Help (Bosnia War Child) Compilation from 1995

Right, it's this place so it will be:

1: Portishead
2: Radiohead
3: Massive Attackhead

So, I'm going for the Neneh Cherry track, because it deserves better than languishig with zero points.

A shame it didn't spark a revival of her career with that band.

Oh, and it's on Spotify.

There really was some quality stuff on here. I'm quite partial to some of the covers on here - Suede, Manics, even Salad and (!) Terry Hall turn out some good ones. Love the Blur instrumental. The KLF appear as One World Orchestra. Think this was the first time I heard Adnan as well.

"Humans against killing; that sounds like a junkie against dope"

Voting The Magnificent. Funny and grim.

Love 'Lucky', Portishead, Neneh and a couple of others, but voting for Stone Roses.

stick any track from in sides onto any compilation and i would probably vote for it. this might have been the first time i really took notice of orbital - shocking, if true.

yeah me too. I must've bought this with my birthday money as it came out just after my fifteenth birthday.

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this is a bloody awful album, in the main - i think i got it at the time for the portishead/orbital/massive attack/neneh cherry tracks, which all ended up being on artist albums or were terrible in the first place.

the only exception, the only track that makes this album remotely worth listening to, is the amazing sinéad o'connor cover of bobbie gentry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6L9gd8ch8

3. Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
4. Lucky - Radiohead
5. Adnan - Orbital

Love these three.

voted terry hall & salad, love that cover version. bought this when it came out and while i mostly zzz on radiohead 'lucky' is pretty choice. don't think i played it much, and the suede 'shipbuilding' is my least fave verson of this song.

Suede's cover versions can pretty much all get destroyed for me.

(Their origs are, um, OK I guess)

don't really believe that 'lucky' was recorded in a day... not my cup of tea but it's pretty obviously one of the very few non-embarrassingly-shit tracks here. voting orbital.

I dunno, if they pulled their finger out and got on with it, why not?

I daresay they'd had a bunch of rehearsing it by then...

lex OTM, but "love spreads" is (almost as) brilliant

errrrr

i mean even as a teenaged fan of the stone roses, they just did a shitty live-in-the-studio take of a track that wasn't exactly (oh snizzap) the second coming first time out

i just love the song, one of my favorites by the band, not that the version here is definitive

cuz it ain't

The Boo Radleys song on this isn't great, but it's a nice campfire acoustic gospelly thing all the same.

One of the ones I couldn't recall. Thought I might get a madeleine moment on replaying but nah, not a glimmer of recognition.

That Blur one seemed like they'd had a go at a proper song, screwed it up, then knocked off a daft instrumental with the last hour of session time they had left.

i like it though...

Oh it's, you know...

yeah

don't really believe that 'lucky' was recorded in a day... not my cup of tea but it's pretty obviously one of the very few non-embarrassingly-shit tracks here. voting orbital.

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Why not? They were playing it live for a year or two before recording it... I'm sure they had pretty much perfected every composition glitch at that point.

actually i guess i mean mixed rather than recorded, it's an impressive production no?

Love Spreads is alright iirc, and the piano break is certainly vastly superior on this version.

hey guys, i got a copy of this finally. listening to it again for the first time in at least ten years.. It's kind of rubbish!!

The Sinead one is good. The Suede one is MUCH worse than I remember, but I think I thought it was an original at the time.

Salad & Terry Hall is still nice :-) Salad weren't a terrible band. Sometimes I wonder what they're all up to.

Windows Media Player says the Blur track's by Seymour and credits the Charlatans track to The Chameleons UK.

Well, Charley Stone, the guitarist... oh no I can't bring myself to say it....

actually i guess i mean mixed rather than recorded, it's an impressive production no?

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Yeah production on the whole OKC album is great. Definitely wasn't mixed in a day so... yeah... "being recorded in 1 day" doesn't really mean anything.

they had less than a week's notice to get it in so

Windows Media Player says the Blur track's by Seymour

yeah, this is how they were credited on the sticker that went on non-first-day shipped copies (early band name donchewknow)

Salad weren't a terrible band. Sometimes I wonder what they're all up to.

Marijne is in a synthpop duo called Cowboy Racer who have played round here a couple of times, not that I saw them. Dunno about the others (open goal there)

I'm going to throw a vote to Terrorvision - I really liked that song at the time and it seems to be the only one not mentioned so far. I haven't heard this record in a long long time though, it's probably crap.

Stone Roses

ist he Charlie's track a Sly cover...?

yep. one of the better tracks on this, maybe involved the chemical bros?

Voted Suede, that was a very professional effort. Unlike the types who just rerecorded one of their own songs, I mean come on.

That was also the first time I heard 'Shipbuilding' and is the definitive version for me, partly 'cos it's pretty good but also kind of by default. I couldn't believe it when I heard the original, years later - it's still the most ridiculous singing I think I've ever heard.

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a worthy winner

nope

yeessssss

w00t

Right, it's this place so it will be:

1: Portishead
2: Radiohead
3: Massive Attackhead

Shows what I know..

i was one of only 2 votes for that sinead track tho :(

lex still OTM

Recorded 30 years ago today. Just such a great album