Cardiacs C/D

more info please, i remember hearing a band called the cardiacs a long time ago, kinda cabaret punk weirdness.. sounded very good at the time..

That would be it.

Sort of punky energy and vocals, but lots of fiendish time signatures and fairground organ chords.

I never saw them, but a fan tells me they play from sheet music and the bandleader beats them up on stage if they make mistakes.

Search : "Songs For Ships and Irons", "A Man and a House and the Whole World Window"

I wouldn't destroy anything.

Ditch Morpheus then, Audiogalaxy.com lists 265 tracks for the artist "Cardiacs".

I saw them a couple fo times. They were much better the first time, with a fantastic array of pots, pans and other cobbled together percussion instruments. I have A Man And A House and still listen occasionally. If you like them check out bonkers Czech band Uz Jsme Doma.

Siegbrand : I wish I could. Clearly this is the path to musical wisdom. But for some reason it won't work on my machine.

Not sure how to re-post the link, but this question was asked a while ago (look under the CLASSIC/DUD category).

That said, I find the Cardiacs (oh, excuse me, simply Cardiacs...no "the"...I hate it when bands do that) are alternately great and infuriating. The last album of theirs I wholeheartedly endorse is HEAVEN BORN AND EVER BRIGHT, which features their most cohesive moments where tunesmithery and arguably masturbatory time-signature tomfoolery merge seamlessly. Since then (SING TO GOD I & II, GUNS), it seems the bizarre, helium-voiced, attention-deficit-disordered indiviudals in the band have wrestled control away from the sensible ones, and wacky sonic hijinx is the order of the day. By their own admission (a review on the band's website), GUNS was considered "magnificently intollerable."

There are downloads here of some Cardiacs tracks - also mp3.com/cardiacs

Guns is wonderful... Most of Cardiacs all comes from the brain of Tim Smith, from the pure pop stuff to the really strange bits. If you like 'Heaven Born' I would expect you'd like 'Signs'.

The thing about Cardiacs (no "the") is that the harder the song/album is to initially get into, the more you like it later. I loved Heaven Born when it came out, but now I hardly listen to it. But Guns I listen to all the time, even though I really had trouble with it at first. Oh yes - live, they are wonderful. Absolutely frenetic. They don't use sheet music, although Tim can be a little rough on his brother, bass player Jim.

Cardiacs?

Genius of course.

Ah yes, Jim Smith, not only a long suffering bassist, but the master contestant in the tea time TV quiz shows.

There are a couple of home videos of their 1999 London LA2 gig, plus a collection of oddities, here stuff (hope its working)