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Hrmmm. See I was disappointed with Honeys Dead the last time I dragged it out.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too, when I bought it. No actually, I'm thinking of Automatic. HD was a return to form for me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Honeys Dead dated badly, to my ears. Good songs, but the production just screamed NINETEEN NINETY TWO!!! to me.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I've said this before, on this forum, in fact, can't remember on what thread, but I remember someone taking the piss out of me because I was taking the piss out of dance music for dating badly. Sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

The one I'm most likely to 'dig' out is Stoned and Dethroned, funnily enough. "Come On" is one of their best singles, it's just that it's got a particularly feeble title.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Stoned and Dethroned... hrmmm. That's the one that left the least impression on me. Even though I saw them quite a bit on that tour, my main memory was always "Ho-Ho-Hope, ugh." (Going onstage with the JAMC and complaining that there's *feedback* - what is she thinking?) I suppose there were some decent tracks on it, but some truly dire lyrics. "Jesus walks on the water, we walk on wetness, too" or something like that?

I mean, sure, they're not known for their lyrical prowess, but it's a long way from "I'll be your plastic toy" or even "I wanna die on a sunny day" for chrissake.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Odd. I was actually blasting Psychocandy this weekend. When the wife and child returned home from an errand, my wife furrowed her lovely brow and said, "what on earth is this awful noise?". It's still got it!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Honey's Dead: http://www.robotfist.com/030205/030205_35.html says it better than i ever could. love that guitar sound in Catchfire. reminds me of Bo Diddly or one of those.

> Psychoanalysis" J&MC Compilation

sounds a lot like the video here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R699/ref%3Dnosim/iq451-21/026-6561500-4698820

which is what i have. i just used my tv capture card to make a digital copy for backup purposes. and because i could.

amazon review for 'sound of speed':
"Reviewer: kat791 from england
not what i was expecting, but good nonetheless. the leonrad cohen cover 'the tower of song' is way cool, as is the cover of 'my girl'. cool acoustic guitar and the singer's got a nice voice. pretty good. similar to the beta band."

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Why does "Automatic" get so little respect? Yeah, I wish they hadn't used a drum machine, and they were clearly trying to sell out a bit with an album of straight-ahead rock songs. But what great songs they are! And the production hasn't dated any more than that on "Darklands".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

> Psychoanalysis" J&MC Compilation

Something I made myself, out of vids and snippets off TV. If amazon are selling it, I shal go paranoid !

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I love Automatic too. However, the production has dated a little more than Darklands as it has fewer distinguishable electronics. However, Darklands is mostly drum machine too! (some people disagree with me on this point. unfortunately, they are wrong).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

you can get their whistle test performance on one of the bbc whistle test dvds. they do "in a hole" and it is amazingly mesmerising, though sadly not performed in front of bob harris i is sure would have had a coronary... reid, reid and hart are all in bike leathers whilst bobby gillespie sports fetching khaki...

― gerardo francisco, Monday, 11 October 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Somebody talk to me right now and at length about how insanely great Honey's Dead is, and why, with particular reference to "Sundown," "Reverence," "Tumbledown," and "Frequency." Thanking you in advance, I remain.

― xero (xero), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan P to thread...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I finally found an mp3 of the version of "Some Candy Talking" from the NME 7" freebie - and I am finally happy.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The Hardest Walk (Some Kind of Wonderful OST vers.)

Please describe what the difference is between this and the "Psychocandy" version, someone!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

my sister's boyfriend's band supported jim reid last week. i was well impressed! they couldn't have cared less.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Jim Reid gonna pay them back?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

>> The Hardest Walk (Some Kind of Wonderful OST vers.)

>> Please describe what the difference is between this and the
>> "Psychocandy" version, someone!

I believe it has a longer introduction, like a fade-in or something.

Where's the bastard rarities box set?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't imagine that.

Yeah, where?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Somebody talk to me right now and at length about how insanely great Honey's Dead is, and why, with particular reference to "Sundown," "Reverence," "Tumbledown," and "Frequency." Thanking you in advance, I remain.

*drums fingers, whistles idly*

― xero (xero), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The Hardest Walk (Some Kind of Wonderful OST vers.)

Please describe what the difference is between this and the "Psychocandy" version, someone!

It's a completely different recording produced by Stephen Hague. Less abrasive than the album version, the sound is similar to "Some Candy Talking".

That whole soundtrack is amazing, btw.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

So they've reunited and are playing Coachella.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to take anything away, but a JAMC reunion just basically means the Reids have decided to play nice with each other for a day and perform old songs. It's not the biggest deal is all I'm sayin'.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Thus my kinda underwhelmed reaction.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hard to say whether their music is more the kind where it'll be reasy easy to get up and start playing again, or the kind where they'll inevitably seem a bit old and trying-too-hard when they do. (They sounded like they were straining a bit by the fourth LP, actually, but on the other hand if they just remember to act as bored as possible, it'd totally work.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't said this in so long, but it's just like riding a bike:

nabisco otm

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

hey Spencer where did you go to high school...? do you know Robert Lobo?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

At least they'll be playing at night (unlike the hilarious daytime set at Lollapalooza)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah also not personally super-excited about a reunion - maybe if they were geriatric it'd be amusing but the one set I saw of theirs (w/ Spiritualized opening at the Fillmore in the mid-90s) was so bad I have no real wish to see them again...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I do know Robert!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ILX HIGH SCHOOL MAFIA

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

weird - we were college roommates, I'm still in touch with him (Joe Harrington too). Not entirely unrelatedly, he was the first other person I met who owned a copy of "Darklands".

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

So where is that "rarities" box set then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I LOVE "I hate rock and roll" so i'm sure even i'll be pleased.

[ hi spencer! (\:-[0> ]

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I really hope the Coachella show turns into a full-blown reunion tour -- and a handful of Texas shows.

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Their reunion is basically the only thing I'm relatively interested in concerning Coachella. Mostly because I've never seen them as I was too young.

Stephen OTM regarding Texas shows.

― Harpal (harpal), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

Confirmed for Connect Festival at Inverary Castle

Confirmed for Connect Festival at Inverary Castle

― onimo, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

so good he said it twice

― onimo, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Sister Vanilla album out:
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=31585

― koogs, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

So where is that "rarities" box set then?

mark grout (mark grout) on Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:32 (2 months ago)

Yes, dammit. WHERE IS IT? Although there's not much I don't have in some form or other.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

26/04 Pomona, California @ the Glass Housew/ the Icarus Line, more TBA a (not so) secret gig

― onimo, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

lol formatting

date	country	city @ venue	other bands	notes

26/04

	USA

	Pomona, California @ the Glass House

	the Icarus Line, more TBA

	a (not so) secret gig

27/04

	USA

	Indio, California @ Coachella Festival

	Björk, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth and a lot of others

	The line-up will be: Jim Reid, William Reid, Phil King, Mark Crozer, Loz Colbert.

04/07

	Portugal

	Lisbon @ Super Bock Super Rock Festival

	

	 

13/07

	Spain

	Madrid @ Summercase Festival

	

	 

14/07

	Spain

	Barcelona @ Summercase Festival

	

	 

12/08

	Germany

	Hildesheim @ M'era Luna Festival

	

	 

31/08

	UK

	Argyll, Scotland @ Connect Festival

	

	 

01/09

	Ireland

	Stradbally, Laois @ Electric Picnic

― onimo, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

lol that's worse

― onimo, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

How about some dates that are NOT at Festivals?

You know, for those of us that wanna see the Mary Chain, but don't want to pay overinflated ticket prices to wade through a bunch of other crap?

Or do non-Festival gigs just not pay enough to provide the beer habit necessary to make them get on with each other.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I DONT WANNA SEE THEM IN THE DAYTIME!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe there will be a secret warm up gig at the 100 Club.

I haven't got any inside information, I'm just saying, like.

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a big gap before the Connect Festival where I'd expect them to schedule some UK gigs.

That said, I think there's every chance they'll be twatting each other with guitars before they reach Spain and it won't matter.

― onimo, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

SECRET GIG AT SONIC CATHEDRALS, PLS!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

(url)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclcrEpui64(/url)

The infamous 'riot' at North London Poly, with Bobby G. looking very youthful.

― stevo-r, Saturday, 7 April 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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