― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 10 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― jel, Sunday, 11 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Pete, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Omar, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― cw, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
And, yes, absolute dud. They sounded like the house band on a pre- school kids show.
― Tom, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― carsmilesteve, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― jel, Wednesday, 14 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
i bought the best-of the other day. (yes, i know. there's a best-of the frank and walters. i was astonished too.) now, i know the weight of history is against me here, but really ... they were fucking great. well: some of the time, at least. "fashion crisis" is still a genuinely transportive piece of nineties indie melancholy, and there's something about the melodies of "after all", "this is not a song" and all the early stuff in general that seems in some way hardwired to the heart of a 19-year-old that beats somewhere within me still.
i think i actually have their last two albums somewhere - the "serious" ones. it's at times like this i rather wish i'd taken more time filing my CDs.
anyway. classic, and if you disagree you can fuck off (in a twee, turtleneck-wearing, bowl-cutted way). did i read somewhere that there was a new album planned?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago)
the "serious" albums i have are - i think - "glass" and "beauty becomes more than life", although i'm doing this from memory/what i saw when i was searching for this thread. what's the other one called?
there's a song on this best-of called "underground", which i remember from one of those albums. right now i'm listening to "time we said goodnight", which is a nigh-on perfect combination of bombast and melodic sensibility. they should go back in time and choose a better name; they'd have been huge. and i should go back into the music cupboard and find those CDs.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago)
'underground' is on "glass" which is my least favorite.
this board has lots of info on what they are doing now.
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.parrstreet.co.uk/frank95.jpg
was a lovely album cover.
― mzui (mzui), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago)
i know i've got a promo of the "colours" single somewhere, and there's a slim chance i've got "grand parade" too ... the reason it's not sticking in my mind will be that it'll be a promo, hence in some crappy slip-sleeve that i never see in the cupboard of doom.
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― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago)
― cillin o flynn (daftIndie), Sunday, 10 September 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago)
― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 10 September 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago)
― cillin o flynn (daftIndie), Sunday, 10 September 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago)
― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago)
― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 09:07 (eighteen years ago)
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago)
― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago)
"A Renewed Interest In Happiness" is all the upbeat poppy goodness I need in this world right now. It's a simple but clear message: we may be an indie-schmindie band but we believe in you, you deserve more, hold on and keep fighting! Yes!!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 21 December 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago)
Still going, I saw them live at the weekend. I doubt they'd win any converts but the new stuff is fine, the old stuff sounds as good as ever. They wore identical red shirts and black ties, a choice eventually explained by a balls out cover of The Model - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1156334781045555
― lurch of england (ledge), Monday, 25 September 2023 09:13 (one year ago)
I was kind of ashamed of my teenage love for them for a long time but fuck it I will never not find the bellowing desperate conviction of 'Happy Busman' moving and melancholy.
― woof, Monday, 25 September 2023 09:39 (one year ago)