Mousy

Low-Life is indeed a brilliant New Order album! I'm a huge NO fan too. Lowlife's helping me through my current personal trouble. For which I have a doctor's appointment in half an hour... better get ready.

It seems everyone's forgotten all about Lowlife, and they're one of my favourite bands. I'm lucky enough to own their second LP Diminuendo, which is my favourite of their albums, and the Swirl it Swings EP. Sadly Lowlife-related stuff is pretty scarce - both small local record shop finds, and I could have screamed when I saw them - and people who remember and like them are even scarcer. I just love them. They were doing "darkgaze" before anyone had dreamt of coining that word. Nightshift Records was founded exclusively to promote them. They had their time in the sun in the '80s NME, but a good review in the NME sadly isn't worth much, wasn't even in the '80s. They're just incredible, but I've only met one person who remembers and likes them, and that was someone in the record shop where I bought my copy of Diminuendo who noticed me squealing over it. Right now they're a bigger part of my life than ever. I put Diminuendo on for the first time in a long time last night, and it went straight for kicking me in the gut. From the first line of the opener, A Sullen Sky, all the way through to that last "where I drown in reverse", it pinpointed my current worst personal problem. Exactly. It's popular fan theory (well, that one person believed it - never met any more Lowlife fans) that their singer Craig Lorentson died of the exact same thing, and I nearly cried to it last night. It's such amazing stuff. I can't imagine how they've been forgotten when stuff like Cocteau Twins etc. still has a huge fan base. I can't post links yet, but look up Diminuendo and Gush on YT/Spotify, or even just A Sullen Sky and Bleach, and let's talk Lowlife.

In no order, and with no categories, so it's a mess just listed as I think of them, but trying to stick to one per artist: Lou Reed - Wild Child Diana Ross & the Supremes - This is Why I Believe in You Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - One Track Mind Ramones - Ramona Japan - Wish You Were Black The Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell Bob Marley - Natural Mystic Black Sabbath - The Writ The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden Leonard Cohen - Love Calls You by Your Name Mick Ronson - Music is Lethal Throbbing Gristle - Hit by a Rock Television - Elevation Syd Barrett - Golden Hair Joy Division - I Remember Nothing David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash The Sweet - Jeanie Richard Hell & the Voidoids - New Pleasure The Carpenters - I Kept On Loving You KISS - Christine Sixteen The Beach Boys - Let Us Go On This Way The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother Motorhead - All the Aces I could go on, but I have many. The '70s is one of my favourite eras.