OPO: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

But I'm right there with you on "Hollow Eyes." RLYL was always sort of a "secret" favorite of mine. While all my high school friends were rocking the Cure, Love & Rockets, and Siouxsie, I felt like I had a little edge on them by adding RLYL to my mix.

I think the compilation I have is called *Smashed Hits*. ("Cut Down" was probably their catchiest song, but I don't think that's on there.)

I always thought of "Walking On Your Hands" as a bit of a novelty hit. We supported a late-era RLYL as they toured Scotland - I was very proud at the time.

http://www.red-lorry-yellow-lorry.com/

so first its Wedding Present, Sisters and now the Lorries ..

all i need now is AOC to reform and we have a full on Leeds madness ..

oh, and the 3 Johns of course ..

I'll OPO in a while.. always end up downloading stuff over days instead of digging it out of the attic. New heights in lazyness.

I'm going to say "Spinning Round". Just because I remember it better than most.

My faves used to be Generation, with the line "Let the speakers/crackle and burn" and "Hold Yourself Down" which repeats "Elevation". But that got hella old ;_; so did most of their catchier tunes mentioned here.

Most underrated goth band ever?!

All the lovely goths love this band. That's why I love the lovely goths.

Hands up who has ever owned the Talk About The Weather LP????????

Love you all!

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/RedLorryYellowLorryWeather2.jpg

Hahaha...don't remember this previous revive...Can't BELIEVE I am hearing this for the first time since 1985, their first album "Talk About The Weather"! The production is actually much better than I remembered. It's not nearly as good as their non-album singles ("Chance"! "Spinning Round"! "Beating My Head"! "Crawling Mantra" EP anyone???) but damn, what an LP this is. Yikes. Sorry I don't actually have it on vinyl anymore.

God, they could take The Mission down to the pub for a goth fight and win with only their thumbs raised! I never said they were as good as Killing Joke, but um...

Can someone (UK-er maybe) confirm that Peel really did like Red Lorry Yellow Lorry? I might be wrong. I'll have to figure out if there are Peel Sessions later. Really can't handle it now. This album is goth as hell.

"Can someone (UK-er maybe) confirm that Peel really did like Red Lorry Yellow Lorry?"

Yes. Two sessions.

Thanks so much. I'm really having a thing about this band right now. I'm hearing stuff I heard before but it sounds better than it did before.

"I'm Still Waiting" actually has a post-punk funk freakout in the middle which is quite extraordinary. Can't believe I forgot about this stuff. I'm in heaven for the moment hearing their early singles again. Oh god. I'll try to be quiet and write a review and be patient, I guess.

But the vampires might be creeping around the gravestones by then! This song "Take It All Away" is delicious graveyard goth madness. Oh my god wait...what did you say?

THERE WERE 2 PEEL SESSIONS?!?!?!?!?/////////////////////////////////////

PRIME POST PUNK GOTH LOVELY STUFF HERE CHECK IT KIDS

God, "He's Read" is putting me on clouds right now. I used to have the Smashed Hits LP with the yellow sleeve. No more. :(

Definitely must, must have the Peel Sessions. I never had those.

Doesn't anyone remember these early songs of theirs? Monkeys On Juice! Wow!

Like I said on this thread 4 years ago, the first album (and especially the title track) are just awesome. Chris Reed was a great guy, but what he's doing still flogging them round I don't know.

I'll stick my neck out, and say that 83-85 they were very nearly as good as the Sisters with the Monkeys On Juice 12" probably the most consistently good. Decline of the smae magnitude at about the same time though.

Please someone talk to me about this band. Please please please.

If you know this band, email me at new_dawn_fades_61_@yahoo._com without the underlines, thanks.

best version. so great. how many times have i played this when i was drunk over the years? yeesh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybR81dtZNSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pLxOMgbO1w

^ THIS SONG

brilliant band.
after todays neph fix, may have to track down the lorries compilation ...
used to have it on cassette and played the fragger to death.

Never heard the title track "Talk About The Weather" until now. Damn good, that one. Not as keen on most of the rest but they nailed it here.

the best song

For the record there's a cheap 3cd box set of albums and singles 1982-1987 that came out late last year.

probably about as much lorries as i'll ever need on that, thanks

Hmm, it's a good collection of songs, but reviews seem to indicate it's a pretty shoddy reissue - apart from the BBC sessions it's all vinyl dubs and apparently they didn't bother to find good condition records to dub it from. Which is a bit weird because a lot of this stuff has been previously reissued on CD in better quality, so I dunno why Cherry Red didn't just use those. So I'll probably skip this one.

oh that's a shame. not the first time i've heard of cherry red being a bit lazy about quality tbh - eyeless in gaza box had similar issues apparently, though i don't think they stooped to mastering from iffy vinyl on that

i was going to grab this boxset a few months ago, but held back having read the reviews.

Ah, bummer.

The master tapes were lost in a fire?

For the record there's a cheap 3cd box set of albums and singles 1982-1987 that came out late last year.

― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ),

after the recent love-in I have had for the brilliant three johns, I have, under the influence of wine, ordered this lorries boxset.

and being honest I cannot wait to hear it.

apparently the sound is not that bad ..

I mean it cant be as bad as the vinyl rip that shriekback did for their recent reissue of CARE/jam science !

Be sure to read the incredibly useful and detailed Amazon review, you may want to make some corrections or replacements to your digital copy to fix incorrect track titles at the very least.

Just read that review. Very helpful. It's a real bummer they missed that track but I guess this will be a good introduction for me. I was hesitant before.

yeah, i read that review, and it stopped me from getting the box for a while, but then, for the price, i thought sod it.

the bbc sessions disc sound fantastic.

not had time to get into the rest of it too much, but what i've heard so far sounded fine for a cheap-n-cheerful collection.

So there's another box set called Albums & Singles 1982-1989 (so soon!). Is there any chance this one fixes the issues with the last box set.

I never posted in this? "In a World." I don't know how to describe this except it captured the sense of BIGNESS you wanted guitar music to have in those days. The song feels, literally, like a world.

3 years since the last box set. Can't help but seem like it's a correction.

this boxset as written up by an ilx'r ?

https://burningambulance.com/2017/02/20/red-lorry-yellow-lorry/

not so sure it is new remasters as opposed to the same stuff in a new box ..

i decided that i have the boxset that the label released previously, and i can cope with that

My OPO would probably be Hollow Eyes. Or Happy.

Actually Bimble's pick Spinning Round is good too.

SR : all time perfection in any remastered form.

you people are seriously the only people i know on earth who still listen to this band. without seeing this thread i totally played the cherry red comp today at the store.

the cherry red comp really doesn't sound that hot. from 1994.

you people are seriously the only people i know on earth who still listen to this band.

cheshire cat grin.

the boxset has remastered editions post 94 i believe.

A surprise!

https://redlorryyellowlorry.bandcamp.com/album/strange-kind-of-paradise

and? It's been out for a month now - haven't heard it yet, or anything about it all :-(

it's okay! Reed's voice sounds a lot like Dan Boeckner's all of a sudden now though.