― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
Guitar-sample early beatbox galore!
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link
heh..that's precisely why I hated it.
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
"Too bad for you, David!"
― Lewis (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
OK I misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about the adoption of acid house styles (909 beats and acid synths) in pop. I didn't realise you meant something so specific. But the million selling thing has nothing to do with it (or at least nothing to do with your original claim..that they were ahead of their time).
― David (David), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago) link
I don't think the album is underrated though. All the music guides I have give it high marks. The '92 RS album guide gives it four and a half stars and the MusicHound guide might have even given it five.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
I won't deny the song's catchiness. I like the song far more than "Good Thing" which makes me get all Alex In NYC all over the place... on the other hand, the acid house track on The Raw And The Cooked slays "She Drives Me Crazy".
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
I'm afraid to ask what that's supposed to mean.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago) link
Don't be afraid. it was meant as a compliment. More specifically, a directed vortex of well-phrased verbal rage.
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago) link
― that's MR. sanchez to you (mokey), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
they had one of the best motown pastiches ever. the rhythm section--i.e. the same rhythm section as the (english) beat--was fucking great. the vocalist gets points for not sounding like anyone else, ever.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 7 May 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 May 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 7 May 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 7 May 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Memorably described in Smash Hits magazine at the time as resembling "a headless chicken being electrocuted underwater".
― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 7 May 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I still love, love, love the Buzzcocks and Elvis covers. "Don't Look Back" sparkles like it's the kid sister of the Beat's "Best Friend."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdIAbHzxmg
lol awesome dancing
― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
god, "Don't Look Back"
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm Not The Man I Used To Be" is absolutely killer.
― Euler, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't argue with that.
― when i was your age i was thinking about how to kill people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 December 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
good thread, good band
― Cunga, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
one of the first tapes i ever owned
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
checked. i do have the finest on my hard disc (so i can drop various tracks onto my wifes mp3 player as she loves'em). so, thats today sorted. i actually got the 2 cd edition of the finest that came with an extra disc of time stampled remixes. one track i seem to recall featuring the cookie crew !?!classics : the flame, good thing, blue, don't look back, i'm not the man i used to be, funny how love is (the echo'd trumpet opening is very sweet), etc.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 May 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a tragedy that this song has more or less fallen into obscurity when it should've been, like, the biggest single of that year and on the radio for years to come:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THD_vY2-AXA
Also:
i wonder if i will always be obsessed with pop music from 1987-1992
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, April 6, 2004 2:53 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cosigning as hard as I can. The only era that's any competition for '70s AM gold in my heart.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
I remember making my dad listen to The Raw and The Cooked when we were driving somewhere and that's when he explained to me what falsetto was. Good album, but also educational.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
And the videos were super instructive on the Kubrick stare. Educational band all 'round.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 10, 2009
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
It peaked at #11 in the States but it's better than "Good Thing." Not many bands stapling 12-string Beat guitar and sequencers in 1989's top 40.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
So I just went ahead and made this happen:
Forgotten late-'80s/early-'90s pop singles
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 7, 2012 1:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
I wonder why this band hasn't gone on reunion tour like so many other acts of the era. They were really popular! People would show up! Maybe they all put their earnings in index funds and are comfortably retired and don't need the money, who knows.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it looks like they're all still alive and pretty much toiling in obscurity. Surely they couldn't hate each other that much.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
Here's a Guardian interview with Roland Gift in 2020. Sounds like he just pulled the plug.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/03/fine-young-cannibal-roland-gift-i-went-back-to-where-being-pretty-didnt-matter
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
I kind of wished FYC would tour as an opener for the (English) Beat, similar to how Camper Van Beethoven would usually open for Cracker on their recent tours. (FWIW, I'm a bigger fan of the Beat than FYC, but I like them both. Also a big fan of CVB but not so much with Cracker.)
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Seem to recall that there was a big fallout between Cox and Steele - according to Roland Gift, the first time the two of them had spoken to each other in ages was at Saxa's funeral in 2017.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 21 April 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link