POO: The Chills

today, "wet blanket"

today, in my neck of the woods, "Rain"...

"The Great Escape." At the end, it stops cold, and then after five seconds of silence you hear applause. All of a sudden, you realize that it was recorded live and that the audience was literally stunned. I cannot think of another musical moment quite like it.

"Submarine Bells" is a literally chilling end to one of my all-time favorite albums.

"Watching the Waves"

Yesterday: Rain
Today: Double Summer

Soft Bomb is better than I remembered. I had also somehow grown up in NZ without noticing how the Chills followed the great artistic tradition in NZ of combining an obsession with landscape and oceans, and death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAidYu9AFg

The Chills perform "Night Of Chill Blue"
Live in Auckland NZ at the Windsor Castle, 29 June 1985

Heavenly Pop Hit is my fav but i am not an expert on the band and might very well have a different answer if I spent more time with their catalog. I also love the jellyfish album cover of Submarine Bells.

either "pink frost", "the great escape" or another chills song i have forgotten the name of which used to be on one of my compilation tapes roundabout 1987 immediately after "the great escape". i have tried to whistle the beginning, sorry the volume is very low, it is here. anyone a clue what the name of that upbeat, exuberant song is? i have listened to all the cds, i couldn't find it. and somehow it is the chills in one song really. a classic song if there ever was one.

"rolling moon", their very first single

you are right, zappi. thank you. what a wonderful song!

after moving into a new flat recently i decided to order my vinyl alphabetically for once, and found i have 3 "kaleidoscope world" LPs! no idea how that happened, but if there is one album i don't mind having backup copies of ...

Very positive notices from UK tour and without wanting to jinx anything - it does sound like a reality that there will be a proper new album sometime very soon. He has so many songs to choose from so will be interesting to see how it sounds.

Submarine Bells and Soft Bomb were, for a time, two of the best albums you could find as cutouts pretty much anywhere.

Personally I think that Soft Bomb was patchy - everything up til then very excellent.

Flamethrower - I think David Kilgour dancing down the front. Great ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCDMF4Avl3A

Night Of The Chill Blue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPcoElI0M4

Doledrums - Drinking Lots and taking showers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTzW2zvKUo&index=12&list=UUxgsA1KIuvmujFvQMKnTlow

SOrry but one more. why was not this song bigger than jesus? too great maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMK-hw14Bc&list=UUxgsA1KIuvmujFvQMKnTlow&index=10

New album is in the bag and should be out on Fire records later this year. Saw them in Ediburgh the other night and they were in fine form. Got loads of classics and the new stuff sounded good. Martin Phillips was in good health too.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/oct/23/the-chills-comeback-album-silver-bullets-listen

liking this a lot

Imho, some great tracks and some just ok ones. But glad he and they are active.

yeah, this is really nice. beautiful shimmery production.

This is good! ("Molten Gold"!)

This album is probably as good as "Brave Words," if not "Kaleidoscope World."

Possibly as good as one of the greatest singles/EPs comps of all time? Ok! Haven't heard it yet but was glad to see "Molten Gold" got included.

This is really very good indeed, occasional cringe worthy lyrical moment aside.

Oh shit, not Kaleidoscope World, I meant Submarine Bells! About as good as Brave Words, not as good as Submarine Bells. And certainly not as good as Kaleidoscope World. So, like: Brave Words<this one<Soft Bomb<Submarine Bells<K. World. (Not counting Sunburnt, which is his wandering the wilderness album)

is there a US deal for it?

Not yet, but most of the us retailers I just checked have it listed as a reasonably priced import. (On backorder, unfortunately.)