Glad strangelove was enjoyed 😁
I had that album since it came out as was given to me by an ex bandmate who used to review for the local paper. It probably wasn't my thing and really heard it at the time and over 20 years later I dug it out. Definately hear what's been said about it. Just straight up good songwriting. As good as anything britpop wise that's from a lesser known act.
I've never heard that kinky machine album but they were the other support on that Neds gig I played. The main guy did, as you say, form Rialto, they were ok. Couple of very good singles and an averge album, as per the britpop way! Worth hearing the singles.
Definately going to listen to some gene at some point.
I listened to this one and it was really fun. I think the best ones are the ones that are kind of like not typical of him. Like synthesizers in the rain. And Romeo Jones in Love. I like the Mott the Hoople glam-rocky piano and stuff. Only thing is I really don't agree with anything he says. He talks shit about 70s pop music and Pub Rock and 80s music and American rock and shit. But all these things were better then britpop generally. Every one of those has a hundred times more good records. This is a really fun and listenable album. Now I'm going to listen to Felt again. I didn't know they had so many records. I always associate Felt with the cocteau twins. Not that they sound alike, but because years ago when they played felt on the College radio station they always played the cocteau twins in the same set. I don't know why but it just stuck in my head that they were related somehow. Heh heh
Glad strangelove was enjoyed 😁
I had that album since it came out as was given to me by an ex bandmate who used to review for the local paper. It probably wasn't my thing and really heard it at the time and over 20 years later I dug it out. Definately hear what's been said about it. Just straight up good songwriting. As good as anything britpop wise that's from a lesser known act.
I've never heard that kinky machine album but they were the other support on that Neds gig I played. The main guy did, as you say, form Rialto, they were ok. Couple of very good singles and an averge album, as per the britpop way! Worth hearing the singles.
Definately going to listen to some gene at some point.
Gene's first album = poor man's Smiths
Gene's second album= poor man's Strangelove 🤣
I am being a bit harsh. Still worth checking out hehe.
Kinky Machine on the bill as well! That gig you played in is starting to sound increasingly seminal. Like the Britpop equivalent of the Sex Pistols playing Manchester Free trade Hall or something 🤣
I listened to this one and it was really fun. I think the best ones are the ones that are kind of like not typical of him. Like synthesizers in the rain. And Romeo Jones in Love. I like the Mott the Hoople glam-rocky piano and stuff. Only thing is I really don't agree with anything he says. He talks shit about 70s pop music and Pub Rock and 80s music and American rock and shit. But all these things were better then britpop generally. Every one of those has a hundred times more good records. This is a really fun and listenable album. Now I'm going to listen to Felt again. I didn't know they had so many records. I always associate Felt with the cocteau twins. Not that they sound alike, but because years ago when they played felt on the College radio station they always played the cocteau twins in the same set. I don't know why but it just stuck in my head that they were related somehow. Heh heh
🤣 I find Lawrence increasingly hard to figure out from this point in his career. He really does talk a lot of shit and bad mouth things. Why does he attack Wreckless Eric and Nick Lowe? I've no idea, but I saw an interview clip and he seemed to just find it funny. I think he is really wanting to be provocative and play this eccentric outcast character. He's much more clever than the opinions in his songs. His next band Go-Kart Mozart continues where Denim left off and push the Weirdness further. "On the Hot Dog Streets" is a great but bizarre record. The lyrics are fucking insane but also kind of inspired. You have been warned 🤣
It's a good time to revisit Felt as the albums are being reissued. Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau's produced "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and I think Guthrie and Lawrence really fell out with Lawrence complaining a lot about the production on that. I read it's been remastered really well though now. Can't wait to hear it 😄
I listened to this one and it was really fun. I think the best ones are the ones that are kind of like not typical of him. Like synthesizers in the rain. And Romeo Jones in Love. I like the Mott the Hoople glam-rocky piano and stuff. Only thing is I really don't agree with anything he says. He talks shit about 70s pop music and Pub Rock and 80s music and American rock and shit. But all these things were better then britpop generally. Every one of those has a hundred times more good records. This is a really fun and listenable album. Now I'm going to listen to Felt again. I didn't know they had so many records. I always associate Felt with the cocteau twins. Not that they sound alike, but because years ago when they played felt on the College radio station they always played the cocteau twins in the same set. I don't know why but it just stuck in my head that they were related somehow. Heh heh
🤣 I find Lawrence increasingly hard to figure out from this point in his career. He really does talk a lot of shit and bad mouth things. Why does he attack Wreckless Eric and Nick Lowe? I've no idea, but I saw an interview clip and he seemed to just find it funny. I think he is really wanting to be provocative and play this eccentric outcast character. He's much more clever than the opinions in his songs. His next band Go-Kart Mozart continues where Denim left off and push the Weirdness further. "On the Hot Dog Streets" is a great but bizarre record. The lyrics are fucking insane but also kind of inspired. You have been warned 🤣
It's a good time to revisit Felt as the albums are being reissued. Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau's produced "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and I think Guthrie and Lawrence really fell out with Lawrence complaining a lot about the production on that. I read it's been remastered really well though now. Can't wait to hear it :)
The only Felt albums available in the US for the longest time were a couple compilations. I had one of those and then I found an import of one of their albums in the used CDs.
Wreckless Eric is great. I just checked to see if I had him in my charts, and I sure did. In my year charts. I hate to forget anybody. Ha ha
🤣 That gig I did is like the opposite of the pistols in Manchester. Nobody admits to being at it and it certainly never inspired us as we broke up after it!
I can't get much into denim, though I need to check out some felt too.
I listened to this one and it was really fun. I think the best ones are the ones that are kind of like not typical of him. Like synthesizers in the rain. And Romeo Jones in Love. I like the Mott the Hoople glam-rocky piano and stuff. Only thing is I really don't agree with anything he says. He talks shit about 70s pop music and Pub Rock and 80s music and American rock and shit. But all these things were better then britpop generally. Every one of those has a hundred times more good records. This is a really fun and listenable album. Now I'm going to listen to Felt again. I didn't know they had so many records. I always associate Felt with the cocteau twins. Not that they sound alike, but because years ago when they played felt on the College radio station they always played the cocteau twins in the same set. I don't know why but it just stuck in my head that they were related somehow. Heh heh
🤣 I find Lawrence increasingly hard to figure out from this point in his career. He really does talk a lot of shit and bad mouth things. Why does he attack Wreckless Eric and Nick Lowe? I've no idea, but I saw an interview clip and he seemed to just find it funny. I think he is really wanting to be provocative and play this eccentric outcast character. He's much more clever than the opinions in his songs. His next band Go-Kart Mozart continues where Denim left off and push the Weirdness further. "On the Hot Dog Streets" is a great but bizarre record. The lyrics are fucking insane but also kind of inspired. You have been warned 🤣
It's a good time to revisit Felt as the albums are being reissued. Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau's produced "Ignite the Seven Cannons" and I think Guthrie and Lawrence really fell out with Lawrence complaining a lot about the production on that. I read it's been remastered really well though now. Can't wait to hear it :)
The only Felt albums available in the US for the longest time were a couple compilations. I had one of those and then I found an import of one of their albums in the used CDs.
Wreckless Eric is great. I just checked to see if I had him in my charts, and I sure did. In my year charts. I hate to forget anybody. Ha ha
I don't know any pub rock really. Except for "the Whole Wide World". I'm not sure I like the concept of it, but I would really need to check some stuff out to see. There must have been some sort of pub rock revival in the 90s during Britpop but I've no memory of it.
That line in the Denim track "they're wheeling Wreckless Eric out" is just really mean! I think that makes it quite funny though in a strange way. Like Lawrence probably could have written a song that criticised the over-hyped Britpop bands and people would have congratulated him for being perceptive. So instead he had a go at pub rock bands as he knew more people would be offended and it's more fun to play the villain 🤡
:lol: That gig I did is like the opposite of the pistols in Manchester. Nobody admits to being at it and it certainly never inspired us as we broke up after it!
I can't get much into denim, though I need to check out some felt too.
🤣 Sorry to hear you guys called it a day after that.
That's understandable on Denim. They are kind of an acquired taste I think.
I hope you guys like Felt. When I first heard them I thought they sounded like absolutely any jangly 80s indie band. But on repeated listens I found their albums really meticulously well crafted. Just incredibly understated and effortless somehow.
I think they just give things names after the fact. Like usual. I don't think anyone called it Pub rock while all these bands were still going on. Pub Rock is probably like what they call over here in the states "bar bands". Which is a totally meaningless name because ALL bands start out in bars. But supposedly it means a certain kind of no-frills rock music. Which again tells you absolutely nothing. Ha Ha.
This is one of those albums that is like Cornflakes-I had forgotten how great it is! I listen to this band A LOT and I think their string of albums in the 90s was really good. This is the most pop-orientated one probably and Neil Hannon's tongue-in-cheek dandy persona comes through most strongly on this album-which made it a big hit in the UK at the time. This is probably their most lushly orchestrated album-and I don't think I've ever heard baroque pop done better than this-including by Hannon's hero Scott Walker.
What surprises me now is how much feeling there is in the songs as well as the humour they are more known for. They are very original and cover romance in much more subtle and interesting ways than is usual. Songs of Love, which is based on a melody Hannon write for the sitcom Father Ted, is a lovely wistful little ballad. My other favourite is "Through a long a long and sleepless night" which is the band really building up to a crescendo and cutting loose. I know I said the bit in Lazarus where the horns kicked in was factually the best moment in 90s music, but I might just have changed my mind 😮 Neil Hannon screaming "I don't really care" in the face of societies many stifling expectations is absolutely exhilarating. Great album.
This was wild. I never heard it before today. I knew the name but had no idea what it was like. Another one I never heard is ocean color scene. I know they're both really famous, but for some reason I never actually heard them before. I guess nobody I know had them.
Lol
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