing, imo.

I find Anthology unwieldy - I like the more concise and more coherent nature of Compilation - I think most of the tracks from the earlier volume are on the latter though. Anthology has too many of those goofy song experiments on it for me.

Cosign on preferring Compilation to Anthology ("Art School"!); was a Singles Going Steady kinda comp for lots of Kiwis.

Anyway, new & v.v.v.good on F.Nun is the new Sharpie Crows, though it's more in the line of the Skeptics/Gordons end of the label's history. Also: Skeptics documentary, Sheen of Gold at this year's film festival!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PRHndjg2Fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX2u7CQSQlU

Skeptics doco looks great. I didn't like that Sharpie Crows 'Spread' tune so much but the new one Bully 4 You is wicked amazingness.

http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/music/1084/Bully-4-U.utr

Also check new Chills - no longer with F Nun I think but always with them anyway.

https://soundcloud.com/#firerecords/the-chills-molten-gold

Promising signs I think - hopefully Martin can get his stuff togethor to actually release a proper album. Everyone else is doing it - why can't he?

Hinklepicker square otm here, only non Compilation Anthology track I really love is Platypus, but Art School/Hold Onto the Rail omissions are unforgivable.

Odditties version of Thums Off is p great imo though.

I love "Some Fantasy" by DoubleHappys.

So obviously not really Flying Nun, but there's no Toy Love specific thread so -- sad news to report about Jane Walker's passing:

https://www.facebook.com/AudioCultureNZ/photos/a.506398366094767/1934325256635397/?type=1&theater