the lemonheads' 'down about it' is the closest a guitar band has gotten to pop perfection in the past 25 years or so...

hey i heard this really funky disco song by 10cc at the club last night anyone know what it was?

I thought this was going to be another Geir thread.

No, that would be "Four Seasons In One Day" by Crowded House.

Thanks for straightening that out.

hey does anyone know the name of that 10cc song?

Pure brilliance. No shit.

I can't think of any song to negate that with, so...OK! Yeah. Damn good song.

But is it better than the companion rendition by Smudge, band of the co-writer? And what ever happened to Smudge?

sweet jesus! dando sure rode that smudge train for all it was worth. ive been playing smudge nonstop this week. last i heard they were playing some 10th anniversary of Manilow shows (in 2004)

Smudge are playing the Hoey next Saturday, come down all of ILX!

they went on hiatus in 1999 cos Alison went travelling for a few years, then played once a year at Christmas when she got back in 2002. a little bout of shows late last year (five, plus the Chrissie one) were meant to be tying in with a 10th anniversary edition of Manilow with bonus disc, but the new art for the historically-expanded booklet wasn't done in time (still isn't!). there's going to be a best-of sometime after the Manilow reissue finally does come out.

when they reformed, the plan was to record new jam-based material as they were playing together better than ever, but nothing's come of it.

since the semi-split, Adam focussed on managing Gerl!ng and running a booking agency, and Tom just put more energy into other bands: Sneeze were going before Smudge, but became more of a 'proper' band, playing lots of shows, touring O/S and making more records (2001's Lost The Spirit To Rock & Roll is the best album Tom's ever done); the GiveGoods' first album had Evan on bass and BVs (and drums a bit) and the demos for their next are fantastic; plus he's done a solo 7", played guitar for another band on one record, gotten married and started a duo with his wife etc.