Been listening to early Verve

the drop in quality from Storm in Heaven to A Northern Soul was so disappointing at the time

lol wrong

all the songs (except for the last one, which as pointed out sounds more like an early Spiritualized song) blur together for me, the similarity is just a wash. A Northern Soul is the transitional album, but it has more variety, actual songs qua songs etc.

A Northern Soul is wonderful too, albeit not quite for the same reasons. They all are, frankly – even Forth isn't half bad..

That said, the s/t EP is the one I've played the most.

I just realized R Ashcroft is married to Kate Radley! and she is very tall.

I've just 'found' the Voyager 1 live album which I'd not previously been aware of. It sounds fantastic and McCabe is on one.

I think A Northern Soul sounds like a 'younger' album in a number of ways. It might just be that Ashcroft's weird mix of saying thank you to girls and misplaced messianic fervour is more pronounced. Either way, it's still magnificent.

Didn't he, ah, pinch KR off Jason Pierce?

Yeah, I know they toured together in 92. Not sure if that's when it happened.
Spiritualised and Verve, like

Yep, that was the start of it. RA and KR were together by A Northern Soul.

Which I happened to listen to on Tuesday, and which is still awesome. Obsessed with dying alone and being grateful for sex. So adolescent. But so powerful. And the guitar, holy fuck. No one since.

pierce and ashcroft have a similar way with cliched/meaningless song titles

I wonder if Ashcroft wrote the So It Goes 'I'm just a poor little wifeless fella' coda for JP?

Didn't he, ah, pinch KR off Jason Pierce?

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, and I'm glad he did, because it lead to Pierce writing 'Broken Heart'