― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
P.S.: So long as I'm documenting hilarious lines from "Terra Nova Cain" that dude actually tries to sell all serious-like, this is the second best:
She said, "Will you help with our research?"I said, "Take me to your leader."She put her foot down on the oscillation pedal.She was a ... transdimensional speeder.
Mostly because of that INCREDIBLY CAMP PAUSE denoted by the ellipses. "She was a ... (get this) ... transdimensional speed-ah."
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Deep in space where disconnexion beganLuxurious spaceVague architechture has infested in the citymoss obelisk ... a green needle
TERRA NOVA CAIN ... I need you again (etc.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Fantastic fantastic show!
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"The barbarians picked through the ashes of the domeThen went on their way, yeah, continued to roam"
It's all about the "yeah" in there. Years later, I found out that Kilbey wrote this about Zardoz
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Also I give them bonus points because one of the band member's daughters are pretty hot music chix.
http://www.myspace.com/brightredband
― I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit (I say we take off and nuke the), Thursday, 26 October 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, you guys need to help me. I only know the albums up to and including Heyday. Tell me a little about each one from Starfish until now, so that I can figure out what to look out for next. Any clunkers to avoid
The lush pillow-of-Rickenbackers side of them is great, but I'm especially liking the bigger, raunchier, riffy stuff like Life Speeds Up. Did they leave this sort of stuff behind? I read in Wiki that there is ambient-type stuff in the catalogue later. Not sure I'll like that.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Destroy Sometime Anywhere.
A good chunk of the more recent material has a tendency to wander (and turn into the occasional trippy jam), so if that's not really your thing you might want to carefully pick and choose your 21st century Church albums. The one released this year, Uninvited Like the Clouds, is the main exception to the new rule as it's the most straight ahead pop-rock album they've made since Gold Afternoon Fix.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Every album has something to recommend it, though I'm not as big a fan of their trippy jam songs compared to their straightforward pop tunes. The recent albums are more liked for highlights ("Come Down", "Lady Boy" on Magician Among the Spirits, for example) than the album as a whole. Unlike the albums up through Priest=Aura, which work as a single listen.
I haven't heard "Uninvited..." yet, but with the descriptions above, it's now on my list.
― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
That's a solid seal of approval alright. None more solid.
Yes, I'm looking for pop choons rather than trippy jams.
So : Gold Afternoon Fix, Uninvited, Priest=Aura. What was the covers album - I saw a tracklisting and it sounded interesting, do they pull it off?
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Dr C., in all the hoopla/discussion of the later albums, I realized I'd left out the most important suggestion. Starfish is by all means essential. It's one of my favorite records of all time, by anybody!
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
what does that mean??
― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Starfish is that rarest of things -- band with its own aesthetic slams into American major label world/LA studio hierarchy and *everything* works.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I wouldn't destroy it either, but it does need some serious editing. You can make a strong album out of it if you distill it down with the bonus disc. If anything, just grab "Dead Of The Dead."
I'll also speak up for Hologram Of Baal and After Everything, Now This. They're aren't as strong albumwise as the other ones suggested here (and Great Cthulhu man, get P=A right now!), but contain some of my favorite songs, especially "Louisiana" and the awesome awesome "Numbers."
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Chocolate Ball of Sweet Confectionary Fire (Bimble...), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Chocolate Ball of Sweet Confectionary Fire (Bimble...), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Which ones? Because I surely can't name any.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Well I'm rediscovering them, Bimble. I used to have all the old albums up to Heyday years ago but they got purged at some point maybe 15 years ago. I kept a double vinyl copy of Hindsight - or so I thought - but when I tried to find it a couple of months ago it was gone, so I assume I must have been imagining that I'd kept it. Obv that had me REALLY wanting to hear it again! THEN I read an article about Marty Willson-Piper's guitars on the web somewhere (yes I'm a sad old muso) which prompted me to pick up a CD copy of Hindsight. And here we are.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
He was the first place I had ever heard of Neu! I think. Although I can't really claim I'm a huge fan of theirs I can see how they were trailblazing for the likes of Stereolab.
― A Chocolate Ball of Sweet Confectionary Fire (Bimble...), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link
But I digress...anyway if you check out these albums Dr. C please give us your assessment of them, eh? I must admit an innate prejudice against Starfish a bit, simply because it is so much older than their other best records...maybe I've worn it out over the years. But it's hard for me to see a song like "Blood Money" as appealing to anything but the more stubborn Church fan. I mean, I personally enjoyed the song a great deal long ago, but would a casual Church fan? I wonder. Anyway, I haven't listened to Starfish in its entirety in many many years. I'd guess 1993 at best. Yeah, it's worn out for me in a lot of ways, just simply played it too many times. I'd rather hear Gold Afternoon Fix actually. But maybe it's just comparing two very different times in my life. When Starfish came out, I really loved it, but the Church were not my favourite band, and there was an awful lot of other quite different things going on in the (mostly Brit) indie world when that came out. On the other hand, by the time of Gold Afternoon Fix's release, I was a fanatic and the Church were my whole world. Even though GAF on its own is not by any means their best album.
― A Chocolate Ball of Sweet Confectionary Fire (Bimble...), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link
ANYWAY the moral of the story was that the unreleased song ended up appearing finally on the Sometime Anywhere CD when it arrived. Which was great except...even though I faithfully keep Sometime Anywhere in my collection, I've never found the will to re-investigate that very awkward time in the Church's history. I know there a few gems of songs there, but overall, quite a clunker I think, a glaring embarassment in their oeuvure.
― A Chocolate Ball of Sweet Confectionary Fire (Bimble...), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I just love talking about Church albums. Next up can we mention the Blurred Crusade? PLEEZ?
― A Chocolate Ball of Sweet Confectionary Fire (Bimble...), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 11 November 2006 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, am finally listening to Kilbey's Remindlessness. Interesting in that you can hear some of the initial stabs at where he and the band would go in future years.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link
TURN ON TUNE IN DROP OUT
Also: Remindlessness: I have not listened to that in nearly a billion years. Anyone remember his single called "Fireman" circa The Slow Crack or whatever that other album was called? Every time I see the Fireman buttons in the elevator at my building at work I think of that song! :)
But yes, Ned. With a few more drinks I daresay pulling out Remindlessness is well in order and very possible in just a few moments here. Cheers.
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Also I wonder if everyone knows that Steve Kilbey's best album is actually...Unearthed? Or was it Earthed? I get them mixed up. The one with "Judgement Day" on it. I think it was Unearthed.
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
And you know, even though at heart I'm a Church whore, sometimes I feel like I'm not ENOUGH of one you know what I mean? I know there are bigger Church fans than me, but I did fucking put my cents in, and it ought to count for something.
Also I would like to say I'm happy and proud to have found only a year and a half ago the vinyl of Marty Willson-Piper's In Reflection. That fucking thing was IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND back in the day. And one day record shopping with a friend, that thing was mine. Lovely!! Does anyone even have that on CD? Does it exist as such? Hell, maybe it does. But I got a big fucking booklet with it so there. Hahahah.
I like this song on Remindlessness called "The Amphibian". Oh yeah I remember this one. Wow. This is fantastic.
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Any opinions on this, or how it relates to the rest of their work?
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 25 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link