― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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
Lush sounds nice and moody still, but it reminds me of watching 120 Minutes in 1992 ... the production is very much of its time. To me, Telescopes - Flying begins and ends this whole "shoegzing'" thing.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
To me, Telescopes - Flying begins and ends this whole "shoegzing'" thing. - yeah, the genre sure could have used more banjo pickin'
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
No problem, Alex.
Now I'm imagining Miki as totally hammered in that gameboy pic. lol
― Jack Burton, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
― Jack Burton, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
that is the greatest photo
― winston, Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
It is incredingbly hard to find even "Lovelife" these days, not to say any of the earlier albums.
news just in from 4ad, following a totally made-up email i sent saying "are the rumours of a raft of Lush repackages/re-releases this year correct?":
"someone is either a psychic or shagging the band. All is to be discussed next Monday with Emma and Miki, but yes, it's on the cards..."
nb. i am neither psychic nor shagging the band. just teh clevah.
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
AWESOME.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 9 February 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I have pretty much everything they ever released! So probably not going to bother with deluxe reissues, but still good that they're coming out.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i would be interested in any unreleased (not live) material from the pre-spooky period
― electricsound, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Is there any, that you know? Demos etc?
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i know that there was a demo of stuff floating about before they signed to 4ad, though i don't know how much/if any of it ended up on the first ep..
― electricsound, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I found out relatively recently that Miki & Emma did a fanzine about bands like Lack Of Knowledge before they formed Lush. I guess that explains the Zounds cover!
I wonder if they recorded anything when whatserface from Pale Saints was in the band.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
it's all about "Scarlet" (if I've got the right song...)
-- Paul, Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
you have, and it is.
― whatever, Saturday, 9 February 2008 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
They did a fanzine about bands like Lack of Knowledge? What!?
Goodness, Colonel, I nearly forgot I had that CDR!
― Bimble, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
"Nothing Natural" is my favorite of theirs. I also remember having a bit of a crush on Emma at the time.
― eeyore19, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Joke from my schooldays:
What's Louise Woodward's favourite tune?
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 9 February 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
oh snap.
see, no matter what i already own, for sure my copy of gala would benefit from replacement by a remastered and less muddy version...
― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 9 February 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/sweetness-and-light-the-miki-berenyi-interview-2008/
― piscesx, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:26 (fifteen years ago) link
tl;dr
"De-Luxe" will be in Rock Band 2.
― abanana, Friday, 18 July 2008 04:35 (fifteen years ago) link