It's even hard to do online...scarce on the most comprehensive torrent sites.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 9 April 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I've actually lost my copy with a change of computer so if someone wants to be CHARITABLE
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost sorry dude I've only heard it from Youtube streams.
Also, I'm back into The Fall. Slates and Hex did the trick.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
BOOM
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
one of us etc
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Where next in the 'moulding him in my image' quest...VdGG?
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
gimme time, I gotta write on Eliot + Swift + Toni Morrison this holiday.
― Davek (davek_00), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
snob + joeks bruv + emancipation
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I acquired recently all the albums I didn't have, so The Obvious Identity, Toy World, The Seaside, Songs For Ships And Irons and the Sea Nymphs album will be 'chewn' through (as it were)!
Actually, I've already had at the Sea Nymphs several times, because it's amazing. Lilly White's Party especially.
Kitchen Person, you will love Guns, but you shouldn't ignore Heaven Born And Ever Bright.
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, April 9, 2010 1:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
How did you manage to track all those down? I'm actually pretty fed up of searching for their stuff, I do at least 3 Ebay searches a day.
Heaven Born & Ever Bright, Guns and Song's For Ships & irons are the ones on my list to get. The Sea Nymphs album is just about impossible to get but I would love to own that one day.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
They were acquired through stealth, and having a brother who has a d3m0n01d account
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Are there any places that you'd recommend trying to find their albums apart from the usual Amazon, Ebay, Netsounds? I sometimes look at their website in hope they will have their albums back in stock but I know it's a long shot.
I guess I should be grateful I have managed to find as many as I have.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, if you're not averse to itunes, the entire back catalogue is on there. Sadly, that's pretty much the only way the band are going to see any revenue at this point.
― Pheeel, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The Spratley's Japs album is amazing too!
― You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Saturday, 10 April 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Gah, looks like the benefit is off. One or more of the "big names" can't make it, so it's all fallen apart. Should've known it was too good to be true.
― Pheeel, Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
wait, what? that's no reason to call a Cardiacs benefit off! Who's in charge? I know some "big names" that would be more than happy to benefit Tim Smith and the Cardiacs!
― Dominique, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^get this guy and Max Tundra involved IMO
― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
noooooooo!
― m the g, Thursday, 15 April 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
X-Post I'd be interested to know who.
― You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/04192-why-a-heart-attack-must-not-arrest-the-cardiacs
― m the g, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^great article!!
The Sea Nymphs album is rapidly, rapidly attaining godlike status with me. It's possibly as good as HBAEB, maybe even better
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 10 May 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you the Spratleys Japs record?
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Monday, 10 May 2010 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I really need to start exploring these offshoots... all I have is the 'affectionate friends' comp.
― m the g, Monday, 10 May 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
SJ is practically STG Disc 3, you want it!
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Monday, 10 May 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Sea Nymphs is
um
I don't know how lovely
but THIS, truly, is the album which if everyone in the world heard, they would love. Of that I am certain. There's absolutely nothing that could put anyone off except his voice and we're all grown-ups who can overlook voices, right?
If I were to re-run that 90s poll, this album would be getting points. From me.
Astounding.
I must hear Spratley's Japs.
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Friday, 14 May 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I love it when a plan etc.....
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Friday, 14 May 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It's so frustrating that there's a whole load of Sea Nymphs material which is the equal(if not better) of that album that has never seen the light of day, except for on live bootlegs and that one Peel Session. Enough for at least two more albums, apparently.
Apart from that, there's only the early cassette album Mr & Mrs Smith & Mr Drake, which is rather more lo-fi, but has a kind of eerie timelessness about it that the later more polished stuff lacks.
― Pheeel, Friday, 14 May 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
would say the SN album is nothing if not completely timeless tbh
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Friday, 14 May 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
This has just reminded me that I have a decent rip of the SN peel session on a DAT tape of all things, I must dig that out.
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Friday, 14 May 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2010/03/spratleys-japs-hazel-cd-ep-1999-uk.html
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
So 'Pony' is still in stock? Might get me a copy...
(btw I bumped the Cardiacsy thread for Knifeworld earlier. Some decent bass on that album) ;-)
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh hey, I noticed, to be honest it was so damn long ago (maybe 6 years or more) that I recorded anything for Kavus I can't honestly remember what I did, I know it was only a few tracks, maybe 3 or 4. I didn't think he'd even use any of it because at the time, the tracks were pretty skeletal. So the decent bass is most likely Craig or Kavus :)
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wait so that album's been in the making for a while? He did all that Authority stuff even after beginning Knifeworld?
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, it's his magnificent octopus
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
except he says there's another one out soon as well, maybe it's a two-part octopus
'Me To The Future Of You' is his Dirty Boy, though; that's pretty much beyond any doubt
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Out soon...
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Monday, 17 May 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so glad I didn't use all 25 nominations for the 05-09 poll, just sayin'
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Monday, 17 May 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
More on this soon, but
'Fanny' by Spratley's Japs is one of the best songs ever
― always changing, always the same (acoleuthic), Saturday, 5 June 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Kavus has confirmed in a podcast interview that Cardiacs won't be playing live again. Not really a surprise given the apparent seriousness of Tim's condition, but still sad to hear it nonetheless. He did also mention the benefit album will probably be out by the end of the year.
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
ah well. tim's got a better excuse than andy partridge i guess
still hoping tim recovers, and recovers sufficiently to finish mixing LSD - but more that he recovers, really
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― always changing, always the same (acoleuthic), Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:24 (2 months ago)
loverocksunanthem
possibly my favourite song now
it's just too much, too good. it's what my head looks like on the inside.
cannot begin to convey how it makes me feel, and how it aligns with my best feelings
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Info on the tribute album here, available for pre-order : http://www.thegenepool.co.uk/items/597.htm
― Portnoy Leaves Dream Theater (Matt #2), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Andy Partridge!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The blurb say Tim is still in hospital over two years since his stroke :-(
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
WE WILL PRAISE HIM
― acoleuthic, Friday, 22 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm really interested to hear which song Ultrasound cover, I recently got a copy of The Sea Nymphs album which I remember their lead singer Tiny praising in the NME back in the day.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 22 October 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
aargh i want to preorder but don't know what my address will be when this ships! what a lame conundrum
― sleepingbag, Friday, 22 October 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
+ i don't trust my building's office to forward anything to me after i move because i've brought them previous tennant's mail before and the girl at the office there threw it out in front of me!
― sleepingbag, Friday, 22 October 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Got it today, psyched!
― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not on Gracenote yet, boo!
Any word on Tim's condition? It's been such a long time...just realized that Guns is going to be 12 years old :()
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 February 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link