ONE BY ONE WE DISAPPEAR DAy after DAy and year after year nobody hears becaseu nobody cares
PUT A DAGGER IN MY HEART IF THEY WEREN't THE MOST AMAZING THING IN 1985
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS
GOD IF MANCHESTER WASN'T THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO MUSIC EVER
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
And I know Ned will call me to task. Too bad.
I told you, Im a Chameleons junkie.
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
so long
the storm comes or is it just another shower
is it any wonder?
Primal scream and the TV screen close your eyes
Or I lose my mind completelyplease leave, just go now
Not too many hours from this hour so long...the storm comes or is it just another shower
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Peter Pedro Pierre (Peteski), Monday, 29 January 2007 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce, Thursday, 15 March 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― King Boy Pato, Thursday, 15 March 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― stephen, Thursday, 15 March 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Faisal Shennib, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― stephen, Friday, 16 March 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Saturday, 24 March 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Saturday, 24 March 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I am having a Chameleons day today. "Script of the Bridge" is such a beautiful album. Perfect indoors winter music.
― Trayce, Monday, 11 June 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
And it has "Second Skin" and "Pleasure and Pain", two of my favourite songs.
― Trayce, Monday, 11 June 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I always forget at first that June = winter where you are.
It works well for summer too, fwiw.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I need to get some more Chams, really, I'm totally loving them so much.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Good, good...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Get the Peel Sessions and Radio One sessions for great alternative versions.
― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Somehow I knew Ned would be in the corner nodding approvingly =)
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
YOU GUYS I FOUND SCRIPT OF THE BRIDGE ON VINYL IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE EVER BOUGHT
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
The full twelve song version, I hope.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes indeed! (WREK has the eight-song promo copy and I think it must have been played to death because the sound quality is terrible)
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
the only downside of this version is it doesn't have the spelling errors and subtitled "Up The Down Escalator"
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
80s vinyl is joy and love.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
btw the Bimble freakout upthread is OTM
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Conveniently enough, dig this:
With the full consent of the band a 25th Anniversary release of the Chameleons' album 'Script of The Bridge' is being scheduled for release, probably during December of this year, a little early but just in time for Christmas. A deluxe edition will be available comprising the album itself and an additional disc of extras, alongside a standard one -disc release with less extras for those who might not want to splash out the extra few quid for the full package. Both formats feature an updated sleeve by Reg along with re-vamped inserts and the label is currently exploring various options for re-mastering the original tapes. The Deluxe edition will only be available through mail order via a web site that the label is establishing for the purpose. I'll announce the URL as soon as I have it. The standard one-disc version will be distributed through traditional channels
Mark also says his autobiography is about ready to be published.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, if there's one album that desperately needs remastering, Script is it. This'll be the 4th copy I'll buy, having bought the 8 track LP, then the 12 track, then the CD (and sold the LPs, maybe you bought my old one?).
― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Man, I still didn't pull this album out yet. It's very easy to do, though, at least I know where it is unlike a lot of my collection right now (you wouldn't believe all the CD's on my floor).
Congrats on folks with the LP. I'm afraid I graduated to CD long ago, to my own detriment.
Will Mark publish his autobiography in the same year as Mark E. Smith?
― Bimble, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
In his autumn before the winter...
― Bimble, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, just reading way back up the thread Curt1s sez:
"Soul in Isolation" is really fucking entertaining if you imagine Birdy is singing "I'm a lime in here, I'm a liiiiiime, turn on the light."
I know I have said this before, but I keep doing this with "Swamp Thing", by singing "Picking up the pieces/Half alive in a nine 'til five/bacon eyes."
And the minute my brain registers "bacon eyes" I crack up giggling. IT IS TERRIBLE OF ME.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 05:51 (seventeen years ago) link
we were just talking about this at work today! our distributor has the strange times CD for $6.99 so all the music department employees own it now but script of the bridge is out of print so my colleague offered to burn it for me. them and the comsat angels are department favorites.
― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah I'm having a real Chams/Comsats/For Against/Bell Hollow/Cure trip of late. Love those 80s moody bass riffs and sheerysqually guitars.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link
that's because you're in some kind of magical winterland.
― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Its pretty sweet right now with the grey and the misty rain and miserable wet cold!
― Trayce, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link
sigh. sitting here in texas in june that sounds like a dream.
― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"Bacon Eyes", "I'm a Lime" Hahaaha, you guys are too much! And here I was feeling bad that I posted "Diamonds & Pearls" as the lyric upthread when it's "Denims & Curls" isn't it?
I've never heard of Bell Hollow before.
― Bimble, Friday, 15 June 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
BIMBLE I WILL EMAIL U ABT THEM.
― Trayce, Friday, 15 June 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
ned, someone, for fuxx sake, do something about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chameleons
seriously, it's horrid.
"The Chameleons' unique sound is quite often compared to U2's The Edge."
what the hell kind of sentence is that?
"The Chameleons released their first full-length studio LP, the critically-acclaimed Script of the Bridge, on the Statik label in 1983. The album features a blend of rhythmic electric guitar textures, all of which provide a moody and intense backdrop for Mark Burgess' haunting vocals. After their third release, Strange Times, in 1987 they abruptly disbanded following the sudden death of band manager Tony Fletcher."
something missing? basically.
the history part is so short and sad. let's go, obsessives! i am no expert, so i can't do it. just a mere fan of 24 or 25 year's standing.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I challenge the person doing the new entry to use the words "way better than shit like U2".
― PhilK, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa, I missed this. Um, will look into it.
Anyway -- I recommend the A Long Way From Home album by Black Swan Lane to all Chams fans. It's a new project that Mark is involved in, as one of the two lead vocalists. More of a Sound style album than the Chams, and not quite as aggro as either, but it sounds quite lovely anyway:
http://www.myspace.com/blackswanlane
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 November 2007 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Manchester UK / Atlanta, Georgia, United States
whoa
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 November 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
finally got into these guys with "strange times", recently! sure had been missing out. . .
― andi, Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes you had!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link