AC Temple C/D

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Classic, of course - but why hasn't there been a thread (as far as I can find) dedicated to this band and in particular their 1991 art-rock masterpiece 'Belinda Backwards'?

― Mog, Monday, 29 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it them wot did "Ulterior"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw them a few times live supporting people like Dinosaur Jr and Band of Susans and I had a couple of the albums too, but to be honest I could never really get that excited by them. Never heard Belinda Backwards though, so I'm hoping this thread will show me the error of my ways...

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, they did do 'Ulterior' although I think the line-up had changed a bit by the time of 'BB'.

I never saw them live unfortunately... sought out 'Belinda Backwards' after Neil Kulkarni namechecked them along with Slint and Codeine as the need-to-know bands for those interested in modern rock (this was in '95 or so)... delighted to find as well that 'BB' was produced by my old Bongwater/Buttholes hero Kramer...

― Mog, Monday, 29 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to know more about them...they appear on a live album that also features the Dustdevils (Rorshach Blot Test), and sound sort of similar there . Their albums don't seem to sound like that. BB does seem awfully Bongwatery at times, so I'm not surprised to see a connection.

― dlp9001, Monday, 29 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have Rorschach Blot Test, AC Temple shared both members and vans with Kilgore Trout who are also on there. I think that Noel Kilbride is still involved in the music industry, I think he's tour manager for a lot of visiting American bands.

Best thing I ever saw AC Temple do was join Band of Susans on stage for a six-or-so guitar rendition of 'Hope Against Hope'. Their records were always a bit too rooted in their fandom of Sonic Youth for me, they never really had a strong voice of their own.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 29 March 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I read on a certain popular message board that the singer of AC Acoustics presents a fishing programme on BBC Scotland

― smudger (smudger), Monday, 29 March 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

AC/DC C/D?

― ..., Monday, 29 March 2004 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

just realised this is about AC Temple. Duh...
anyway I did see AC Temple support Half-Man Half-Biscuit in about 1986, when they were a lot less sonic youth and a lot more Ron Johnson/angular 80's indie with loud-hailer vocals

― smudger (smudger), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss Ron Johnson (insert obligatory Stump reference here)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

they contributed the guy who wrote the songs i don't like from spoonfed hybrid. well 'make a fist' is great, and 'messrs hyde' too, did ac temple sound like spoonfed hybrid?

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

did ac temple sound like spoonfed hybrid?

Emphatically not. Well, perhaps half the guitar sounds on "Naturally Occurring Anchors" might've popped up on Sourpuss or Belinda Backwards. I think my brief correspondence with K*rren Abl*ze and her flaming enthusiasms in the early '90s made me more well-disposed to t'Temple than I otherwise would've been.

Funny, I was going to start an AC Acoustics/AC Temple/AC Marias FITE thread.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Ablaze! fanzine, I bought that a few times outside various gigs, used to get that and Sniffin' Rock. Didn't she have a band of her own too?

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Coping Saw

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed. Never heard 'em, mind.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Belinda Backwards absolutely classic. The SY thing is there, but it's not so overwhelming as to make them undistinctive - they were too English for that.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

This band continues to nag at my subconscious. "Mincemeat" as it appears on Rorschach Blot and on the Peel Sessions has gotta be one of the better noise-rock tracks that nobody has heard. I guess anthologies are kind of a dead thing, but I really dream of a world where someone puts out a comp of stuff like this and we all forget about everything Sonic Youth has been up to since like 1984...

― dlp9001, Monday, 28 December 2009 05:31 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Realized today that they're on Spotify, oddly. Finally got to listen to Sourpuss, which is pretty great. I'd call them more Live Skull than SY there. If they'd been from NY, pretty sure they'd be at least somewhat better known.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 00:54 (twelve years ago)

I got Sourpuss a while ago and yeah the Sonic Youth comparison is pretty lazy. But seemingly universal.

― RID US OF SPACE BORES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 05:10 (twelve years ago)

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