The similar Smile compilation by Ride was import only for a couple of years but Creation eventually released that in the UK, shame Anxious records couldn't do the same.
Was Gala by Lush released in the UK? I bought that 2nd hand but I think that's a US import as well.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Sound of Walls (Bimble...), Sunday, 26 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
HORROR HEAD
― Bimble, Monday, 30 July 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Re-listening to those early EPs, one of the big factors that made them interesting is that "viscous" bass sound they used for instance on 'Coulour Hurts' or 'Fait Accompli'
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought one of their albums once and couldn't stand it even though they supposedly sounded like stuff I did like.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 9 August 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, it's been a long time since I heard Gift -- fantastic album.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
They just weren't very good. It's really quite sinful to suggest otherwise.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
And you're just knee-jerk hating jackass. Cosmic balance is restored.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Missed this a few weeks ago, but I'm enjoying the continually mounting ILM evidence that Bimble and I are actually the same person:
TS: Curve's "Horror Head" vs. Garbage's entire discography
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Did Scylla (Toni Halliday's band between Curve breaking up and getting back together again) ever release anything apart from 1 song on the Showgirls soundtrack? I saw them live in '95 and they were quite good.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"And you're just knee-jerk hating jackass. Cosmic balance is restored."
Why would I hate knee-jerks?
― PhilK, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
in addition to being not very good they also screwed up a potentially fine jamc album with their pedal hopping overproduced agenda setting ways
― cw, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Huh?
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
honey's dead.
― cw, Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
What, because the drummer played on it??
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
...with trademark overly fussy curve drumming. and the producer produced it. with a wall of nasty curve fx gloss.so, yes.
― cw, Thursday, 23 August 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
well Alan Moulder produced half of the records that came out around that time, so I wouldn't define him as the Curve producer, but anyway... Still my fave JAMC album with 'Psychocandy'
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah it seems a little unfair to blame Curve just for having the same producer as them!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
honey's dead sounds specifically modeled on curve to me, it has the same studio tricks, the same bombast, the same drumming, the same fussiness. i initially totally loved hd and also the ten little boys ep but found they both palled pretty quickly. robin guthrie made a similiar mess of felt's ignite the seven canons. assuming bands with vaguelly aligned aethetics would benefit from the same production job.
― cw, Thursday, 23 August 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Next you're going to be claiming that MBV "sound like Curve" on account of production links.
It's a strange and revisionist attitude to take.
Oh wait, it's reverse sexism, isn't it, claiming that Curve wrote all the songs of every band Moulder worked with because Halliday and Moulder were an item at the time? ;-)
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 23 August 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
CW can't admit that at the time JAMC were a bunch of lazy sods who were too out of it to get it together for an album. I saw them at Lollapalooza in '92 and again in '93 and both times they stunk in a completely non-interesting way. It didn't help that Spiritualized and Curve were opening up for them too.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
classic
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 23 August 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Toni Halliday's appearance on Leftfields "Original" = Classic!
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Toni has two new tracks up: http://www.myspace.com/chatelainemusic
Mostly piano-driven, but with a familiar Big Drum Machine sound. Described as "Ramped up Enya"
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Beyond the title, it sounds like Toni has been wondering how the Cocteaus would sound covering Fleetwood Mac.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://a437.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/73/m_0524b0321e070f51a50a84332edeb93c.jpg
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
:-((
This picture still makes me sad. Anyway, I recently did a 180 wrt 'Gift', it really is a great album. Maybe even their best full-length release.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Toni has no business having blonde L.A. hair. She is the quintessential goth ice queen, after all.
Gift, sure, but it is no Doppelganger, not to mention early singles & eps.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Having written that, I also have to rep for Cuckoo, which is a phenomonal album which got lost b/w genres/trends/styles when it was released.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
as most people on this thread it seems, I felt really disappointed when Doppelganger came out. I still find it too monotonous and a bit bland overall
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
bdx, i see what you are saying (and sympathize), but I find it monotonous in the same delicious way that Psychocandy or, say, the blues are monotonous.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Remember you and meWe laughed 'til we cried
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
spc eco > curve (excepting the early EPs and a third of the debut)
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Somehow I'd missed that latest turn from Garcia.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
it may yet wear on me but right now it's amongst my favourite music of the year
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Thursday, 26 November 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really happy every time this thread is revived
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I still can't believe I was lucky enough to see them twice in their first incarnation.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta love YouTube -- just earlier this month someone uploaded this performance of "Die Like a Dog" in San Diego from 1992:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwvqoBgdow
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously the strobe light effects there are seizure-inducing.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Same here. My t-shirt from the "Cuckoo" tour is still going strong! (and is officially the oldest concert t-shirt I own)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, I still have mine as well. I believe we were both at that show making fun of Engines of Aggression.
Meanwhile I am now reminded of a pretty stellar moment of lyric/music combination courtesy of "Missing Link":
Accidentally we talked about the pastAccidentally we talked about the pastAccidentally we talked about the pastAccidentally we talked -- too -- MUCH!*BAM*
Very well observed, really.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I also like the Trent Reznor mix of said song since like the original song it was released in 1993, aka the year when all the NIN freaks worldwide were *desperate* beyond measure to get some sense of whatever the hell 'the next album' would be. The part nearly three minutes in when he adds/emphasizes this huge background piano (?) doominess in the mix is pretty spectacular.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
still can't believe I was lucky enough to see them twice in their first incarnation.
Same here. And didn't we establish we were at those same two shows, ie. Rollercoaster tour at the Palladium and then at the Palace?
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 26 November 2009 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I think quite a few of us were. Until the MBV onslaught over the past months, Curve at the Palace was easily the loudest show I've been to.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 07:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I loved that Cuckoo tour t-short. I was coerced in stupidly giving it away...
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I never got to see Curve live - I did see Toni's short lived post-breakup band Scylla live in '95 tho. They were pretty good actually, heavier than Curve.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Good god, I'm trying to imagine that and having a hard time doing so.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 November 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
1000000000% CLASSIC FUCK GARBAGE.
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Friday, 27 November 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link