OLD GETS REMINISCE: JULY 1986
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Bad? It was a fucking nightmare
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"I Can't Wait" is pretty great. I've heard the Genesis and Winwood more than I have ever needed to hear pieces of music, the curse of the classic hits work radio.
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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
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Always liked the BAD track, with 'Performance' samples how could I not.
The SSS is nearly exciting - the ideas are there (Eddie Cochran on a spaceship). If only they'd beefed up the sound instead of going for the thin, tinny production they did. Someone should've played them a DAF record to show them how it was done.
Edit: I assumed you'd posted 'Love Missile', but I see it's one of the others. They couldn't write a decent tune at all could they? Ultimately I think Tony James talent was in advertising.
The SSS is nearly exciting - the ideas are there (Eddie Cochran on a spaceship). If only they'd beefed up the sound instead of going for the thin, tinny production they did. Someone should've played them a DAF record to show them how it was done.
Edit: I assumed you'd posted 'Love Missile', but I see it's one of the others. They couldn't write a decent tune at all could they? Ultimately I think Tony James talent was in advertising.
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The Modernist wrote:Copehead wrote:The Modernist wrote:!986 was a pretty bad year.
I have a liking for 'I Can't Wait', without regarding it as a classic or anything. It's good candyfloss pop that works. Of course if you hear it too often, the irritating factor starts creeping in. Despite some icky production choices, 'Higher Love' is decent. The other two are horrible.
The year of C86, the high point in UK music, a bad year?
You silly billy.
Go an listen to your Soup Dragons singles
On the one hand you had the talentless, unambitious lot of C86 regurgitating The Buzzcocks but without the tunes and power, and on the hand a lot of faceless chart crap like Living in a Box, and just to rub salt in the wounds you had the commercial resurgence of bands like Genesis and Queen: back even more uglier and successful than before.
Like I said a bad year.
Spoken like a man without the artistic sensibility to appreciate Bogshed. It is like Hand Me Down Farther and Fat Lad Exam Failure never existed.
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Yeah I was vaguely aiming for July so had to pick that (and prob should’ve gone with Medicine Show).
BAD were good fun. I liked the Sputnik thing because it was my period of maximum NME-ing and their Paul Morely cover (Would You Pay 4 Million Pounds For This Crap) exited me but the music (first single apart) wasn’t any good.
BAD were good fun. I liked the Sputnik thing because it was my period of maximum NME-ing and their Paul Morely cover (Would You Pay 4 Million Pounds For This Crap) exited me but the music (first single apart) wasn’t any good.
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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
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The Modernist wrote:Always liked the BAD track, with 'Performance' samples how could I not.
The SSS is nearly exciting - the ideas are there (Eddie Cochran on a spaceship). If only they'd beefed up the sound instead of going for the thin, tinny production they did. Someone should've played them a DAF record to show them how it was done.
Edit: I assumed you'd posted 'Love Missile', but I see it's one of the others. They couldn't write a decent tune at all could they? Ultimately I think Tony James talent was in advertising.
You are right about the horrible tinny production, BAD could be just as bad, which is odd considering Letts' involvement. I assume it was all the Gak. Nasty hissy stuff with no bottom end
They were both good ideas let down by poor production, and in SSS's case an inability to write a memorable song.
It is pretty bad when PWEI parody you and end up making a better job of it and go on to make a decent career out of doing it better.
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Yes G is talking out his arse, it was just a bad period for the sort of aural clag that he enjoys, there was always interesting stuff around in the 80s.
Perhaps there still is but I am too old and out of touch to know what it is, I've never even heard a Stormyz track
Love Kills is a brilliant track as good as anything on Combat Rock. The film Sid and Nancy also has a brilliant little known Pogues track on it:
Also from 86, further debunking Moddie's cloth eared hypothesis.
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Sorry Nev, but that Strummer track is terrible.
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Nah I like it and the video’s ace. A better rhythm track would lift it though.
That and Sightsee MC are Joe’s last gleaming for me, decent but lacking (Mick) after that.
That and Sightsee MC are Joe’s last gleaming for me, decent but lacking (Mick) after that.
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Happier, gentler times.
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I fucking love that Gwen Guthrie song.
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The Modernist wrote:Sorry Nev, but that Strummer track is terrible.
I love it. Better than most of Sandinista and Combat Rock
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My '86...
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Get well soon fange!
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All of Nev’s tracks - except for the pisspoor SSS - are RT approved corkers. Love Kills is ace!
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Never better gashy!
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That's what i'm talkin about!
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I'd almost forgotten the existence of this. Love the 'just learned the piano' sound.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.