Serpent Shade appears to be gone
― PaulTMA, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
the second half of that album was always weird to me anyway. but that doesn't mean they need to fuck with it! oh lawrence
― brimstead, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Damn, this is terrible news. I'll just splurge on the remaining originals I guess. I figured the long delay must be bad news.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Boy am I happy I got the old 2-on-1 CDs last year, including "Crucifix Heaven".
Artists should either resist the temptation to tamper with their work or issue it alongside the original.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 20 November 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Hmmm, I take your point about the slightly stalin-esque undertones of the Ignite the 7 cannons thing, but i'm pretty sure any reining in of the suffocating joss stick / victorian lace cocteau-isms will be to the benefit of the lp. It's by far my least favourite of these re-issues but would definitely be the first i would buy. Lawrence has been moaning about how much he dislkes the production & lack of symmetry almost since it came out. But, yeah, I would probably be peeved if i didn't have the original.
I'm much more upset that let the snakes crinkle their heads to death has lost its title. Now, THAT is taking revisionism too far. the reissue has the same cover as my 1986 copy, I think they realised early on the alice band wasn't working for Lawrence.
Those CD box sets look pretty ugly, what are thy about?
the depressed video is a hoot.
Moderately excited about all this. Shame captured tracks aren't putting out gold mine trash, my copies shafted.
― cw, Monday, 20 November 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
i'm all for the idea of a less messy/less submerged sounding Ignite The 7 Canons, i'm just fearful it'll end up sounding slick and weird or something..
the lack of symmetry befuddled me and i always assumed it was either intentional or they just ran out of money and couldn't record all the vocals
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
Hey cw, what's the issue with your Gold Mine Trash? I found a sealed copy last year, and the sound quality is horrible.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
So, the CDs comes with the 7" singles and the vinyl albums comes with CD singles? If I was going to pay that much for the vinyl reissues, I'd want the singles on the same format. I think I'll be sticking with the 2002/3 cd reissues that I already have. The prices are ridiculous too. Add in, Lawrence messing about with the albums and this is one big letdown. I've been waiting for these for years!
At least the new Go-Kart song is great. I was a bit disappointed with the last album. Hope this one is back to is Denim/Felt quality.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
Yeah what's interesting about this is that it's actually consistent with stuff Lawrence has said before. In addition to the Ignite stuff, when he named "Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death" Bobby Gillespie told him the title sucked and later on Lawrence voiced his regret about the title, so I'm not surprised about the change.
Anyway I'm not too upset about this. Now if he tries to fix up Mayo Thompson's production on Poem of the River...
― Isi, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link
I don't remember seeing any talk on ILM of Martin Duffy's solo album from a few years ago. It's very reminiscent of some of his Felt stuff.
― mahb, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
So, the CDs comes with the 7" singles and the vinyl albums comes with CD singles?
it looks like the vinyl doesn't come with anything extra, only the CDs have the extra single
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
I'm so glad Lawrence renamed that album to The Seventeenth Century. That is my favorite Felt Album by far, and generally one of my favorite albums to listen to all the way through.
I'm looking forward to going into my MP3s and retagging the album The Seventeenth Century. Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death is such a terrible name.
― 3×5, Thursday, 23 November 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
The new Go-Kart Mozart album is quite comfortably the worst album Lawrence has ever put out in my opinion. It's like Novelty Rock/Instant Wig Wam without the charm. Lots of songs where Lawrence is totally phoning it in. There are a few standouts, but none of those come anywhere close to the best Denim/Go-Kart moments. Interested to know if others will have a similar experience.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing it but expectations are modest because "a few standouts" - that's been every Go-Kart Mozart album.
And also, Back in Denim > Denim on Ice > Novelty Rock > Instant Wigwam > Tearing Up the Album Charts > On the Hotdog Streets (>this probably).
― everything, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 06:03 (six years ago) link
Back in Denim > Denim on Ice > Novelty Rock > Instant Wigwam > Tearing Up the Album Charts > On the Hotdog Streets
<3 this series of words in spite of the declining quality of the music
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
that lawrence could've gone from felt to denim (let alone go kart mozart) is so inconceivable that i cant even bring myself to spend any time with those records
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
I prefer them to Felt tbh.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
― everything
I'd put Tearing Up the Album Charts ahead of Novelty Rock, apart from that I'd agree. I didn't think Hotdog Streets was that great, but it's much better than the new one.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Love Denim (esp the 2nd alb), never cared for Felt at all.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
man i LOVE feltwhat's not to like!?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
It just feels like they lived in a field and now they live in a tin
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
this is my favorite felt songit's so subtly groovy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_KABAgfUk
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
not that anyone cares what my favorite felt song is but i adore that song so much i don't understand what's not to like about it!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Ward F OTM.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
You keep raving, LL. There is a depth and subtly to Felt that just begs for repeated listens. I feel like my appreciation for them just deepens as I get older - and I didn't fall for them until I was 40!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
i most like the felt albums where maurice deebank is soloing on electric all over everything
then i like the denim album with fell off the bank of a lorry
after that i'd put the more pillowy felt albums
never heard any GKM
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
the first two felt albums are like tapestries that just kinda unfurl forever, a ribbon that ties around the whole earth. deserts, snowy tundras, the pacific ocean, all that
I'm going to listen to them all morning
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
yes indeedi was going to list the things i like but i don't need tomostly on "cathedral" it's the spareness of the instrumentation and the interaction between the voice, the no-snare, no-cymbals perfectly subdued drums and the guitar solo that gets me. it's so dreamy and groovy at the same timei love it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
now that i think about it, there is a felt song that is on my ipod shuffle that always comes up and i love it but idk what it's called. it's more of a dirge. prob from the same album. they are a band that is fun to listen to when i'm traveling from one place to another. also i didn't really hear them til my mid-late 30s so i know it's not nostalgia talking.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
the first two albums take my breath away
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
I've been with various folks in bands who rock in a different idiom and don't know Felt, but when Evergreen Dazed or any track from Crumbling comes on in my car the tone of the lead guitar lines always stops conversation.
I am listening to the Stagnant Pool while my co-workers discuss possible punishments for a student here who accidentally left her handgun in a bathroom
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
good lord
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
since I posted that the campus police have reported a second unattended gun left in a bathroom in a different building
welcome to Texas/America/my nightmare
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
wth
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Damn. Take care.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
does that happen regularly?!?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
most likely explanation is they've decided to start *reporting* such incidents. but I guess a gun is like a cell phone or a sunglasses, one more thing to scoop into your day bag or forget in the bathroom.
anyway, I'm torn on these Felt reissues. I want them, but they're 25 pounds a pop. and I don't really want the bonus 7" or need a signed sticker from Lawrence. sell me a 5-CD box set for 50 pounds!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
The magical combo of Laurence and Deebank is so addictive and unique to me that I rarely go back to the latter day stuff
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
post-Deebank has a lot to offer, but it's absolutely a different kettle of fish
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
i feel like people don't give ignite the seven cannons enough credit. it's amazing for being the only album with lawrence deebank AND duffy
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
what happened to gary ainge?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
ooh, look at this live recording from Spain from 1985, they sound great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUcw_CkIkT8
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
bass player looks so sad though
Gary Ainge did this album with Marco Thomas (who I think is the sad bassist above?) under the name Fly in 2002:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgOjndyyqo
― soref, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Put The Needle Down And Fly by Fly is one of the albums listed in the sleeve notes to Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture, one of my happiest moments in a record shop was seeing Put The Needle Down And Fly and realising it actually existed after assuming that both the album and band were fictional
(the album came out a couple of years after Instant Wigwam but Fly had already released a single in 1998 - I wonder if it was Lawrence who came up with the album title, though)
― soref, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
Lawrence came up with all the song titles on the Fly album
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
no one is playing bass... that's deebank.
gary plays with lawrence... and vic godard.
― new noise, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
Loved On The Hot Dog Streets massively so can't wait for the new album.
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 22 February 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
nah, I meant the guy to the left of lawrence... I guess he isn't holding a guitar though!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 22 February 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
that's duffy.
― new noise, Thursday, 22 February 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link