looks like those Young Basingstoke tracks are still available from Merge, so probably just the It's Art Dad ones... which is good, because those are awesome!
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHB-bVUD4s&list=RDHUHB-bVUD4s&index=1
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 25 September 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
FFS. Anyway, it's a beautiful version of the Age of Miracles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHB-bVUD4s&list=RDHUHB-bVUD4s&index=1
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 25 September 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHB-bVUD4s
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Saturday, 26 September 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
Thank you! Sausage fingers + drunken posting = not a good mix.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 26 September 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
YT seems to have changed the way URLs of videos are displayed with that "channel" bit added in - think you need to delete everything from the first ampersand onwards in the URL to get them to embed here.
Great version anyway and thanks for sharing
― groovypanda, Sunday, 27 September 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
With some years now since Music for the Age of Miracles... does anyone still rank it as their best? I maintain more decisively that for me it is their worst (which doesn't mean it is bad at all!). To me overall it is full of very busy arrangements garnishing and overcompensating for their least inspired collection of melodies, relatively. As harsh as that sounds I don't mean it to be; I think the album is wonderful, it is just far away from being better than the effortless and dreamy Strange Geometry or Suburban Light era material. Asking because I do believe that all the showy orchestrations and extra dressings are the exact kind of thing that can seduce and excite initially but lose impact with time. Like chips doused with truffle oil.
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Having felt various degrees of obsessiveness with their output over the last ~20 years, it certainly was a timely arrival 4 years ago ("this is the year that the monster will come") and was an essential companion through that time.
Since the fog has lifted? I have not spent enough time on Holloway or Vincent St to say for sure.
But I think it still rates for me.
― fajita seas, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
Rates for me but omg how have 20 years passed.
I can't remember, but I may have discovered The Clientele on ILX.
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
I think it's stronger than God Save the Clientele... Falling Asleep, Lunar Days, Everyone You Meet, and the Age of Miracles are some of their best songs
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
My trajectory with Age of Miracles is intense anticipation (new music!), a bit of disappointment in the actual album over first few spins (no way to live up to the anticipation), and now I'd put in the middle of the list. Minotaur would be at the low point for me. But, f. hazel otm, Age of Miracles does have some songs that rank among their best - Lunar Days, Everyone You Meet and Constellations Echo Lanes in particular.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
Some of the arrangements are a little over upholstered and i could live without the yodelling man, but it is wonderful and has the edge on bonfires on the heath for me, so somewhere in the middle? Suburban Daylight gets the Tims listening party treatment on April the 1st, for fans of that kind of thing.
― cw, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
i listened to Age of Miracles last night and I think it's a damn masterpiece! totally beautiful from start to finish.
― tylerw, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
"Some of the arrangements are a little over upholstered and i could live without the yodelling man"
Yes exactly, those two elements indicated to me that they were overthinking things! Personally I look to to them for their effortlessness and those attributes seemed to be at odds with that quality. Also a bit unexpected given they'd reformed as the original trio and were playing shows celebrating the early material in years leading up to it, and the album is the opposite of that hazy-memory sounding minimal ingredients approach of their first couple of albums.
Appreciate everyone's thoughts. At the time I was fantasizing about hearing a "naked" version of the album. Clearly I'd still be very interested in that sort of thing.
― Evan, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
Great conversation with Alasdair
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alasdair-macleans-personal-beatles/id1523996711?i=1000538335472
(think it's available on other podcast providers as well)
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
There is a new book of Alasdair’s lyrics out - ordering info on the Clientele insta if that happens to be anyone’s bag
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 03:57 (two years ago) link
had a look at it, tempted
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 06:19 (two years ago) link
So, are they?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link
Best band since the Smiths? Surely
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 06:24 (two years ago) link
does the book have the lyrics to Honkin' on Victoria Street?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
there's a london gig in september :O https://www.facebook.com/theclienteleofficial/posts/509081890733954
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
The book arrived. It's handsome and contains quite a lot more than lyrics I already know.
― Tim, Monday, 16 May 2022 13:41 (two years ago) link
awesome... very excited to see it!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 16 May 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
I ordered one as well. Still waiting on the lavish career retrospective box set.
― that's not my post, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
I'd prefer just a new album, which seems to be in the works
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 16 May 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
well, a new album would be very welcome surprise
― that's not my post, Monday, 16 May 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
Alasdair posted a picture of him with his black telecaster and something abt learning to play again
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 06:39 (two years ago) link
They played! They were good. And Alasdair said there’s a new LP on the way.
― Tim, Friday, 30 September 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
I had never heard of these guys before this thread. On first listen, the singer sounds like David J.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 30 September 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
wait, they said there's a new LP on the way?? insert happy face gif
― that's not my post, Friday, 30 September 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
They did - said (from the stage) that they’d signed a contract with Merge for a new one.
― Tim, Friday, 30 September 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
jimbeaux listen to Strange Geometry
― Evan, Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
fantastic news!
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 1 October 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
whoop! whoop!
― groovypanda, Sunday, 2 October 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
They really were on sparkling form friday, although a couple of the songs from the last lp had a slightly busked quality. The mix was crystalline. So glad they are a going concern and wished i'd bought one of the lyric books. Glad i didn't but one of the tiny suburban daylight t shirts.
― cw, Sunday, 2 October 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
v. excited about a new album!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 2 October 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
new tune out!
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 24 April 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
OMG new double album in July!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
Just the 19 songs on the new album then!
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
it's clearly going to be their Tusk
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
It's nice, though I have a very minor pet peeve regarding excessive vocal melodies applied to simple words like "blue" ("blue over bluuu-u-u-uuu-u-u-uuue")
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Monday, 24 April 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
we can have good things at least some of the time
― that's not my post, Monday, 24 April 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
If that's a way of saying "can't you just let us enjoy this" please let me reiterate how minor and inconsequential my criticism of that detail is meant to be. I'm very excited the album is finally announced!
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Monday, 24 April 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
wait until you hear the cover of Doin' the Do that closes the album
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 24 April 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
xpost i'm just excited for the album. my comment was more global. it's a good news monday on a lot of fronts.
― that's not my post, Monday, 24 April 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
How do you capture lyrics? A pen? A smart phone app? It always used to be a pen and a piece of paper. I’ve now changed to notes on iphone. Tragically, I also use a Trello board to swap things around and see if they look different in a different order. Quite often ideas come from quotes or images from books I read, so I take photos of the page too.
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 06:45 (one year ago) link
They’re coming back to The Chapel in SF this summer. More good things.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
yeah looking forward to that. I'm really happy this band has soldiered on and continues to find some way to tour outside the UK without ever becoming huge.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
I'm gonna try and hit up the Philly and DC shows!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
Supreme Clientele would be a cool mashup record
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link