try "cars and girls"
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 25 November 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
word, i will!
xp ha i thought that lyric was "absence makes the heartless wager," which i'm not sure makes sense but the real lyric is better
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 November 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
"A Life of Surprises" is seriously about the best advice song ever, makes Steely Dan look like whiny teenagers
― albvivertine, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I love his penchant for advice - there isn't much like it in pop, I think, since at its best it seems actually wise - Life of Surprises is the high point but also love that scolding 'She is a person too / She has her own will' in Goodbye Lucille* - really the key thing to be telling moping lovelorn boys. In fact, all the way through to 'Girls, have some fun' at the end of Adolescence.
He's really profoundly uncynical I think. Even seeing through things, in anger or bitterness, he's very humane and very scrupulous about emotion.
*also 'what are you - 21? The world is a million'
― woof, Monday, 28 November 2016 11:30 (seven years ago) link
finally, a second poll:Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen / Two Wheels Good poll
― woof, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
All this Prefab talk made me queue up my compilation of b-sides. I think this is complete, not counting remixes. It's not all gold but there's lots of gems here:Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)Radio LoveThe Devil Has All The Best TunesWalk OnSpinning BelindaDonna SummerDiana (single version)SilhouettesOh! The SwissReal Life (Just Around The Corner)WigsThe Guest Who Stayed ForeverOld Spoonface Is BackVendettaNero The ZeroDandy Of The DanubeTin Can PotTornadoBearpark (demo)The Sound Of Crying (full version)If You Don't Love MeJust Because I CanWhere The Heart IsDragonsThe End Of The AffairGirl I'm HereNever Trust A SpellI'm A Troubled Man (demo)
I also include these unreleased cuts from a fan bootleg:Constant Blue (demo)Cherry Tree (demo)The Glass Slipper (demo)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Agreed on the gems, like "Donna Summer" and "Bearpark". We might own the same compilation, if "When the Angels (Instrumental)" is on yours, too. Wish there were more out there to collect. For better or worse, they're left to their original releases. The Collection included "LIMOG(ES)" as did one of the later singles, but that's pretty much it, I think.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbdjD6a-xw
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
Just gorgeous...what an absolute hero he is
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 3 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
They got Santa for their new video?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 3 March 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
paddy has looked recently-descended-from-a-mountain for like... over a decade now?
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Has he ever "explained" his appearance recently? So hard to reconcile the voice on the early records with this Gandalf looking figure
― calstars, Friday, 3 March 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
How do you explain sth like that?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 3 March 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Think his 'look' is at least partly related to the terrible eyesight problems he's had over the last ten years or more.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Friday, 3 March 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah "i trawl the megahertz" was like 2003 and he looked the same... who really cares though?
― clouds, Friday, 3 March 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
yeah, wow, ask Paddy what gives--I'd love to hear that response
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Paddy's looked like this for a long time now... I'm surprised that people are surprised about this now?
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Saturday, 4 March 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
people should explain themselves when they grow beards
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 4 March 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link
LOL Tom Scharpling used to do a segment where he adjudicated whether bearded callers had "earned their beard"
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 March 2017 02:49 (seven years ago) link
don't know if this has already been posted, but
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/88/da/a9/88daa9e7f3be063d3b7f6b3bf333575b.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 4 March 2017 11:49 (seven years ago) link
lol
My guess is it's the public expression of a self perceived sea change of identity.
― calstars, Saturday, 4 March 2017 12:59 (seven years ago) link
Or a way to not be recognized in public by his fans who I'd guess to be somewhat obsessive
― calstars, Saturday, 4 March 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Or a plea for attention but that doesn't seem to be his style.
― calstars, Saturday, 4 March 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
thanks, Soref--perfect
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 5 March 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
goddamn his voice sounds great in that new video
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 March 2017 01:56 (seven years ago) link
"I told myself, 'one a year'. But if I did one thing a year, I'd be 60 by the time I cleared eight of them. And I have a lot more than eight." Clear-eyed, twinkle-eared, coulda-gone-deaf-and-blind Paddy McAloon, the sanest maverick and most engaged recluse in music, chuckles. At himself, at his situation, at the world.
This from a 2009 interview. Funny how one a year is spoken of as not making a dent in his projects, yet 9 years on, nothing new released. Haven't even heard any good rumors. The most recent mentioned a reissue of _I Trawl the Megahertz_ in the works, but nothing on that front sadly. If there's an album worth of additional tracks for that, I'd weep.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
The Independent interview, which is probably somewhere upthread.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
New Paddy interview with discussion of the I Trawl the Megahertz reissue under the Prefab Sprout moniker, and a snippet of a new song from Femmes Mythologiques, a projected late 2019 release.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 10 December 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
omg
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 10 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Np https://youtu.be/fZO40Yc_EwE
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
wow never heard that one before it's fantastic
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
aw i love "wigs"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
New Megahertz is somehow different to the old I’m reading? Anyone heard it yet? It’s on Spotify I notice...
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
Can’t say I noticed any significant difference. I have the original cd, but some time since I played it. Think I’ll need to investigate
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
I've only just discovered this group for myself via an '80s compilation CD collection I purchased the last time I was in London (i.e. December 2017). So far the two Prefab Sprout songs on said album ("The King of Rock and Roll" and "When Love Breaks Down") are really, really fucking amazing. Next up: actually listening to one of their full albums. BTW, I have a very dear friend of mine who's a native of Albuquerque and now I can't help but associate her with the former song, even though we met via a shared fandom of a completely different musical artist.
― deethelurker, Sunday, 17 February 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
https://t.co/c2MIu6mrln #prefabsprout— @needlemythology (@needlemythology) February 20, 2019
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
Looks like that’s been removed; shame.
― Tim, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
Looks like that's back; hooray!
― Tim, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Your daddy loves you very much. He just doesn't want to live with us anymore.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
vinyl reissues in september:
Prefab Sprout have announced vinyl reissues of three studio albums and one compilation. New pressings of their 1984 debut Swoon, 1988’s commercial breakthrough From Langley Park to Memphis, 1990’s double album Jordan: The Comeback, and 1992’s Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout are all out September 27. A press statement notes that the packaging and remasters were overseen by band members Paddy and Martin McAloon. Pre-orders are available at their website.Earlier this year, Paddy McAloon’s 2003 solo album I Trawl the Megahertz was reissued as a Prefab Sprout LP.
Earlier this year, Paddy McAloon’s 2003 solo album I Trawl the Megahertz was reissued as a Prefab Sprout LP.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
... i think i'm gonna need to buy jordan
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Interesting that they didn’t include Steve McQueen. I hope these stick around long enough for me to confirm the pressings are better than my originals.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
hope they fixed the glitch on life of surprises
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 4 July 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
What glitch?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 4 July 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
sorry, i must be insane. i remember there being some weird glitch on a PS song, thought it was LoS, thought it was discussed on ilm as an error during mastering but re-listening i don't hear anything. apologies for derail
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 4 July 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
no, wait, it's there, around 3:38-41 on the word 'not' !
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 4 July 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
I've noticed that glitch too. Pretty weird oversight on their part, unless it was the only possible way for them to stitch it together. I hope that's even fixable at this point!
― OneSecondBefore, Thursday, 4 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
any news on femmes mythologiques?
― Pagoda, Thursday, 4 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
nothing beyond the planned release in September mentioned at the start of the year
― ufo, Thursday, 4 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
media is precious and fragile ... but despite the glitch LOS is still perfect
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 4 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link