slowdive: classic or dud?

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Sarah's got a point -- I'm a person who barely listens to any 80s music at all. I sort of hold my breath when I listen to Just for a day, but the other stuff sounds good.

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link

I'm listening to Just For A Day and it sounds like it should be the soundtrack to Lord of the Rings.

Utterly befuddling?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

"Just for a Day" is the only CD I've ever sold back. Not that it was so bad, it was just, disappointing after the excellent EPs. I wrote them off after that and Souvlaki sounds a little too gothy now.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

I do not understand people who don't listen to music from the 80s.

As far as I'm concerned, music was INVENTED in the 80s (or mor specifially, with Joy Division). Anything before that is just proto-music.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I felt the same thing when I went back to listen to them a couple months ago. There's good dated and then there's bad dated, and uh.. some of their stuff would fall into the second category now, I'm afraid.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

Well, you're wrong. Uh yeah. Grr!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

Who's wrong?

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link

May is! (Actually I kid. I just know I AM RIGHT.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

Ahhh good. I thought you meant I was wrong. I'm not wrong. Music was invented at the start of the 80s and perfected by it's end.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link

there was some pretty darn perfect music in '82

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link

I wish I could pick out exactly what it is that makes certain 80's records unlistenable to me. I have Taco's first album in two formats, people, but I still can't listen to certain highly-regarded bands from the era without wanting to put something else on.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:31 (twenty years ago) link

I know what it is Sarah, I used to have it too, but The Cure made me realize that underneath the 'dated' synth and drum sounds there's some of the most beautiful, creative and WELL PRODUCED music ever.

Once again I find myself stressing the words JOY DIVISION.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

I like Joy Division.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

as spencer says, the first lp is a little disappointing after the 1st 3 eps were so good

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

I don't like JD. *runs*

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link

"I like Joy Division."

Good. You can work from there.

Some people say soul is the basis for a good taste in music, but I say it's Joy Division.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link

the new mojave 3 is wonderful, it's pleasing and pleasant in that gorky's kind of way and it is less of the classic songwriting ned fears so. i am anxious to hear rachel goswell's solo record next year, her one mojave 3 contribution was fantastic. just for a day is the pop record and it's nearly perfect really. erik's song-so pretty and then there is primal, who could withstand the beauty of primal?

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

Stacey Q > Slowdive (I only know one song by each though).

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

rachel's song on the last couple of M3 albums has been the best track

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

classic for 'pygmalion' alone -- quintessential acid-comedown-during-the-sunrise music!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 11 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

I'd love to compile those first 3 EPs on a CD. Does anyone have this "Blue Day" disc?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 December 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

The latest Mojave 3 album's a bit too wanky sounding for me and yeah, it probably could've used some Rachel in there too.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 11 December 2003 01:03 (twenty years ago) link

What exactly is this "classic songwriting," Ned?

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 01:06 (twenty years ago) link

"What exactly is this "classic songwriting," Ned?"

I'm guessing the traditional 60s/70s derived Beatles fodder.

If I'm right, I like Ned even more than I thought I did.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link

It's not so much the songwriting itself as it is the blind worship of that time/place/style as being the only correct one. Well, fuck that noise, but I've said that enough times over the moons on this board.

I'd love to compile those first 3 EPs on a CD

Having done this, I can assure you it's worthy. Blue Day is an incomplete compilation of these tracks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

what tracks are left off? i have all 3 EPs

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 December 2003 03:59 (twenty years ago) link

stacey q urinates on slowdive from r kelly heights.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:00 (twenty years ago) link

good for her

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:01 (twenty years ago) link

toot toot

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:02 (twenty years ago) link

There is pervertalism here I will have no truck with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link

Anyway, the missing three songs are "Avalyn II," "Golden Hair" (a Syd Barrett-reworks-James Joyce cover) and "Catch the Breeze," which admittedly is unchanged from Just For a Day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:07 (twenty years ago) link

I listened to Pygmalion tonight after reading this thread -- it remains unbelievably beautiful.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 11 December 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link

Does anyone have this "Blue Day" disc?

Waaah no one reads my posts waaaah

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 05:27 (twenty years ago) link

i have slowdive live at band explosion sept 91, which im going to mp3 at some point. actually, i have it on video as well, if i can figure out how to convert that

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 11 December 2003 08:22 (twenty years ago) link

Curious all this Slowdive love at the mo because only last week I dug out an old tape - unmarked as usual - and found it was a Slowdive live set recorded for Peel in the autumn of '91, followed by the superb Telescopes session from the same month. That's been played a lot at home, and I've got "Pgymalion" waiting to play on the way home tonight, it's a late night train journey in the dark kind of CD and that's what's happening tonight.

No love for the "5EP" here? That's like the perfect mid-point between "Pygmalion" and "Souvlaki". I think I'll have to compile all the EPs together at some point, should make for a stunning collection.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, so 'Golden Hair' is basically the only thing missing on Blue Day..
Just for a Day is their only mediocre release, I'd say. Pretty formulaic and a bit boring.. Souvlaki, along with Disintegration, = album I've most listened to. Not dated at all and 'Sing' leaves me awestruck to this day, despite the numerous memories I now attach to that song.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

Ok, so I'm catching up on threads, and I saw this one. Hurrah!

Someone really cool and nice once sent my way an mp3 of Slowdive's "Souvlaki Space Station" and it just about sent me into orbit. I still continue to swoon over this track. It is very dreamy, very atmospheric, very wonderfully perfect for chilling out and letting the day melt away. The same goes for another song off the Souvlaki album, "Some Velvet Morning", which just so happens to be the song I'm listening to now.

*sighs happily* I've been looking to segue away from pure fangirlishness, you know, and actually listening to the whole of the Souvlaki album just might do the job.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

some velvet morning actually wasnt on the album at the time, and might have been added to a reissue version (or the US version perhaps). have you heard the nancy sinatra and lee hazlewood original dee?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

The US version -- it was originally done for an issue of Volume and was then attached to the delayed American Souvlaki will all the tracks from the 5 EP except for "In Mind" itself, annoyingly enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 December 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

you heard the nancy sinatra and lee hazlewood original dee?

*laughs* I think you might be confusing me with someone who has a broad knowledge of music, hon. I've only heard That Big Hit by Nancy Sinatra and have yet to check out anything by Lee Hazlewood, but I do have to say that earlier on I decided to do an ILE search and found out that it was a cover. Eh. I love Duran's "Watching The Detectives" and I know for damn sure it's a cover, so there's nothing wrong with counting covers here.

Eh. Methinks I should Google before mentioning Other Musical Artists, then. Because I sure as heck don't want to retreat back into that land of fangirl exclusivity (read: only listening to one musical artist for a huge block of time).

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 12 December 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Firewater just released a version (well, they're about to...tho' I snagged an early promo) of "Some Velvet Morning" with Britta from Luna dueting with Tod. `Tis gorgeous.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 December 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

i'll upload the original mp3 for you dee, when i get back to england

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

From: http://www.chromewaves.net

"I'll warn you straight off - today's post is dedicated to shoegazer
giants Slowdive. If you're not interested, scroll down. Waaaay down.
Why the love-in? Well, the Reading, England-based band will be the
recipients of a double-disc anthology entitled Catch The Breeze on
Sanctuary Records, out September 27 in the UK. I say "recipients of"
because no one from the band had any hand in putting this together [-Ed says Rachel had a bit of input]. Content-wise, it's a decent enough
collection of stuff from their three albums and some EPs (Full
tracklisting here) and considering how hard the non-album material and
Pygmalion are to find, it's filling a real gap in record store shelves."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Also: The new Rachel Goswell album is so...boring...that it depresses me :/

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

it's terrible. there's one good song on it.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Funny, because the whole thing sounds like one song to me.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 29 July 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

but the EP was so lovely!

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Agreed -- I listen to the Rachel Goswell album and I can't remember a thing about it five minutes later.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

neil h says he is buying back the rights to the albums and is gonna do the proper reissue sometime with loads of unreleased material. i'll wait for that. the rachel album is horrible, tis a shame. they shouldn't do solo albums cause the neil h solo record was terrible too.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't know, "driving with bert" is pretty great.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 30 July 2004 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

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New album thread, as I feel they are big enough to warrant:

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:44 (ten months ago) link

Glastonbury set

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ftbbgd/glastonbury-slowdive

― koogs, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 21:40 (nine months ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001tpns

The Morning After Mix
Slowdive curate the perfect two-hour mix to bring in the New Year

(10 days left)

tracklisting

1 Micheal Rother - Katzenmusik 2
2 Ash Ra Tempel - Deep Distance
3 Gal Costa - Presente Cotidiano
4 Selda Bağcan - Yaylalar
5 Broadcast - Where youth and laughter go
6 Pentangle - Light Flight
7 Rino(IO)DJ - Decadance
8 Bernthøler - My Suitor
9 Cindy - Never let me go
10 Neon Indian - Arm Around You
11 Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side
12 Mike Melvoin & Alessi Brothers - Seabird
13 Steve Grey & The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights
14 Love - Alone Again Or
15 The Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
16 John Cale - Andalucia
17 Low - Lullaby
18 Loma - Who Is Speaking?
19 Squirrel Flower - Deluge In The South
20 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
21 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
22 Jo Beth Young - Wolf Song
23 Nadia Reid - Heart to Ride
24 PJ Harvey - Lwonesome Tonight
25 Lichen Slow - Hobbies
26 Brian Eno - The Big Ship (2004 Digital Remaster)
27 Electric Youth - The Seeker
28 Lightning Bug - September Song, pt. ii
29 Sufjan Stevens - All of Me Wants All of You

― koogs, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:11 (three months ago) link

is it just me or is it a bit ehhh

― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 19 January 2024 13:01 (three months ago) link

baby it's you

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 19 January 2024 17:46 (three months ago) link

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