May 16, 201015 yr just started listening to mine, thers a few good songs, the rest kinda merge into each other :unsure: , I have recognised one song but cannot place it and i think Shakira is in it. It's called Enjoy! which made me realise i forgot to name mine :drama: Ghosty & Pavel, Your CDs sound :wub: , if you can will u PM me them? Sent :D If anyone else would like the link also then let me know :)
May 16, 201015 yr Endless Art - The Review By Suedehead The name Endless Art immediately raised the question of whether this would include the song of that name by A House. Alternatively it could have been a collection of Art Garfunkel songs or just people called Arthur generally. Track 1 was clearly not by Art Garfunkel. It’s some shouty stuff calling for someone or something to die. What a cheerful start. Track 2 started in a more upbeat manner before the thrashing guitars kicked in followed by someone hitting an old-fashioned metal dustbin lid and some slightly less shouty vocals. By this point I was worried that the whole CD could be a bit of an endurance test. On the second listen - by which time I had a good idea who had put it together - I’m wondering whether it might be The Prodigy at their least commercial but maybe not. By track 3 things were calming down a bit after the frenetic start. A female vocalist this time whose voice sounds familiar but I can’t work out who it is. Starting to enjoy it more now. And the improvement continues with track 4, an indie-type band singing about breaking away. There’s a familiar sound to track 5 as well. At the start the singer sounds a bit like the singer from EMF but then he gets a bit louder and harder. Track 6 is a live recording and marks a bit of a change of style from what’s come before it, complete with a bit of harmonica. No idea who it’s by but I rather enjoyed it. Track 7 answers my original question. Yes it does contain Endless Art by A House from the modestly titled album I Am The Greatest. The song is simply a list of people from the arts world, all of them dead, read out by singer Dave Couse in his Irish (Dublin I think) accent with a guitar riff in the background. That description makes it sound awful but it’s always been one of my favourite songs from the early to mid 1990s. It also has one of the all-time best rhymes in the line “Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss / Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse”. I very nearly put this song on my compilation as it deserves a wider audience so perhaps it’s a shame this CD has ended up with someone who knows it so well. I did however include a song by the band who were headlining on the one occasion I saw A House live. A House were criticised for the fact that not only were all the people mentioned dead, they were also all male so they recorded another version listing only women. And so on to track 8. I really loved this one. A wonderfully cheerful song with lines such as “A buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear”. Sounds like something from around the early 90s. I spent most of the time listening to track 9 first time round desperately trying to place the voice which sounded very familiar. I finally decided it sounded like The Bible so I’m guessing this is either by them or from Boo Hewerdine’s solo carer. Whoever it is, it’s a good song. Track 10 starts with a delightfully silly intro before the vocals kick in. A slightly weird electro-type song but there’s nothing wrong with that. Track 11 is the unmistakeable sound of Geneva. A bit of rummaging around my collection identifies it as Closer to the Stars, a b-side on No One Speaks. That makes me think this might be from Brett-Butler. With hindsight, perhaps I should have guessed earlier but the first couple tracks put me off the scent. I hadn’t heard this song for years which is definitely my loss. On first listen track 12 sounded a bit like MGMT but I didn’t recognise the song. Now I suspect it might be The Flaming Lips. Who else would write lines as gloriously daft as “You are tiny and your lips are like pieces of bacon”? The very start of track 13 almost had a sixties feel to it before a more modern sound emerged. Another female vocalist who I’m sure I should recognise. A surprisingly cheerful song given that it was about summer rain. On first hearing - and given my thoughts on who compiled this - I suspected the very short track 14 was Teenage Fanclub. Now that I’ve listened again I suspect it may be another Scottish band, Primal Scream when they are not trying to sound like the Rolling Stones. “Love is blue, baby blue is the colour of our love” sings the vocalist on track 15. Is it Nick Clegg? Once again I feel I ought to know who it is but I don’t recognise the song at all. Having mentioned the Stones just now, track 16 is either by them or more Stones wannabes. With a line like “It’s a 147 and you know you’re in heaven” perhaps it’s a song about snooker. Track 17 and we’re back to the subject of rain. Yet another good song so I’m looking forward to seeing the track listing. So we come to the final track, number 18 and more weather. They even mentioned leaving a cake out in the storm so McArthur Park is no longer the only song I’ve heard with a line about leaving cakes in the rain. This one doesn’t sound familiar at all. Again, if I’m right about who put this together, maybe it’s some unsigned band. If so, someone sign them up. The final verdict? After a ropey start it improved markedly and maintained a generally high standard throughout. It’s certainly a collection I’ll want to listen to again and could well lead to an early visit to the HMV website. So, whether it was Brett-Butler or someone else, many thanks.
May 16, 201015 yr Sentcha! Sent :D If anyone else would like the link also then let me know :) Merci mille fois :D
May 16, 201015 yr Endless Art - The Review By Suedehead And so on to track 8. I really loved this one. A wonderfully cheerful song with lines such as “A buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear”. Sounds like something from around the early 90s. Eardrum Buzz by Wire!! Fabulous track!
May 16, 201015 yr Before I start giving track information in response to a wonderful review (thanks Suedehead!) I wanted to thank mediafire for corrupting the last 4 tracks of my album as this was originally a 22 track cd! I have tried uploading a complete version but my connection isn't having any of it today. If anyone is interested I will try to get this version uploaded but I'm not holding out any hope. Endless Art - The Review By Suedehead The name Endless Art immediately raised the question of whether this would include the song of that name by A House. Alternatively it could have been a collection of Art Garfunkel songs or just people called Arthur generally. Track 1 was clearly not by Art Garfunkel. It’s some shouty stuff calling for someone or something to die. What a cheerful start. LOL! This track was actually Don't Stand In Line by Pailhead, a collaboration between Ministry's Al Jourgenson and Fugazi's Ian MacKaye. I love this track but I agree it is a noisy track to start with. Track 2 started in a more upbeat manner before the thrashing guitars kicked in followed by someone hitting an old-fashioned metal dustbin lid and some slightly less shouty vocals. By this point I was worried that the whole CD could be a bit of an endurance test. On the second listen - by which time I had a good idea who had put it together - I’m wondering whether it might be The Prodigy at their least commercial but maybe not. This is actually my favourite track by a really under-rated band, Northern Ireland's Therapy? with Teethgrinder. The drum sound on this is one of the things I love most about it. By track 3 things were calming down a bit after the frenetic start. A female vocalist this time whose voice sounds familiar but I can’t work out who it is. Starting to enjoy it more now. Glad you like this one. This is Afrodisiac by Powder. Powder were a failed Britpop band whose singer, Pearl, is now married to Danny Goffey. And the improvement continues with track 4, an indie-type band singing about breaking away.Track 4 is Free Me by Syndicate*. I know nothing about them beyond having the album (of which this is by far the best track). There’s a familiar sound to track 5 as well. At the start the singer sounds a bit like the singer from EMF but then he gets a bit louder and harder.This is Bamp-Bamp by The Bambi Slam from 1987 (I think). I think the mainman came from Canada but beyond releasing one (rather corking) album and some singles they disappeared into obscurity. Track 6 is a live recording and marks a bit of a change of style from what’s come before it, complete with a bit of harmonica. No idea who it’s by but I rather enjoyed it. Track 6 is Roxette by Dr. Feelgoodfrom the album Stupidity. I had to include this after watching the excellent Feelgoods documentary by Julian Temple the other week.
May 16, 201015 yr Track 7 answers my original question. Yes it does contain Endless Art by A House from the modestly titled album I Am The Greatest. The song is simply a list of people from the arts world, all of them dead, read out by singer Dave Couse in his Irish (Dublin I think) accent with a guitar riff in the background. That description makes it sound awful but it’s always been one of my favourite songs from the early to mid 1990s. It also has one of the all-time best rhymes in the line “Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss / Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse”. I very nearly put this song on my compilation as it deserves a wider audience so perhaps it’s a shame this CD has ended up with someone who knows it so well. I did however include a song by the band who were headlining on the one occasion I saw A House live. A House were criticised for the fact that not only were all the people mentioned dead, they were also all male so they recorded another version listing only women.Says it all really. And so on to track 8. I really loved this one. A wonderfully cheerful song with lines such as “A buzz buzz buzz in the drum of the ear”. Sounds like something from around the early 90s. As Severin correctly pointed out, this is from punk veterans Wire and is Eardrum Buzz from 1989. I spent most of the time listening to track 9 first time round desperately trying to place the voice which sounded very familiar. I finally decided it sounded like The Bible so I’m guessing this is either by them or from Boo Hewerdine’s solo carer. Whoever it is, it’s a good song.Believe it or not this is Mansun doing K.I.Double.S.I.N.G. from the Closed for Business EP. I love the understated feel of this track. Track 10 starts with a delightfully silly intro before the vocals kick in. A slightly weird electro-type song but there’s nothing wrong with that. Track 10 is from one of my favourite discoveries from last year. This is Black Moth Super Rainbow doing Twin of Myself. They seem to be a right bunch of oddballs but they make some great music. Track 11 is the unmistakeable sound of Geneva. A bit of rummaging around my collection identifies it as Closer to the Stars, a b-side on No One Speaks. That makes me think this might be from Brett-Butler. With hindsight, perhaps I should have guessed earlier but the first couple tracks put me off the scent. I hadn’t heard this song for years which is definitely my loss.Dead right with this one. On first listen track 12 sounded a bit like MGMT but I didn’t recognise the song. Now I suspect it might be The Flaming Lips. Who else would write lines as gloriously daft as “You are tiny and your lips are like pieces of bacon”? This is What's In It For? by Avi Buffalo, a new band on Sub Pop. I do like the twisted folk feel of this song. The very start of track 13 almost had a sixties feel to it before a more modern sound emerged. Another female vocalist who I’m sure I should recognise. A surprisingly cheerful song given that it was about summer rain.This one is from the incomparable Primitives. Although it is called Summer Rain it does have a nice summery vibe. On first hearing - and given my thoughts on who compiled this - I suspected the very short track 14 was Teenage Fanclub. Now that I’ve listened again I suspect it may be another Scottish band, Primal Scream when they are not trying to sound like the Rolling Stones. This is indeed The Scream with one of their earliest singles, Velocity Girl, which I think is a pivotal record in British indie coming as it did in 1986.
May 16, 201015 yr “Love is blue, baby blue is the colour of our love” sings the vocalist on track 15. Is it Nick Clegg? Once again I feel I ought to know who it is but I don’t recognise the song at all.Another song from a Creation artist. Edward Ball was in The Times and The Television Personalities and this, Love Is Blue, is just a lovely song. Having mentioned the Stones just now, track 16 is either by them or more Stones wannabes. With a line like “It’s a 147 and you know you’re in heaven” perhaps it’s a song about snooker. This one brings back fond memories of my days in Liverpool. This is The Stairs and Weed Bus. Basically The Coral ripped off everything they know from these boys and if you can get hold of the album Mexican R 'n' B then do so coz it's a corker. BTW the 147 was the number of the bus that took them to their dope dealer! Track 17 and we’re back to the subject of rain. Yet another good song so I’m looking forward to seeing the track listing.This is Sunshine People by Detroit Social Club. They have to be one of the best new bands in Britain right now but don't seem to be getting the attention they deserve. New album is coming out very soon. So we come to the final track, number 18 and more weather. They even mentioned leaving a cake out in the storm so McArthur Park is no longer the only song I’ve heard with a line about leaving cakes in the rain. This one doesn’t sound familiar at all. Again, if I’m right about who put this together, maybe it’s some unsigned band. If so, someone sign them up. This is one of the great lost singles in my opinion. The Storm by World of Twist was released in 1990 and then later included on the Quality Street album which again proved to be their only album release. The final verdict? After a ropey start it improved markedly and maintained a generally high standard throughout. It’s certainly a collection I’ll want to listen to again and could well lead to an early visit to the HMV website. So, whether it was Brett-Butler or someone else, many thanks. I think I lucked out with having you review this and I just want to thank you for taking the time to appreciate it.
May 16, 201015 yr Here's the tracklist in a more condensed form. 1. Pailhead - Don't Stand in Line 2. Therapy? - Teethgrinder 3. Powder - Afrodisiac 4. Syndicate* - Free Me 5. The Bambi Slam - Bamp-Bamp 6. Dr. Feelgood - Roxette 7. A House - Endless Art 8. Wire - Eardrum Buzz 9. Mansun - K.I.Double.S.I.N.G. 10 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself 11. Geneva - Closer to the Stars 12. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For? 13. The Primitives - Summer Rain 14. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl 15. Edward Ball - Love is Blue 16. The Stairs - Weed Bus 17. Detroit Social Club - Sunshine People 18. World of Twist - The Storm
May 16, 201015 yr Here's the tracklist in a more condensed form. 1. Pailhead - Don't Stand in Line 2. Therapy? - Teethgrinder 3. Afrodisiac - Powder 4. Syndicate* - Free Me 5. The Bambi Slam - Bamp-Bamp 6. Dr. Feelgood - Roxette 7. A House - Endless Art 8. Wire - Eardrum Buzz 9. Mansun - K.I.Double.S.I.N.G. 10 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself 11. Geneva - Closer to the Stars 12. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For? 13. The Primitives - Summer Rain 14. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl 15. Edward Ball - Love is Blue 16. The Stairs - Weed Bus 17. Detroit Social Club - Sunshine People 18. World of Twist - The Storm Thanks for your comments in the last few posts and the full listing. I have actually seen Therapy? many years ago :lol: I think I used to own the World of Twist album - I'll have to try and find it. They did a brilliant cover of the Rolling Stones song She's A Rainbow. I'm surprised about Mansun. I've always thought of them as OK but nothing special. You obviously chose their best song. Another band I've seen live - they were supporting Suede. Thanks once again for a (mostly) brilliant CD :D
May 16, 201015 yr I'm surprised about Mansun. I've always thought of them as OK but nothing special. Mansun are great and quite special.
May 16, 201015 yr Here's the tracklist in a more condensed form. 1. Pailhead - Don't Stand in Line 2. Therapy? - Teethgrinder 3. Afrodisiac - Powder 4. Syndicate* - Free Me 5. The Bambi Slam - Bamp-Bamp 6. Dr. Feelgood - Roxette 7. A House - Endless Art 8. Wire - Eardrum Buzz 9. Mansun - K.I.Double.S.I.N.G. 10 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself 11. Geneva - Closer to the Stars 12. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For? 13. The Primitives - Summer Rain 14. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl 15. Edward Ball - Love is Blue 16. The Stairs - Weed Bus 17. Detroit Social Club - Sunshine People 18. World of Twist - The Storm I think I'd like to hear this cd too. Can I have a link, pretty please?
May 16, 201015 yr Mansun are great and quite special. Six is an awesome album. The music they made around that time was fabulous.
May 16, 201015 yr I think this is mine, i just realised i did unlabel my artist either :drama: why do i have to be so Stupid :( Easy mistake to make. I'll get the review up tomorrow. I'd never have known it was yours
May 16, 201015 yr Six is an awesome album. The music they made around that time was fabulous. I've been listening to Kleptomania lately. Some great stuff that never appeared on any of the albums.
May 16, 201015 yr I've been listening to Kleptomania lately. Some great stuff that never appeared on any of the albums. I do have it but I haven't listened to it properly. Think it's time to get it out.
May 16, 201015 yr Mansun are one of the few bands where I collected every single they released. Some of their b-sides are fantastic (including The Lisa Marie Experience remix of Taxloss)
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