Arguably, they were already starting to change direction on Barafundle, which increasingly seems to me to be both a "transitional" record and their most focused work.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Well, of all the solo careers, his is by far the absolute worst, so I'm not sure what did or didn't happen, but I don't think he would've done the band any good in the end.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
Richard James is probably the blandest, but he has some pleasant highs.
Euros veers too far into kitsch on almost all of his albums, and the experimental ones are total busts IMO. I think he just rushes his songwriting.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
I think with Gorky's it was basically the usual case of the band being greater than the sum of their parts. I reckon if they all collaborated as they did back in the early days of Gorky's, they could come up with something really good.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I've always wondered if perhaps John had contributed some songs to what ended up as SDT because he's completely absent from the writing credits, which seemed otherwise unusual as he was all over the others, to the extent of having three solo compositions on Gorky 5.
― PaulTMA, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I always found that unusual too, given that he didn't leave the band until after the LP was completed... it's hard to say what happened there. Either he was going through a dry spell as a songwriter, or he had songs and the band didn't record them for whatever reason - either they didn't fit, or he'd already thought about doing solo stuff. It's hard to say, because not much has really been said about Lawrence's departure.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
see, SDT is overall a 'weirder' album than Gorky 5 so the idea that he was the experimental guy sdoesnt really float
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
and his stuff on Gorky 5 is about the most straightforward he ever did
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 16 April 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
I listened to Sleep/Holiday recently because of this thread - haven't listened to it for years, but was surprised to find I only dislike 3 songs on it.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
Another year, another substandard Euros Childs album. Anyone listen to 'House Arrest' yet?
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNI0WFeiZHI
*sigh*
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Those Gorkys albums still remain painfully unaffordable and practically non-existent in LP form. Who can fix this? Also Richard James put out a moody instrumental (synth?) album which I scanned through on bandcamp.
― slightlydazed, Thursday, 13 July 2023 06:04 (eight months ago) link
It's near criminal that you can't hear Bwyd Time anywhere other than YouTube. I'd love a reissue
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 13 July 2023 08:31 (eight months ago) link
I wonder if there'd be lots of interesting unreleased stuff that could be used for expanded versions. Euros has certainly be very prolific as a solo artist.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:39 (eight months ago) link
*been very prolific
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:40 (eight months ago) link
i’ve loved a lot of those Euros albums - his recent all covers album was especially good. It’s just prohibitively expensive to order the LPs in the states.
― slightlydazed, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 07:06 (eight months ago) link