I saw them this past summer and they were pretty much the same as they've always been
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Fuck, that 2015 video hit me pretty hard.
Same.
Discovered them on the More Mondo comp of North Carolina bands. "Darker Days" really struck me and I tracked down the album, which never really clicked. Need to figure out if the MM recording is different than the album.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
I'm fairly certain that the MM version is the same. BUT.
There is a UK and a USA version of Darker Days. I have them both but I don't think they were remixed (different track sequence, and if memory serves, maybe an added song on one or the other).
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
I was in Louisiana at the time and we had Cowboy Mouth and Better Than Ezra doing the college circuit. I was so envious of the south east to have better bands than we had. I'd take the worst Connells song over the best songs from either of those two bands.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
TVT reissued it in the US when Boylan Heights came out.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 December 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link
Can confirm this song was a massive hit here in Germany. I and everyone I know has never heard anything else by the Connells tho.
― Duke, Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
Sorry I was living in the UK when this was released, so it was certainly a huge hit there.
― Duke, Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link