― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Saturday, 16 October 2004 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Saturday, 16 October 2004 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 16 October 2004 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Don't hear the Dylan, but AMG is crap so that figures.
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Saturday, 16 October 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dark Horse, Saturday, 16 October 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
As for Scott Walker...do you have "The Room" on your Bill Fay disc? That's bombast!
― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Saturday, 16 October 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― salvador, Sunday, 17 October 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a bit hard to find. Anyone interested in the mp3s of the record can email me.
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 24 December 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
the dylan is all in the voice. not much else.
― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmm, lets see:
Nick Drake -- Five Leaves Left, 1969Kinks -- s/t, 1964Bob Dylan -- s/t, 1962
Bill Fay -- s/t, 1970
How's that again?
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link
http://ominousdrone.com/shopping/limages/2109.jpg
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 26 January 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 26 January 2006 04:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Looks like a readable review on Dusted here too.
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― emekars (emekars), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Hoping for a highish placement for Last Persecution in the 70s poll but probably not gonna happen
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 1 January 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
It was in my top 20...I really need to get the 3rd album too.
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
There are actually 5 albums now.
Bill Fay, Last Persecution, Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow (unreleased until 2005), From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (demos from late 60s-early 70s) aaaaaaaaaaaand this month on Durtro there's a double release, one disc of more old 70s demos and a new album recorded in the last year. Waiting for it in the post right now...
http://mog1.state51.co.uk/tid/40802637d548a898547be12fd5e12dbceca64214/ecitrdw/fwoayblac/1225170960054.jpeg
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 1 January 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Hope the new album's better than its cover art...
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://copticcat.greedbag.com/buy/bill-fay-still-some-light-cd/
^ how is this new one Jamie?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 30 January 2010 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
my post/postman has been playing up so not arrived yet annoyingly.
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Oof, that's vexing.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Was just looking at it on emusic, but it'd wipe out most of my credits in one go.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh wait, this is one of the 2009 tracks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3bW9sEkwg
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds like he's just picked up where he left off, you'd hardly know all those years had passed.
Horrible cover art, looks like the Organisation album though, whose cover I like.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The new album has some nice moments but it's mostly ruined by the dreadful production. The real treasure here is the old demos and such: the piano arrangement of "Love is the Tune" is the most shamelessly lovely thing I've heard from him.
― Turangalila, Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://themagiclantern.tumblr.com/post/397515042/bill-fay-love-is-the-tune
And you can hear it on my tumblr. :)
― Turangalila, Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i just got this and am enjoying it immensely but the production (the bass specifically) on the reissued recordings sounds kinda weird to me. has anyone read the entire liner notes? i made it to the part about john boden and then promptly went blind.
the recent photographs are really cute too. wkiw bill fay.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 5 April 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Those liner notes are great, one of my favourite things about the release. I really love the archive stuff, i could listen to a thousand different versions of those songs and never get bored. Production isn't great but thats to be expected; there isn't really any production!
Yes the new stuff is definitely a little weak, those keyboards are very 80s phil collins/landing on water neil young. but still it's nice to hear him still going. From listening to Last Persecution you'd think he would have imploded/committed suicide from mental anguish some time in the 70s so it's lovely to hear that the guy from those songs is still there.
Love Bill Fay.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
'Time of the Last Persecution' seriously fucking me up today. What a bleak, beautiful album. Also, Ray Russell's band is amazing in it; just listen to the perfectly controlled chaos towards the end of the title track.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of the new tracks on his latest release oddly remind me of Spiritualized. That's just me, though. I wouldn't expect any of you to agree with me.
― henry s, Monday, 24 May 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, no, I can totally see what you're saying. Esp. in a song like "My Eyes Open".
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, seconding Jamie ATP upthread:
From listening to Last Persecution you'd think he would have imploded/committed suicide from mental anguish some time in the 70s so it's lovely to hear that the guy from those songs is still there.
Indeed.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Endless SBummer
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 24 May 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of the newer recordings are actual lyrically pretty beautiful and not that removed from his old stuff, its just a massive shame the production / arrangement lets them down.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Got the first album on. GOD DAAAAAAMN IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD.
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/pias/july12/DOC061CD-500x500.jpg
New album out in August:http://www.deadoceans.com/onesheet.php?cat=DOC061
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Bill is reunited on several tracks with Ray Russell and drummer Alan Rushton, who played on Time Of The Last Persecution
fuck yes
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
life is people
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
great album. also has totally redeemed this from overplay for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4eexG3oaPA
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 20 August 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
sounds lovely. is the rest of it that spare or are there other players on it?
― tylerw, Monday, 20 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
haven't heard this rec yet, but i know ray russell is on some of the tracks
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 20 August 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
the rest of it is a lot more band based, but not overly complicated - its fairly similar to some of the quieterstuff from the first two albums
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 20 August 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea he was still alive!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 August 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
oof this album *is* great.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
Nice bit on NPR:http://www.npr.org/2012/08/19/158894907/bill-fay-a-cult-figure-returns-skeptical-but-optimistic
― dow, Friday, 24 August 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
This album is amazing
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
think i like the sparer piano songs the most, but the whole thing is stellar. "the neverending happening"!
― tylerw, Monday, 27 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
i can't wait to hear this
his collection of demos/outtakes is probably my favorite thing he's done (maybe that's just because it was the first thing i heard though?)and i just noticed that it's going for like $100?! on cd? crazy.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Got the first album on. GOD DAAAAAAMN IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD.― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:30 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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^ this! It's been a while since I've played it (came to Bill via the alt 70s poll back in 2009, went through a period of intense listening, and then shelved everything until yesterday).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
this album is v good
this is sort of what i'm expecting the next album by the apartments to sound like
― ron pinot (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
The new one is sooo good.
― Duke, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it is. though with all the religious stuff -- is he a straight up born again christian? was he always? obviously there was religious imagery on his earlier albums, but not quite as straight up as some of this.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I've no idea. I've not found much info about him. (Not that I've really searched that hard, to be honest.)
― Duke, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Fay on Time of the Last Persecution:
"It was a religious album - my Slow Train Coming, I suppose," says Fay today. "Biblical ideas, prophecies and so on, had started to permeate and gradually I came to believe. I wasn’t trying to convert people, though. The record’s Christian, but hopefully not in a narrow way".
― Duke, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Tweets going round that Bill is on Jools Holland tonight, although there's no confirmation of this on any BBC page afaics.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 23 November 2012 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DeadOceans/status/271627766544363520
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 23 November 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
and here you go...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xa7EhiCTyA
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Saturday, 24 November 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
Any idea what's going on with the Life Is People record?
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
c21m50nh3x460n
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life)
― mookieneb (buzza), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
buzzz
― a barbie girl in a barbie world
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
going on with it? in what respect?
― absolvents (electricsound), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
Dead Oceans sold out of the LP. So I'm wondering when they will do a second pressing. And some of the records from the first pressing were damaged I heard.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, my local record stores tell me the first pressing was faulty and the second pressing is still nowhere to be seen.
― Duke, Friday, 11 January 2013 09:06 (eleven years ago) link
Bollocks, spent ages looking for a copy. Hope they sort it out...
― insert witticism here (hypehat), Friday, 11 January 2013 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
what was faulty about it? mine played fine, though i guess it may vary depending on country
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 11 January 2013 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
Alright, chaps, some semigood news.
Today Dead Oceans said a second pressing is in the works and that they should have it back on their site 'soon!'.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 11 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
According to SC Distribution, it should be back in record shops. I'll check this weekend.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 12 January 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
This album is a slept-on beauty.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 December 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/58537-bill-fay-announces-who-is-the-sender-shares-war-machine-lyric-video/
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 19 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
the new album is too beautiful
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Pep is a fan:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45918581
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
Wow, Pep!
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
your boy Bill is back, new LP in January
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PxfcGYd12I&feature=emb_title
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
Loving this new one.
― gman59, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
I came here to post the same thing. It's sombre and I want to give him a cuddle but there is a spidery lightness to what he's doing.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
These songs are instantly love-able and feel as if they've always been around. So glad he's still making music. This piece about it was great too https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/arts/music/bill-fay-countless-branches.html
― gman59, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
I struggled with the last one, so wasn't sure whether to get this. I loved Life Is People though.
― Duke, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Not heard anything of him since Life Is People myself, but so far I think this is rather lovely.
― calzino, Friday, 24 January 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Holy shit, I just finished my first listen to Time of the Last Persecution. This is incredible. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
oh dude this year is not a good time for a bump. but you're right, it's immense. I don't think it'll ever fall out of my personal top ten.
The debut is also fantastic, as are the three comps of unreleased stuff from around the time... this one is a standout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBlqIzdf2B8
then once you've processed that, the three recent comebacks on Dead Oceans are a lovely low key comeback.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
Ah, shit, yeah. I forgot about the risk of bumping an old thread in this of all years. I actually ended up ordering his new one last night, so I'm looking forward to that.
I just didn't expect TotLP to resonate with me so strongly. I guess the "folkie" tag I'd read and the slightly disheveled photo on the cover had me expecting something less... polished, for lack of a better word. But, man, I guess I could have bumped the "classic albums you were knocked out by".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
Must put this on again. I haven't list3ened to it in ages.
― Duke, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Since that last post I've picked up both the new one and Who is the Sender?, both totally different in tone from TotLP but really beautiful.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
And someone needs to reissue that From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock comp. Upthread someone noted that the CD was going for over a $100, now it’s going for close to $500!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
I just heard Time of the Last Persecution recently. His voice sounds to me more like a very glum Ian Hunter than Dylan.
The whole record has a weird, grey, bleak numbed-out feel that I associate more with post-punk than anything else from 1970. The plain lucidity of the production looks forward to Pere Ubu or the early Mekons that I have heard (even of nothing else is similar) instead of singer-songwriter records of the time.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Never heard of the comp jon mentions! o_O
Probably something for a new thread, but Bill Fay is one of the very few artists I both love and find it ex-tre-me-ly hard to listen to, as it reduces me to a mess. Really have to go slow and take small portions, because it's just too beautiful and it hurts too much.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link