POV: 4AD albums

cocteau twins - garlands
his name is alive - stars on esp
this mortal coil - blood

Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteaus
Comforts of Madness - Pale Saints
- st - Ultra Vivid Scene
Split - Lush
Mouth by Mouth - His Name is Alive
5 Ways of Disappearing - Kendra Smith
- st - Spoonfed Hybrid
Bird Wood Cage - Wolfgang Press
It'll End in Tears - This Mortal Coil
Doolittle - Pixies
Listening Cap - Liquorice
rollercoaster (st) - Red House Painters

Wow, this is fucking tough.

This Mortal Coil, It'll End In Tears
Pixies, Doolittle
Pale Saints, In Ribbons
Tarnation, Gentle Creatures
The Breeders, Safari EP

Lush - Gala
Lush - Spooky
Red House Painters - (the rollercoaster one w/ Katy Song)

Fuck I don't even own V 4AD records..

Whoops.. didn't realize (PO)V meant 5.

Throwing Muses - untitled debut
Throwing Muses - House Tornado/The Fat Skiier
Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Dif Juz - Soundpool

(but also Palomine and The Grotto)

I didn't get the "POV" kinda things for a minute either. I couldn't believe there wasn't a better way to say, for instance, "Good Charlotte fucking blows" than "POO: Good Charlotte". Of course i had a good laugh when I figured that out.

Okay, whats a 4AD album? Forgive the ignorance

it's a British record label, Bryan. they put out a lot of gauzy new age music. But occasionally they signed some stuff with teeth, like the American groups the Pixies and the Breeders.

(xpost)

4AD is a record label.

throwing muses s/t
pixies 'surfer rosa'
dcd 'aeon'
his name is alive 'livonia'
this mortal coil 'it'll end in tears'

that was hard slimming down to 5.

1. Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Breeders - Last Splash
4. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
5. Cocteau Twins - Treasure

That was too easy. I really need to fill out my 4AD collection. (And I didn't intend for it to be tessellated.)

1. Pixies - Doolittle
2. Breeders - Pod
3. Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
4. Throwing Muses - Hunkpapa
5. Lush - Spooky

(if I limit myself to just one Pixies album)

Pixies - Doolittle
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Colourbox - Colourbox
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim / Surfer Rosa
Birthday Party - Hits

Colourbox - Colourbox
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Pixies - Doolittle
Lush - Split

the thread title should have been "POV:4AD" with a first post like so:

BAD 408
BAD 610
BAD 707
CAD 411
CAD 1012

1. Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
2. Birthday Party - Junkyard
3. Birthday Party - Drunk on the Pope's Blood
4. Birthday Party - Hee Haw
5. Colorbox - Colourbox

1. It's End in Tears by This Mortal Coil
2. Heaven Or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins
3. Lonely is an Eyesore
4. De-Luxxe by Lush
5. In the Flat Field by Bauhaus

1)Throwing Muses-debut
2)Heidi Berry-Love
3)Colourbox-Baby I Love You So 12-inch
4)Dead Can Dance-Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
5)Lisa Germano-Geek The Girl (or happiness i suppose)
6)Modern English-Mesh&Lace
7)Pixies-Surfer Rosa
8)Wolfgang Press-Mama Told Me Not To Come 12-inch (or maybe Kansas 12-inch)
9)Xmal Deutschland-Fetisch
10)This Mortal Coil-It'll End In Tears
(here's where i cheat and add more stuff-cuz 10 ain't enuff)
11)This Mortal Coil-Filigree&Shadow
12)Matt Johnson-Burning Blue Soul
13)Red House Painters-Ocean Beach
14)Red House Painters-S/T(the one with grace cathedral park on it)
15)Red House Painters-S/T(the one with evil on it)
16)Clan Of Xymox-Medusa
17)Birthday Party-Prayers On Fire
18)Bauhaus-In The Flat Field
19)Air Miami-Me,Me,Me
20)Lonely Is An Eyesore Comp
21)Every Cocteau Twins Album-Hah!! Now I'm really cheating! But I can't help it. There is too much to choose from. None of these are in order, by the way.

-- scott seward (skotro...), August 6th, 2003.

You couldn't pick out five, Scott?

they put out a lot of gauzy new age music
NOnononononoNONO!!! Wrong, wrong, DEADLY WRONG! If 4AD put out New Age music I wouldn't have so many of their records!

The Birthday Party - Live 81-82
Dif Juz - Soundpool
Throwing Muses - [untitled]
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels

that was from the other 4AD thread. any 5 of those will do.

admittedly, not a fave of mine .. though Colourbox album was totally ace (and very non-4AD), and i have realised recently that Queer by Wolfgang Press is rather fun.

guess no-one else is going to drop ILM's John D's musical adventures into the pot ?

all lovely packaging though .

and the forthcoming Minotaur Shock album will be my first 4AD record in AGES ..

Five? Lumme.

1) Lush - the one with "Single girl" and "Ciao"
2) a compilation that was free with Uncut or Mojo or something

That's all I got. Oh, "Death to the Pixies" 2CD thing, but whatever..

Colourbox - Colourbox
Pixies - Doolittle
Breeders - Last Splash
Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Throwing Muses - s/t debut
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll

Seward's got the right idea. This is a truly ridiculous undertaking.

Dif Juz - Extractions
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm of A Dying Sun
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Mass - Labour Of Love
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
Pixies - Doolittle
Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Sleeps With The Fishes
Throwing Muses - first one
Wolfgang Press - Legendary WP and Other Tall Stories

fHazel's V decoded
BAD 408 Dead Can Dance - Garden of the Arcane Delights
BAD 610 Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears
BAD 707 M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume
CAD 411 This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
CAD 1012 Heidi Berry - Love

(was a time whan i wouldn't've had to look half of those up)

me:
In Ribbons
Pod
Surfer Rosa
Ultra Vivid Scene
CTBOX1 (what me, cheating?)

(Mouth By Mouth would be 6th, Mojave 3 7th, Gala (or maybe just Scar) 8th, XAD001...)

I know what you mean, Koogy - I'm better on the three-digit numbers than the four-digit ones...

Is it really so hard to choose five? 1988 provides four of mine - House Tornado, Surfer Rosa, Blue Bell Knoll, The Serpent's Egg. For the fifth spot...Joy 1967-1990.

I presume there's a full discog out there somewhere? I've completely lost track of what they've released in the last 4-5 years. I bought the TM and KH LPs that came out the same day in 2003 but that might be it for this century.

i used the eyesore thing. noticed a few names on it that i didn't recognise (starry smooth hound?) so it's probably more current than i am...

http://www.fedge.net/ftww/ goes up to end of 2004, nothing for 2005 that i can see yet.

in other 4ad news (http://www.20six.co.uk/4ad/):
"Lonely is an eyesore
Well the mega rare wooden box has appeared on ebay again. Lots of photos but unfortunatley rather blured. The starting price is a mere £1250 and someone has already put in a bid for it!"

ulp!

Blimey - The Hope Blister's Underarms? Cuba? A Kristin Hersh video collection? Heart and Hand? It's like going back to your old house and they've completely redecorated...

Turns out, from the 00s, I also have 2k05, 2101, 2102 (as a CD-R promo that cuts off before the end), 2201 (again, CD-R) and 2202 (though I can't ever remember playing it).

wow, Koogy, yours and mine are strikingly similar:

Blood
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Ultra Vivid Scene
In Ribbons
Surfer Rosa

unrest - perfect teeth

My favourites:

Dif Juz "Extractions"
Xmal Deutschland "Tocsin"
Cocteau Twins "Victorialand"
Mass "Labour of Love"
Modern English "Mesh and Lace"

I'd like to add Colin Newman's "Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish", but I'm going not to.

Pangolino, are we really the only ones to list Xmal Deutschland and Mesh & Lace? It's like a conspiracy against doombass-driven music.

> wow, Koogy, yours and mine are strikingly similar:

except i hate Heaven Or Las Vegas 8) (or, at least, think it's the least good cocteau twins lp - too late) (Blood's good though)

have brought all the cds into work today (with CAD313CD instead of CTBOX1) and am now listening to them in order... progress chart available via audioscrobbler

I'm not surprised you didn't bring CTBOX1 to work with you - it's in a safety deposit box in a Geneva bank vault, isn't it?

I wonder if we'll see that Scott Walker record this year?

Doolittle
Surfer Rosa
Come On Pilgrim
Pod
um, Gentle Creatures. Tarnation not massively popular, i see.

can i demote 'Surfer Rosa'? thx.

treasure, cocteau twins
red house painters, red house painters (1)
geek the girl, lisa germano
it'll end in tears, this mortal coil
sleeps with fishes, michael brook and brian eno

That last one was Michael Brook and Pieter Nooten (of Xmal? Xymox?) wasn't it? Not to be confused with Peter Noone.

oops, right. eno worked on it though.

Lush - Gala
Lush - Split
Lush - Lovelife
Throwing Muses - Hunkpapa
Belly - Star

xpost - Yeah - wow! I thought at least "Mesh + Lace" would appear more. I haven't known that many who are really keen on Xmal Deutschland, so I'm not surprised, but I love them and am glad you chose them, too. I like "Fetisch", but the production strikes me as a bit weird compared to their Zick Zack singles - mainly, the guitar parts seem a bit less effective and more effect-y. I think if they'd done a whole album before they left for the UK and I had a copy to listen to I could appreciate "Fetisch" better for what it is. It does have a wicked bass sound.

I love Tocsin as well. I might have even played it more over the years than Fetisch! But Fetisch was the first thing that came to mind when I started that other 4AD thread.

six:

underground lovers - leaves me blind
unrest - imperial f.f.r.r.
pale saints - barging into the presence of god
mojave 3 - ask me tomorrow
lush - gala
liquorice - listening cap

Though a fine album, Imperial wasn't a 4AD release. The Isobel Bishop e.p. was Unrest's first for 4AD. The only full-length on the label was Perfect Teeth.

i don't separate guernica and 4ad. the Undies album wasn't really a 4AD release either..

Birthday Party "Junkyard"
Pale Saints "The Comforts Of Madness"
Pixies "Bossanova" (yeah, and?)
The Breeders "Pod"
Cocteau Twins "Garlands"

Oh man, only 5? OK hrm

Cocteau Twins - CDBOX1 (haha, ok thats cheating isnt it?)
Throwing Muses - s/t debut
Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
Wolfgang Press - Standing Up Straight
Red House Painters - s/t (Grace Catherdral Park one)

Man that so isnt enough...

I'd like to add Colin Newman's "Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish", but I'm going not to.

Haha, me too! I think I just love that title, and the album cover is cool. To be perfectly honest I havent heard it though.

um, if you can't do five, trayce, than just go here! :)

Favorite 4AD Records: OPX

I think it's fair to say I pull out Mesh & Lace with some regularity. Does that make anyone happy?

i don't separate guernica and 4ad.

Believe me, I wouldn't have left Spoonfed Hybrid off my list for any other reason.

Tocsin I don't play anymore, but did like it much better than Fetisch. Really interesting sound, and gorgeous sleeve, even as far as 4AD sleeves go.

oops, right. eno worked on it though.

Somehow I never realized this before. Wow.