(people don't like prime Wedding Present? Bizarro.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 August 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
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!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 3 August 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
Isn't the first disc of Anthology a complete set of early Clean? That's my go-to over Compilation.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 3 August 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 August 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 3 August 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― etc, Monday, 5 August 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
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, Monday, 5 August 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― chicken (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
I love "Some Fantasy" by DoubleHappys.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link