Is it time David Gedge got over his ex?

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Nice new album, Dave - but isn't it time to let her go and start singing about something else?

― Helen Spencer, Monday, 14 March 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but it at least got him away from Cinerama (who stank) and back to the Wedding Present (who don't).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

ole big head gedge :)

latest incarnation is still miles away from primetime weddoes... its nice they play the classics, buts its still cinerama. new drummer is better though.

― bedoah, Monday, 14 March 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but it at least got him away from Cinerama (who stank) and back to the Wedding Present (who don't).

Remind me again exactly how (in what ways) this new Wedding Present album sounds different from the last Cinerama album?

also, Torino is waaay better than Take Fountain

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Take Fountain does have some really obligatory-sounding "hey hey we're the Wedding Present" moments, and the palette's obviously a lot more rigorously guitar-based than Cinerama's. But yeah, songwriting-wise it seems this is just the point that Gedge is at now; it's not like he's modulating it between projects; this is what he's up to.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

(In fact, in the process of reviewing the new WP I started to feel like Gedge's development is mirroring Elvis Costello's in a lot of ways -- starting blunt and snappy and then mellowing into a nice "adult" songwriter who'll occasionally go back and do rock exercises.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Agreed with Rentboy about Torino - as good as any Weddoes album except Bizarro. I feel that a lot of the people who dismissed Cinerama didn't listen past Va Va Voom (which isn't so good).
Also, think of Gedge as a keen observer of the human condition when it comes to love / jealousy etc. Do you really want to hear him singing about Iraq? Drugs? He has a lovely turn of phrase...

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

gedge is god.

that said, "take fountain" is undeniably a cinerama album.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

if that's the case then it's the first Cinerama album i've liked.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

It's a different girl this time. So, the weddoes good for another 10 years?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Really? A different girl? Spill the beans!

Nice to see the John Peel dedication in the liner notes

― sallym, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

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