Kinda bummed I can't vote for "American Squirm." It was only on the US Labour? I think in the UK it was the b-side of a split single with Elvis Costello?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, it was the a-side, by "Nick Lowe and His Sound" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" was the b-side. I wonder what it's like to listen to that album with "Endless Grey Ribbon" instead? Does the whole thing grind to a halt for that track?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"I like the singles on Pure Pop/Jesus but I find Labour Of Lust to be a lot more satisfying a listen"
otm i think
― Zeno, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's about right.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
cracking up
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
this is where he looks a little like mark e smith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNJz53uAL5s&feature=related
― Zeno, Monday, 10 December 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
So is Labour of Lust not getting a reissue?
― Jazzbo, Monday, 10 December 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
no,but maybe next year they will get the "30th Anniversary Edition" it also desrves
― Zeno, Monday, 10 December 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to be the Jesus of Lame and say "Cruel to be Kind."
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 10 December 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Nick himself said that the reason his early solo albums were out of print was because, as the licences in various countries were expiring, he was regaining the rights to the albums and wanted to release them once he could do so everywhere simultaneously. So in Geir's opinion, it is Nick Lowe who should be sent to the Hague - though since rapists and mass murderers get off easy there, Nick'd probably spend 11 minutes in the poke, if found guilty.
Here's the expanded tracklist:
Jesus Of Cool: 30th Anniversary Edition:
01 Music For Money 02 I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass 03 Little Hitler 04 Shake And Pop 05 Tonight 06 So It Goes 07 No Reason 08 36 Inches High 09 Marie Provost 10 Nutted By Reality 11 Heart Of The City (live) 12 Shake That Rat 13 I Love My Label 14 They Called It Rock 15 Born A Woman 16 Endless Sleep 17 Halfway To Paradise 18 Rollers Show 19 Cruel To Be Kind (original version) 20 Heart Of The City 21 I Don't Want The Night To End
That's all thirteen tracks from both the US and UK album versions, plus eight tracks previously on his rarities compilation "The Wilderness Years" and the early (cool) disco version of "Cruel To Be Kind," which was on his box set, but nowhere else CD-wise.
It skips these early number from "The Wilderness Years":
Fool Too Long Let's Go To The Disco Everybody Dance Bay City Rollers, We Love You Allorolla Part 1 Truth Drug So Heavy Keep It Out Of Sight Heart (demo) I Got A Job
Hopefully these songs will show up on the reissue of "Labour Of Lust," because (if I'm not mistaken) there is only one released song ("Basing Street") not on either previous UK or US albums. The albums shared:
Cruel To Be Kind / Cracking Up / Big Kick, Plain Scrap! / Born Fighter / You Make Me / Skin Deep / Without Love / Dose Of You / Love So Fine / Switchboard Susan
The British album had: Endless Grey Ribbon The US album had: American Squirm
That leaves room for the leftover tracks, even if it doesn't make sense chronologically.
― deedeedeextrovert, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Good news. Hopefully "Labour Of Lust" is back in sale again shortly as well.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow! The first time that my pick was #1.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought "36 Inches High" was going to get at least one RIP Jim Ford sympathy vote.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Missed the vote but would've gone for "Marie Provost." Misspelling, mispronouncing, and in general not giving a shit (about a truly tragic tale, y'all), Lowe created the best popist fight song since "The Great Pretender."
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Marie Provost" was the surprise here, really. Didn't expect a non-single to do that well here.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
But, Geir, poor Marie "became a doggie's dinner". Who could argue with that?
― Ioannis, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
And it was a single, or at least the lead track on the "Bowi" e.p.
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 December 2007 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh hang on, that was "Born a woman". As you were.
Eh, so it goes.
― gigabytepicnic, Thursday, 20 December 2007 08:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Officially out today. And so it goes.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
but where it's going on one knows
― Zeno, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
February 19, 2008: Yep Rock re-releases "Jesus of Cool," Fidel Castro steps down. Coincidence?
― Fitzcarraldo, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
cause he was living in a different world!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Have to get this. Especially glad to see "Rollers Show" back in circulation (a VERY clever piece of work which also works as straight celebratory/tribute pop); Radcliffe (with Mark Ellen) played it last night and spoke about this album at length. Loved the original when I was a kid.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
After much thought, I've decided that Labour Of Lust is just about a perfect pop album--whatever "perfect" means.
― inhibitionist, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 24 April 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I just picked up these two albums (the Yep Roc reissues). Great power-pop! Damn I love the drumming on "Big Kick Plain Scrap".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Did 'American Squirm' make it onto one of them? So great.
― Be Glad for the Snorg Has No End (Jon Lewis), Monday, 28 January 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it was on the LoL reissue. Gotta track down those Wilderness Years tracks not on either reissue.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 28 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Guys, can you do me a favor? Listen to "Cruel To Be Kind" on headphones and tell me if you hear a table tennis game going on, very faintly, in the background.
― Hamilton, Joe Frank & Two-Thirds of Asphyx (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 August 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Is that what that sound is?
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 August 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
I mean I can't hear continuous volleys but there are sounds every once in a while that seem to be a ping pong ball being hit.
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 August 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
That was my guess... it doesn't sound like it's a product of any of the instruments in the song, also doesn't sound like percussion. But it creeps in here and there and seems most noticeable towards the end of the song.
― Hamilton, Joe Frank & Two-Thirds of Asphyx (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 August 2016 07:21 (seven years ago) link
Also thanks for noticing SOMETHING there, man, it's been haunting me. Heh.
― Hamilton, Joe Frank & Two-Thirds of Asphyx (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 August 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link
There's a 'glitch' noise the last time he sings 'I don't know why', what about that one?
― Mark G, Sunday, 21 August 2016 08:05 (seven years ago) link
Seems like you may be the first to have noticed this. I looked around the web and the closest thing I could find was not really related. http://www.thebluegrasssituation.com/read/shift-list-chef-john-currence-shares-soundtrack-his-rock-%E2%80%98n%E2%80%99-roll-life
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 August 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
If you don't want to click- it's a chef talking about his past in an indie rock band- here is the relevant part, perhaps not relevant enough but just bizarre enough to mention
The band relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they wound up recording with legendary producer Mitch Easter, who had helmed R.E.M.’s earliest recordings. Easter’s relationship with the indie pioneers led to a surreal moment at one of Chapter Two’s own sessions. The band was at his house one day, trying to get a sound effect down on tape in his driveway, when a car pulled up. “We were in the middle of a take and we were like, ‘Who is this asshole?’” says Currence. “And then Mike Mills [of R.E.M.] gets out of the car, so our tune changed a bit.” The bassist stuck around and even helped with the session, creating a rhythm component for a song by hitting a baseball mitt with a ping-pong paddle
Also, one of the chef's favorite songs is the one under discussion.
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 August 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
Ha. Weird. I wonder if Nick Lowe is involved with his Facebook page at all... this all winds up with me living in a house with NICK LOWE-SECRET SOUND FX-CIA MIND CONTROL painted on the front, right?
(Oh and Mark G I think that's the noise I'm talking about!)
― Hamilton, Joe Frank & Two-Thirds of Asphyx (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 August 2016 06:54 (seven years ago) link
xpost I hear the "ping-pong" as well — most noticeably between 2:44 and 2:50.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 22 August 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
And run like the windThe nation's young men steam
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 August 2023 23:52 (eight months ago) link