With a name and titles and connections like that, how did they NOT get massive?

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Ha ha remember Day One? Their CD 'Ordinary Man'? Featuring the huge hit "Love on the Dole"? Come back Deep Blue Something, all is forgiven

― dave q, Monday, 11 November 2002 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved that record. Not heard it in a year, but. Loved the album, no diggedy, Bristol accent an' all.

Sadly, I was pretty much alone in loving it, as I recall, and in fact a friend of mine used my liking of Day One as grist to the mill of her assertion that "If Charlie's really enthusiastic about something, it's inevitably a bit crap" - usually applied to TV shows, but still. Grrr.

Now Merz, *there's* a band worth talking about.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 11 November 2002 06:27 (twenty-three years ago)

so I asked "how's your night?" trying to make some discussion
He said "what's your problem?"
I said "nothing"....

and I'm just walking now, talking now and living now

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 11 November 2002 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I got this off the astralwerks site on a whim, no-one I know has ever heard of it. I get favorable reactions when I play it but people don't rush out and buy it, I guess...

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 11 November 2002 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of this album is fantastic, though I haven't played it for a while. One track has some brilliant violin, played by Eugene somebody, who I've always assumed is the Eugene of "Eugene's Lament" by the Beastie Boys, as the album is produced by Mario C.

― bham, Monday, 11 November 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Jakob Dylan makes a little push every now and again, a result of some sequestered exec muttering "jesus h christ the kids got lips that could sink ships" approx once every 2 years or so, but I saw him on a talk show recently - Jon Stewart - and he was such a tight-ass condescending cunt it's clear that he won't even see the wall until he crashes into it... he's going to end up ever more bitter than his dad (maybe he'll start writing some good tunes then! half-aborted ballads about being the prettiest boy no one wants to talk to)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I still remember something Rob Sheffield wrote in the Pazz & Jop 1997 about how Bringing Down the Horse sounded like a line his dad threw away. "'She was married when we first met/Soon to be divorced/I helped her out of a jam I guess/Bringing down the horse.' 'Bringing down the horse'? What the fuck does that mean? Ah well, might as well give it to Jakob, maybe he can use it someday."

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Bought the record. Saw 'em live, too, and they were pretty good. Still, it's very hard to get that enthusiastic about what amounts to a Trip Hop version of Travis with a better sense of humour.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

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