― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
Extraordinary!
I first started seeing my partner C* towards the end of '77!
Admittedly there was a small gap (a trifling matter of 23 years) in the middle of our relationship....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
Peel Sessions (fantastic!)Remains (not fun)Live At The BBC (alright)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
Peel sessions CDThe 'story' video.And a book 'homme fatale' or some such.
I notice how book and vid both end with 'the new stuff is fantastic' i.e. about to come out (and in both cases had to wait what, ten years and a heartthrobs team up?)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Robert Moore (treble), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
As you've probably realised, that bit in intalics in my last post was actually supposed to be a link.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― southern lights (southern lights), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
POO? Erm, well, Flowers Die.
― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 10 June 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago) link
how about 'I love my mother but i wouldn't want to have sex with her'
― sonofstan (sonofstan), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
"Another girl another planet" seems very incongruous in that phone company ad. Doesn't sit well with the bright and cheery visuals and the bright and cheery vibe they are hoping to give off at all.
― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, did anyone see them on Jools Holland last night?
A very wonky version of AGAP, but still magnificent to see them again. Vocals were VERY dodgy, both Perrett's and Perry and Mair's backing vocals. The performance was pretty energetic though. Great tone from John's magnificently battered olympic white Strat, although he simplified the middle solo a bit (to accomodate for aging fingers?) He's still pretty much my favourite guitarist anyway. Perrett was playing a horrible PRS (ugh!) instead of his Tele and Mair was playing a very unusual Les Paul bass. Mike Kellie looked exactly the same, and as you'd expect, played like a God.
They'll be on Saturday's show doing 2 songs I should expect.
― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, I would love to see that. I guess it'll show up over on the Ovation channel in a few years.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw them live last year. Good. Not loud enough though.
― Tom D., Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic, if only : for Years they would say "he doesn't look forty" in a good way. Now he looks like a biltong.
I suspected as much as on that old VHS video documentary he was interviewed with a backing light...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Kind of annoying that you can't find this thread using the "Thread Search" option.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah but google came up trumps.
Biltong - yes, sadly.
There's supposed to be a new album out later in the year according to Mojo.
― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
He is the portrait of Keith Richards in Keith Richards loft.
OK, I'll stop now.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't POO, can POV
AGAP Lovers of Today Prisoners (studio) Flaming Torch ("in the wrong place at the wrong time," with the archaeology theme, hilarious) The Whole of the Law (Yo La tengo do a pretty great cover of it too)
― hugo, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Classic.
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/the-only-ones-the-only-ones-round-50-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Monday, 27 May 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
CLASSIC.
― chromecassettes, Monday, 27 May 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to the Special View comp recently and still prefer the Peel Sessions by a wide margin.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 27 May 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
peel sessions CD is definitely my fave by them.
― tylerw, Monday, 27 May 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
The Peel Sessions are the whole of the law.
― Oulipo Traces (on a Cigarette) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 May 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Dud. Can't stand them, and I don't want to hear 'Another Girl Another Planet' ever a-fucking-gain, tbh.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 27 May 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
bummer.
― chromecassettes, Monday, 27 May 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Peel Sessions are the whole of the law.only problem with them is that they don't have that song!
― tylerw, Monday, 27 May 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUSgrAv7VQ
What a song.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Dud. Can't stand them, and I don't want to hear 'Another Girl Another Planet' ever a-fucking-gain, tbh.is this song really popular/ubiquitous in the UK?
― tylerw, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Was on an TV advert for a while. It's fairly well known, I suppose.
― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Friday, 13 December 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
RIP Mike Kellie
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 20 January 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
RIP :(
― A Simple Twist of McFate (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Hadn't remembered that Mike Kellie had played on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory."
― Disco Blecch and His Exo-Planettes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Man, there are lots of covers of "Another Girl, Another Planet" on YouTube. Including one by the Libertines with Peter Perrett himself singing.
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 March 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
I guess a bunch of them probably were inspired by a Blink 182 version.
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 March 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
Phew, was fearing PP RIP.
― Ongar Is An Energy (Tom D.), Monday, 20 March 2017 09:20 (seven years ago) link
Reading 'Squeeze: Song by Song' at the moment and discovered that Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze was also in an early incarnation of The Only Ones and even lived with Perrett. Perrett hooked them up with Miles Copeland got them their first deal.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 20 March 2017 09:52 (seven years ago) link
Lot of good Only Ones content on private FB Squeeze group.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
Well not that much really but sometimes some good pictures like today.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Db6qxWyo0
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QlHcRndn4
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
The only thing I ever had was Special View, which is not a good place to start, I've been told on ilm, but his sheepy whiney voice was what turned me off, don't know how much another producer or better songs could do to fix that (songs might've been ok, but voice v. distracting)
― dow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link
Peel Sessions is the one to get.
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:20 (one year ago) link
That's what I'm told, but vox demotivates me even to check those Peel tracks posts. Speaking of Squeeze, they're gonna tour w Psy Furs.
― dow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DxXFxGc_Cw
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
The old compilation “immortal story” is very good, but I love the voice. “The beast” is my fave but the Peel version is definitely better.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
I put the 1st CD of the Sanctuary 2CD on and my player refused to play it. Need to fix player still.Otherwise would have that first l.p. and a half on rotation this week.Do enjoy those first 2 anyway and whatever live stuff I've heard. Guitar gets more ballroom patchy live QMS like in places.Perret wound up being sent to school at Bancrofts which was across the road from my grandparents. I think he came from the other side of London though.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:13 (one year ago) link
2CD set is Why Don't You Kill Yourself on Edsel not Sanctuary. Pretty good though either way.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:16 (one year ago) link
If you don't like Peter Perrett's voice you're not going to get very far with the Only Ones.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:28 (one year ago) link
Well maybe---in more recent times, I've learned how to listen around the singer when I like the band well enough to try, and these musos did sound better when I tried Special View on a better stereo than mine. What the hell, I might like him better now too.
― dow, Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
Special View is a great place to start, who says otherwise?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3g4qpxJ86ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LeHlV9ZOjIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFxvILFrOnE
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
How about this one?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNWaEmSyC9A
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 May 2023 10:58 (one year ago) link
There's always this one...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW0ey6eydU8
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
Surely enough versions for a tribute album.
― dow, Thursday, 18 May 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
You can’t put your arms around a memory.
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 May 2023 01:46 (one year ago) link
Did we invoke them?. Are there other shows?
Thursday 3rd AugustTHE ONLY ONES£23 | £25 [+10% booking fee]Doors open 8pm18+ showPlaying their first full show in 13 years and the first since the sad passing of drummer Mike Kellie, we’re honoured to bring you THE ONLY ONES.
Playing their first full show in 13 years and the first since the sad passing of drummer Mike Kellie, we’re honoured to bring you THE ONLY ONES.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 08:42 (one year ago) link