Chiswick Records: C or D?

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& will i listen to this http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000838X/wwwlink-software-21/202-8696640-8940605
more than once?

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

They certainly had their moments.

Looking at the tracklisting for that title 'though, I reckon they could have made one absolute KILLER disc out of that, instead of one reasonably good and one rather patchy one.

The Drug Addix (featuring a very young Kirsty MacColl), Count Bishops, Gorillas, Johnny Moped, Nips (featuring a pre-Pogues Shane Macgowan), 101ers (featuring a pre-Clash Joe Strummer), Radiators (featuring a pre-Pogues Philip Chevron), Radio Stars (featuring a post-) TV Smith (ex Adverts)' Explorers, Sniff 'n' The Tears and of course it should go without saying The Damned's tracks are all good-to-great.

Also that "Saints And Sinners" track is almost certainly the first single by Johnny & The Self Abusers (who later evloved into Simple Minds) and that "Common Truth" is an Amazorblades single; both also pretty good.

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, meant to say Radio Stars (featuring a post-John's Children / Sparks and Jet ASndy Ellison and Martin Gordon).

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

thanks, stewart. i'm knda curious about the intersection of pub rock & punk rock esp hammersmith gorillas, count bishops. so i want to hear more chiswick and stiff singles

any other suggestions for other good stuff from this era?

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Ace, Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, Dr. Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Kilburn & the High Roads, Motors, Graham Parker....

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)


Get the Gliiterbest compilation, Fritz.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00019FWQC/qid=1105113027/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-1255266-7334243

There are 3 Jesse Hector/H.Gorillas tracks on there, two of which are excruciatingly awful. The Ducks DeLuxe track is similarly dire. In fact the whole thing is a miserable experience, leading me to the conclusion that there are probably no undicovered gems on the pub-rock/pre-punk/glam interface. Some good band names though - Crushed Butler!

Good pub rock from Stiff - Lew Lewis Reformer (Win Or Lose), Nick Lowe (I Love my Label/So It Goes/Heart Of The City, Mickey Jupp, The Rumour without GP aren't bad.

Bad pub rock from Stiff - Kilburn and The high Roads, Roogalator's Cincinatti Fatback, Tyla Gang, Billy Bremner.

Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

"Get the Gliiterbest compilation, Fritz ... the whole thing is a miserable experience"

!?!

actually, having been hunting down similar stuff lately, i think i know exactly what you mean

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

"Bad pub rock from Stiff - Kilburn and The high Roads"

Surely Kilburn & The High Roads were signed (somewhat disaterously) to Warner Bros.?

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the Kilburns were never on Stiff, apart from one b-side "You're more than fair" on "Sweet Gene Vincent".

"Cincinatti Fatback" is great, btw...

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

That Chiswick comp looks pretty good, actually. Has anyone heard this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000DS4/qid=1105135222/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/026-9176061-7680443

Lot of the same stuff, but it's shorter and older. You can probably find it used somewhere.

Bren (Bren), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Yep you're right about the Kilbs - my mistake. Of course they'd pretty much finished when Stiff started. They're still crap though.

Dr. C (Dr. C), Saturday, 8 January 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I never knew about this early Kirsty MacColl band Drug Addix. I just thought she started out with that Chip Shop song. Really would like to hear the Addix. Doesn't seem to be on slsk so far. Can anyone help?

Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I'd also love to hear the Drug Addix. For what it's worth, I've got a Peggy Seeger album from 1977 (Penelope Isn't Listening Any More) which features Kirsty MacColl on at least one song - playing guitar only. To my knowledge it's her earliest recording but maybe I'm wrong?

everything, Monday, 10 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
For what it's worth I've heard the Drug Addix song that appears on that comp. now "Gay Boys In Bondage". Quite a disappointment in that Kirsty cannot be heard anywhere at all on it to these ears. Despite a few fleeting moments of background vocals, I just don't think she's in there anywhere. Instead, the song is sung by a man and if you have any squeamishness at all about homosexual sex, I do advise you to steer clear of this one. Not that it's vulgar or has curse words, I don't mean that, but well...it makes it's point. But if you don't mind all that and can handle a pub rocky punk tune, it's okay. Not great, but I've heard worse.

Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 January 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

*Cincinatti Fatback" is great, btw...*
It is, it is, despite the misspelling in the title. And it does mention local Cincinnati blues legend Popeye Maupin.

lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Along w/the Johnny Moped records the best Chiswick releases are the Skrewdriver 7"s and mini-album. Not that these'll be turning up on any comps for obv. reasons.

Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 30 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I've always preferred Nick Lowe's early solo albums to Brinsley. Also the Rockpile album, recently re-reissued, and Dave Edmunds' are good too (at least the ones from post-pub-but-not-punk era, like TRACKS ON WAX 4). Also what they did on Carlene Carter's albums, and Graham Parker & The Rumour (Nick-produced and otherwise).There's a new collection of pub covers, HAPPY DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING, by Elizabeth mcQueen and the Firebrands, which is pretty uneven, but does have a couple of songs by Ducks Deluxe("Love's Melody") and Eggs Over Easy("Home To You"), which have me curious about those bands. If they sound this good when *she does 'em (she doesn't have much charisma), maybe there are others? I haven't played the STIFFS LIVE LP in a long time, but remember at least half of it seeing well worth the (bargain bin) price. So Kilburn's bad, eh? What's the story? I always thought Dury was one of the best artists associated with this era(appeals to me in ways that NL, DE, GP, EC don't).

don, Sunday, 30 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)


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