― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 8 May 2004 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― bimble (bimble), Saturday, 8 May 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 May 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
The first EPs were absolutely classic. Doppelganger just took that sound and spread it, rather thinly, over an album, though 'Ice That Melts the Tips', 'Already Yours', and 'Think and Act' are standout album tracks. Cuckoo is where it's at for me. The album is well-sequenced too, building up to a great finish. It's the best heavy wall of goutar album I know from that period, but there's tons of variety throughout at the same time. Come Clean worked out for me, though it's the one I listen to least. I think it sounds louder and dirtier than most of the 'rock band goes electronic' albums, and besides, they were using samplers and drum machines from day one; the technology just got a lot more sophisticated in their downtime.
SEARCH SEARCH SEARCH the 'Coming Up Roses' B-sides: 'Habit and 'Midnight and Royal'. They're some of the best material from that period. Really tense and spooky without relying on conventional big guitars or noise. I like Gift a lot, esp. the Shields tracks plus 'My Tiled White Floor'. There was very solid material on their internet-only album in 2000, Open Day at the Hatefest, but nothing really standout. I'll probably track down the new compilation, though there are only a couple of tracks I don't have in hard form. I think they got Flat Earth back for the cover, which is good.
Oh yeah; Cuckoo had a wonderful sleeve, as did the surrounding EPs. Only the Come Clean sleeve wasn't wholly interesting.
trivia: Debbie Smith last appeared playing with Luke Sutherland in Bows, which is such an improvement over Echobelly or the totally dire Snowpony. I'm going to go revive a Bows thread now.
xpost: Ned, yes oh yes Mission From God is glorious.
― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― bimble (bimble), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Ned, what is this cover of Overground you speak of? You mean the Siouxsie track? I def. should check that out
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 May 2004 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 8 May 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
This is deeply ludicrous, of course. The thing that initially attracted me to Curve was the juxtaposition of Toni's great melodic lines against the feedback/dance beat. Plus there are always those huge bass lines...
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 May 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Damn right.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Saturday, 8 May 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
this is true. live they seemed pretty dull, it was all a bit thick and blurry. their love for swervedriver was always offputting too.
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 8 May 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.curve.co.uk/news.htm
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
So, speaking of Curve, is there any way to get all those recent (and out of print) EPs besides sending a check to Dean?
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
"Perish" is beyond awesome. It's also the saddest noise-rock track ever.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
anyways .. i definitely side on the CLASSIC. that cold hearted drum machine pounding away while the noise shreds the paintwork and toni does her echoed goth thing is just wonderful and fits in perfectly with my current moods.
but more to the point .. did all cd copies of the album come with doubled up inner sleeves as a spin off from the album name .. or is that just me being a little too nerdy ?
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
its not just me .. (have images of ilmers dashing off to archives to check .. )
but ta for the love anyways ned .. backatcha gorgeous.
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
13 years after the albums release we all finally get the bands 'joke'.
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
(I also have not yet gotten around to getting Doppelganger, cos I've got both the above and - rather later - the Radio Sessions comp. It's quite nice knowing that at sometime in the future I've still got "new" early Curve to listen to...)
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
(but anything curve stamped will be on my bins-radar from hereon thats for sure ..)
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
The similar Smile compilation by Ride was import only for a couple of years but Creation eventually released that in the UK, shame Anxious records couldn't do the same.
Was Gala by Lush released in the UK? I bought that 2nd hand but I think that's a US import as well.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Sound of Walls (Bimble...), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
HORROR HEAD
― Bimble, Monday, 30 July 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Re-listening to those early EPs, one of the big factors that made them interesting is that "viscous" bass sound they used for instance on 'Coulour Hurts' or 'Fait Accompli'
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought one of their albums once and couldn't stand it even though they supposedly sounded like stuff I did like.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 9 August 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, it's been a long time since I heard Gift -- fantastic album.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
They just weren't very good. It's really quite sinful to suggest otherwise.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
And you're just knee-jerk hating jackass. Cosmic balance is restored.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Missed this a few weeks ago, but I'm enjoying the continually mounting ILM evidence that Bimble and I are actually the same person:
TS: Curve's "Horror Head" vs. Garbage's entire discography
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Did Scylla (Toni Halliday's band between Curve breaking up and getting back together again) ever release anything apart from 1 song on the Showgirls soundtrack? I saw them live in '95 and they were quite good.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"And you're just knee-jerk hating jackass. Cosmic balance is restored."
Why would I hate knee-jerks?
― PhilK, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
in addition to being not very good they also screwed up a potentially fine jamc album with their pedal hopping overproduced agenda setting ways
― cw, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Huh?
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
honey's dead.
― cw, Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
What, because the drummer played on it??
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
...with trademark overly fussy curve drumming. and the producer produced it. with a wall of nasty curve fx gloss.so, yes.
― cw, Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
well Alan Moulder produced half of the records that came out around that time, so I wouldn't define him as the Curve producer, but anyway... Still my fave JAMC album with 'Psychocandy'
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah it seems a little unfair to blame Curve just for having the same producer as them!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
honey's dead sounds specifically modeled on curve to me, it has the same studio tricks, the same bombast, the same drumming, the same fussiness. i initially totally loved hd and also the ten little boys ep but found they both palled pretty quickly. robin guthrie made a similiar mess of felt's ignite the seven canons. assuming bands with vaguelly aligned aethetics would benefit from the same production job.
― cw, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
also Cuckoo is their best album by an order of magnitude
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:08 (six months ago) link
To each his own. Never much cared for Cuckoo despite some good moments. But then again all their albums were flawed. Pubic Fruit all the way
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 22 September 2023 05:44 (six months ago) link
well yeah the EPs were the real high point.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 September 2023 09:48 (six months ago) link
Curve is one of those bands where I kinda liked them, picked up Cuckoo at a record store on a whim, it became one of my favorite albums of all time, and I never really bothered finding any of their other music. Now, my curiosity is piqued and I'm finally listening to the E.P.s that comprised Pubic Fruit after all these years. Might be doing some Bandcamping today.
― beard papa, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:51 (six months ago) link
Physical box set coming in February:
Unreadable Communication: Anxious Recordings 1991-1993
The two albums, four EPs, some remixes and some live stuff. Does not include Peel Sessions, which are supposed to be very good.
I'm not a fan, but if you want remastered CDs, here you go.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 2 December 2023 18:52 (four months ago) link
so, remember this from a while back :
"but more to the point .. did all cd copies of the album come with doubled up inner sleeves as a spin off from the album name .. or is that just me being a little too nerdy ?
β mark e (mark e), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 1:53 PM (eighteen years ago)"
well, a twitter account posted this weekend re the album, so i asked the question re the doubling up.
and look what happened :
πΎππππ liked your replyquestion : was i only the person who bought this on cd to find the inner booklet doubled up ? i assumed it was a play on the album name ..
!!!
― mark e, Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:16 (one month ago) link