"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