Oh yes - Countdown by Pulp.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
They know what it mean, yeah yeaeh yeah yeah...
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I see Petridish has given the "new" Oasis album a two-star review but four stars.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, "Pulp on Fire", not a number one hit single, but.
You see, it's all in the detail...
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i34.tinypic.com/akv403.jpgThe sleeve was nice, if not exactly fitting
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 October 2008 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
As opposed to a cheery picture of them being pushed off the top of Blackpool Tower...
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
It was all down after that.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh dear.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
You started it!
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
.. sunbeam!
Luckily they landed on a passing Frank Carson and we all saw the funny side.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Eh, well, so much for that.
Right, this is actually a "good" band in a lot of respects - they play well together, it sounds "tight" (which is a good thing w/this kind of sound) and doesn't sound pro-tooled, some of the arrangements are quite imaginative, there is a decent amount of variety, it's not too samey. Occasionally they sound like a stone roses 1st album knock-off, but a lot of the time they have a sound that is recognisably theirs, I mean, it sounds like "the bluetones", not like "rip off of band b". The guitarist is very good.
But, they never quite push it over the top, thus it's all a bit tame and a bit soporific. The singer can hold a tune, but he doesn't have enough, I dunno, enough "push" to front the band. The tunes generally are weak, "Slight Return" excepted, a lot of the album sounds like unfinished backing tracks. I guess at some point in the past a band like this would have had an A&R man select a bunch of tunes from tin pan alley songwriters to cover for the weak numbers of the band's. Maybe. I don't know. "Slight Return" is still very good, the rest of it a bit meh.
Maybe next time I look in a charity shop I will find a Dodgy album or maybe even a kopy of "K" by kula shaker, who knows.
The cover is very good. It looks like it should be a Levitation album, somehow.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Good summation. They were always a bit too introspective to really grab one's attention, weren't they.
― Neil S, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Lots of copies of the second Kula Shaker album going spare in charity shops at the moment.
If you have to pay more than two quid for the entire complete recorded works of Dodgy you're being diddled.
Levitation! I've seen their album knocking about in a few places.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, btw: Every Oxfam w/music has a host of cassettes, especially the music branches.
I got the "history of the fairports" as I wanted to know which bits of their history I'd like, after being surprised by "unhalf" and a bit bored by "liege"... "John Lee" was alright, the rest a bit hohum, so I guess I have all I need.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
.. for 50p.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Not all of them do.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I admit, the reading one is particularly good in this respect.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
One CDR I found in Paddington was a burned copy of "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End", which was nice.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to resist the obvious punchline there.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
IN HIS FORTIES AND STILL UNUSUAL!
― Cat Concern Charity Shop (Masonic Boom), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Levitation's 2 albums, "Coterie" and "Need for Not" are very good, still.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Need For Not's the one that keeps turning up. Like millions, I didn't know there was nother one.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
A-nother one.
i didn't know there were 2 Levitation albums either. i have one album by them, no idea what its called though. buried deep deep deep in the archive.
― mark e, Friday, 3 October 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
There is another Lev album that only got released in Australia but you could get copies over here pretty easily.It's called Meanwhile Gardens and unfortunately it's got the replacement vocalist after Terry left and he's pretty 'meh', butthere are copies of the album with Terry singing and it's grand, anyone wants one let me know.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh, I'd be up for a copy of that! I got the import which is good in parts, I suppose, but I also got the "even when your eyes are open" single which has got terry singing on it, and that's much better.
You wouldn't have Dark Star "Geneva" as well, by any chance?
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got a bunch of unreleased Lev stuff and I've always been meaning to get Geneva but keep forgetting, I could put my hands on a copy easily. Send me a pm. Dark Star might be reforming btw.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
1st Levitation album, "Coterie" was a mini, with most of the tracks from the 2 eps, a couple of live tracks, and this great track "it's time" which I thought was their best one.
Dark Star might be reforming btw.
Oh man, I hope so. the only band I've EVER seen that was better than Dark Star was Van Der Graaf Generator, and even then, maybe. I heard the Dragons singles w/the 3 guys from Dark Star backing, they were OK, but not the real deal.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
(webmail sent)
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Dragons is actually just David, Bic and Laurence we just depping for some gigs.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I think someone told me Bic was doing guitar tech stuff for MBV recently. (webmail also sent).
I've never heard any Levitation, will check them out.
― bocken (j.o.n.a), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
haha before i open this thread the first thing i think of is 'bluetones'
― jonty alouette (electricsound), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:23 (7 minutes ago)
Last thing I saw was "Here are the Roses" (which I liked!) a year ago already, I'm out of date, obv.
David F's youtube channel is as good a place as any:
http://www.youtube.com/user/OHMrecordings
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh it's actually that David F. Thanks, will check it out when I'm at a computer with sound. Brings us back to Octopus..
― bocken (j.o.n.a), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
It's "in his MID-forties and still unusual" :-P
Ah, Sir Henry. One of the comedy greats.
Oh, and I might just take you up on that offer, MaresNest...
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I'vee often tried to watch that film, but I nod out pretty much each time.
One day...
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
The film? I've never seen the film. I'm talking about the unparalleled audio recording.
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Why don't Nanny State Politically Correct Channel 4 screen it earlier instead of wasting our hard-earned screens with How To Dress Naked On Location and telling people how to live their tax-paying lives in FREE BRITAIN????
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
The film is well weird. DO NOT watch when loaded.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I d/l'd a bunch of audio (Peel sessions, etc) that I'm working through.
At times you get that "Oh, that's an old joke. Hang on, this is probably where eit came from and who invented it in the first place"
"You broke wind in front of her majesty""I'm sorry, I didn't know it was her turn.."
That sort of thing....
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
best line is obviously "My dear lady...I wouldn't even have liked to have been the first man"
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm afraid this is going to be an understandable mistake"
Oh god...so many
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Charity shops in the smoke must be a slightly different beast to the ones up north. I've never seen half the stuff Marcello's listed in any up here (Lamb/Jack/Ride/Alpha).
Anyway the elephant in the room is surely this one...
http://missskind.no.sapo.pt/dbimg/Republica-Republica199611392_f.jpg
― Billy Dods, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Part of me wishes "Ready To Go" was still blared before kick-off at every Football League fixture in England
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it a part you can have amputated?
― snoball, Friday, 3 October 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe you should hear the nu-Britpop crap they've replaced it with...
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I note the second wave of nu-Britpop is breaking through to the charity shop massive; Razorlight, Bloc Party and the Kaiser Chiefs now all regulars.
― Checking My French, Checking-Checking My French (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 3 October 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Menswear - Nuisance
Having just seen the cover for this album I realize I've been seeing it for years (decades actually) in charity shops and bargain bins without knowing (or caring) what it was.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2024 13:14 (three months ago) link
I wonder what are the best selling CDs in charity shops, as opposed to the most common ones.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:01 (three months ago) link