found a decent-ish copy of We Care today and despite a few rot induced black spots, my cd rip seems to have sorted them out (cd player in the car didn't, hence i spotted them en route back from the charity shop session).bloody hell, how insanely fantastic is this album.i have had their second album for years and enjoyed it as and when, but nothing prepared me for the 8+ minute of 'i'll do ya' on their debut.basically, this is the best use of a pound coin in a very long time.
― mark e, Thursday, 13 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
I am surprised that album holds up at all! (Used to love it back in the day)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 February 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
Both albums are still pretty good, it's true.
Tricky's presence on the debut was quite welcome.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 February 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
until i scoured the credits (and subsequently this thread), i had no idea re the Tricky involvement with this band.
― mark e, Thursday, 13 February 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
Saw them on tour together back in the 90s.
― everything, Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
Just wrote this 25th anniversary commemoration of We Care. Enjoy!
https://rockandrollglobe.com/rock/alternative-rock/the-guy-with-the-best-nads-gets-his-armpit-licked-whales-we-care-celebrates-25-years/
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
really enjoyed that.cheers for the heads up sir.
― mark e, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
awesome article
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 15 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Oh wow! Excellent, thanks!
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 15 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Thanks for posting! I would just quibble with your evaluation of "I'm Cold" –
A worthy tune on its own, but no listener is going pay much attention this deep into the album.
– I sure did, at the time; I thought it was transfixing and very effective (it's one of rock's many great "car crash songs").
Also, nice job pointing out the risible boner in Chris Molanphy's CMJ New Music Monthly review (also interesting to compare with his review of the Garbage album, in the same issue).
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Saturday, 15 August 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
I love "I'm Cold" but it's a really long CD.
thanks for reading, everyone!
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 16 August 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
Found a video of them performing "Don't Dream it's Over" on Swedish TV in the style of Jesu (before Jesu). Was not expecting that and would live to hear it in better quality.
― michaellambert, Sunday, 16 August 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
That article is a real service to humanity Nate. Thank you.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 16 August 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
Wonderful piece, Nate. I remember seeing the “Hobo Humpin’” video in early ‘94, then not finding the CD single until six months later, THEN not finding the album until six months after that. Worth the wait, and I was surprised at how consistent the record was.Isn’t Rock and Roll Globe owned/founded by Ken Kurson? The same Ken Kurson who proved too toxic for a position with the Trump administration?https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/business/ken-kurson-jared-kushner.html
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 20 August 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsmelORwPRI
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 24 April 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
One of my offerings for our current singles round-up, in a 90s issue of clemenza's printzine, Radio On:
"We Care," Whale: Yes they do. Thus the casual whomp of a sky-size tailfin, the headphones within headphones crittersystems making a beat for and between Cia Berg's chuckles, chortles, guffaws and giggles of whispered gossip, riddles, confessions, put-downs, put-ons and other confidences. Not non-stop; this really is a band. But she's got this kind of parody of the cosmic rock waif goin' on, re Janis/Anissette/Patti/Tori and a lot more-including her own evident tendencies. So there's also some protective rock caricature at work (the immortal "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe," for instance). Some bad stuff has happened to her, but she doesn't want to be too straight about it or too twisted. There's the incredibly clean-chopping "I Miss Me," and there's this other thing, which I've suppressed memory of the title of, so I won't get up now and go dial up that track "only"-it's so long and so stoning, in terms of sympathy and exasperation and sheer stonery (eventually like riding in a caravan on the motorway where Cliff Burton [and Metallica, basically] died, listening to the Beatles sing, "Picture yourself in a boat on the river," over and over, while clouds and smoke and deflating balloons imprinted with Edvard Munch's "The Scream" blow past your windscreen). Yes, they're Swedish. (8.0)
― dow, Sunday, 24 April 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link