The Roches

ok, last one I promise:

@RobertFrippVEVO
3 years ago

Thank you Goblin Cock for your amazing rendition which brought me to my knees... I can't imagine a better cover exists than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tM65kpHzz0

lol

i love that one (and the I Love Your Smile cover on the same album). i do wish the DFH drums were a little less stationary though...

still weird to how people seem to connect with Hammond Song and not get The Roches otherwise though

I love Keep on Doing (their third album, second colab with Fripp + bonus Tony Levin and Bill Bruford). I think it's better than the debut, especially the song Losing True that has a killer Fripp spolo. They got better at singing somehow. But it ain't got a Hammond Song on it.

Also I love this video for Big Nuthin' one of my fav videos of all time - apparently written after a Johnny Carson appearance (he was a big fan!) When you're on Carson your whole life is supposed to change, but it was a big nuthin! We've all been there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbb5mSomdV8

Keep on Doing was my first one and probably my overall favourite too. i can understand when people recoil from the "really annoying hip camp counselor vibe" on things like Want Not Want Not (though I love that one) but there's I Fell in Love, Keep on Doing / Jerks on the Loose, Losing True with all those same long keening harmonising lines that make you feel funny.

my controp might wishing there was no Robert Fripp guitar on these albums...

people disappointed by Another World should check out the Speak album. there's some great (chintzy) stuff on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0gvW-OyFrQ

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

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

Love their Christmas album, We Three Kings. “Star of Wonder” has such an indelible melody that I always assumed it was a cover of an old hymn or something! But Terre wrote it - it’s such a gem.

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

YESSSS! I love their version of Walking In A Winter Wonderland too

they played actual roches on tiny toons!

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

the Roches hate that kicks off this thread is wild. they are wonderful

xp AH that's so awesome!!!

It had a really annoying hip camp counselor vibe.

I mean, "hip camp counselor vibe" is sort of OTM but not 'annoying'

Warner Bros really should have done a full out "Warner Years" box/reissue series with all the outtakes/extras when that was still a thing, maybe Light in the Attic could but i don't know how rights work for this kind of thing and i feel outside of The Hammond Song mini-cult they don't have much of a profile these days. At least can someone upload a clean rip of this to youtube, I'm not asking much?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMD1O8W9ujU

I think there have been discussions about this elsewhere, but I think you need a boutique to license this material. (Rhino Handmade would be ideal if they were still around.) The fact that even the CD for their debut album was allowed to go out-of-print before the market really tanked was a bad sign of how little WB was invested in them by the time the '00s rolled around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBF_v0gvpQ

hammond song heavily featured here

Some additional stuff (marimba, piano, strings, brass?) added in post.

I will say that when I listen I remember that the highs are so high they make you forget some pretty duff material