I think that was a HH #1 (somehow) but I meant These Days.
Couldn’t think of the title at the time.
Original is awesome, re-recording loses its magic, as so often happens.
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Which reminds me…
Technical question:
Hilltop Hoods lifts the main line from These Days in their breakthrough Nosebleed Section.
So…do they have to give a song-writing credit?
Edit: I saw an article about HH meeting Melanie and her basically saying, ‘you cheeky buggers.’
Don’t know if they changed genres, but one of their vocalists left after their first album and they did change their name to KTP (as in, the actual acronym… guess they got sick of being asked about sexual connotions of the name, despite it being an obvious snooker/Pot Black commentary reference) for a while before reverting back.
Unfortunate piece of band trivia… their original saxophonist was aboard a Thames pleasure boat when it had a bad mishap resulting in 50-odd people dying. She subsequently had a nervous breakdown, became an alcoholic and could no longer play.
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Ok, I’ll bite… she started playing and 50 people jumped overboard?
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Well, I was going to quip that the nervous breakdown and descent into alcoholism had nothing to do with the boating mishap and was more that she’d realised she was a saxophonist…
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Not true Bakes…what actually happened was that she had just released what she thought was an awesome fourth album…but it failed to chart because you kept telling people that no album is any good after the third one.
She couldn’t handle the rejection.
I honestly don’t know how to feel about the Invisible Touch album.
Part of me feels like it’s a guilty pleasure.
Part of me thinks…wait,no…this is under-rated af.
Complete commercial sell-out.
Really?
With a nearly nine-minute single?
It’s good.
It’s a good album.
I don’t know How good in the context of all time eighties albums, but…it’s very good.
And I feel the same way about Phil Collins.
I mean…my affection for his artistic achievements is possibly well-known.
But who am I to say he was a sell-out?
I do know this, nothing he did in the early nineties was as schmaltzy as You Can’t Hurry Love.
They’re a freaking weird band, and he’s a freaking weird artist.
How do you recognise In The Air, and Mama (a six and a half minute single about a prostitute) and then call them shallow?
Vexing.
Well, that’s not strictly true… the single release of Tonight (×3) was heavily edited to 4-and-a-half minutes.
I haven’t heard the album for 30+ years… but I do remember thinking that was the standout track. 70’s Genesis would’ve probably released it in its full incarnation as the lead-off single. 80’s Genesis (more to the point an 80’s record label) wouldn’t.
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Invisible Touch is a great album.
Phil Collins made great music on his early solo albums.
Both were great live artists.
(The start to the Genesis concert in1986 is right up there with the best openings to a concert I’ve ever seen).
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Going through some new releases and this one immediately reminded me of @wimmera1 and @swoodley western argument that started with far side of crazy.
Speaking of Wall of Voodoo, I’ve always loved this cover… a sort of missing link between Devo and Americana music…
I know the WoV interpetation originated in their Stan Ridgeway days, but I prefer this meatier version with Andy Prieboy. Some filthy, dirty guitar tones at work in the outro…
Reckon I was at this show (recorded at The Palace in St Kilda…)
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Geeking out over this again.
This is a PUB BAND, with Zappa-like precision.
Not a wasted note.
It’s…it’s seriously incredible.
The leap from Postcard to 10-1 is the only thing I can compare it to.
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How’s the chutzpah on these guys around the time of OK Computer?.. let’s just smash a couple of half-finished ideas together and that’ll do for the B-side. And it’s still fantastic!..
Happy 80th Birthday Mr Jarrett, my favourite musician. Struggles to play now due to a series of strokes but ECM are making sure the music keeps coming and have just provided this timely preview from his upcoming release, New Vienna, recorded in 2016.
Anyone else had a chance to listen to Sleep Token’s new album “even in arcadia”?
My personal favs from the album are Damocles, Emergence, Caramel, Dangerous and Provider