― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
There was a song they played near the end of their set that featured the guitarist doing horrifically nasty things to his car while the vocalist pitched a petulant fit into her microphone. The only other Cranes song I've heard that is halfway similar to it is "Lillies" (which I know came out several years later); I would love to find out what song that was because it was fantastic. I would describe it as proto-Korn metal (only good) with a pissed-off Strawberry Shortcake coming down off of a PCP binge on vocals.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link
(Er, on second thoughts, I think it's a couple of hundred miles away at the moment. Similar Sharkboy box, anyone?)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
Hm...you DID get that mp3 I have from the same year that has the queasy London version which also goes on forever and has him mentioning the various songtitles from Wish, I trust.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
I am sad that this description hasn't made anyone go, "Oh, I know that song, it's '_______'."
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:31 (twenty years ago) link
Wah!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Leigh Smith, Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
ATTENTION ILM: Please help me identify this song! Is it "Inescapable", as Ned suggests?
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link
It might also be "Give" (off the Inescapable EP) which I remember being a set-closer around the same time.
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Cranes song 'Astronauts' from the 'Particles and Waves' album is going to be included in the opening show for the American Super Bowl ! It's on Sunday 5th February and the song will appear during a pre-taped opening tease featuring athletes and actors reciting lines from Dr. Seuss' "Oh, The Places You'll Go."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
My favourite Cranes story: when working at the record store one night (possibly a MOLTEN METAL MONDAY) with my friend STV we played some Cranes and a customer yelled "HEY! THIS SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC TO SAW YOUR ARMS OFF TO!" at us from across the store.
amazing ^
I've been playing Forever and Loved all day over here, great fucking albums.
― stephen, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the band with that horrible female singer isn't it? I'm with Dr. C on that. Never could stand them for a second, though I certainly met plenty of folks who liked them. I'm surprised they weren't lumped in with the shoegazing thing more, as it seems to me they started in that era, right?
― Bimble, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck, I found the song I was looking for at one point but now I can't remember what it ended up being. (It definitely predates "Lillies".)
― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The mystery song. I say just drop the band a line or something.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the band with that horrible female singer isn't it?
I think her voice works a lot better with the dense, heavy, layered songs with plenty of bass. Provides a nice contrast to her wispy, sometimes admittedly grating voice. Whereas, wispy song + wispy voice never worked quite so well for me, with this band.
― stephen, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^ pretty much OTM, they worked much better when they maximized density (which is why Loved is so much better than the rest of their albums).
― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 May 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Not sure I totally agree with this. Some of their wispier stuff, eg. 'Paris and Rome', 'Cloudless', is pretty amazing.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Incidentally, my 50-year-old mother (whose favorite artists are Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Coldplay and a wide array of contemporary Christian pop/rock) heard a Cranes album in my car this morning (Forever) and *loved* it, especially Alison Shaw's "amazing voice" -- go figure?
(Now then, Bimble, if she can get into it...)
― stephen, Friday, 23 May 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"So Mom, you might like 'Starblood'..."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 May 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I think "Starblood" was the song I was looking for...? I need to see if I have a copy of it somewhere.
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 May 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm pretty sure Starblood was that song. That was the highlight of their show on that 1992 Wish tour.
― baaderonixx, Saturday, 24 May 2008 08:16 (sixteen years ago) link
£1.75 for "delivery" of etickets. they need Robert Smith on the case
― koogs, Thursday, 6 April 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
Just did a lovely near hour long chat with Ms Shaw. Forthcoming Bandcamp piece in a couple of months.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 April 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
Good. I never did get the album reissues and wondered if there was any particularly good tracks that weren't on the EP collection
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 April 2023 19:39 (one year ago) link
Xp Nice! I always wondered about her. Did she go back into civilian life then?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 16 April 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
I didn't get full details re what they're all doing now but sounds like everyone found their own particular paths, and that the last few months brought things back together nicely. (There's more news forthcoming but not yet public; the show is I believe a one-off for now at least.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 April 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
This sparked a revisit of Wings of Joy (never my fave). I'd forgotten just how beautiful and timeless "Tomorrow's Tears" was.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 24 April 2023 08:37 (one year ago) link
Yeah that intro remains perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 April 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
The feature is live!https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/cranes-alison-shaw-interview-peel-sessions
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
Thanks
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 22 May 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
Yer welcome
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 May 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
Forever anniversary gig is tonight. I probably should have listened to the album before coming because it's years since I've listened to it, have mostly listened to their early stuff recently
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 14 October 2023 18:44 (eleven months ago) link
Jealous
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 14 October 2023 19:23 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DfXd2PsSsM
― MaresNest, Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:49 (eleven months ago) link
And a new reissue here: Fuse, on vinyl for the first time as well:
https://cranes.bandcamp.com/album/fuse
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 17:14 (seven months ago) link
I never thought this would be reissued
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 20:41 (seven months ago) link
Really remarkable to see it. I think any further reissues after that would have to go through Cherry Red because I gather they have access to the Dedicated releases (which explains the Chapterhouse box from the other year), but I think that's still in the works. We'll see what follows next!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 20:50 (seven months ago) link
Really excited to see them in May
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 21:39 (seven months ago) link
Saw them last night. The songs are still a joy but the band was pretty rough. Often out of sync and missing cues. But they nailed Starblood. Hope they can play a few more shows and shake things off.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 07:18 (four months ago) link