Defend The Indefensible: Gay Dad

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To keep the mockery of the man's musical and writing career seperatre (see Why do people who hate music write about music?)... come on then. Say something positive about Cliff Jones and crones.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, Thirsty Ear is a pretty cool label.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they leave valuable lessons for students of marketing - few other brands demonstrate the maxim 'A striking campaign needs a quality product' so well.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard them, so, for all I know, they might be the best band ever.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

OK Gay Dad were crap. But Cliff Jones was a good music writer. He did a great short peice on Sandy Denny which i refer to occasionally, because it's full of good sense about her/folk in general. He must have been seriously bored to go into the biz.
I dunno if he's writing again, but i'd read him.

― pete s, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i like 'Now Always & Forever' a lot

― stevem (turning more and more into c-man by the minute) (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Its good that they tried to normalize homosexual parents by using the name that they did.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My sister even hated them, and she usually liked any britpop-ish related ridiculousness that came along.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There is only one real response to threads like this, and I will now supply it in helpful generic form:

Fuck you all. [insert band name] were no more stupid to like than anything that gets praised more often on this board. And those of you who want to reaffirm yourselves by pretending nobody had any reason to like [insert band name again] are putting yourselves on exactly the same inane level as their idiot [insert instrument] player did in those stupid comments about [insert topic of band member's stupid comments].

― ara, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Poppycock.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I like their name. I knew a girl in high school that was obsessed with Britpop, and I yelled "Gay Dad" at her whenever I saw her. It's a pleasant memory.
I don't think I've ever actually heard their music.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren laverne had a way of saying 'geeh dard' that just made you want to wed her on the spot

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

of course her being 'dead cute laik' was a bonus

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

We will do a TS: Laverne vs Ball vs Middlemiss one day. When we need more 90s fetishising on ILX, that is.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Laverne would win by a mile, it wouldn't be fair.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

If their name is pronounced in the same way "Gay Bar" is pronounced, they become slightly more tolerable.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"leisure noise" was 3/4 full with good power-pop, making gay dad one of the best britpop bands. so there. jim to thread, please.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I only heard "Joy," and that song wasn't exceptionally lame for a British band. Just, you know, lame.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

they were called "gay dad"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how they get Peter Saville to be their design guy and he takes their money and wakes up one day and farts and gives them this and they think they've been blessed by genius:

http://www.kapowgifts.com/acatalog/GayDad.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

that sign isn't exceptionally bad for British album art design. Just, you know, bad.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

yes i agree with Kilian, they actually had a handful of really enjoyable tracks, especially some of the b-sides to their first couple of singles. "Oh Jim" and "Dimstar" still get plenty of revolutions round my way, and "Transmission" is a pretty good song too.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

having said that, their artwork is easily Peter Saville's worst well-known work, followed closely by that horrible Suede sleeve he did.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I only heard "Joy," and that song wasn't exceptionally lame for a British band. Just, you know, lame.
-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), March 10th, 2004.

that sign isn't exceptionally bad for British album art design. Just, you know, bad.
-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), March 10th, 2004.

Miccio don't come to our fair land again.
We know you now brother.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked To Earth With Love...

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"To Earth With Love" was an ok-ish glam pastiche, but the fantastic "Dimstar" led me to believe genuinely great things were in the pipeline. Then the album came out and it was meh. The end.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Been listening to the Brit Box lately and I kinda like "Oh Jim". Missed them completely the first time around, despite seeing the name in almost every Brit mag I picked up for a couple months there.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

the single version of 'oh jim' is a great song.. almost makes all their nonsense in the press seem worthwhile.

― electricsound, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:19 (seventeen years ago)

In 1999 Gay Dad was my first introduction to the 'hype culture', at the virginal age of 16. Those were some good days

― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

avatars... to AHEADNESS

― electricsound, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

We will do a TS: Laverne vs Ball vs Middlemiss one day. When we need more 90s fetishising on ILX, that is.

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:14 (4 years ago)

WHEN WHEN ICH BING HUNGRIG

― blueski, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

I believe that the tenth anniversary of the release of To Earth With Love went tragically uncommemorated.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

not in my house it didn't.

― mark e, Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

We will do a TS: Laverne vs Ball vs Middlemiss one day. When we need more 90s fetishising on ILX, that is.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:14 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

prophetic

― the face of fashion in soho square (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

Gay Dad's Leisure Noise was one of the very first CDs I ever bought, in a CD store about an hour away (the closest one) from where I grew up in the middle of nowhere, Missouri. I bought it because a friend of mine who subscribed to Q said that it was supposed to be incredible. I popped it in my car's CD player on the drive home, it immediately started pouring rain, and then my radiator broke and I had to get it towed home. It took me 2 months straight of working nights and weekends at Long John Silvers to pay for the damage. Plus I went back to thinking that modern music sucked for another year afterward. Fuck you, Gay Dad.

― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck you, Gay Dad.

Words for the ages.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

What a waste of an incredible band name.

― Woody Ellen (Matt P), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:30 (twelve years ago)

Black Ghost and its Electrogeist remix are fair tunes

― delete (imago), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 07:58 (twelve years ago)

I still like most of the first album, the second album however was a bit of a disaster.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 08:39 (twelve years ago)

Since we're talking about this again, I thought the second album was erratic but had a bunch of good things, and "Plane Going Down" was one of my favorite songs of that year. I just scanned through it again to see if I wanted to change my mind with hindsight, but nope.

― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:50 (twelve years ago)

"Plane Going Down" was one of my favorite songs of that year.

yeah, i love that one as well ..

― mark e, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:54 (twelve years ago)

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