― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 7 March 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was lucky enough to find the disc used almost ten years ago. I've burned more than one copy for friends. Another of those "unlikely to be reissued" albums, unfortunately.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 7 March 2003 02:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
The reissues thing. Not the frightful mess thing...
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― etc, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
and that first ep -- that was the other side of "pink frost", for really. And despite that heavy emotional connection there, they produced something sufficiently independent to relax on th "pink frost" spook in any way. no, they addressed sexual issues of the day, without taking a position (see below).
it was a damn fine ep, from the age when nz proved that eps were the "preferred/new format", ensuring only the best made it to vinyl.and given that background, that ep is one of the best sounding of the dunedin eps for me for another reason, because it did not sound like anything else.
bad recording, blah blah.. huh ? compare it to lush/mbv ten years later. isn't spooky layered mystique acceptable ? they were a different band -- they didn't want to sound like another ramones/velvets derived group it would seem, and that sound was what made them stand out, and they reinforced it on stage, which given the dynamics of the band on stage was neither a male gaze situation or watch-out psycho-boy-killers, no, it was both !
ok, "cactus cat" was a "pop" record, a second run, lower expectations of the public proved by the limited uptake of bewitched -- so what, that didn't make their earlier finer statement badly recorded, except if you do wish to lump them in with all that boy band guitar grind also coming out of Dunedin and Christchurch at the time, which i sure as hell do not.
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Personally, I really like the name.
― Michael M., Friday, 21 September 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah me too
― did drake invent yolo (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think they sound dated at all
― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
A+ consistency itt, electricsound. how do they sound 'dated' more than any band recorded at a particular point in the past?
― softspool, Saturday, 22 September 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://tvnz.co.nz/seven-sharp/look-blue-go-purple-now-video-5445348
via ned obvs
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link