whoa, what is the story behind "Candymine"?
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
that's on Fuzzy Warbles. it was part of Andy's half-baked "sequel" idea for the Dukes (ie, a bubblegum glam record with lots of stupidly obvious sexual innuendos. Other songs included "Visit to the Doctor" and I think one other...?)
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"Cherry in your Tree" I think?
great songs obviously
haha I wish that whole thing happened. I want to get the Fuzzy Warbles "stamp box" so bad!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry for Candymine fail. Shakey, do you have an incoming email limit? They're all under 10Mb so
― one-time Perrier winner Frank Woodley plays a loveable dad (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and I have the stamp box. It's ace but sits on a shelf unloved along with every other interesting CD pack I've ever bought.
I don't have a mail limit, I'm wondering if it went to my junk folder or something tho
― goat, camel, horse, and water buffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I shall wait for you to check your etc etc
― one-time Perrier winner Frank Woodley plays a loveable dad (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"Candymine" not a fail imo insofar as I had no idea this song existed until today + it is nutso.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 4 December 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Trivia: "Candymine" plus "Prince of Orange," "It's Snowing Angels" and "My Brown Guitar" (here called "Some Lovely (My Brown Guitar)") were originally released in 1994 as an EP through John Flansburgh's Hello CD of the Month Club subscription series. The first 3 songs were rereleased on Fuzzy Warbles; "My Brown Guitar" was later recorded by XTC for Wasp Star but the demo has never been rereleased.
Drums & Wireless is a good album to have, too – more BBC sessions. I can't remember whether there's overlap between the two but I don't think there is.― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, December 2, 2010 10:51 PM (2 days ago)
― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Thursday, December 2, 2010 10:51 PM (2 days ago)
I just cross-referenced the two, and every track first released on Drums & Wireless is included in the Transistor Blast box.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 4 December 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, thanks.
― one-time Perrier winner Frank Woodley plays a loveable dad (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 December 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"My Brown Guitar" was later recorded by XTC for Wasp Star but the demo has never been rereleased.
Correction: It was rereleased on the Homegrown demos collection. (Gads, a shameful mistake! Strip me of my XTC completist credentials!)
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 4 December 2010 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree that Wasp Star is probably one of their worst. To be fair though, it's probably their most immediate and accessible. There are some really catchy riffs on there but I kind of feel as though Moulding didn't really care anymore and Partridge was kind of losing his mind a bit. On the other hand Apple Venus is brilliant. It's not a fistpump five star album but the best parts of it are some of the most lush and beautiful music I've ever heard. I cannot believe that the same guy who was dicking around with "Statue of Liberty" would write something as amazing as "Greenman" two decades later. I mean "Statue" rules but that's quite a change of pace.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
My first time hearing this too! Like XTC doing 1910 Fruitgum Company, and therefore fabulous!!
― The animal magnetism of Tim Pawlenty (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I got divorced last week and forgot to listen to 'your dictionary' - correcting that now and forgot how awesome 'Apple Venus' is as a complete rekkid...
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
YES, that is the best post-break-up-catharsis song ever. Sorry/pleased (pick one) to hear about your divorce btw.
frogbs: Wasp Star ends with 'The Wheel and the Maypole' which almost completely redeems it imo, but yeah, Moulding absolutely phoning it in by then.
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the one-two punch of Church of Women/Wheel and Maypole is a very "whoah" moment given the rest of the album
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Moulding's creepy song themes, married couples flirting/sex/talk with added swinger overtones applied to his brown music was a real let down on WS.
― Pottery Owls (MaresNest), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Agreed on the Wheel/Maypole. A great way to end their career if nothing else. Actually I found "You and the Clouds Will Still be Beautiful" to be pretty good as well (if a little dopey).
I wonder what Partridge is up to these days...is he doing production work now, or has he been recording at all over the last decade? I remember hearing he had writer's block, but somehow I don't think someone with his talent would go dry an entire decade...
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Shakey, did you ever get those emails?
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Partridge? Don't know. He's certainly stopped releasing good material, preferring to dick around with entire albums full of impro and mismanage a record label. Maybe he's just being a dad/grandad and enjoying himself.
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I did not
but I didn't wanna seem too whiny about it
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
agh k. Do you have an incoming size limit per message?
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Partridge and Gregory are talking again so I hear.
― Pottery Owls (MaresNest), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
They've been talking for a while but nothing has happened. tbh I'm amazed Gregory's wasting his time with such a vicious serial backstabber.
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I do not have an incoming size limit. however, I do have a rather unusual e-mail address (people usually assume it should be .com instead of .cc, but no it is a .cc address)
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I did that. Weird. Let me check tonight when I get home.
― unintentional boob pic (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
While we're here I just want to prop 'The Bland Leading the Bland' (I know it's a warble but wotevz) for correctly representing everything I hate about modern life and the constant and overwhelming pressure to fall in line with it. Lyrically top five of all-time imo.
― best autmn alnamac with ten-letter single-word username (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
vicious serial backstabber
Elaborate, please...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I just had a silly thought that is probably only pleasurable to me, but:if "Your Dictionary" was about how he divorced his wife because she was bad at spelling."F-I-T-E, is that how you spell fight in your dictionary?"
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ahahahaha
xp He has a Gilliam-like habit of publicly blaming everyone within 500km for his own failures, and he's not nice about it. Evidenced in pretty much any of his interviews from the past 15 years.
― best autmn alnamac with ten-letter single-word username (Schlafsack), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Also this
― Pottery Owls (MaresNest), Thursday, 9 December 2010 07:40 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is the best ever description of Moulding's input to that record, especially the 'brown music' bit.
― best autmn alnamac with ten-letter single-word username (Schlafsack), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah it's true that Partridge doesn't sound like the easiest person to work with but in his defense he has gotten dicked over a lot. I mean if you listen to an XTC singles comp it's just really hard to fathom how this band almost never got played on the radio. Maybe the whole "not touring" thing really bit them on the ass??
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 December 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno, I remember that documentary where they're recording "Towers of London", where APart is dicking around at the mic, and John Leckie quietly remarks "ah good, he's in a good mood today"...
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 December 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Oops. Okay Shakey, I just checked the email address and it's fine. I did BCC you both though, so maybe something went wrong there.
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Is the Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Album already out of print?
― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Monday, 4 April 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
It looks like the big 9cd boxset is out of print but individual volumes are plentiful on AmazonUK.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 4 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ape.uk.net/acatalog/Andy_Partridge.html
^^^ all available apparently
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
(the box is great btw)
Am I reading correctly that the box is out of stock from Ape Records, tho?
― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Monday, 4 April 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Like yes I'd like all the individual volumes but that box looked cute & awesome plus Andy writes thoughtful & funny notes.
― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Monday, 4 April 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god, I just realised there's no way to ~buy~ anything
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I have had Generals and Majors stuck in my head since yesterday. I am going insane. That is all.
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I was watching Ric Burns' New York documentary today and right around where they talk about the death of Walt Whitman, Frost Circus pops up.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i had a dream last night that i was watching a biopic about XTC. i don't really know anything about XTC so it was pretty much all made up. there was a scene where a guy with long rocker hair got a haircut so that he looked more cleancut and modern.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/3920749.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/Rp7M5xT0_HI/AAAAAAAAC3E/LdVzTX-xQVU/s400/xtc1980.jpg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
have come to really wish Fuzzy Warbles was chronological
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 July 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
I reordered the tracks when I ripped them but there's some annoying cross-fades that broke.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 23 July 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
well I would re-order them now but it would mean digging through all the liner notes. which appear to be the only place any reference is made to the dates of recordings.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 July 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's a bit challenging. I have a spreadsheet that I can send you if you're interested.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 23 July 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link