There's a Japanese CD that combines "poem" and "let the snakes", which is pretty weird imo. Was "let the snakes" on creation? A twofer with "let the snakes" and "forever" would make sense chronologically and I think musically the former would make a nice prelude to the latter. And it'd only be like 45 minutes total.
as a side note, "A wave crashed on rocks" is so so good, maybe my favorite Lawrence lyric. Still haven't heard the last two albums, though.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
Let The Snakes was their first album on Creation. Probably not the kind of record Alan McGee was expecting when he signed them.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
haha otm
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
I love it to death, though. It inspires me greatly
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
It's grown on me a lot over the years but I'd still say it's one of my least favourite Felt records. It is much more enjoyable than Train Above the City.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
For me, the melodies and arrangements really evokes a really heavy/'fragrant' wood-y/manicured forest atmosphere, kind of similar to the clientele (although the clientele are more straight up 'forest-y', imo). one of those 'album hits you at an intensely vulnerable part of your life' thing probably
The slower, bluesier stuff I've heard from Train is good (one for the out of context thread). There's definitely a zillion jazz solo piano albums that run circles around it, obviously
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm going to have to go back to it now you've compared it to The Clientele.
They're a really hard band to rank. Right now I think I'd put their albums in this order. The top two are set in stone and Train will always be my least favourite but I'm always changing my mind about the others.
1. The Strange Idol Patterns 2. Forever Breathes the Lonely Word 3. Poem of the River4. The Splendour of Fear 5. Me & a Monkey on the Moon6. Ignite the Seven Cannons 7. The Pictorial Jackson Review8. Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty9. Let the Snakes Crinkle10. Train Above the City
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:59 (seven years ago) link
the first two albums are my favorite. That grey twofer "changed my life" or whatever back in high school
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
it was like "oh wow, a band decided to make albums based on that penultimate track on joy division's closer. And they added beautiful heart-stopping guitar playing, and the singing is by a fey Tom Verlaine, I am So down, These are my guys!"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
ya know i thought seven cannons was my favorite album until i realized just now that the album i was listening to on spotify was a twofer and that all my favorites were actually on strange idols
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
Anyone know the back story behind Liz and Robin backing Lawrence on "Primitive Painters"?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 18 February 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
umm because guthrie produced the album?
― new noise, Saturday, 18 February 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
wtf happened to those reissues? surely Lawrence needs some more heroin. he should be reissuing everything.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 18 February 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
The Cocteau Twins were fans of Felt and invited us to tour with them in 1984. We became friends and Robin Guthrie said he'd like to produce us.
― new noise, Saturday, 18 February 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link
this interview is pretty exhaustive on how Guthrie came to produce Ignite, and the recording of Primitive Painters:
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/the-view-from-here/an-interview-with-lawrence-primitive-painters-was-this-great-big-statement-felt-were-going-to-be-massive-69839
― soref, Saturday, 18 February 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Over the years I’ve collected some of the master tapes and on the reissues that are coming out, I’ve tried to extract the Cocteau Twins from my record
hmmm...
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
i emailed cherry red about the reissues 6 months ago and they said it was looking like sometime in 2017, then i tweeted at them the other week and they said they had no news
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 18 February 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
Just checked earlier in the thread and it was last July when they first posted those tweets suggesting the reissues were on their way. I'm sure they even put up pictures of Lawrence signing them.
When the last Go-Kart album came out, my first order of the vinyl seemed to get lost in the post. When I contacted Cherry Red about it they said Lawrence would happily send out a replacement copy but "it might be a while to get it signed as Lawrence has disappeared on us again". I'm guessing that he's behind the delays.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 18 February 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for that Uncut link, exactly what I was looking for!
There are some days "Primitive Painters" is the most perfect song ever.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:57 (seven years ago) link
https://www.mixcloud.com/WEEKEND_Festival/weekend-mixtape5-lawrence/
Many of the songs in this podcast, which Lawrence recorded exclusively for Week-End, will only be known to aficionados, yet they lay bare the foundations on which indie and Britpop was built. An unusual history lesson by an indie icon who rarely talks, but who turns out to be a very eloquent speaker.
― new noise, Sunday, 19 February 2017 04:40 (seven years ago) link
Listened to Felt all day today. Perfect for a rainy winter day.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 19 February 2017 05:06 (seven years ago) link
just browsing France Castle's Instagram (love Clay Pipe & her artwork), and check out this post.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNR-vtbhaw8/
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 19 February 2017 06:02 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/wrongsreversed/status/802558977020198916
Another view of that incident, this one from a camera behind the goal.
― Tim, Sunday, 19 February 2017 08:19 (seven years ago) link
christ Lawrence Of Belgravia is really boring and awful-looking and depressing as all hell. if they showed it in schools to young musicians they'd all go off and do accountancy or something.
― piscesx, Saturday, 1 April 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
Totally agree. I thought it was a massive letdown after the long wait to see it. It really didn't seem as interesting as it could have been.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 1 April 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
"Felt reissues, sweet!"Oh... $40 LPs and $45 CD+7" boxes... no extra tracks... ok so downloads it is.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
Felt's entire discography in one place.
― giraffe, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
no singles *thumbs down*
― brimstead, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah, weird
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
nah, just lazy
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Why did they change the name of Crinkle, I wonder?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
Lawrence hated the name
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
I can think of at least a dozen other Laurence-related songs/band names that are more worthy of "hate"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
Let the Snakes Eat Crinkle-Cut Fries
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
there's a bit that really stuck with me in the David Cavanagh book about Creation records where Lawrence talks about Bobby Gillespie asking him if the forthcoming Felt album had a title yet, Lawrence replying that it was going to be called 'Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death' and Gillespie responding with incredulity - "Crinkle? What sort of word's that?"
― soref, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
that's a bit rich coming from a Scottish dude
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/91/90112/full-1080x1350/5d48314c/60455432_2492647757656739_3307904735600062668_n.jpeg?resolution=0
― henry s, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
Never forgethttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Primal_Scream_-_Chaosmosis.png
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
he changed the name and before that he cropped the cover art. was he embarrassed at his headwear?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
maybe just realized it was totally un-felt like to have an actual band photo for a cover
― brimstead, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
or ended hating one of the former members
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
RIP Martin Duffy
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
Aww man RIP teenage genius.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
Awww, creator of some of the most beautiful music. Waaaaay too young.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
Incredibly sad. Martin's playing sparkled over Felt's best records and added a lustre to every musical situation he was involved in. a true keyboard wizard.
― cw, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
Totally agree with that. The Felt albums he played on are the best. He was also one of the people responsible for bringing back keyboards as a "rock" instrument. There hadn't really been any fresh & distinctive keyboard players outside of synth-pop since maybe Una Baines.
― everything, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
I mean, come on!Here's the link to the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulTQW6oFoTs
― everything, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 07:04 (one year ago) link
Whoops wrong ling. I mean this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9bv1FO72A
― everything, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
Ling link whatevs. Ok I'm going to bed. RIP Mr. Duffy. A great keyboard player!
― everything, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 07:07 (one year ago) link