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Take away "I Almost Prayed" and what's left?

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

possibly, the first two albums. the cover of 'you upset the grace of living when you lie' - i dunno. classic 80s band that was not of it's time.

― robotman, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

'cut me deep' is a great song

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

at the time – eg in the 80s — i detested them tremendously, probably more for what ppl kept telling me they "represented" than the sound they made

to be honest i can't even slightly remember what they sound like now — i must have some of their records somewhere

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

huh! why is that not so hard to believe mark s?

i will always love that band for their cover of 'you upset the grace of living when you lie' - as i played it over and over again - until i clued up that it was tim hardin song. thus the weather prophets got me into tim hardin. unfortunately i have not listened to a weather prophets song in years. the seduction of influence has strayed me away!

― robotman, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a copy of one of their LPs in my local 2nd hand store for A$15.. maybe i should indulge.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

except it's a CD

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

oh shit jim - i've got doubles of weather prophets back in canada! they just kept on popping up in the charity shops! come back and tell us which one....

― robotman, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved the Loft and thought the Weather Prophets took the Loft sound and discarded all that was good about it.

"Cut Me Deep" was a Jasmine Minks song (I don't think TWPs had a "Cut Me Deep", could be wrong of course... did they?) and the Jasminks are/were seven billion times the band the Weather Prophets ever were.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

doh! you're right about the Jasmine Minks song. i'm confused. it's probably 'Almost prayed' i'm thinking of anyway. the Loft were great, too.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

aye but what of pete astor's solo career? that's a dud.

― robotman, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't heard a semiquaver of it. but i likes the Wisdom of Harry and Ellis Island Sound a lot, if that counts.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

'tis not very good, avoid, avoid, avoid. when i was a young creationate; i went to great lengths to track down the paris only imports of his solo stuff. it's horrible.

there is something odd about his voice though - almost iconic?

― robotman, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

it's got an almost 'spoken' feel to it, not quite like Lou Reed or Hamish Kilgour but leaning in that direction..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i know ... it's very apparent when he covered that tim hardin song '...when you lie'.

lou reed - maybe - lou reed singing bob dylan? there is something about it?

― robotman, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but they recorded "Worm In My Brain" which is probably the most frighteningly accurate description of clinical depression that I've ever heard. "I've got a worm in my brain, it brings me to my knees, it comes on like a thought and stays just like a disease." Lyrically, this is the most powerful line I've ever heard in my life.

― kate, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm inclined toward classic for Almost Prayed and the rest is all good - I was rather keen on them at the time.

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep hearing the first few bars of "Heroes" by D. Bowie and thinking it's "Why Does The Rain" (the Loft versh, obv.)

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot about Worm ... second favourite song after the Tim Hardin cover.

― robotman, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

A good friend of mine had another good friend of mine read out the lyric to "Like Frankie Lymon" as the reading at his wedding.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yuk.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a fan, still - as it happens I played Diesel River last weekend! I second the praise for Almost Prayed and Worm, and Frankie Lymon works because it's sung in such an understated way. I think reading it out at a wedding might work less well. They are one of the handful of '80s indie bands I still like, but I guess they were pretty minor.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

are these any good?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

they are a band who seem to have left little trace behind them.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

Isn't this a good thing?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

A handful of excellent songs,

"Almost Prayed"
"Your door shines just like gold"
"Naked as the day you were born"

and some others.

and a heck of a lot of "I am very profound" overcooked in the lyrics dept biz.

A shame, cause the Loft seemed destined to be great.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:59 (fourteen years ago)

I can distantly remember some of their songs. I recall them as being thin and insubstantial.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

Almost Prayed was the only really top-notch song, though Like Frankie Lymon was lovely. They were let down by Pete Astor and Alan McGee's perception that Astor was some kind of a rock god, which he wasn't, and which didn't play to his strengths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8x4rXFFFP4

― Trudi Styler, the Creator (ithappens), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

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