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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Replace Spooky and Loveless with At War with Satan and What's THIS for...!, replace bubble bath and glass of wine with 40 oz of Crazy Horse and eliminate the reading material entirely and you have my solution.
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DESIRE LINES
oh man...
― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I found Lovelife for a dollar the other day, it's pretty rad. Very chipper for what appears to be a concept album about breaking up.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 25 January 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I've reintroduced Spooky into my rotation in the last month or so. Somehow, before, my attention had always drifted off by the time the album reached "Monochrome." So I was listening on shuffle the other day and that song came up and absolutely wiped me out; the choruses in particular and the bridge at about 2:15 are Lush at their melancholy best.
I'm really happy about my poor listening habits way back when, because now I get a new favorite song without having to buy another record. It's the small victories.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
spooky is the only lush disc i've never heard in full. i don't know why people are so keen to work with robin guthrie as a producer when he clearly isn't terribly good at it.
― electricsound, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"For Love" > "Sweetness and Light"
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm ... I've never been one to really pay too much attention to production, but I don't notice any thing overtly bad about Spooky. I mean, it sounds pretty damn good to my ears.
A quick scan looks like all their records were produced by him, except for Lovelife.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss Lush.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Early singles are obviously terrific, but Split is easily their best full-length - and one of my favorite records period.
― Pillbox, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(to elaborate on that) Split straddles the middle ground between Spooky and Lovelife and combines the strengths of both: buzzy power-pop & Cocteau/shoegaze dreaminess, whereas the other two LPs lean a bit too far in either direction.
― Pillbox, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
ah but Split transcends the sum of its parts no? I'm with you in saying its one of my favourite records ever.
― Thomas, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
pillbox sort of otm, but to me those slow tracks in the last 2/3rds of split kind of kill its momentum. "lovelife" is my favorite lush song, though, and "kiss chase" might be #2
this was my favorite band in high school. it's been too long. those guitars + miki and emma's voices together was such a rush..
― winston, Saturday, 26 January 2008 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Winston, I'll give you "Never-Never" on you observation (though I still really like that song, I can see how it would drag for others), but if you're referring to "Desire Lines" or "When I Die," you're nuts.
― Pillbox, Saturday, 26 January 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no i loooove "when i die"! "desire lines" i would probably be more ok with if it didn't follow "lovelife" (let alone the previous 4 tracks)
― winston, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, my mate put on "Spooky" one evening and I really liked it until I found out it was the same band that recorded "Single Girl".
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 27 January 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
you're weird
― winston, Monday, 28 January 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
At some shows during Lollapalooza '92, Miki and Emma would join Ministry onstage when they played "Supernaut". I always thought that was pretty cool. I can't imagine the boys from the Jesus and Mary Chain doing the same thing.
― j-rock, Monday, 28 January 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The latest from Miki
― Jack Burton, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for that, Jack.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
for some reason, that interview made me sad.
― electricsound, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw miki throwing herself at some kid younger than i was at a black box recorder show in the camden underworld in 2000. she was sideways and her skin was grotesque. goodbye teenage lust...
that said, i'll still support a good chunk of gala, spooky, and split. i haven't hear lovelife in ages, but recall being pretty fond of the silly duet with jarvis cocker. thnking of "ladykiller" now, i'm guessing it would play out much like songs from blur's the great escape. cute and fun, but sounds from a world i cannot imagine having been excited in.
― bb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
she was sideways
What does that mean?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, Lush wasalways one of the few shoegaze bands that never did it for me. I spent a lot of time with 'Spooky' when it came out but it always sounded so lifeless and tinny.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6075/1290/320/lush_mikigameboy.jpg
she was rather tipsy...err, entirely hammered...practically falling down..dean martin sort of routine..
― bb, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I dislike both Guthrie’s Christmas tree production and how weak 60% of Spooky’s songs are. Found Emma’s twitter tedious but hadn’t realised Miki was a reactionary as well.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 29 July 2023 12:08 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-qPHoqr74This film on the criterion streaming?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:44 (one month ago) link
Yep, in the US anyway
― brimstead, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 00:56 (one month ago) link