World of Twist - CD/SD

Of course St Etienne name check them in "London Belongs to Me"

No idea what happened to them.

Some of them went on to form Earl Brutus. Some of them went on to be in Mum & Dad, signed to Twisted Nerve.

I happened to be DJing last night, just playing some tunes inbetween bands... I stuck "Sons of the Stage" on and almost immediately people started coming up to ask what it was. Genius.

My sister once said that there is a really good single version of 'The Storm' but maintained that the album version is a bit weedy.

CLASSIC WITH BIG KNOBS ON

"Pulp owe them everything" = "Pulp were doing similar 2 years before" though. But they're not much like Pulp - there's something yet more perverse and diffuse about them. And yeah, "Sons Of The Stage" is awesome - my 12" of it had gathered dust, fool that I am, but Sussed patrons should expect it as a regular feature from now on I think.

The WOT single on Caff is, however, utterly terrible.

Hmmm. Pulp were at the My Legendary Girlfriend and Countdown stage around the time WOT were at their peak in 1990/91. Just listen to Pulp's next developments in 92/93- bringing fruity synth sounds to the fore on Babies, O.U and Styloroc and a melodic and vocal shift away from a slightly strained Brel/Walker/Bowie to an easier pop delivery. It just struck me that WOT *might* have been a catalyst for Pulp to bring these elements to the fore.

I agree that overall the two bands are not much alike, but I would say that both are recognisably *Northern* in outlook. Not that I can define this precisely, but neither could never have come from Slough or Portsmouth. I will attempt to start a thread on this in the new year, as I've had many discussions with friends about Northernness and what it means in music.

(*or more accurately, I am Dr.C minus the early Kinks/Small Faces obsession ;-) )

Is this pre-Pulp or not? I think it was pre-Brit pop, full stop.

Taking on the premise that Brit Pop was a reinvention of 60's & 70's pop music in the 90's. My opinion is that they qualify as the forerunners of Brit Pop.

Even their name is borowed from the 60's. There used to be many cheesy cheap albums called "THE WORLD OF ........." i.e. the Bachelors (not recommended). It wouldn't surprise me if our man Jarvis saw the WOT and exploited their deliberate cheesyness for Pulp. No discredit to our man though, he's still a class act, talent was still required.

Why were this band not gi-normous??

Sons of the Stage is astonishingly classic!

Erm.

Tony Ogden RIP

Sons Of The Stage video on YouTube

There's some other videos/TV performances up, too.

must get broadband.

a few years ago in a moment of madness i traded 'the storm' cd single for some baked beans.
i've regretted it ever since.
so this week i tracked down a copy again, and it arrived today.
the 12" version is f*cking immense.

verdict : classic.

i'm now going to compare the single version to the album version .. to see if i notice a difference as i'd always assumed it was the same !

this album is perfect.

i found a mint vinyl edition in a local charity shop a few years ago and have recently been listening to it on repeat a lot recently.

[ as per usual this thread will now sink from trace .. just wanted to register my love .. ta ]

Quite the archive

http://world-of-twist.blogspot.co.uk/

awesome, thanks

Great interview with Gordon and Jim

Not sure if it has been mentioned in other threads but the Gordon King book is very readable - very evocative of a time and a place. Enjoyed it, though I was far more into Earl Brutus than WoT.

I happily devoured it in a day.

I got it for Christmas! Yeah, it's very very easy to read - and short - so you can indeed finish it off quickly. Gordon is a genuinely nice guy and this books captures his personality and sense of humour very well - it also captures very well what it was like to be bumbling about trying to get your shit together in Thatcher's Britain.