(NB The correct answer is "me".)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
Who in turn weren't as fun as Daisy Chainsaw. Who themselves were quite shit.
― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I saw Silverfish live somewhere...
I never heard the second album, but the lead-off single "Grace" was fantastic - not as dark or twisted as anything on Salt Peter, but it had a nice groove.
Er, I never heard Silverchair either.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
There was love for Morcheeba now?
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
Sneaker Pimps were great, Moloko still are, and even Morcheeba had their moments in their Big Calm era. Dubstar trip-hop?! (But then - Moloko trip-hop?!)
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
The second album is good but a bit too laidback, plus the jazzy textures and drum & bass beats were less surprising than the sort of genre fusions the first album mined (eg. "Tiny Meat" - a better Pixies song than "Hey Ya"!). But it's still really nice and menacing. I should listen to it again.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
Very nice take Tim has on Salt Peter, I'll have to go back again and relisten to it. I lurved Silverfish and was very pleased to hear about this thing coming out when it did come out and I was not disappointed -- there's one song in particular towards the end of the album that has this strange, dramatic rise in the chorus which I can't quite describe to my satisfaction, but it's so memorable and striking to me that it almost overwhelms the album. It's not overblown, it's just...like a spotlight moment in pure black and white.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
*reads lyrics, thinks to self 'Ha! That must be it, it's the song Tim's talking about.'*
So I'll find out when that song plays but in the meantime, the rest of it. "Something tells me I've been here before..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 05:18 (twenty years ago) link
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― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
The other big sonic cue for the album is the disco freak-out section of "Closer To God", I guess.
Thank you Dan for making me pull out this album again!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link
We never had Mountain Dew in the UK (pity, I really like it), so it must have been re-cut over some other soft drink by the company. Definitely the same advert though.
Decided to just Google it. It was for Pepsi, and she did a version of "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" . That's bugged me for years. God Blass the internet.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
Yes indeed! I hadn't thought about it in quite a long time and now I think I might enjoy it more than I did then.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 January 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 15 January 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
I think her knack for the (usually extremely filthy) ear-catching turn of phrase sometimes overshadows the fact that, while her lyrics are rarely coherent in the conventional narrative sense, the accumulation of random tenuously linked snatches of sex/angst/sadism/wordplay usually result in an overall situation which makes sense.
Listening to Salt Peter again, it struck me how well it's dated - I'd say even better than Maxinquaye, and certainly better than Protection.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 15 January 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 15 January 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
Silverfish was okay. and had the excellent "HIPS LIPS TITS POWER" t-shirt. yes.
― janni (janni), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Sez Me) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
i've inexplicably been jamming salt peter and 'grace' again this week and they still sound great! they should not be as forgotten as they are
also 'paraffin', jesus, so creepy. OLD...MAN'S...ASS...
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 November 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Youve painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -Oh rubyDont take your love to town
Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysedAnd the wants and the needs of a woman your age, ruby I realize,But it wont be long Ive heard them say until I not aroundOh rubyDont take your love to town
It wasnt me that started that old crazy asian warBut I was proud to go and do my patriotic choreAnd yes, its true that Im not the man I used to be...Oh rubyI still need some company.
Shes leavin now cause I heard the slammin iof the doorThe way I know Ive heard it slam one hundred times beforeAnd if I could move Id get my gun and put her in the groundOh rubyFor gods sake turn around
― m coleman, Thursday, 20 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm gonna listen to this again tonight.
― Tim F, Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:12 (twelve years ago) link
!
http://waitingforlight.viinyl.com/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Interview from a few weeks back
http://www.chaoscontrol.com/lesley-rankine-ruby-2013/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
NAOOOOOWNAOOOOOWNAOOOOOWYOU SILLY GIRL
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Liking the new album
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 July 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
Did someone say American tour?
https://www.facebook.com/RubyLesleyRankine/photos/a.529159337107817.120075.408149075875511/2072852286071840/?type=3
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
yeah wow weird coincidence i just randomly listened to RtSF yesterday for the first time in ... well def the first time in the two thousand teens
(the good tracks are still good)
― the late great, Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
Uhh, what the hell!? Was just listening to her yesterday and wondering what happened to my ca. 1995 Ruby t-shirt. Had zero idea she was still doing anything musical.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
The fuck is going on up in here!
(By which I mean: I was writing as tlg was posting. Weird-ass coincidence.)
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
Zeitgeist. She's got a good Twitter feed too BTW.
https://twitter.com/lesleyrankine/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
Also, catch up!
https://rubyofficial.bandcamp.com/
Salt Peter man, what a tune
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
paraffin (richard fearless dub) is the one i kept hitting rewind on
― the late great, Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
i also inexplicably liked the danny saber tiny meat mix even though it sounded the most stereotypically "blade end credits"
― the late great, Saturday, 11 August 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
Thw new Portishead was going to be called Alien and out last spring, I think. But wasn't. I find it very hard to imagine that a new Portishead album could be that great or thrilling these days but would dearly love to be wrong about this.― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:51 AM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just wanna frame this post!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 11 August 2018 08:53 (six years ago) link
Okay the show in SF tonight with Martin Atkins is immediate top 5 of my all time shows. Just an amazing raconteur and performer both.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 September 2018 07:33 (five years ago) link