Prefab Sprout: Classic Or Dud

playing for blood, as grandmasters should

i listened to steve mcqueen for the first time this year and it was immediately one of my favorite records of all time

Yup. It's great. Try Swoon next.

I only just heard 'The End of the Affair' for the first time. My favourite non-album track I've heard from them so far.

Moving the River is beautiful and ridiculous simultaneously

Iago - I have a copy of the interview now if you're still looking. My ilx mail should work.

Teared up a little at 'Adolescence' this morning - that final "Girls - have some fun".

between "when love breaks down," "goodbye lucille #1," and "moving the river" sometimes it seems like steve mcqueen is talking directly to me

oh and "desire as" of course

I feel you.

Perfect album for after a thunderstorm when the sun and the clouds make love

Iago - I have a copy of the interview now if you're still looking. My ilx mail should work.

Teared up a little at 'Adolescence' this morning - that final "Girls - have some fun".

Thanks, woof! I'll email you

lol i've been listening to this band nonstop for two weeks

i guess everyone already knew that "the sound of crying" is the greatest song ever

over the past week i've really grown to love let's change the world with music even though it's transparently an early '90s demo for what could've been, with "the sound of crying" included, the best ps record. i almost want to go back in time to make that happen

it may surprise you to learn that I grew up with their best-of in heavy rotation on car trips

the sound of crying is a good one

Jordan the Comeback is so great too. Ice Maiden is one of my top PS jams, love the conceit and the lyrics, everything.

it may surprise you to learn that I grew up with their best-of in heavy rotation on car trips

not particularly! swoon feels like your kind of record

I often have phases when they are all I can listen to for weeks. I usually obsess over Swoon, Steve McQueen and Jordan: The Comeback which are all 10/10 albums.

After several weeks of loving the leaked demos for Crimson/Red, I bought the album on CD although didn't listen to it for a few months. Was kinda gutted when I realized that the two versions were so different, as I much prefer the demos and had foolishly deleted them from my HD after grabbing the CD. Anyone know if/where these might still be found?

I had the album leak, but I don't remember it being very different - were there demos too?

Shall we run through the albums? I know there are only about half a dozen of us who care, but anyway…

Prefab Sprout - Swoon poll

steve mcqueen poll would be literally impossible imo

XP The album had a noticeably different mix than the leak.

A Steve McQueen poll wouldn't be impossible for me, and I love that record. It's 'Appetite', with absolutely zero doubt.

i mean "appetite" is the best song ever but so is "goodbye lucille #1"

God, what a fantastic group. Like The The, they're famous for recording an immense amount of material that has never leaked, which is incredibly frustrating. The first five songs on Jordan: The Comeback may be pop music's zenith

If we'd do a Steve McQueen poll, I'd put "Bonny" just a hair above "When Love Breaks Down" and "Appetite". Prefab has a reputation for being a real "music nerd/snob" group. Anyone agree with that sentiment?

I might have to go with Bonny. "Save your speeches, flowers are for funerals".

Has anyone else come across these live performances on YouTube from 85? They are seriously incredible.

https://youtu.be/zefR13phCKM

The first pressed CDr I ever got in 1998, with a pro looking label and liner notes, was a comp of Prefab b-sides. I felt like I was holding the future.

Thanks for that live link - I saw them right around that time (three weeks before or so), will enjoy reminding myself.

Only band I've ever seen where one of the road crew sprayed breath freshener on each microphone just before show time. Seemed appropriate.

the way he sings the word "improvising" in "sound of crying", i'm like, paddy, never change

also "life of surprises" is so good too

"Only the boogie music ..."

I love Life of Surprises. Good advice throughout, not something you get much in pop.

"tell yourself that will have to do for now"

Plane! Plane! Plane!

can we please talk about "goodbye lucille #1 (johnny johnny)"

No we won't

That's it the perfect song? I'm all about "Donna Summer" right now

These days whenever I want to listen to Steve McQueen I nearly always reach for the accoustic re-recordings.

I finally found out the reasoning behind the initially annoying title and like it a lot now (and wanna hear other Goodbye Lucilles, even if they're crap)

Oh, is it one of his "concept" albums we never get to hear?

Yeah, an album's worth of v different songs all named "Goodbye Lucille".

Is he still in love with Hayley Mills?...

PS tribute next week in NYC. FAP?
http://www.thehifibar.com/event/1185649-hey-manhattan-its-prefab-new-york/

my friend just told me about Prefab Sprout. i'm completely obsessed, and he said that this song "prefigured a whole era of modern music by nearly twenty years"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3H3lKt5_BM

i'm blown out of the water. this track is amazing and sounds like it came out today

def one of my favorite songs ever

The only posts that make up for the "NEW MUSIC COMING!?!" hope crushed to disappointment when a favorite band pop up here (Prefab, The Blue Nile, The Apartments, Romeo Void, etc.) are posts like these, someone discovering the band and falling for them. Like Scrooge McDuck in his money pool, a convert being able to dive into the entire catalog at once is enviable.

Highly, highly recommend Paddy McAloon's _I Trawl the Megahertz_ if/when you get around to it. Personally, I rate it up there with _Steve McQueen_.

I still like "Appetite."

wild horses is an amazing track.

There's pictures of Paddy hanging with Spike Lee in London last week. Apparently theyre working on something together!?

voodoo up, rollmo down

Great observation by that friend of yours, flap