Pardon My Post Punk Ignorance - How are Blue Orchids?

without baines, not so good.

the cherry red comp is the best thing out there, followed the LTM comp with the peel sessions. the album without baines that LTM put out aint so hot.

As jack cole said, the Cherry Red comp is a good place to start and the LTM comp 'From Severe To Serene' has some brilliant BBC tracks (No Looking Back) and a ramshackle live gig from Manchester Univ.

The Greatest Hit is being rereleased later this year along with a NEW album. I don't think Una is involved.

All the stuff :

http://www.blueorchids.net/discs.html

Yup.

I believe there was some month in 1990 or '91 when three bands released records with covers of "A Year With No Head" on them...

Just to thank the posters here for persuading me to look up this band again. I have a powerful memory
of being 15 and hearing A Year with No Head on Kid Jensen's show. It was so mysterious and made such
a powerful impression on me, that when I heard it again, only for the second time, some 25 years later,
I had remembered every single word and note in its entireity. I don't know why I didn't investigate further
at the time. Excessive caution and not trusting my ears is my only alibi.
So only in recent years have I discovered songs of theirs that are even more powerful and beautiful.
I think I read somewhere that the producer cried after they had recorded Disney Boys, though its unclear
from the context whether it was tears of relief because of the drugs madness around the band,
or tears of joy. Both would be a credible response. I think I love it more than anything by the Fall,
because it's tender and heartbroken as well as terrifying and alien. The other side of the single, the
Flood, is almost as strange. My best friend heard it and said "They actually released an out-of-tune record!",
and he meant it as a compliment.
Equally giddying is the keyboard rush and howling guitar of Dumb Magician. The only way out is up.....

I have an unknown Blue Orchids track, can anyone help ID it? Best lyric is "mathematics and music ringing in my ears".

Very great. 'The Greatest Hit' and the previous singles (The Flood/Disney Boys, Work/The House That Faded Out) are absolutely classic and Agents of Chance EP almost as good. A couple of tracks from TGH are just... beyond stupendousness. I'm thinking of Dumb Magician ("The only way out is up/The only way out is up!") and The Hanging Man ("The mathematics of music ringing in my ears")

As jack cole said, the Cherry Red comp is a good place to start and the LTM comp 'From Severe To Serene' has some brilliant BBC tracks (No Looking Back) and a ramshackle live gig from Manchester Univ.

The Greatest Hit is being rereleased later this year along with a NEW album. I don't think Una is involved.

All the stuff :

http://www.blueorchids.net/discs.html

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, June 2, 2003 1:30 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

I am going to listen to that record right now.

Ok, figured it out - it's "Hanging Man".

I have "A View From The City" and compared to "A Darker Bloom" and the expanded "The Greatest Hit", you should know that:
"Moth" is only found on "A View From The City"
"Sleepy Town" is 30 seconds longer on "A View From The City"
"Out Of Sight" is only found on "A Darker Bloom"
"Hanging Man", "Mad As The Mist And Snow" and "All Tomorrow's Parties" are only found on the expanded "The Greatest Hit".

So now you know.

has anyone seen them play since they reformed? i am sitting here listening to view from the city thinking i should really go and seem them tomorrow.

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/016EGGS-400x399.gif

^ this una baines shambling folk-punk record is p intriguing

http://thequietus.com/articles/15787-the-fates-furia-reissue-review

Dunno anything about that, but I can answer cw's question from the previous revive - saw them last summer around that time and they were really really good, maybe the highlight of the whole thing they were playing at (load of 80s indie bands, the June Brides were pretty awesome as well). Dunno if they're still performing though.