Classic.
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/the-only-ones-the-only-ones-round-50-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Monday, 27 May 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
CLASSIC.
― chromecassettes, Monday, 27 May 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to the Special View comp recently and still prefer the Peel Sessions by a wide margin.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 27 May 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
peel sessions CD is definitely my fave by them.
― tylerw, Monday, 27 May 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
The Peel Sessions are the whole of the law.
― Oulipo Traces (on a Cigarette) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 May 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Dud. Can't stand them, and I don't want to hear 'Another Girl Another Planet' ever a-fucking-gain, tbh.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 27 May 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
bummer.
― chromecassettes, Monday, 27 May 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Peel Sessions are the whole of the law.only problem with them is that they don't have that song!
― tylerw, Monday, 27 May 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUSgrAv7VQ
What a song.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Dud. Can't stand them, and I don't want to hear 'Another Girl Another Planet' ever a-fucking-gain, tbh.is this song really popular/ubiquitous in the UK?
― tylerw, Friday, 13 December 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Was on an TV advert for a while. It's fairly well known, I suppose.
― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Friday, 13 December 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
RIP Mike Kellie
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 20 January 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
RIP :(
― A Simple Twist of McFate (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Hadn't remembered that Mike Kellie had played on "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory."
― Disco Blecch and His Exo-Planettes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Man, there are lots of covers of "Another Girl, Another Planet" on YouTube. Including one by the Libertines with Peter Perrett himself singing.
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 March 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
I guess a bunch of them probably were inspired by a Blink 182 version.
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 March 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
Phew, was fearing PP RIP.
― Ongar Is An Energy (Tom D.), Monday, 20 March 2017 09:20 (seven years ago) link
Reading 'Squeeze: Song by Song' at the moment and discovered that Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze was also in an early incarnation of The Only Ones and even lived with Perrett. Perrett hooked them up with Miles Copeland got them their first deal.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 20 March 2017 09:52 (seven years ago) link
He plays on some songs on "Remains".
― Ongar Is An Energy (Tom D.), Monday, 20 March 2017 10:02 (seven years ago) link
Did not know any of that, interesting. Was that early version actually known as Peter and the Pets?
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 March 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link
I recently acquired a good copy of England's Glory, which is Perret's 1973 album with Harry Kakoulli of Squeeze, including the aforementioned "Peter And The Pets" song. An interesting mix of glam and pre-punk!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 20 March 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Peter Perrett has a new album
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 June 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
New track "how the west was won" is excellent
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 17 June 2017 10:04 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, heard that and the other one.
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 June 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
"An Epic Story"
Giving an ear to a full advance now -- it's very enjoyable, and pretty much is what to expect sonically. But given how few actual albums he's done, I can't begrudge him.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 July 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Also, the name of that public school he went to with Steve Harley broke my brane. Tom D. to thread!
― Under Heaviside Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 July 2017 03:01 (seven years ago) link
How the West Was Won is pretty good.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Friend Andy was at the London show by Perrett the other night and had this to say:
Ferocious, post-VU-sounding band. Set included all of the (incredible) new album; seven or eight as-yet-unrecorded new songs that were just as good—he told us that he wasn’t even going to play his best new ones because he doesn’t want them on YouTube; and half a dozen Only Ones songs. “I’m not a fuckin’ oldies act!” he said, correctly; it was all about the new stuff, and it was great. Buy your tickets for the American tour now.
And speaking of said dates:
LIVE SHOWSNov 07Concorde 2Brighton, United Kingdom
Nov 13ParadisoAmsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 14Point FMRParis, France
Nov 16Botanique/Witloof BarBrussels, Belgium
Nov 20BadehausBerlin, Germany
Nov 22Sala SolMadrid, Spain
Feb 28, 2018Horseshoe TavernToronto, Canada
Mar 02, 2018Bowery BallroomNew York, NY
Mar 03, 2018Brighton Music HallAllston, MA
Mar 05, 2018SubterraneanChicago, IL
Mar 07, 2018Turf ClubSt Paul, MN
Mar 09, 2018The Roxy TheatreWest Hollywood, CA
Mar 11, 2018The IndependentSan Francisco, CA
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 November 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
*bump*
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 June 2019 03:57 (five years ago) link
Also, don’t think this was posted here yet: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-only-ones-another-girl-another-planet
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
Produced by Alan Mair? Never knew that.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 June 2019 09:40 (five years ago) link
xpost I always knew there was something hinky about those drums!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
Lol
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
“Miles From Nowhere,” for one, has something interesting going on with the drums as well.
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 June 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
Lot of good Only Ones content on private FB Squeeze group.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
Well not that much really but sometimes some good pictures like today.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Db6qxWyo0
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QlHcRndn4
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
The only thing I ever had was Special View, which is not a good place to start, I've been told on ilm, but his sheepy whiney voice was what turned me off, don't know how much another producer or better songs could do to fix that (songs might've been ok, but voice v. distracting)
― dow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link
Peel Sessions is the one to get.
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:20 (one year ago) link
That's what I'm told, but vox demotivates me even to check those Peel tracks posts. Speaking of Squeeze, they're gonna tour w Psy Furs.
― dow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DxXFxGc_Cw
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
The old compilation “immortal story” is very good, but I love the voice. “The beast” is my fave but the Peel version is definitely better.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
I put the 1st CD of the Sanctuary 2CD on and my player refused to play it. Need to fix player still.Otherwise would have that first l.p. and a half on rotation this week.Do enjoy those first 2 anyway and whatever live stuff I've heard. Guitar gets more ballroom patchy live QMS like in places.Perret wound up being sent to school at Bancrofts which was across the road from my grandparents. I think he came from the other side of London though.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:13 (one year ago) link
2CD set is Why Don't You Kill Yourself on Edsel not Sanctuary. Pretty good though either way.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:16 (one year ago) link
If you don't like Peter Perrett's voice you're not going to get very far with the Only Ones.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 06:28 (one year ago) link
Well maybe---in more recent times, I've learned how to listen around the singer when I like the band well enough to try, and these musos did sound better when I tried Special View on a better stereo than mine. What the hell, I might like him better now too.
― dow, Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
Special View is a great place to start, who says otherwise?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link