― bham, Monday, 3 February 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robert lashley (brotherman), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
... prevents them going so pop. There's no Ebeneezer Goode or smash hit with Boss Drum, but they retain indie credibility. By the mid 90s, the Shamen have dabbled with IDM and a grunge sound to no great effect. Become bored with drugs.
Then after hearing Radiohead's Kid A, The Shamen figure out what they wanted to do all along and release a blindingly good album mixing their early "Drop" style tunes with two-step garage beats; weird experimental electronics sections; and a stong anti-Blair political message.
― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 3 February 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the internet (scg), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
However, a change in the fashion of the times (and a certain loss of inspiration: "The songs...just weren't coming anymore, no matter how hard I worked") leads Drake to go on hiatus from the music business in the early eighties. He spends the next decade living quietly in the English countryside until, in 1995, Drake is coaxed out of retirement by a persistent German fan (whom he later marries), and after a few brief tours in the UK and Europe, quietly releases a comeback album of sorts, Dark and Devil Waters. While again critically acclaimed, the record fails to sell particularly well until yet another licensing deal -- this one with a small independent film that unexpectedly becomes one of the year's biggest smashes -- reignites interest in Drake's older material. He continues to tour sporadically through the '90s, releasing very little new material -- a live album, and The Best of Nick Drake which features two new songs, an unreleased outtake, and a rather schmaltzy cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" -- but then begins a much-anticipated new album in the summer of 1999. Tragically, after having completed about two-thirds of the album, he fails to show up to the studio one day and is found dead in his home, the victim of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. His wife is briefly regarded as a suspect, but the official police report deems the incident an accident.
― Phil (phil), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 05:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually now that Fairport have been mentioned someone surely has to write an account of Sandy Denny's last 25 years. Won't be me, though.
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Oops (Oops), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link