i just got the first SIMON TURNER record for a quarter!

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from a sidewalk sale outside a polish retirement home!

along with the h.r. pufnstuf movie soundtrack, the osmonds ace "crazy horses" and a pope john paul picture disc!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 5 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i love simon turner. is he gonna do a king of luxembourg album or just the single? his other more recent 'collage' stuff is kinda dumb.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i've only heard one song from the velvet tinmine comp but this looks awesome, i can't wait to get home and hear it.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Simon's a lovely fellow. I'd be interested to hear that album. Then again, it probably sounds like the Bay City Rollers. Simon looked like this last time I saw him. He has a sound installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum right now. He looks pretty great for a 50 year old, no? And always up to interesting stuff.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 6 June 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it looks to be kind of rollers-ish and it's got a cover of "the prettiest star" by bowie on it, so it's hopefully kind of proto-glam. it's got a great cover shot of him astride a triumph motorcycle looking all of eleven years old.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 6 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i recently saw him in a 1978 TV series playing Lillie Langtry's brother, who Dies In A Storm (capital letters v. important here, this being a 19th Century period piece). he had a nice sideline in playing Sensitive Young Victorian Men in the 70s, didn't he?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

his teen idol songs are great. 'she was just a young girl' and 'sex appeal' and 'prettiest star' and '17' are great fun, it was all great fun.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i often wonder (actually i lie, i've never wondered it until now, but whatever) whether the failure of his pop career had anything to do with the fact that 1974 or whenever was pre-Wienerisation; back then, it seemed laughable to have someone so obviously Posh singing such songs and a lot of the young middle classes ignored teenpop anyway (every single Cassidy/Osmonds/Rollers fan i've ever seen interviewed in the 70s has a working-class accent; that was tellingly not the case among Take That fans 20 years later). nowadays, of course, they're all at it. had there been room for Will Youngs as well as David Essexes and Les Grays back then he could have been bigger than the Rubettes.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I recorded with him about 4 years ago; he's SUCH a character - a lovely bloke and his voice has never changed. Apparently Prettiest Star was written especially for him.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly enough, we've also covered Pufnstuff songs (well, Zap the World, to be precise).

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the Jonathan King connection? I have the Revox album and it doesn't sound like the kind of thing he'd be interested in?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know about the full history of Simon. I have a King of Luxembourg CD, the one with a monkees cover on it, I think? Or was it the hollies? But the store I used to work at had the el comps which I loved and a collection of SFT incidental music, or like stuff used for fashion shows and on videos or something, but it was always too expensive.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Non-pop SFT:

I'm not sure how expensive it is (I'm guessing not) but his soundtrack to Nadja (vampire movie) is great. His Deux Filles albums are really wonderful (strange quasi-ambient soundscapes with lots of disturbing elements), but not at all cheap and way out of print.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

this is pretty much as good as I hoped, especially "17" - what a fantastic song, better than anything on "glitterbest" or "velvet tinmine"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a Jonathan King thing, no?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

I've posted this on the gardening thread - an oldish film about Great Dixter by Derek Jarman associate Howard Sooley and with music from Simon Fisher Turner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt4FQVSqbbo

I've played it loads, coinciding with a visit to Dixter, but love the thing as a whole. Don't think I know anything about Simon Fisher Turner (or if I did, I've forgotten). The music in the clip isn't Shazamable but any pointers as to what to listen to next?

― djh, Monday, 1 September 2025 20:51 (one week ago)

Instability of the Signal. I gushed over this one on the 2024 AOTY thread:
2024 AOTY So Far

― jeff bezoar (sawdust lagoon), Tuesday, 2 September 2025 00:16 (six days ago)

Thanks for the tip-off, Sawdust.

― djh, Wednesday, 3 September 2025 19:14 (five days ago)

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