British Sea Power

Anyone know BSP sufficiently well to make a track listing of the original titles of the tracks featuring on "From The Sea ..."?

This was harder than expected!

1. From The Sea To The Land Beyond - ?
2. Remarkable Diving Feat - Waving Flags
3. Strange Sports - Something Wicked
4. Heroines Of The Cliff - ?
5. The Guillemot Girls - ?
6. Suffragette Riots - ?
7. Heatwave - ?
8. Melancholy Of The Boot - Spirit of St. Louis?/No Lucifer
9. Be You Mighty Sparrow? - The Land Beyond
10. Berth 24 - Childhood Memories
11. Red Rock Riviera - Cleaning Out The Rooms
12. Coastguard - All In It
13. Perspectives Of Stinky Turner - ?
14. Bonjour Copains - Machineries Of Joy
15. The Wild Highlands - Once More Now
16. Docklands Renewed - A Lovely Day Tomorrow
17. The Islanders - The Land Beyond
18. Heatwave (Lympne Castle Demo)

Many of the tracks are based a single riff or chorus from the original, and there's more new stuff than I remembered.

Oh, 5 is 'Bear'.

Thanks Millsner ... The request was partly so I could go back to specific recent tracks and see if I liked them more now, having heard them in this context.

7 is Baby.

The "Machineries: Alternate Versions" turns out to be mostly instrumental, ranging from straight backing tracks to demos. It plays like a soundtrack version of the album, very atmospheric.

It's nice, isn't it?

Were you tempted by the remixes too?

Much nicer than I expected! I've only listened to the remix album once, it seemed like more of the same actually with only a few really different takes.

But I still much prefer the oomph of Valhalla Dancehall. I still need to listen to the demos EPs back to back with Machineries, maybe that will help me figure out what's missing for me.

Much prefer the alternative versions to the remix cd (though they did also send a copy of the Machineries bonus disc, which was a nice freebie).

NEW BSP PROJECT… INTRODUCING “SEA OF BRASS” !!

Nearly two years in the making, we are pleased to finally announce an exciting new commission for British Sea Power, “Sea of Brass”, which combines BSP live alongside championship 28-piece Brass Bands from all around the UK. Peter Wraight (Matthew Herbert Big Band) has created bespoke brass parts to accompany a selection of BSP songs from BSPs entire catalogue.

We gratefully acknowledge support from Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, and our co-commissioning venues.

Our premiere performance will take place on Thursday 17th July 2014 at Gala Theatre, Durham, as part of Brass: Durham International Festival.

Tickets will go on sale at 5pm on April 2nd 2014 via at www.galadurham.co.uk

^ Barbican, London tickets on sale.

More Brass tour dates ...

http://britishseapower.co.uk/news/606/sea-of-brass

So many people I know whose music taste is similar to mine really like this band, but for some reason I just can't get into them. Maybe I haven't found the right entry point yet? I really liked 'K Hole' off their last album, though.

I got into them quite late - via The Man Of Aran soundtrack - and worked backwards. I definitely don't like everything by them but looking forward to the Barbican show very much indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RAdfrQwvo

They grew in my estimation over time. There's definitely something askew about his vocal delivery that takes getting used to.

My favorites are "Do You Like Rock Music" and "Valhalla Dancehall". The "Lovely Day Tomorrow" collaboration with Ecstacy Of St. Theresa is particularly wonderful.

Anyone seen any of the Brass concerts?

Barbican show cancelled tonight due to (slightly unconvincing) power cut.

Still waiting to hear new date ...

Supposedly announcing the new date today/tomorrow, if anyone is hoping to pick up a return ...

24th January.

Sea of Brass gig ... not as good as it needed to be to justify a second lot of train fares etc.

I suppose a show in the Northeast of America is out of the question...

Don't be a bad Bohemian.

good song. am extremely ready for a new bsp album.

new album is good but just good, prob not any better than that. hamilton not really pulling his weight which significantly lowers the ceiling for a sea power album in 2017

Zeus EP still their best release yes good glad we all agree

Tie between Zeus and Man of Aran imho, but the ep is great yes.

MOA great too yes but I'd feel their best release had to have some of their pop sensibility involved

In theory, but all the great albums with the pop sensibility all have their minor weaknesses imho. MOA is a wholly finished concept album, great from start to finish.

(I can't live without ' Cleaning out the Rooms' though tbh)

^ Also my favourite.

With this album, I've found myself a) strangely disinterested in hearing it and b) oddly cynical about the positive reviews I've read.

Yeah it was a shame they had to reuse Cleaning Out The Rooms on the ensuing album because it was obviously the best thing on it and a sign they'd been a bit short of inspiration

lol what. i think just possibly they conceived of the ep after the album was done. maybe they cobbled the album together in the 2 months between the respective releases but i am skeptical

Well then why is Mongk on the EP and Mongk 2 on the album then, u mongk

Well then why is Mongk on the EP and Mongk 2 on the album then, u mongk

In an interview with Drowned in Sound, guitarist Martin Noble stated:

Believe it or not, ‘Mongk II’ was actually written first and ‘Mongk’ which came out first is a remix! We’d always intended saving ‘Mongk II’ for the album anyway so when it came to putting together Zeus we did a different version of ‘Mongk’ which became number one.

Fine well I have no idea why I prefer the EP then, imo Zeus and Bear are both better than anything on VD as well, no idea of the choices that went into it all

Think Bear is my BSP OPO

i guess they just had a lot of material, the album is already an hour long. there's no place for zeus, i am sure the idea for the EP at all was based on them having zeus and nothing else to do with it. maybe you could make room for bear, take something else off, although i am not sure what. and if they had decided to put cleaning out the rooms on every subsequent release i wouldn't blame them or complain.

Man, this is my favorite BSP album since '05's Open Season. I'm almost never in agreement with "comeback" albums, though. I thought last year's Rogue Wave album was their best ever.

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lights our for darker skies
no lucifer
loving animals
apologies to insect life
cleaning out the rooms
spring has spring
like a honeycomb
international space station
how will i ever find my way home?
bear
mongk II
it ended on an oily stage
oh larson b
when a warm wind blows through the grass
carrion
true adventures

I've been a little cold on this band for years, so imagine my surprise when I found myself listening to their debut 2 or 3 three times today... 'Lately' in particular blew me away. I'm gonna give their other records another chance.

You're in for a treat, go chronologically to appreciate their development.

Meanwhile, their last couple of records are good but not great, haven't stuck in my head like previous albums.

"Lately" was the one that did it for me back when that record came out

Well shit, Open Season is also hitting the spot!

Open Season is really good, DYLRM stumbles a bit (though it didn't deserve the Pitchfork joke review treatment it got)

DYLRM got a positive pfork review iirc. the bad ones were valhalla and machineries, both by ian cohen so

oh shit. nm. i remember now

"True Adventures" from Open Season is one of my all-time favorite album-closers.

Yeah, 'True Adventures' rules... and I'll bet it sounds better in a live environment. I really need to see this band live.

Onto Do You Like Rock Music? ... it's a bit cleaner and feels more beefed-up/muscular compared to the previous two - I'm loving it, though!