TS: Moloko vs Morcheeba

otherwise...meh.
(caveat: i just listened to the jim white record morcheeba produced and its kinda ok)

Moloko win hands down. and i really liked 'Big Calm' when it came out.

Ha! Andy Paltridge to thread!

Dammit, she has geographic taste.

M Carty - Milton Keynes - is there anywhere in the world with as many roundabouts?! It makes Los Angeles look interesting!

I'd say moloko are slightly better - but i haven't heard an entire album by them. "sing it back", "Pure pleasure seeker", "the time is now" - all good tunes. i saw them live once, actually, supporting garbage. they were a bit dull, but roisin is quite a fox.

This would lead to confused looking wet family groups who'd just emerged from the pool sneaking their way heads-down past legions of metallers milling about in the main area of the centre, downing snackbite and black.

Plus, when I saw Nuclear Assault at that very venue, the first thing the singer said onstage was 'Jesus, how many f---in' roundabouts have you got around here?', again indicating MK's world leader status.

'Moog Island'
'Howling'
'Shoulder Holster'
'Bulletproof'
'Over & Over'
'Otherwise'

Moloko tracks i like:

'Dominoid'
'Fun For Me'
'Sorry'
'Caught In A Whisper'
'Pure Pleasure Seeker'
'The Time Is Now'
that live cover of 'I Feel Love'
'Familar Feeling'
'Forever More'

Morcheeba were responsible for "Be Yourself" therefore they LOSE.

along w/ Electric Wizard

Now that I've heard them I see why Mr. Q likes them! They are good.

(PS, I slsk'd it last late winter/early spring and locally (i.e. Boston) purchased the Australian import [w/bonus DVD of their vids] so F.U. RIAA)

2 of the only Brit bands of the last decade who were any good

Yes, that is a strange opinion. Anyway, Moloko are miles better.

Never saw this thread before, but the title cracked me up, since I always got these two bands confused in the '90s. (Weren't they both, like, "trip-hop" or something?)

shit-hop

Finding it quite interesting that Morcheeba never had any real UK hits (the highest reached no. 34) but they managed a 2x Platinum album and a further two Top 10 albums after that. It feels like the sort of success that would make most sense at the tail end of the physical singles era but this was in the late 90s/early 00s. Kinda tallies with how I've always found it hard to place them - dismissed as trip hop-lite but selling mostly through word-of-mouth/press attention? Or did they get lots of play on Radio 2 and similar stations but nothing that translates to single sales? Sort of a 'everyone's heard of them but few can name their songs' deal? Idk

I think it translated to "I really like that, I'd like more of that"

Like, cd single(s) didn't cut it. Didn't want 8 remixes of the same song...

They straddled that bridge between the trip hop and chill out eras, and i think they were featured on loads of compilations. Every household seemed to have a copy of the one with the red cover. Agreeable music for all occasions

Both were terrible.

Yeah they're on a lot of chillout compilations I own, I'm just a bit surprised Big Calm seemed to do better than the first Zero 7 album and about as well as Moon Safari when it seems to lack the 'hits'? (whether genuine, ad-propelled or otherwise)

Or maybe it did and they've just been buried over time

I thought Morcheeba were a classic ads band? As above, included on a lot of compilations too.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Music%3A+The+full+Mondeo%3B+Will+a+Ford+TV+ad+make+Morcheeba+the+new+M...-a072083613

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day featured heavily on an ad for…something

"World Looking In" was on a Ford advert

The mention of M People upthread feels appropriate here bcus a Search for the Hero remix was also in a Ford advert a couple of years earlier (their final hit)

Or wait no, the M People/Ford link was a few years before even that (and wasn't their final hit). I'm thinking of Des'ree having a Ford hit in '99 (again though, an actual hit for the effort, unlike Morcheeba's)

2 of the only Brit bands of the last decade who were any good