New album (In My Gun) was pretty good.
Does anyone care anymore?
― Don Weiner, Friday, 9 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Friday, 9 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The first album was Ok, but now they really do come across as indulgent student wankers.
― Nick Southall, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― EdwardO, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gazuga, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― , Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
getting stoned and wanking muso blues licks
The bedrock of rock and roll, that. When do Gomez sound like this, exactly? The stuff I heard sounded like Charlatans if Charlatans happened upon a stack of old No Depression back issues and started singing like the dude from Widespread Panic.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 16 January 2012 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Almost forgot about them but “win park slope” and “sound of sounds” are a +
― big C (calstars), Saturday, 24 March 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
Ten posts in fifteen years, plus this thread title = the coldest of burns.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
And yet there's a four disc reissue of the debut about to come out.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/9sJ3z81ZpUxJC/giphy.gif
― velko, Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:20 (six years ago) link
The music press pretty much got Gomez wrong from the off, seeming to collectively think they were some kind of lo-fi neo-blues band on the first LP, when really they were (initially) cut from the same cloth as the likes of the Beta Band etc.
I found their debut to be quite overrated - even at the time - but find a lot to enjoy on Liquid Skin and In Our Gun, while the Machismo EP and Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline compilation showcase more of their exploratory side.
Split the Difference and How We Operate are their last good records, and by the latter they'd pretty much got rid of the experimental elements and tried to write a bunch of folky pop songs.
Everything after that has been garbage.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Saturday, 24 March 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
4 discs o_o
MatthewK on the money.
Liquid Skin is bloody excellent holiday music.
― Ludo, Saturday, 24 March 2018 10:52 (six years ago) link
Liquid Skin has some excellent summer jams (especially Rhythm & Blues alibi). I’m a big fan of all of the Gomez albums... Seeing them in April in Brighton. The Gomez fan community is still surprisingly strong and they always put on a great and energetic live performance with everyone singing along to everything. Sometimes they just let the crowd sing the entirety of Make No Sound.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 24 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
But best album is obviously Tom Gray’s soundtrack to the children’s picture book ‘Shoe Baby’.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 24 March 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link