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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