This is also a place to talk about THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS. The rest of it is fairly marvellous but not quite as generic or as fabulous.

It's funny, because as soon as I saw the thread title, I thought "Hrm, that reminds me of a really good Pale Saints track... nah, couldn't be a thread about that, it's probably a band named after the Victorian book" so I'm quite pleased.

It's been so long that I can't actually remember what was my favourite song on the Comforts Of Madness. Damn, I need a new copy. It was on the B-side of "Ecstacy And Wine" which died a long time ago. Sigh.

(Don't suppose you want to make a copy of that CDR, do you, Rob?)

I'll mail you off the board and exchange addresses and we'll sort it out.

Righty-ho.

(& my usual blah blah Ian Masters' finest moment = Spoonfed Hybrid's "Token She-Van")

I liked the names of the remixes better = "A Deeper Sleep For Stephen" = UTTER CLASSIC.

Have to agree that the noisy bits between tracks are great. Didn't they all have titles at one point? And hell, they did it before the Valentines did it on "Loveless", and nobody complains about them on there, do they?

i do. segues shit me to tears. always have and always will.

I'll stick up for In Ribbons though - a technicolour marvel. That extended block of detuned droneriff that opens "Throwing Back The Apple" - I used to listen to that over and over.

Andy Dean to thread (he has Mrs Dolphin and a greater grasp of the PS thing than anyone I know).

Hell yes. Good thing too since I didn't in fact have the original EPs so it wasn't like I was repurchasing them.

"Why doesn't it

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

'detuned droneriff'

ha, 6 months late and stumbled across whilst searching for pale saints posts having spent a rainy bank holiday monday trying to collect everything i had onto one cdr (including the pesky 12 track 33rpm 7" Friendly Science Orchestra single which has locked grooves on both sides).

> It was the best C90 ever.
my In Ribbons sat on the other side of The Telescopes and i'd just wander around with it on repeat for days at a time. unfortunately In Ribbons wouldn't quite fit into 45 minutes so i left off a couple of the singles that i already had and to this day i'm still surprised by those two tracks when i hear it on cd.

heard the segues live before the lp came out and thought they were just ripping off the mary chain but think they make perfect sense on the lp, the second side especially. very quiet cd though.

To change the forgotten subject: I now can't stop listening to the LP by the band, LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS! The lyrics are so ... asinine, but the music is so, yes, jangly, to a card-carrying degree.

ps / JtN already linked to them upthread:
http://www.geocities.com/languageofflowers/

I like the band Language Of Flowers. Did they only do the one album? It's a few years old now isn't it?

The Pale Saints are among my favorite bands, period. Ian Masters (glorious vocals aside) stands with Hook as far as post-punk melodic bass-playing goes IMO.

The band LoF's LP is from 2004, I think. It does bear some ill-judged items and childish words, but also some very loveable lovely guitars. Have they split?

Band's website has no updates since Sept 2007:

September 6th 2007
2 gigs! 19th September at The Black Box in Belfast & then 21st September in blekingska nationeni Lund, Sweden. These will be the only shows this year. Possibly ever. Should be fun. Support in Lund comes from Like Honey.

Does suggest they may have split up.

yes, some of them are now in Help Stamp Out Loneliness

Thanks!