Durutti Column: classic or dud

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nice

is it "for mimi"? that's lovely

'Jacqueline', originally from the second album, but played live for many years to follow.

I can't see this thread appear without a vague feeling of ... fear/sadness.

I think Swing Out Sister should record an album of DC covers. It will sell like HOTCAKES in Japan and make them all some money, Vini especially.

You may or may not be joking but I would preorder that today.

I'm not joking. I don't know anything about Swing Out Sister beyond Breakout and just read they're still "big in japan", and liked that New Order cover. I think the combination would be interesting and would certainly find an audience.

Weird. This just appeared in my Twitter feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGvzjmUs8Y

Odd to see V looking vaguely healthy.

Love that clip, have watched it many times previously.

Yeah, I love that one too. This revive prompted me to put on DC. Now made it through Obey the Time and started Vini Reilly. Hope to get through Circuses and Bread later tonight.

LTM finally reissued "Another Setting", get it if you don't have it!

3 copies of Another Setting already, but I'm likely to buy it again if it's on LP or the CD has different bonus track than the Factory Too reissue from the 90s

My favorite DC album by far. I have the original factory cassette, LP and Factory Too reissue. I think that reissue just has the original Amigos Em Portugal as the bonus tracks.

A four CD reissue of Without Mercy? Why sure.

http://www.factorybenelux.com/without_mercy_fbn84.html

this bump made me nervous. happy to see this news

Looks great.

haven't listened to vini for ten years? have to fix that.

Uh, yes please

https://darla.com/products/durutti-column-the-obey-the-time

Factory Benelux presents a deluxe 3xCD box set edition of Obey the Time, the eighth studio album by Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column. Originally released by Factory Records in December 1990, the original 10 tracks have now been expanded to no less than 43.

Marking a further break with tradition, dance exploration Contra-Indications was taped with New Order programmer (and later co-manager) Andy Robinson. Released in December 1990, Obey the Time (Fact 274) would be the last Durutti Column album on Factory before the labelled collapsed beneath a mountain of debt.

The multitude of studio extras spread across Discs 1 and 2 include single and remix tracks The Together Mix and Kiss of Def, rare compilation cuts such as The New Fidelity, The Awards Show and Times Like These, and several extracts from two unreleased Factory albums recorded during the same 1989/90 period: Guitar One: House (Fact 254) and Guitar Two: Acoustic (Fact 264).

Disc 3 features 11 live tracks from a previously unreleased performance at Manchester University Whitworth Hall on 23 June 1990 (opportunistically billed as ‘The Acid Guitar’), on which Reilly and Mitchell are joined by guests Andy Connell, Liu Sola and Rob Gray.

3xCD tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Vino Della Casa Bianco
2. Hotel of the Lake 1990
3. Fridays
4. Neon
5. Home
6. Spanish Reggae
7. Art and Freight
8. The Warmest Rain
9. Contra-Indications
10. Vino Della Casa Rosso
11. The Together Mix
12. For Zinni III
13. Fridays (Up-Person Mix)
14. Kiss of Def
15. The New Fidelity

Disc 2

1. Together – Razormaid Mix
2.Megamix
3. Dry
4. Out of the Blue
5. Paradise Passage Road
6. Rope Around My Neck
7. Short
8. Boat People 1
9. Boat People 2
10. Grade 2 Duet
11. Octaves
12. For Madelaine II
13. Pete’s Riff
14. The Crowned Goddess
15. Times Like These
16. The Awards Show
17. My Country (Monarchy Mix)

Disc 3

1. Home (live)
2. What It Means to Me (live)
3. English Landscape Tradition (live)
4. Opera II (live)
5. Finding the Sea (live)
6. Otis (live)
7. Jacqueline (live)
8. Requiem Again (live)
9. Take Some Time Out (live)
10. The Missing Boy (live)
11. Sketch for Summer (live)

good, only a couple more until we get to the Time Was Gigantic reissue!

https://olivercherer.bandcamp.com/

Vini's guitar being used well.

saw this revive and simultaneously experienced two very different and extreme emotions:

VINI DIED.

VINI'S BACK.

both with this facial expression: O_O

glad i was wrong.

oh, he is literally using one of Vini Reilly's guitars!

x-post.

Yes, I have previously proposed a ban on this thread just because I always jump to the first of these.

Haven't actually heard the story of the guitar and wonder if it is mundane as "Vini sold his guitar"? Still, I have time for Cherer.

Might move this conversation to the Second Language thread - less traumatic for those watching.

https://boomkat.com/products/obey-the-time

yes

double yes.

hope they keep up this super-deluxe reissue series! there's just sex and death, fidelity, and time was gigantic left from the pre-2000 era...

hot take but time was gigantic is his best work.

only one I haven't really heard (it's available digitally now but I kinda want to wait for the reissue)... I know Vigil from Someone Else's Party is a reworked version of For Rachel and I love that song so

pretty much every song on the album was repurposed at some point or another. i had a theory some years back that it was the album he had been trying to make all throughout the 90s. it came out so well that he just continued to borrow from its ideas for the next decade or so.

Vini's birthday today, apparently.

Dave Haslam just posted this on Twitter:

"I know a number of people worry about Vini's health. I just popped round to his house with a birthday card and we had a brief conversation. He's looking good and doing Ok and we made plans for a proper catch-up soon."

today is indeed his birthday! nice update, thank you for sharing.

happy birthday Vini!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeI2BP0UVa4&feature=emb_logo

I saw in the liner notes on the new Idiot Savants LP pressing, that Someone Else's Party is next up for the vinyl press. Gotta get them all!

also that link doesn't work for me.

fixed link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeI2BP0UVa4

(that's video from September 2020... he looks good!)

Oh, sorry - hadn't realised the link hadn't worked.

Was just pleased to see Vini holding a guitar (I guess I'd felt a horror that maybe he couldn't?)

Apparently there's a new single but, I think, an old track and an unreleased track??

The same user has also uploaded another, longer video where vini's playing is a little less atonal. I only have the crappy mobile link thing for it though:

https://youtu.be/V6kPlJOBt4U

Absolutely brilliant clips!

I, too, fear the worst news whenever Andy sees this topic revived. But he is still here. It brings tears to my eyes to see him play, truly. He has had so many important things to say and the fact that the ability to use his musical voice was all but taken away form him is one of the least fair occurrences that I can remember. There is a lot of dust on the headstock of that Stratocaster in the clip that Nick posted. This is so discouraging. Vini is so brave though, for allowing himself to have video taken when his chops are not what they used to be. It is still the beautiful music that only he is capable of making.

Very bittersweet to see, but I am very glad that I was able to see them all the same. Thank you for posting, dj.

every single bedroom pop album from the past decade sounds at least a little bit like durutti

The original 3600 LP sleeves were made of coarse sandpaper (similar to the Situationist book Mémoires), designed to scratch LPs which were placed on either side of it.

every single bedroom pop album from the past decade sounds at least a little bit like durutti

― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Monday, November 16, 2020 10:15 AM

can confirm. source: my own music. it happens even when i'm not trying.

also enoch, not to be a total downer, but there is a possibility of that being the case because of vin's world view at that time. still a funny gag, especially if he was planning on making another record.

hey guitar players:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqh2L1-ZIAY

That doll thing behind him is absolute nightmare fuel

haha yes! almost as horrific as some of those thumb positions

Great YT channel tho', some really interesting choices!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/21/guitar-hero-vini-reilly-durutti-column-factory-records-interview

Hell of a read. You just want peace for him.