C / D : tiger- we are puppets

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put this on today out of curiosity, and... its quite good fun really, no?

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes it is. i just moved and got rid of 500 CD's and it survived! an artifact of the britpop era i still really like a lot. i wish they and Life W/O Buildings were still around. Definitely 2 bands I was rooting for. oh well.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah and the Shining In The Wood e.p, - i always liked that one even better....

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

i remember seeing them at the phoenix festival in 96 in one of the small tents. an audience of three : me, steve lamacq and some fat kid...

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

even still, they were good if a bit bemused by the lack of interest. i think somone popular and pisspoor(menswear possibly) was on the main stage

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i think somone popular and pisspoor(menswear possibly)

Hey now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

ok ok, you're right. but Powder would have been just too much alliteration

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Powder! holy crap i need a time machine (and a lot of money back from rebel rebel on bleecker street)

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

My last gasps of vague Melody Maker reading to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Just picked up a copy in a second hand shop in Gothenburg. I liked "Race" but on the first listen I have to admit, all the songs seemed the same in a way...

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

there's only so much variation you can achieve with one chord and a yelping farmhand...

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Second album - "Rosaria" - I enjoyed a lot more.

They split before it was released.

― Coach McGuirk (coach_mcguirk), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I really really want to type YSI pleasssse? but we're not allowed to request things like that anymore so I will settle for granting you mass hipster obscurist points and leave without once looking back...

― winter testing (winter testing), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

the good thing about tiger is it is so amateurish and dull that it makes you believe that anyone can release a record. their story about him driving around with songs in his head and getting a deal after describing them to someone or something like that was pleasant.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

i loved this album at the time, especially 'race' and 'on the rose'. i have rosaria but i don't know that i've listened to it very much. i liked that they had no bass player

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 6 August 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

What a coincidence, I downloaded 'Shinging In The Wood' the other day and it reminded me of the great night I had seeing them in The Y Club in Chelmsford about exactly 10 years ago. Might have to track down this second album.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought "We Are Puppets" was the only Tiger LP... Never heard of Rosaria.

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

it limped out with no fanfare

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Rosaria was supposed to come out on Island but Island sat on it and didn't release it and then dropped them, after which they split up. Came out a year or two later on a smaller label.

What I don't understand is that Island had already got as far as doing all the promo copies (they turned up at the dodgy promo section of the record fair here every month), which surely means they'd already spent most of the money needed to put the thing out and would've been better off just doing so?

Anyway, it's been an age since I put any Tiger on. I did dig out Friends a while ago and the a-side still sounded good (not the b-sides, mind), so I'll vote closer to C than D for the singles at least.

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Rebecca :

Yup, Island released "Friends" then promo'ed the album, sat on it, promo'ed a subsequent single / EP - "Girl From The Petrol Station" - sat on both that and the album some more, and then dropped the band. Eventually, Geoff Travis (who was managing them) decided to put it out on his own Tugboat imprint.

I really do love Rosaria - it's fatter sounding than WAP, and the songs are broadly very strong. Dan Laidler's lyrics are given a bit more prominence, and are wonderfully dotty. I wonder what he's doing now? Last I heard (a few years back) he had something going with Donald Ross-Skinner (who was drafted in to Tiger for the Rosaria sessions and subsequent live shows).

― Clumsy Colin in ACTION BIKER (coach_mcguirk), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

This is hitting the spot on a hot day outside. I always loved the boy-girl vocals and the heavy synths.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:26 (eight years ago)

This is the title track, which was a b-side. Sometimes I think about it and wonder whether anyone else ever thinks about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70V3YafAB0k

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 11 June 2017 21:20 (eight years ago)

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