where is the love for WIGWAM

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ok i wasn't gnna do any more but t''t bein estonian remebered me of them

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

for a while i owned the virgin double comp that came out in 81-ish but don't remember a THING abt it except not likin the new red/green virgin labels

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

they are finnish of course - i am not responsible for my synapses thk you

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

on behalf of the kindred finnish prog rockers, i thank mark s for dropping the name of that fine over-the-gulf team.

heard their nuclear nightclub alb. (all of it) on the radio sometime last year, btw.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a copy of "Fairyport" which is always bunned as some sort of terrific record, and frankly, most of it annoys me a bit. The singer is just terrible, for starters!
There's a lot of very annoying "fun" in there ("Rocking ol' galway" or whatever it's called)
But then they suddenly come up with some ultracatchy pop ditties in the middle of it all, like the great instrumental that reminds me of Zombies' "Conversation off floral street" or even Samla Mammas Manna. The opening song is really good too.

It's funny, really, as I find my opinion on the album has changed up and down almost every time I've heard it over the years, but even in the best of days I find myself disliking a lot about it.
Very cool keyboards and bass and some good and catchy songs, but it never really gels for me. I've played the album WAY too much in the hope that it'll "click" one day, as it always felt like it had the potential to do so.

Wouldn't have hurt if they'd kept Pekka Pohjola from guesting on it either.

Of course, then there's the jam session at the end which just STINKS!
Frankly, I think I'm starting to feel bitter against the album because of all the times I've played it in the hopes that it'd end up clicking.

The label sure is something though:
http://www.ifpi.fi/images/7/love_records_logo.jpg

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

haha THERE is the love!! oh those finns etc

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ok "where is the love" is now an OFFICIAL NEW CATEGORY

it differs (subtly) from eg CoD by lookin to find residual attraction (or newfound affection) for the overlooked and the set-aside

ie you can easily discover you have a certain kind of LOVE for something which is a CLEAR DUD even in yr own taste-hierarchy

now more on wigwam plz from erm "non-balts"

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 February 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

also the story of the HUNT FOR LOVE, tho it failed, is often the best story of all: cf øystein above

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 February 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

i miss when i was in charge of ILM categories, boy did they all from look a distance look like flies, break the waterpitcher etc

(wigwam just came up in the transcript i am editing)

― mark s, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 14:14 (nine years ago)

I have never heard a note of Wigwam before this thread prompted me to listen today. Nuclear Nightclub is really nice, pop-prog in the vein of Alan Parsons Project, with some ripping guitar solos that remind me of Be Bop Deluxe.

― Donald Trump eats people of all races and religions (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:55 (nine years ago)

hurrah!

― mark s, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 17:00 (nine years ago)

I thought this was a thread about Dylan's Wigwam which is a nice oddity and I think Wes Anderson used it on a movie?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6uIvk82HA

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 20:42 (nine years ago)

Oh that's a cover and a crappy one... Heres the real one:

http://youtu.be/XSzbc6xTTvE

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 20:44 (nine years ago)

They were Finnish, but their most prominent member was the keyboardist-singer Jim Pembroke, who's an English expat. I think he still lives here. For some reason I own this 1981 solo album by him on LP... I've never listened to it, but I love the cover pic!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/b/ba/Jim_Pembroke-_Party_Upstairs.jpeg

― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2016 10:40 (nine years ago)

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