― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 January 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link
When I saw them live just before they split up they were doing a song called "Karate" - I wonder if this ever surfaced under another name? I can't remember anything about it other than it being fantastic - nothing they were playing that night sounded remotely like anything on either DI Go Pop or Technicolor. (It sounded better actually.)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 18 January 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
Tom you shouldn't be allowed to say things like that.
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 January 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 18 January 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 January 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 January 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 1 February 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 February 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 1 February 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
I mean, could you send an extra one to cozen that he could pass on, to me, ned?
thanks a lot!!
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 1 February 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 1 February 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago) link
and, thanks ned!
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 1 February 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Monday, 2 February 2004 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 2 February 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Bill E (bill_e), Monday, 2 February 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
thanks, cozen.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
― william (william), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
Still, they'll be re-released one day won't they? I mean, there is a God isn't there?
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
I think I'll e-mail this Tavis guy and offer myself to him if he re-releases the EPs...
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
I e-mailed a nice man at Rough Trade Records who told me that in fact One Little Indian have the rights to those particular records.
― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
I have sent them an e-mail. If they still refuse to re-print them, I'm going to start an online petition.
― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 February 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 6 February 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link
― no opinion, Saturday, 7 February 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
this arrived in the post today. much difft from technicolor huh?
rjg fix up look sharp.
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 8 February 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
Why does everyone dismiss the first album so? Because it wasn't as sophisticated as D.I. Go Pop or the EPs? It still sounds fabulous.
From my one listen through, "D.I. Go Pop" sounds like the best song on the EPs--just unlike anything else I've ever heard. "Waking Up," the only song of theirs I knew, is wonderful, but it wasn't the half of it, really.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
It's nice that you wrote the AMG reviews on the EPs. Negates the need for me to ask for your opinions on those.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
Durutti Column (maybe snatches of that "Return Of..." debut) and the Chameleons are definitely vague comparison points. Also, they're at times like an avant-Go-Betweens, with tracks like "The Atheist's Burden"; its melody and the singer's voice carry that Go-Betweens lilt.There are very pleasing connections for me in the use of sound, with the debut Matt Johnson record, "Burning Blue Soul"; vocals certainly less demonstrative though. "At The End of The Line" I'd suggest was one of those that reminds me at fleeting moments of BBS; a similarly thick, crystalline texture.
Overall, they seem to have a genuinely original sound, and crucially can't be easily pigeonholed. It is a sundazed, avant-pop, I guess... but such a statement doesn't do them justice, esp. considering that within these 5 EPs there is quite a variety of approach.
He he... just listening to "It's A Kid's World", around the 3:30 mark 'til the fade; the Peter Howell Dr Who theme is sampled, is it not? :-) Who would have thought "Lust For Life" could be so productively combined with that...?
― Tom May (Tom May), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link