very late to the party but A Lady of a Certain Age is one of the best songs i've heard in ages.
do ILX still like this guy? i lost my way with him after Absent Friends pretty much..
― piscesx, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
I still love this guy.
Absent Friends was his last great album. A Lady of a Certain Age is one of the best songs he's written. There's some other good stuff on the album but it was a big step down from Absent Friends. He's only released one album since (Bang Goes the Knighthood in 2010) which was really bad. Sounded like he'd completely run out of ideas and there were too many songs where he just listed things instead of writing proper lyrics.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
Aw, there were some decent tracks on "Bang Goes the Knighthood," even if it leaned more toward the novelty-song side of TDC. "Down in the Street Below," "Assume the Perpendicular," and "The Lost Art of Conversation" were all fairly strong, I thought.
― goodoldneon, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
I was a huge DC fan throughout the 90s but I thought Fin de Siecle was a big disappointment. Things looked up for a while with Regeneration (a much underrated album) but I thought Absent Friends was awful and I stopped following him at that point. Sounds like I should seek out "Lady of a Certain Age" though.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm a big fan of everything they did from Liberation to Absent Friends but then apart from the odd moment he seemed to run out of steam.
I do really like Down In The Street Below goodoldneon but apart from that not much else. I was heartbroken the first time I ever heard Indie Disco.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
New album, _Office Politics_, comes out June 7th. Pre-order bonuses at the TDC site.
Missed out on the recent live album, _Loose Canon_, so ordered that today, too.
His last cd, "How Can You Leave Me on My Own" didn't do much for me as a first single, but hearing it and "To the Rescue" on a Jools Holland rerun yesterday, I'll revisit that disc. "To the Rescue" really jumped out as fantastic.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
He averages one decent gravitas-laden track per album these days, To the Rescue was it for the last album. The new single is not it.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link