C/D: Ruby

Who in turn weren't as fun as Daisy Chainsaw. Who themselves were quite shit.

I'm pretty sure I saw Silverfish live somewhere...

I never heard the second album, but the lead-off single "Grace" was fantastic - not as dark or twisted as anything on Salt Peter, but it had a nice groove.

Er, I never heard Silverchair either.

There was love for Morcheeba now?

Sneaker Pimps were great, Moloko still are, and even Morcheeba had their moments in their Big Calm era. Dubstar trip-hop?! (But then - Moloko trip-hop?!)

The second album is good but a bit too laidback, plus the jazzy textures and drum & bass beats were less surprising than the sort of genre fusions the first album mined (eg. "Tiny Meat" - a better Pixies song than "Hey Ya"!). But it's still really nice and menacing. I should listen to it again.

Very nice take Tim has on Salt Peter, I'll have to go back again and relisten to it. I lurved Silverfish and was very pleased to hear about this thing coming out when it did come out and I was not disappointed -- there's one song in particular towards the end of the album that has this strange, dramatic rise in the chorus which I can't quite describe to my satisfaction, but it's so memorable and striking to me that it almost overwhelms the album. It's not overblown, it's just...like a spotlight moment in pure black and white.

*reads lyrics, thinks to self 'Ha! That must be it, it's the song Tim's talking about.'*

So I'll find out when that song plays but in the meantime, the rest of it. "Something tells me I've been here before..."

The other big sonic cue for the album is the disco freak-out section of "Closer To God", I guess.

Thank you Dan for making me pull out this album again!

We never had Mountain Dew in the UK (pity, I really like it), so it must have been re-cut over some other soft drink by the company. Definitely the same advert though.

Decided to just Google it. It was for Pepsi, and she did a version of "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" . That's bugged me for years. God Blass the internet.

Yes indeed! I hadn't thought about it in quite a long time and now I think I might enjoy it more than I did then.

I think her knack for the (usually extremely filthy) ear-catching turn of phrase sometimes overshadows the fact that, while her lyrics are rarely coherent in the conventional narrative sense, the accumulation of random tenuously linked snatches of sex/angst/sadism/wordplay usually result in an overall situation which makes sense.

Listening to Salt Peter again, it struck me how well it's dated - I'd say even better than Maxinquaye, and certainly better than Protection.

Silverfish was okay. and had the excellent "HIPS LIPS TITS POWER" t-shirt. yes.

i've inexplicably been jamming salt peter and 'grace' again this week and they still sound great! they should not be as forgotten as they are

also 'paraffin', jesus, so creepy. OLD...MAN'S...ASS...

Youve painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -
Oh ruby
Dont take your love to town

Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, ruby I realize,
But it wont be long Ive heard them say until I not around
Oh ruby
Dont take your love to town

It wasnt me that started that old crazy asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, its true that Im not the man I used to be...
Oh ruby
I still need some company.

Shes leavin now cause I heard the slammin iof the door
The way I know Ive heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move Id get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh ruby
For gods sake turn around

I'm gonna listen to this again tonight.

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http://waitingforlight.viinyl.com/

Interview from a few weeks back

http://www.chaoscontrol.com/lesley-rankine-ruby-2013/

NAOOOOOW
NAOOOOOW
NAOOOOOW
YOU SILLY GIRL

Liking the new album

Did someone say American tour?

https://www.facebook.com/RubyLesleyRankine/photos/a.529159337107817.120075.408149075875511/2072852286071840/?type=3

yeah wow weird coincidence i just randomly listened to RtSF yesterday for the first time in ... well def the first time in the two thousand teens

(the good tracks are still good)

Uhh, what the hell!? Was just listening to her yesterday and wondering what happened to my ca. 1995 Ruby t-shirt. Had zero idea she was still doing anything musical.

The fuck is going on up in here!

(By which I mean: I was writing as tlg was posting. Weird-ass coincidence.)

Zeitgeist. She's got a good Twitter feed too BTW.

https://twitter.com/lesleyrankine/

Also, catch up!

https://rubyofficial.bandcamp.com/

Salt Peter man, what a tune

paraffin (richard fearless dub) is the one i kept hitting rewind on

i also inexplicably liked the danny saber tiny meat mix even though it sounded the most stereotypically "blade end credits"

Thw new Portishead was going to be called Alien and out last spring, I think. But wasn't. I find it very hard to imagine that a new Portishead album could be that great or thrilling these days but would dearly love to be wrong about this.
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:51 AM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just wanna frame this post!

Okay the show in SF tonight with Martin Atkins is immediate top 5 of my all time shows. Just an amazing raconteur and performer both.