The Church

I feel like Gold Afternoon Fix is one of the most findable Church LPs, due to following up Starfish but getting a cool reception. Also, they all look the most like magicians they ever have on the cover!

i have never seen one but i try not to buy used records online -- just if i run across them in a store (unless it's something i feel crazy strong about)
i had a GAF tshirt and it smelled like burnt rubber

I had a Xymox t-shirt with that weird rubber smell, Skinny Puppy too... had that real rough silkscreening, reminds me of high school. One of my favorite lyrics is on Gold Afternoon Fix, from Monday Morning, where he sings "dice rolled, double six double six double six" but it's really mostly the delivery

oh man i love that part
that song too

i like the "at least it's artistic, i guess...i guess" in "You're Still Beautiful"
love the groove of this song too
takes me back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxX-6ZRrjsE

but "Metropolis" is one of my fave all time Church songs and nobody can take that away

They're both examples of their epic, wide-screen style that is rarely approached.

I love GAF, I think it's really underrated. It's intensely melancholic, strangely so when you consider that it was recorded in the wake of a longed-for commercial breakthrough. It's as if Kilbey instinctively knew that it wouldn't last.

You had an idea that you won't have again
She's forgotten your name and hopes you'll do the same
Start of the ash and the end of the flames
Burning you, turning you around.

hahaha, I forgot how much I loved the vocal delivery on Transient's chorus. It's like they were sitting around and decided to record another Heyday song but couldn't play it straight

also the delightful Australian "wondering if the leaves will fall in May/only know if I decide to stay"

I had a Xymox t-shirt with that weird rubber smell

It was the Phoenix one with lots of yellow and blue ink! That whole era of late 80s/early 90s tour t-shirts was rife with that weird smell. Had a Bowie one from the Sound + Vision tour that was the same.

Heads up: the recent Priest = Aura LP reissue is apparently another piece of shovelware taken from a CD master. Only the German LP from 1992 is an actual vinyl master. This knowledge has become important...

I think I posted this on the other Church thread, but the recent KEXP sets on YouTube are worth watching if you haven't kept up with them. This song is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUiOLfnqD0

was shopping for clothes at a thrift store today, and gave the CD shelf a quick once-over... found a copy of Remote Luxury! and then Russian Autumn Heart came up on random play in the car on the way home.

similar story! I have been waiting for a copy of Gold Afternoon Fix to cross my path for years since I had the shitty Columbia House cassette back when it came out and never replaced it. On Saturday I was at a friend's single release show/in store and I didn't really look around the store at all bc I was socializing. There was also a VU cover act playing and I was standing by the bargain CD bin and was browsing when I remembered to look in the Cs, as I always do. There it was!

So I finally listened to the whole album after all this time and guess what -- there are some boring songs but overall, I still really like it! Surprise favorites because I had forgotten about them completely and always liked them back when: Fading Away and Grind (the guitar parts on this are so good!!)

These lyrics in particular melted my brain because I remembered liking them way back in another lifetime when I was a young person. I love this band!

Who's there to say that we're living this moment
Feels like I'm in a play
The sets and the props of this, your apartment
Seem to be fading away, fading away

So I wander through these rooms
I feel the orbit of the moons
And I dream what I become
And all's forgotten by the sun

Those are righteous

Bumping Seance and the Remote Luxury EP this evening, first time in years, I'd forgotten how mesmerising and brilliant this band is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga5KYeJA1u4

Steve Kilbey doing his run of the first four albums, solo on 12-string with anecdotes, the YT channel has the other three,