Simply Red D/D?

*cut to overblown Simply Red live idiocy*

No, truly, his voice was superb last night. I also seem to recall Simply Red appearing on a Sounds giveaway single before they'd released a record (along with the Mary Chain?) and the NME (in the days when it mattered) drooling over "Money's Too Tight To Mention". Where did it all go wrong?

*realises he's talking about fabulously wealthy bloke with supermodels hanging off his arm*
*reconsiders final question*

I have heard that "Holding Back the Years" was originally recorded by Hucknall's pre-SR band Frantic Elevators

I have heard Frantic Elevators described as a punk band

so naturally I'm eager to hear the Frantic Elevators' version of the song, which I can't imagine being done in a punk style!

but also, didn't some other members of SR used to be in the Mothmen, and before that Durutti Column? Now I love Durutti Column and I'd be interested to know whether Mothmen had any recorded output and what that sounded like.

The stuff I've got I think I'd be inclined to describe as post-punk; typical late '70's / early '80's Manchester and at the same time not a million miles from John Foxx-era Ultravox! / early Tubeway Army.

I too had the misfortune to catch his performance last night and I thought it was absolutely dreadful - the guy clearly just doesn't have the range to carry off "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

The accounts I've heard of how he's treated his band-mates / members in the past suggest the guy's a total arsehole too.

However he is involved with the Bood & Fire reggae reissue label so he can't be all bad....

duuuudlllesssss

dooodles

dud dudud dududududdududud ududududud

i like 'Money's Too Tight To Mention' ('did the Earth move for ya Nancy' = carmodian cold war translation ahoy)

Simply Red are alright.

I had "every day I die" on in the car this morn.

"Holding back the years", imagine the song, without the "I'll keep holding on" bit, played by a guitar, bass and drums only. With Mick Hucknell, obv. That is the Frantic Elevators version.

search: 'something got me started'/ PICTURE BOOK - the first album /
'fairground' the oakenfold mixes / a couple of tracks off the 2nd album.

I often wonder if he has a yearning to do something in his old Beefheartian root style.

He seemed to like it well enough at the time.

I *still* have not heard the Frantic Elevators version of Holding Back The Years. Quit looking for it actually. Has it somehow magically come available in the last couple of years? It's true there's a CD called "Mick Hucknall & Frantic Elevators - The Early Years" but that only includes the 6 tracks on their first two singles, and I have never been able to find these other three singles listed in my book here, one of which is Holding Back The Years. Songs I still need are: Production Prevention, Searching For The Only One, Holding Back The Years, and Pistols In My Brain. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please do. Like I said, I quit looking for this stuff.

i just heard 'something got me started' for the first time in my life and its a banger

Love the Hall and Oates-sampling "Sunrise."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dKNc6RMYk8

lol he dance good

he looks kind of like ed

it's the clothes

my friend had a british dude couchsurfing at his place and we were hanging out and 'something got me started' came on and he went on and on about how he hated this dude. lol

"couchsurfing"

#1 crap slang word of 2007. Lamer even than Mick Hucknall.

I'm touching cloth at the moment, so I'd better go and bogsurf.

i didnt realize that was 'slang'

simply red is awesome, makes me feel brand new.

wtf @ phil k? what an asshole.

<i>"couchsurfing"

#1 crap slang word of 2007. Lamer even than Mick Hucknall.

-- PhilK, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:31 (Yesterday) Link</i>

I was "couchsurfing" - and calling it that! - back in '99 during my mercifully brief stint of homelessness.

On what planet is this a new expression???

i have had something got me started in my head intermittently for about 3 weeks.

dud. big time dud.

Money'$ Too Tight To Mention!

i have had something got me started in my head intermittently for about 3 weeks.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Sunday, July 5, 2009 6:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

s000 classic

Ok me & someone are having a tiff: does "Holding Back the Years" sound like Neil young, or does it sound very little like Neil Young? Here is the song, for ref:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w&feature=channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevnSJQyGbQ

I would probably hate the guy way more if he had any profile whatsoever in the US.

The Underworld mixes of Thrill Me are incredible but the promo double pack is so hard to get due to the MAW mixes.

http://i.imgur.com/B2FWwM4.gif

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26725972

Hunting rights?

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Nothing surprises me with this dickhead anymore. I seem to recall only a couple of years back he was in the press apologising to all the women he'd even slept with, but it still came across as "ha! I've slept with loads of women!"

fucking weasel

this is his bandmate chris de margary btw:

http://sales.prisatv.es/uploads/programa/foto/carrusel/bg/F2051085_R.JPG http://www.pescatravel.com/pesca/imagenes/pesca/fotos/grandes/PG7R6721.jpg

can't believe these monsters have spent their money on a thing

it's the mix of tweeness, barbarism and assuming the trappings of aristocracy that grate

s

feel like those describe the necessary retirement plan for wealthy rock stars

actually that guy must have been born into wealth cos his role in simply red was apparently "woodwind (1998–2008)", hardly glory years for old rat features

must admit that I am more interested in the pre Simply Red careers of both Hucknall and the rest of the band. Not least because:
I have heard that "Holding Back the Years" was originally recorded by Hucknall's pre-SR band Frantic Elevators

I have heard Frantic Elevators described as a punk band

so naturally I'm eager to hear the Frantic Elevators' version of the song, which I can't imagine being done in a punk style!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:44 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Eleven years late, but here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQb_V2W-JA

A friend recently put to me that isn't it odd that Men and Women doesn't really have any of SR's "big" hits, despite being part of their imperial phase. And yeah, nothing from it really survives I don't think. Wet Wet Wet's second album Holding Back the River might count as an invisible imperial phase album too (I do not hear "Sweet Surrender" anywhere).

A New Flame wasn’t exactly bursting with bangers either, although I much prefer it to M+W.

It's Only Love and If You Don't Know Me By Now have a profile still is the difference

Wow It's Only Love does? I had no idea. I thought his/their Every Time We Say Goodbye still had some traction or was at least as known as It's Only Love but maybe not. It's hard to figure out why Stars was *such* a monster, either way.

Well I feel like it does at least, I have heard it from time to time. And yeah I don't understand the scope of the Stars phenomenon either - it's not like it was piggybacking off the success of one massive single plus guests like the Wet Wet Wet record of that time would have been (and which was the poorest selling of the big WWWW LPs anyway).

ha they're twelve syllables now

i just heard some rap producer sample 'its only love' lol

'the right thing' was quite a big song at the time, and if it's now forgotten, then i for one will be extremely glad never to hear mick hucknall singing about how hard his dick is ever again

you rather think of it as limply red

just reading the lyrics and I'm actually a bit confused about the meaning of back four here?

In the middle of the night
When the time is right
Sexily right
I'm gonna do the right thing

I'm feeling hot
I ain't ever gonna stop
To get what you got
You better take what I bring

I feel it now
Much harder now
More than any old how
Say you feel the pain

Feel I'm getting harder now
(Get off your back four, get on top more)
Feel I'm sinking farther down
(Get off your back four, get on top more)
I told you to stop
You're sleeping out a lot
You told me get lost
Where's your understanding

I feel it now
Much harder than I've ever done now, now
Hey, I'm gonna do the right thing

well you have to remember it was the time of one sitting midfielder one attacking and most play advancing up the wings quite rapidly

yeah, I'm thinking he's lying there desperately trying to think about gary pallister et al in order to stave off his climax