I have fallen hard for this record…I heard it vaguely at the time, but oddly heard Four Calendar more, based on a co-worker playing it a lot in the office in 1994…
the title cut made me cry as I was walking around Prospect Park on this glorious spring day, watching little girls play and thinking that my 16 month old will be doing that soon. Its the slide after the choruses that gets me…is it Guthrie or Raymonde that played the —I hesitate to use the following term— solos?
― veronica moser, Friday, 11 May 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
How did I miss this poll? I'd have gone for Fifty-Clown. Liz's voice sounds like a choir of angels there.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
Fifty-fifty clown of course.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah that track is gorgeous. Re the solo - the fairly-literal video shows Fraser, Guthrie, Raymonde performing (vocal, Gretsch, Fender VI) as well as Mitsuo Tate (Jazzmaster) and Lincoln Fong (?) (Strat) who were in the touring band. I think it shows Guthrie doing the solo on a hideous green PRS.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnYw4EwYGc
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Oops, no, Ben Blakeman on Strat. Neither he nor Tate played on the record I believe.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
yknow, being that I'm a novice, It's hard for me to hear who the artists that 'fluenced them might be. They did something with Harold budd, but I don't hear minimalism. Were they into eno and the berlin trilogy?
― veronica moser, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
It doesn't help much but I know they were way into The Birthday Party at the outset, it's why they sent their demo to 4AD.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
best album ever
― flopson, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
Kinda surprised at the low showing for Iceblink Luck tbh
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
I hear my baby crying
― Free jazz baser (Ross), Sunday, 13 May 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
I love that you can hear Liz's (quite strong!) Scottish accent on Road River and Rail. Does she do that anywhere else? It's particularly strong in the chorus and on the title-line.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Rrroad Rrrivurr and Rrray-ull.
Rrright?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
Love the anecdote that Simon Raymonde was delighted she'd written a song about fishing - y'know, "Rod, River and Reel".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 31 August 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
+1 for I wear yr ring
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 31 August 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link