This is one of the few songs that completely takes over your faculties as you listen. Visceral, heartbreakingly raw and shatteringly honest; as you listen you momentarily shift and you are left ever-changed past its end. Incredible guitars and a vocal approach perfectly executed.
"You can't say no forever/I've tried"
Friday, November 19, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Five song preview from Coals To Newcastle
Today, a welcome update from Domino on the Orange Juice boxset, Coals To Newcastle. The release date for the US has been put back until November 22nd but the European release remains November 8th.
You can listen on the Domino site here or below. Also, click here to pre-order the boxset.
You can listen on the Domino site here or below. Also, click here to pre-order the boxset.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Something Old: Hurrah!
From Newcastle, Hurrah! were one of the first bands signed to Kitchenware Records. For fans of Close Lobsters, Orange Juice and The Bodines. Which is me.
Labels:
Close Lobsters,
Hurrah,
Kitchenware Records,
Something Old,
The Bodines,
video
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Something Old: Biff Bang Pow!
Loves Going Out Of Fashion
Biff Bang Pow! were an oddity. Starring Alan McGee, they formed in around 1983 and between then and 1991 released 6 albums and a handful of incredible singles. Love's Going Out Of Fashion, was their third single from 1984. It's carrion call delivery is clearly at the upper limits of it's singer's ability but the strained sadness only serves to haunt your memory of the hook. Clipping, electro-acoustic six strings sounding like Spanish guitars twist in and around the entire song, ill mixed as they are, until it finally gives into a wailing harmonica that it's fought with throughout. "Love's going out of fashion", he sings, almost shouting, and you believe him. You could be in the throes of a deeply passionate romance and, unbelievably, Alan McGee has just made you think twice.
Perhaps this is part of the problem with this bands legacy though, the sticking point that Alan McGee is a fairly unlike-able man and maybe somebody that you wouldn't ask for relationship advice in the first place. He certainly isn't a fashionable influence to name check any more.
That aside, the song that follows is one of the finest pieces of throwaway, half-finished jangle pop that I have ever heard.
Sunny Days
Biff Bang Pow! were an oddity. Starring Alan McGee, they formed in around 1983 and between then and 1991 released 6 albums and a handful of incredible singles. Love's Going Out Of Fashion, was their third single from 1984. It's carrion call delivery is clearly at the upper limits of it's singer's ability but the strained sadness only serves to haunt your memory of the hook. Clipping, electro-acoustic six strings sounding like Spanish guitars twist in and around the entire song, ill mixed as they are, until it finally gives into a wailing harmonica that it's fought with throughout. "Love's going out of fashion", he sings, almost shouting, and you believe him. You could be in the throes of a deeply passionate romance and, unbelievably, Alan McGee has just made you think twice.
Perhaps this is part of the problem with this bands legacy though, the sticking point that Alan McGee is a fairly unlike-able man and maybe somebody that you wouldn't ask for relationship advice in the first place. He certainly isn't a fashionable influence to name check any more.
That aside, the song that follows is one of the finest pieces of throwaway, half-finished jangle pop that I have ever heard.
Sunny Days
Labels:
Alan McGee,
Biff Bang Pow,
Creation Records,
Something Old,
video
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Orange Juice / Coals To Newcastle
Edwyn Collins posted that photo on Facebook today. It is a photo of, surely, one the most overdue collections of all time. The six disks of 'Coals To Newcastle' collates the work of Orange Juice from their first single releases on Postcard Records, the studio albums and right through to a dvd of promo clips featuring the utterly brilliant concert 'Dada with the Juice'. How exciting!
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