Anticipate time: HELP - A day in the life.... (The new Warchild compilation album)

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Keane are doing "Goodbye yellow brick road"

No come back... Baby shambles have asked to do something.

no...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

apparently recording for this starts in an hours time at midday and runs for 24 hours, with the album available for download at 2pm on friday.

lineup:

Mylo, Radiohead, Go! Team, The Magic Numbers, Manics, Kaiser Chiefs, Belle & Sebastian, Emmanuel Jal, Gorillaz, Keane, Tinariwen, Antony And The Johnsons, Elbow, Damien Rice, The Zutons, The Coral, Maximo Park, Hard-Fi, Bloc Party and Razorlight.

― mark h (mark h), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey, go antony! Talk about "right time, right project!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Antony and the Johnsons - Happy Xmas War is Over
Belle & Sebastian - The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House
Bloc Party - The Present
The Coral (produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley) - It Was Nothing
Damien Rice - Crosseyed Bear
Elbow - Snowball
Emmanuel Jal - Gua
The Go! Team - Phantom Broadcast
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
Hard-Fi - Help Me Please
Kaiser Chiefs - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Keane and Faultline - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Magic Numbers - Gone Are the Days
The Manic Street Preachers - Leviathan
Maximo Park - Wasteland
Mylo - to be confirmed
Radiohead - I Want None of It
Razorlight - Kirby's House
Tinariwen - to be confirmed
The Zutons - Hello Conscience

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Kaiser Chiefs - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Oh for fuck's sake.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Kaiser Chiefs - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

This is disgusting.

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

What would really make this project is live feeds from the recordings themselves.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Kaiser Chiefs - I Heard It Through thee Grapevine

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead - I Want None of It

Such an apt title.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

The Coral (produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley)

Is this the official name of the band now?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

For me, "Belle & Sebastian - The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House" should offset the Kaisertastrophe.

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Well, there's always Damon to play a piano and croak off keyedly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

the first Warchild was ace! Especially since early copies didn't even have a tracklisting so you had to guess what they were. Classic for the Boo Radleys track alone. Didn't Blur have a decent instrumental on that too? Wish I still had a copy.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually trying to sell my copy of HELP before I leave the country. I could post it to you tomorrow if you PayPal me £3?

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Late addition (iron iron)

Babyshambles – Bollywood To Battersea

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

I genuinely thought that tracklisting was a joke, what with the odd potentially awful cover version, and a fairly generic-looking Radiohead song title.

― Deluxe (Damian), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Here's the confirmed list (the TBA's have been.)

Apparently, one 'big' name to come.

Antony and the Johnsons – ‘Happy Xmas (War is Over)’
Babyshambles – ‘Bollywood To Battersea’
Belle & Sebastian – ‘The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House’
Bloc Party – ‘The Present’
The Coral – ‘It Was Nothing’
Damien Rice – ‘Crosseyed Bear’
Elbow – ‘Snowball’
Emmanuel Jal – ‘Gua’
The Go! Team – ‘Phantom Broadcast’
Gorillaz – ‘Hong Kong’
Hard-Fi – ‘Help Me Please’
Kaiser Chiefs – ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’
Keane and Faultline – ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’
The Magic Numbers – ‘Gone Are the Days’
Manic Street Preachers – ‘Leviathan’
Maximo Park – ‘Wasteland’
Mylo – ‘Mars Needs Women’
Radiohead – ‘I Want None of It’
Razorlight – ‘Kirby's House’
Tinariwen – ‘Cler Achel’
The Zutons – ‘Hello Conscience’

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Kaiser Chiefs – ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’

no good can come of this.

― N_RQ, Friday, 9 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

ooooooooohhh
Woooooohhhhhh
oohaaarrrghhhh
Warrrrrrrrrrgghhhh
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
iyeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHEARDITTHRUTHEGRAPEVINE!!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing it's going to sound more like the Slits' version rather than Marvin. And I think it might not be *that* bad (for the Kaiser Chefs anyhow).

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

(they fuck up that drum rhythm though and they'll be in big trub)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

(personally I'm more worried about Maximo Dork covering ...the Mission?)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

This won't be as bad as last year's (or was it 2003?) on account of there being no Stereophonics doing 'Nothing Compares 2 U'.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.warchild.org/artists/1love/onelove_cover.gif
Oct 2002.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

This won't be as bad as last year's (or was it 2003?) on account of there being no Stereophonics doing 'Nothing Compares 2 U'.
-- Sociah T Azzahole (stevem7...), September 9th, 2005.

OMG YSI NOW

― N_RQ, Friday, 9 September 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

It's a shame really that Tinariwen didn't take the opportunity to call their track 'I Predict A Griot'

(oh no kids, dad's making terrible world music jokes, quick, let's kill him)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

the first Warchild was so great... still listening to it.
Damon and Jamie were in Hong Kong until Wednesday night and went to China on Thursday morning. apparently they had been in HK for three days already - so they might have recorded Hong Kong (the track) in Hong Kong (the city). Is it allowed to record in advance?

― Arnault (arc73hk), Friday, 9 September 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

i find it hard to believe radiohead's 'lucky' was recorded in one day. (orbital's track too -- ie the best two tracks on the album.)

― N_RQ, Friday, 9 September 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

ie the best two tracks on the album

Totally. Don't remember the Boo's one at all, must try and get it. Also no recollection of Stereo Mcs, Stone Roses, Levellers, Planet 4 Folk Quartet (who?), Blur, Mojo Filters (weren't they some supposed supergroup?) but I feel no loss there.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

the charlatans record w. the chemical brothers was above their usual standard (ie, in a shock move, not a version of 'sympathy for the devil').

― N_RQ, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

This is supposed to be available now, right? It's not clear where to go to buy it, especially not from the website. Have I missed something?

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.warchildmusic.com/homepage.asp

Check here at 5pm.

Xpost, would you believe it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay – ‘How You See The World’

Oh yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Finally! The new Radiohead song is very pretty.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I'll buy it for Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs, the rest looks middling.

― Pvt. Dave Is Here To Try (scarlet), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Right, I'm in the process of downloading. Let's see...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

So did anyone download this? I considered it, but the last thing I downloaded from Warchild (the Vitalic remix of the Bjork song) was some strange file type that I couldn't put into iTunes and burn on a CD. Anyway, yeah...
Verdicts? Thoughts? So curious...

― Who Are You, Buster Gonad? (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 12 September 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

It's the fastest selling download album ever, which is not surprisig seeing as it's pretty much the first one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

track-by-track please, Grouty.

I'm going to wait til the actual CD comes out, cos I am my dad.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

4,000 downloads in two and a half days is rubbish.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Track one is Radiohead, and is one of their better midpaced piano ones.

Last time, "Lucky" was one of those songs I nearly wrote myself, so I'm pretty sure what sparked the thought process. A short step from "You godda roll with it" (oasis) to "I want a roll with it" (The Shirehorses) to "I'm on a roll, I feel my luck could change" and so on.

continuing.. maybe.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Actually, forget track by track.

The best tracks so far, by far, are the Radiohead and the Gorillaz / Damon Albarn.

The Keane track is exactly how you'd expect a version of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" would sound like by the singer of "Somewhere only we know"

Ant and George is dull, BoyGeorge's voice is now mature. Or rough, I can't decide.

Babyshambles. Right that's enough about Babyshambles.

Kaiser Chiefs do a 'funky' makeover of "I Heared it through the Grapevine"

Other tracks are available.

Oh, and I couldn't get all the tracks onto one CD, so how the eventual issue is going to resolve that, I don't know. I left off the last two tracks, but I guess the Coral and Coldplay might not exactly be surprises.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Could anyone throw the following on www.yousendit.com please? just send the notification to my email ^

the damien rice track
the coldplay track
the belle & sebastian track

thanks a whole lot guys.

― Skippy, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

err, it's a charity album! i don't think ysi is very appropriate...

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

booooo..

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 September 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

anyone YSIing Help tracks will be tracked down and forced to listen to the Kairer Chieves "Grapevine" forevah.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 September 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Remember how on Tuesday they announced that the album had been downloaded 4,000 times? It's only been downloaded another 1,000 times in full since then. Around 200 copies a day, the equivalent of a top 30 record in the real chart and raising around £90,000 in total.

Hardly Live Aid.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

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