Strawberry Switchblade - Classic/Dud , Search/Destroy

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So, do they have any songs other than 'Since Yesterday'? this song is classic, therefore so are they.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked their cover of "Jolene". i had the single once upon a time. i don't remember what the b-side was.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"Trees and Flowers" is also a great song. I think that's the name of it.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Taxi, Michael who walks by Night are very good, Trees and Flowers is their best song I think. They're all pretty good.

― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

And Rose Mcdowell is wonderful in all Current 93 and Nurse with Wound releases she did with them.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Also check out Rose McDowell as Ornamental (with the bloke out of Sugarcubes), single called 'Crystal Nights'. It's a masterpiece. It's a version of 'Crystal Days', the b-side of her so-so debut single . The a-side was a cover of Don't Fear The Reaper. You do not necessarily need that song in your record collection.

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Crystal Days" as per the Bunnymen?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

which one of them did the Spell album with Boyd Rice?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Rose McDowell.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I think she sung backing vocals on Felt's 'Space Blues' single.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, she did sing b/v on Space Blues, also on I Can't Make Love To You Anymore on Me and a Monkey on the Moon.

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No, nothing to do with the Bunnymen.

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't Trees and Flowers produced by Roddy Frame or somebody. And with Woody from Madness on drums. Had the single years ago when I was all wistful and listening to Virgina Astley, Durutti Column et al.

― garret (garret), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Trees and Flowers was produced by Balfe and Drummond. IT featured Roddy Frame on 'additional guitar', Kate St John on oboe, plus others.

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't know anything about them,but i did get a song by them off gabba.net ages ago that sampled sibelius' fifth symphony,which i really like,and i remember their song was a good laugh..

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be Since Yesterday.

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a very good SS site: http://www.strawberryswitchblade.net/

It has loads of stuff you can download too.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Boring fact: Boris Williams (of the Cure) played "tippy tappy" drums on the album (which isn't that good really)

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Album is great!!!!

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Nipper gave me an OK track of theirs.

I cannot remember its name.

― the strawfox, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC: buying their LP for £2 in Rye (Grammar School Records, was it?), in the company (was it?) of Mr Hopkins; I seem to recall that we found *another* copy on the same day, maybe even in the same street or shop.

― the ninefox, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i have spent ALL day recording a cover of 'since yesterday' in a 80s jangle pop style (akin to their early version of 'since yesterday' called 'dance' from the jensen session). this is the first thing i ever recorded; it sounds ok actually. ss are classic for the name alone.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 February 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

unbelievably classic brilliant.

are they glaswegian?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

search: a lot of the stuff downloadable from that website above. the early demo version of 'since yesterday' ('dance': 'dance, baby dance... dance... to the sound of your chains' - a sweet injunction dipped in bitterness); search wandering around glasgow to find '10 james orr street' on a cold january afternoon. search the lyrics to since yesterday: 'and as we sit here alone/ looking for a reason to go on/ it's so clear that all we have now / are our thoughts of yesterday.' wistful. search alistair "young forever" fitchett on 'strawberry switchblade'.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I seriously just crapped my pants when I saw how many of their songs I can download at that site.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I just reminded myself that "Trees and Flowers" is the best song of all time. Especially the looong version. Classic!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh how delightful that these gals have come up on this board!

I believe the first record I bought of them was the Who Knows What Love Is 12" so I don't tend to remember Since Yesterday as much, though I did tape the album later. **kicking myself for not having it in my posession just now**

I turned someone on to them who was quite a Sarah records fan/twee music sort, he loved 'em. Damn I wish I had that tape with me.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going looking for that tape now.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT I FOUND IT!

― The Silent Disco (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to love these ladies! I even dressed up like them for a school disco a few times. I loved getting about in the polkadots and ribbons and big hair.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

believably classic brilliant!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Let Her Go. It wasn't very successful, but I think I remember seeing it on the Juke Box Jury of Saturday Superstore.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

their cover of "jolene" is disappointing, but everything else is k-klassik.

― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

REVIVE¬!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I am currently listening to "The Platinum Collection"..

Platinum - who'd have thought it?

They were so lovely. And so polka-dotty.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

"Since Yesterday" is one of my favouritest songs ever, but it's impossible to put on a compilation tape for anyone, because the lyrics essentially amount to "you suck more than you used to".

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

The group's only album was produced in a tinny mid-80s electronic style that has dated very badly. Although the musical arrangements are good, the actual sound is thin and old-fashioned. I like the way that the music is upbeat whilst the lyrics are morose, and the tranquilised, harmonius vocal style is brilliant. But the album's sound has dated badly. It is like the 13th Floor Elevators and their bizarre "electric jug", in that it takes time to get used to the sound. The drums are particularly mechanical.

Nonetheless the vocals are superb, the songs are mostly great, and some of the production works - the toybox sound works on "Michael who walks by night" and "Another day" is almost brilliant, and should have been a single (it is the only song that would benefit from death metal guitars instead of synthesisers).

Their first single, "Trees and flowers", had a totally different sound - with real guitars, drums, bass etc - and it hasn't dated at all. It is interesting to imagine the album produced in this style.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

I saw the video for "Since Yesterday" and now I want more from this band.

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

dear god i love these girls... i was just thinking yesterday how i hadn't listened to them in a while.

― get bent, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

this one's for curtis...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn6xdAfcGQo

― get bent, Friday, 16 March 2007 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qok90pWOl4

― get bent, Friday, 16 March 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

"Beautiful End" is my jam lately.

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

peep this dope Rose McDowall version of "Don't Fear the Reaper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6cv6WnskU

― look out honey, 'cause I'm using ayo technology (crüt), Monday, 19 September 2011 06:44 (fourteen years ago)

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