Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House

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Someone just posted this on the St. Etienne website:

Hi folks, finally found this web-site/message board after a lot of searching! Hope Bob and co. don't mind me posting this but had to let the fans of this great band know what a treat they're in for when 'Turnpike' comes out, apparently in May of this year. Sometime last year my father (Tony Rivers) got a call from Bob Stanley, asking if he would be interested in contributing harmonies/arrangements for the bands forthcoming album. I think it boiled down to Bob's knowledge of my fathers bands in the 60's (Tony Rivers and the Castaways and Harmony Grass) which both were Wilsonesque (ie Brian) in their use and knowledge of harmonies and also my fathers studio work thru the 70's 80's 90's etc. Basically, the band wanted this album to have a strong 'harmonic' touch. We received a CD of around 13/14 songs that were still in production and were asked to come up with ideas (harmony wise). After working solidly for about a month on ideas, we flew to England last September and worked with the guys for a couple of days in the studio putting all our ideas on tape. To cut a long story short, on Tuesday of this week we received a CD from Bob with the final mixes. The result is... the album is astonishingly good. Regardless of our involvement it's one of the finest albums I've heard. It really is THAT good. I think a few of the fans have heard 'Side Streets' and 'Lightning Strikes Twice' performed live over New Year and they are great songs, but add to that songs such as 'Sun In My Morning', 'Milk Bottle Symphony', 'Slow Down at the Castle', 'Last Orders' and 'Goodnight' (to name but a few) and I promise you're all about to buy a CD that will greatly enrich your music collection. It was a joy for us to work on this project and I'm sure that when you hear it you'll understand why. It won't disappoint any existing fans and will undoubtedly add many more. ENJOY!"

Anthony Rivers

Are we excited or what?

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

yes, very excited, thank you!

I'm member #1092 in the St. Et fanclub now, and got a copy of the Xmas 2003 single as a treat.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm so bitter, I haven't got mine, and I was like member #5 or something.

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

#776!

I got my CD in the mail after some time.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Hey, where can I see my membership #?

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

at the bottom of your membership card

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

and how do I sign up?

― benwelsh, Monday, 21 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

GO to the St. Etienne official website:

www.saintetienne.com

and click on Fanclub.

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Thanks! I'm in!

Though, I must confess the website design is a little creepy as I'm reading Haruki Murakami's Underground right now.

― benwelsh, Monday, 21 February 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

omg I am so excited! This sounds awesome.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

shouldn't this leak soon? or at least the first single?

― jesseeeeeeeeeeeee (superpopelectro), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes this is great news. I remember reading a long time ago that they were working with Brian Higgins again for at least part of this album. Does anyone know if this is still true? I'm trying work out in my head how his particular style would mesh with the description above and I'm a little puzzled. Anyway, very excited whatever the case.

― Shane (Shane), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

all smiles. this may be the most anticipated record of all time (in these quarters)

― Alex Linsdell (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 21 February 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

I've been disappointed by every St. Etienne album since Good Humor. I'd love a reason to be excited by them again...

― mike a, Monday, 21 February 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Accept they're not making any more Lps like "ST"/"FA"/"TB" maybe? I'm presuming you were disappointed by "GH" itself, obv.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

God tho well done spelling it "Humor", who else does?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Good Hummer.

I liked Finisterre but did not love it. However, thanks to ye olde DC hub, I've been listening to a variety of the fan-club-only collections and my interest is resparking. It was a trying time to be a fan in the late nineties, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

My reaction to the news of a new Saint Etienne album can be usefully summarised in a word handily conjured up earlier on today over at Dissensus: "shruggism."

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 21 February 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I didn't enjoy Finisterre at all except for the title track, but loved Sound of Water and Interlude. Good Humor itself is great fun but not really what I turn to Etienne for.

Continental may be my favorite.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I thought I remembered you being v.enthusiastic on CoM about Finisterre, Marcello? Maybe you changed your mind - or I imagined it?

Anyway, Finisterre is the only one of theirs I've loved - I think it's fantastic, I really do, and I never thought I'd ever say that about a Saint Etienne album. The new one sounds promising too.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Revelation of the other day -- "October" by a-ha, from 1986, invents both St. Etienne AND the Field Mice (or mebbe the Northern Picture Library).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I see that Northern Picture Library is on the list of the upcoming LTM releases. I shall pass, but will probably get the 2 Gina X albums.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

LTM is releasing even more stuff! Will the man not sleep!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

No, I liked GH quite a bit.

― mike a, Monday, 21 February 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

an orchids best of! come on, just re-release their entire back catalog already!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, what's LTM?

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Northern Picture Library's Alaska was one of the most disappointing albums I have ever bought. I was amazed how crap it was given how I love Field Mice and Trembling Blue Stars.

That said, I am excited about the St Etienne album. I liked most of Good Humor and Finisterre. To me, Sound of Water was the weak link where St Etienne albums are concerned, apart from "Heart Failed".

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

LTM = Les Temps Moderne = current best reissue label out there (or close to it):

http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmhome.html

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

pah, alaska crap? i remember when it came out it was meant to be some radical new direction towards trance and it was just a more gauzey field mice, granted it's beautiful and the singles comp is great too.

i am with mike a, nothing good since good humour, the orgasms of delight around here for finisterre were odd for me because it sounds so mediocre and charmless.

i don't much like the orchids, i like the singles but the albums were terrible. but that's just me. everyone else loves them.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

aw, finisterre is great! i look forward to being in the same old age home as keith and having this same disagreement in wheelchairs and under heavy sedation.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Finisterre has sublime moments just like all of their records and three of the tracks are classics.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

In other words, I can't really hear how it is any less charming than their other albums.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

which three are classics?

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

My favorites are "Shower Scene", "The Way We Live Now" and "Action" (although I prefer the gently remixed Mr Joshua version of that one slightly more). "Soft Like Me" and "B92" are great too and the rest of it is of their usual high quality.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

I think my there faves are "Stop and Think It Over", "Finisterre", and "New Thing"....ahh who am I kidding, I hate this band, as everyone knows.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

I stand by my CoM comments on Finisterre but I just can't get excited about a new Saint Etienne record in 2005. I went off them a bit after Bob Stanley's idiotic Guilty Pleasures article in the Times last summer.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Hi Ben

Welcome to the Saint Etienne Fan Club. Your Membership Number is 2436

We’ve had an overwhelming response to the fan club so I’m afraid we have run out of cds, but we will send you something else in the near(ish) future. Future fan club releases will be made available for purchase (cheaply!) through the website. We will keep you posted of Etienne related news by email.

The new album “Tales from Turnpike House” is now slated for release in May – sorry to keep you waiting – but it’s a corker so hopefully you won’t mind.

Thank you for being a fan

Bob, Pete & Sarah XXX

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

OK, here's the latest info:

Tales from Turnpike House is scheduled to be released the 6th of June. Here's the track listing:

Sun in my Morning
Milk Bottle Symphony
Lightning Strikes Twice
Slow Down at the Castle
Good Thing
Side Streets
Last Orders for Gary Stead
Stars above Us
Relocate (feat. David Essex)
The Birdman of EC1
Teenage Winter
Goodnight

The first single will be "Side Streets" and it's coming out May 30th.

The first few thousand copies of the album will come with a free E.P. of parent friendly children’s music including “You Can Count on Me”.

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

You all got old Xmas singles?

I got an old copy of "Good Humor"!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Relocate (feat. David Essex)

This is making me absurdly happy for some reason.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

You all got old Xmas singles?

I got an old copy of "Good Humor"!

I got nothing!

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Who is David Essex?

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Wait, aren't you British?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Seriously? Unless there are two of them, he's the guy who did "Rock On."

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

(Essex: glam-era UK guy most well known for "Rock On," 'adapted' by REM for "Drive" and covered by various folks. Those who were there could say more.)

xpost!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, I don't know much about glam. And I'm mexican, not british :)

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Heheh. My apologies. :-) (Wait, you live around here or am I getting that wrong too?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Wrong too. I live in Canada. You must be confusing me with someone else.

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

David Essex is of romany stock, apparently.

I think Bob, Pete and Sarah should crank up their CD making machine for thos fan club members.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Wrong too. I live in Canada. You must be confusing me with someone else.

My BRAIN hurts! (Anyway, thank you, now I am not ignorant. :-))

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 214 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I was going to post some wonky simpleminded idea about how on Turnpike the 'old' and the 'new' are kept in separate cages from one another and not allowed to co-exist within the same track, so much. But "Milk Bottle Symphony" undermines this theory a bit, and (as mentioned upthread) "Stars Above Us" is "Lucky Star"-old if not Glitter/Wilson/Beatles-old. I suppose the Xeno-involvement here is the extent of the 'modern' element, which is extremely vital and nice, but not really a shooting star into The Sound Of The Future.

BUT, yes, I tend to think of Turnpike as having lovely creaky warm period pieces and shiny succulent synthpop excursions and not much overlap between the two, which was never really the case before. I don't know that I think this is particularly a good thing or a bad thing, but you could definitely argue that they've made it too easy for us, there's maybe a little less to discover in each track than previously (must still stress that I love Turnpike to bits, it is brilliant nevertheless, and this doesn't necessarily apply to every single track; "Teenage Winter" was more of a slowly-unfurling slowburner, for example)

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Dear Fan
Just a quicky to fill you in on the latest developments…
Our new single A Good Thing is out in Europe on 31st October in the following “formats”
7": A Good Thing b/w I'm Falling
CD1: A Good Thing (das Germanwings mix), Missing Persons Bureau.
CD2: A Good Thing, Book Norton, Quiet Essex
The beautiful artwork is once again handled by Lora Findlay. If you order from the merchandise page of our website it should be on your doormat the day of release! At last our film “What have you done today Mervyn Day” is complete and we are rehearsing the soundtrack for the live performance at the Barbican on Thursday 27th. It’s a real labour of love and we hope all those who have got tickets will have a great evening. We have recently signed a deal with Savoy in the States so “Tales from Turnpike House” will be released in January with 2 new songs “Oh My” and “Dream Lover”. We are planning to do a few U.S. shows in February. It’s been a while!
Love

Sarah, Bob & Pete XXXX

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

damn you US bonus tracks!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

yeah seriously!

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

here's an idea, saint etienne... release one CD with all those tracks on it and i might buy it.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

nevermind might buy it... i WILL buy it.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

any idea why they're with Savoy Jazz now?

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

It's possible they will -- in the past they have released in the US collections of their b-sides before (see: Interlude)

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 28 October 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

One of the few joys about being a St Et fan in this part of the world was that the two Action CD singles were concatenated into one six-track single here, they really should do that, they're not going to get decent chart positions releasing the wrong singles anyway, so they might as well up the sales and please the fans.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 28 October 2005 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

The film-with-live-soundtrack thing was last night at the Barbican. I thought I had missed tickets but managed to get some on Friday. It was really very good indeed.

It's set on July 7, 2005 and as such was a fairly unsettling experience for me. It's an un-settled film. DVD early next year apparently. I get the impression that the DVD of "Finisterre" has sold well nough that getting the new one out might be a less protracted process.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever happened to the rest of that kids' album, then? Wasn't it supposed to be out by now?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Here's the Savoy Jazz tracklisting. An improvement I think. They've ditched "Relocate"

01 Side Streets
02 A Good Thing
03 Sun in My Morning
04 Milk Bottle Symphony
05 Dream Lover
06 Lightning Strikes Twice
07 Slow Down at the Castle
08 Oh My
09 Last Orders for Gary Stead
10 I'm Falling
11 Stars Above Us
12 Teenage Winter
13 Goodnight

― everything, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

what is that?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

dropped two songs and added three... interesting. kinda glad "relocate" is gone, it kills the flow of the album. wonder if the new ones are any good.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

That's that tracklisting for the US version of Tales From Turnpike House mentioned upthread. It's released on January 24th and has two tracks out (Relocate, Birdman of EC1), three in (Dream Lover, Oh My and I'm Falling).

― everything, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

hey neat, you can stream the entire album on the savoy jazz website. entire songs!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

are those three tracks available in any other release? I bought the import version : (

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

what?! "relocate" is my favourite song! :( :(

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I too am glad "Relocate" is out. One of their worst songs ever in my opinion.

― everything, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

of the replacement tracks, "dream lover" is very pretty (reminiscent of a song from good humor) and "oh my" is new and interesting. seems like the new version is definitely an improvement.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

ahh fuck it, i'll just buy it : (

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

well, any single with those tracks on it will cost you ten bucks as an import anyway (twenty if st et as always do their cute two part single scam), you'll probably be able to get the album for $12-14.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

The extra songs are good, and "Dream Lover" is FANTASTIC, but rejigging the running order so that the singles are in front, but the narrative flow of the original album is gone, is just inane.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Folks,
Saint Etienne have just announced the following dates for touring in the States in Feb 2006:
Feb 13th New York - Irving Plaza
Feb 15th Chicago - Metro
Feb 17th San Francisco - Filmore
Feb 18th LA - Avalon

More info when we get it

Cheers
Lovers HQ

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I too am glad "Relocate" is out. One of their worst songs ever in my opinion.

Chirst it's an embarrassment isn't it! Absolutely awful, my least favourite St Et tune by a country mile.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

aw, i really love "relocate" it's really funny to have David Essex on a St. Etienne song

― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and btw, can anyone ysi the new tunes?

― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

"ah, she keeps forgetting, its turned into a tropicana tanning salon"

this line sums up the whole album, record shops that dont exist anymore, bars that are long gone,i think the pervading feel of nostalgia is just too much for me. im not sure if thats quite it though

just as its looking back at 94 looking back at 74, its a camden record, they've always stuck me as camden, rather than london, except its primrose hill now. the cultural 'references' seem a bit...much now

i like some of it though,

sun in my morning is a promising start, the chorus works very well, the flutes a nice touch

birdman of ec1, the instrumental, is great, ephemeral, vdp/brian

teenage winter seems to be the crux of the album, all that is good about it, all that is bad about it. the spoken word part reminded me a lot of the piano magic track, er, snow drums, i think

its...cosy

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

david essex sounds like bowie

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

david essex makes that song the single worst thing se et have ever made!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I don't like it

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

i have no cultural associations with david essex though so perhaps that's why

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

me neither really. he's never been on my radar. it's just a bloody dreadful contribution, and the resulting song sours the whole album for me. that said, CD/mp3 technology = it may as well not exist!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

might want to get the US release, then. it's not on it!

― gear (gear), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

it isn't? but it has other tracks....damn

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone heard the Good Thing remix yet? Is it any good?

― The It Boy, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

i just picked up the us release of this...to find out its on savoy jazz. i was pretty suprised.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

All the "Relocate" hate is beyond my comprehension really. It's about the fourth or fifth best thing on the album.

― Merryweather (scarlet), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

What exactly is on the bonus US disc? I already have the bought the UK 2 cd pressing and a got a promo of the US release. Amoeba has been selling some Thai issue of the cd for a few months now for 12.99 and the new domestic is 16.99.

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Found out it is some crap jazz sampler that has nothing to do with St Etienne, kind of misleading sticker on the cover.

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it has charlie parker remixed on it...whoooooooo...

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Gawd. What a fucking let-down.

― everything, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

is anyone else seeing them this saturday in Los Angeles?

― gear (gear), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

wow, see you there! : D

― gear (gear), Thursday, 16 February 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am going Friday in SF.

― svend (svend), Thursday, 16 February 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

This show was fantastic! one unfortunate snafu: the Avalon double-booked the night (SASHA was DJing tonight as well) so they wouldn't let them come back out for their second encore and then Avalon security did everything but use pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

awesome, though. the song that ended up closing it was a terrific version of "nothing can stop us". first time i've seen 'em, good times.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 19 February 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

saw the SF show last night. not bad, but it seemed that they did a great job of turning some of the most amazing pop-dance tracks ever recorded into rather lame rock songs.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Sunday, 19 February 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

just received my copy of Nice Price in the mail. as it's my first "fan club only" cd by st. etienne I thought i'd offer to share it in exchange for another fan club only disc in return. if you're interested in swapping fan club cd's via YSI or other webhost, email me @

b g e o g h a g a n @@@@ gm41l.com

Nice Price consists of demo or rough mixes of all the tracks listed:

Nothing Can Stop Us
7 Ways 2 Love
Who Do You Think You Are
Hobart Paving
Like A Motorway
Former Lover
Western Wind
Angel
Burnt Out Car
Sylvie
Madeleine
Lose That Girl
Heart Failed
How We Used To Live
Milk Bottle Symphony
Goodnight

only 3/4 way through my first listen but initial thoughts are: Hobart Paving = classic, wonderful version, quite diff. to other mixes i've heard..Like A Motorway = WTF? Good thing they redid this version...Western Wind = Awesome acoustic version...in general, these versions are as good as the versions we know and love, however Like A Motorway is a major disappointment.

― biz, Monday, 10 April 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

the version of 'like a motorway' is pretty good, if you don't go in expecting some moroder synth epic dance thing.

'slow down at the castle' has the best moment on 'turnpike house', with that morricone-esque swell towards the end. i'm thinking this might be their best album! (possible competition: good humor, tiger bay)

― gear (gear), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

"Teenage Winter" sounds an awful lot like the 10cc-related Hotlegs's "Today":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gib9u31UR0

(as featured on the Lovefingers compilation from last year) – though is that a sample or recreation?

― with hidden noise, Monday, 13 July 2020 12:53 (five years ago)

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