RFI: Cooper Temple Clause

Third album is really not as bad as you think it is, just poorly sequenced. The label fucked it up and left the best songs as b-sides. Hence the title.

In fact I'm thinking about doing something I've never done before: ordering the Japanese EPs off of Discogs just to get decent-quality versions of the b-sides so I can attempt a proper re-do. Hardly any of them seem to be for sale on digital services, and unfortunately some were only ever issued on 7-inches.

Also got curious enough to check out the three vocalists' post-CTC bands. Losers are by far the most successful but seem pretty dull, soundtrack-core with EDM elements. Red Kite have sort of a Los Campesinos vibe - not bad! Type Two Error only ever seem to have released two or three songs on their Bandcamp, and of course they're the best-sounding of the lot.

Oh wow it sounds so Oasis like.. it belongs to the Oasis swagger thread !

I have to imagine you were listening to the debut.

New single is excellent. 'See This Through...' was potentially excellent but over-production proved to be a fatal flaw. Mr Swygart is OTM about 'Devil Walks In The Sand', the best stoner song that genre never produced. They're very good live. I can see where the Gallagher/Gautrey comparisons come from - slight intonation, similar range - but disagree: Gautrey's voice is more versatile, more raspy, less nasal, less fucking annoying.
Oh - Ben Gautrey is also fucking fit.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:14 AM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

id completely forgotten about this mind-bending post

that's gotta be a different lex right

no i think it is the lex

Definitely my favorite failed major-label rock band of the 00s.

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, July 25, 2016 3:02 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely my favourite Lex post of the 00s too

― imago, Monday, July 25, 2016 3:31 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no I saw that, I just refuse to believe

Next week on ILX: we unearth Jeremy Corbyn's fan letters to Bernard Manning

IIRC there are also early Lex posts where he is a big fan of Elbow.

Lex is a he?

Shit i always thought he was a she

In fact I'm thinking about doing something I've never done before: ordering the Japanese EPs off of Discogs just to get decent-quality versions of the b-sides so I can attempt a proper re-do

so absolutely no one asked for or even wants this but I've always thought the version of make this your own that has existed in my mind for years would be worth a shot for anyone who ever had an interest in this band, or in the weirder corners of british rock in general. so I did in fact order those EPs and make my own b-side rips and toyed around with a bunch of different sequences. in the end I went for a weird distended hourlongish sequence that touches on post-rock, emo, synth-pop, and one song that approaches something like digital doom metal. basically an even wilder version of Kick up the Fire... that's more tonally diverse and quite a bit looser. Anyway, hopefully anyone finds it enjoyable so I'll feel slightly less insane to have been so fixated on a set of sessions not even fans of this extremely marginal band seemed to much care about

anyway here's the sequence and, for the fuck of it, my mix/edit, w/ b-sides asterisked

theme from mayhem* / homo sapiens / damage / for the last time* / connect / pulling shapes* / head / the clan* / take comfort / what have you gone and done? / talking to pylons* / all I see is you / once more with feeling / house of cards

http://www.filedropper.com/madeityourown

"damage" remains an absolutely baffling song and single choice but I couldn't not include it

That was the only song I originally liked haha

Anyway this is God's work (if God is very very weird) and I'm grateful - will download and listen later!

ha thx imago, enjoy

i have to say simon h, your dedication to the cause is admirable.
I only have the 2cd edition of their debut, and 'kick up ..' so no idea re 'damage',
but I have dropped the debut on the playlist now as it has been a very long time.
I am in the mood for synth infested guitar noise.

I like the debut a lot but I wish the production weren't so muddy.