the only FSA albums i didn't really listen to much were Mirror and the Tele:Funken collab. Further and New Lands are probably my faves.
i was late to the Clear Horizon album. i like that a lot. didn't even know it existed until a year or two ago:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/147841-Clear-Horizon
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
thanks, ppl!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
the Chorus comp too. I love that.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
(which edition of the Wire are you talking about? what's on the cover?)
oh, http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/ #378
y'know i went to whsmiths on monday night and looked then to see if the new one was out. nothing...
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
i would totally pay real american money for a good CD box. i have a lot of stuff on vinyl, but i would love a handy box-set with albums and singles/unreleased/comp tracks. even that heartbeat/complete comp was just vinyl only, i think. and i never saw it anywhere.
just a singles/comp tracks/EP box would be cool.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
i think it's safe to say that if you listen to an FSA album and like it you'll probably like most of the other stuff too.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
you just never know which popol vuh people are referring to, that's the main problem i guess
― La Lechera, Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Another musical Popol Vuh to def hear sometime is the crazy orchestral piece by that title by Alberto Ginastera. It sounds nothing whatsoever like danny and florian but it's a ton of fun
sorry for boring classical derail
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
(new issue of The Wire is out today according to the woman in whsmiths this morning. unfortunately it was in a box that she hadn't unpacked yet so i'll have to go back (for the 4th time))
― koogs, Thursday, 16 July 2015 09:07 (eight years ago) link
I never quite forgave FSA for beating me to covering Sally Free and Easy. My dad used to play it on his guitar all the time when I was a kid, and I wanted to cover it. So I downloaded lots of versions from Limewire or Oink or whatever it was then, and found their version sounded exactly like what I wanted to do with it. That was my intro, actually, and I do love them.
― Rouge Trooper (dowd), Thursday, 16 July 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
Really enjoyed that Wire piece though I'm sure reading it in the garden with a bottle of red and some Quorn Chorizo helped.
Strangely, I was bemused to find that I don't seem to own any Flying Saucer Attack albums (lost them? sold them?)
Happy to be prompted to play Movietone.
― djh, Sunday, 19 July 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Remarkable how many people I've mentioned the Wire piece to have gone "Aren't Movietone fucking incredible? They're sounding better with time" or similar.
― djh, Monday, 20 July 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
I don't know why I didn't pay more attention to them the first time round tbh, they fit nicely alongside hood and dean roberts and all the other post-talk talk stuff I was listening to back then. saw them play once but it was at a festival thing where the whole intimacy of their sound was lost on a fairly large and noisy crowd
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 20 July 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Movietone that is
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 20 July 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
I could see why they would have been missed at the time. I definitely like them more *now* than *then*.
― djh, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
I was going to move this conversation over to a Movietone thread ... but there isn't one.
― djh, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066325j
(partial) repeat of the '96 peel session
Heartbeat (Radio 1 Session, 1 Mar 1996)Guitar Blues (Radio 1 Session, 1 Mar 1996)Resolution Island (Radio 1 Session, 1 Mar 1996)
(missing Jeff Mills Blues and I Can Take You To The Sun)
― koogs, Monday, 17 August 2015 10:31 (eight years ago) link
Dave's new FACT mix is an extremely pleasant listen but lol at the tracklisting http://www.factmag.com/2015/08/17/fact-mix-509-flying-saucer-attack/
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 August 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
haha, five disc CD changer on random style
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
haven't listened to amc for 25 years, might give it a whirl
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
Holy heck, an actual interview!
http://thequietus.com/articles/18662-dave-pearce-flying-saucer-attack-interview
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Cool!
Having a hard time getting into the new one despite my best efforts. It sounds cool and all, but I guess I'm waiting for it to reveal itself beyond that.
― Wimmels, Thursday, 3 September 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
good interview
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 7 September 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
Hey, I like it -- expanded reissue of In Search of Spaces on vinyl...
https://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/flying-saucer-attack-in-search-of-spaces-2xlp
But also streaming for free on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/vhfrecords/sets/flying-saucer-attack-in-search-of-spaces-vhf145-2xlp
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Also available on Bandcamp if you don't want the dead dinosaur versionhttps://flyingsaucerattack.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-spaces
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
Movietone 'Peel Sessions' (x3) release coming in the spring, according to their FB page.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Nice!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 29 November 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link