They get out plenty. They just give a certain decade a very wide berth
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You don’t like the 90s?
Was that the 90s? ■■■■…i feel even more embarrassed for them.
Pfft to you and your music tastes 
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No coz it’s Friday night.
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Yes. I’ve never owned any of their albums but I reckon there might be one out there that suits me. Which one?
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Swoods may be a better guide here. My personal faves are Of Skins & Heart and Heyday but I’d suggest starting with a compilation called Deep In The Shallows as a starting point.
It’s arranged chronologically, has all their best known stuff… identify which era (if any) appeals and dig deeper from there.
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Heyday is my personal fave, then Of Skins and Heart, then The Blurred Crusade.
The track Bakes played is off Gold Afternoon Fix which I also really like.
So given that you liked the track, maybe start with Gold Afternoon Fix.
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A good paisley shirt never goes out of style.
Yes
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You what? I’d have thought with your general appreciation of quality, you’d have dug deep on any decade to find the quality that was repressed by the musical hit making machine of the day. Every decade has stuff of quality, in so many genres
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I actually do like some 80s stuff…
Tom Waits records from the 80s are incredible. Particularly Heart Attack and Vine and Swordfishtrombone. And a Ted Hawkins record called Watch Your Step which I also find particularly beautiful.
I have mentioned it before but i find the predominant production values of 80s music extremely foul. The synthesisers. The digital reverbs and drums. The melodic sensibilities of the time can be nice, but they always seem to find some sonic way to ruin it. All mixed together with a deeply unpleasant visual aesthetic, I just tend to bypass the era with great prejudice.
I fully admit to the narrow mindedness of it and acknowledge that I am basing this perception on the surface level ‘top of the pops’ chart and FM friendly horseshit that haunted my childhood, but there is absolutely nothing within the era that I find passingly interesting to go any deeper.
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Just on that… and I really should’ve included this with the song…
It’s well established in here that sartorial skill & smartness is not really my go. In an effort to impress a girl (aren’t they always?..) I once bought a paisley shirt to wear to a Church concert in the late 80’s. A nice pattern of dark greens and brownish-reds.
To this day that farking shirt remains the singlemost expensive item of casual clothing I’ve ever bought. I forget the exact amount, but it was high 100’s, possibly into the 200’s. It was a fair wedge of my Safeway bottle shop wage anyway…
So, given the investment, holding onto that shirt became a matter of principle… Paisley shirts will eventually come back into fashion goddamnit, and I will get some value out of it!!
They never did. The bloody shirt didn’t get a result in the first place and sat in the wardrobe for years afterwards, unused and unloved, staring at me. A talisman of money foolishly spent…
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I was a real sucker for Unguarded Moment, was playing it around 1999 to the GF (and was probably the point was going to go further in to their catalogue) and then she told me she shagged the singer.
IEvery time I hear them now thats all I think about, No
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I find the song quite boring.
No.
This
You’re still sore about my Monkey thoughts, right? 
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Need to play something a bit heavier, Bakes.
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If the opportunity arises.
No.
That is probably the best reason to vote no that I’ve ever heard.
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Tight one
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