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I can here a collective *groan* already

― Van Tasma, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the first song on the "Libertine" album, but I believe our man Raggett is the final authority on this question...Ned?

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

New Amusements is actually a great song. and As Good As It Gets, dspite being a Chumbawamba-style protest against New Labour, isn't completely terrible..

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally I wouldn't go past the first album. The singles collection's pretty good tho...

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing past the first album is worth a bean.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if anyone agrees with me, but I think Drawn to the Deep End is a really really really GREAT record. All the way through.

Olympian is pretty bleh, if you ask me. I usually become incredibly bored with it halfway through and put something else on.

― Justin M (Justin M), Thursday, 12 September 2002 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

just seeing if ned was in here yet, he loves gene. ;-) who are gene?

― ron (ron), Thursday, 12 September 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Britpop lads '93-still going, used to be Sp!n, got half-rightly written off as Smiths copyists (ace first single "For The Dead" is incredibly Mozesque) but really a bit more of a Jam/mid-80s REM kinda thing. Singer Martin Rossiter was a top-rate foppish fella with quite some presence, but then tried to shake off that image by shaving off his quiff and swearing more. Still came across as a bit...desperate I reckon. Handful of excellent songs tho, and a guitarist who made a funny shape with his mouth when he played (kinda like a tennis ball with a slit cut in it).

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 12 September 2002 04:38 (twenty-three years ago)

First album and first 4 singles are all good. After that it seems to less good though not worthless.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 12 September 2002 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone seen them live in the last couple of years? they're playing in cambridge tonight, and i quite liked the first couple of albums, so i'm considering going along.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

If you do, laugh loudly at Martin, would you? I hear it bothers him. ;-)

Let it be known -- again -- that I hate Gene to the depths of my soul, that Rossiter is a fool and an ingrate, that they are the world's worst cover band and that Steve Mason or whatever the guitarist is called is an equally insufferable prick. Fuck them, fuck them forever, and fuck Rossiter in utter and total particular. Though I am amused to see how they've changed their rhetoric from 'we're one of the greatest bands ever and will change music!' to 'our fans understand us in the face of mass public indifference and an evil record industry!'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Bloody Hell. Gene have a new single out soon. Are they still going, or is this a posthumous release to promote this new DVD thing of theirs?

I tried their official site, but it appears to be dead.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I still listen to Olympian every now and again. "Truth Rest Your Head", "Haunted By You" and "Sleep Well Tonight" are all great, great tracks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess after Morrissey's album and tour they suddenly remembered why they existed to begin with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you know, I hate to have to say this, but it really would behoove you to raise your standards.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Bahahahahahaha. I'm sorry, Ned, but the solo the ushers "Sleep Well Tonight" towards its conclusion just has an indefinable something that I like.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair nuff. Now then, the reason why the new Destiny's Child single is so good is...hey, why are you looking at me like that?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.frazetta.free.fr/wallpapers/01_mini.jpg

"I am coming for your head, Raggett"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That's Martin Rossiter's self-image in 1995 as he thought he would rule all. And now?

http://ology.amnh.org/biodiversity/treeoflife/images/fungi/giant_puffball.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Their first album was really great, a classic, and even better than anything The Smiths could ever come up with.

The rest is mostly dud.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

gossip item from today's popbitch:

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Steve Mason, the guitarist from 90s Indie-rockers
Gene is now a male model, spotted recently
auditioning for a bank advert wearing only Speedos.
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― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That's funny, because he also co-hosts the weekend breakfast show on Xfm with Adam Longworth. It's the best show on the station by a long way.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

even better than anything The Smiths could ever come up with.

That's wrong.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Gene: 1994 - 2004: Today, Martin Rossiter has confirmed that Gene's upcoming live show at the London Astoria will be their last, following over 10 years of writing and performing alongside Steve Mason, Kevin Miles and Matt James. No more live shows, and no more new material.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

This is the way Gene ends
Not with a bang...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

but a simper!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Drawn to the Deep End is a good record. Starting with "New Amusements" and "Fighting Fit" and moving through a sorta cavalcade of sounds, that first side stretch is pretty terrific.

from the first album pretty much all but the first few singles have aged terribly, but "Olympian" itself is still a great song.

after the second album i lost interest. i bought Revelations, but it's boring and tedious, and overall sounds pretty weak.

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

astonished to discover how well WE COULD BE KINDS stands up.

― piscesx, Monday, 16 June 2008 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

i had a jones to listen to 'still can't find the phone' the other day.. still a good song. as is 'sick sober and sorry'

― electricsound, Monday, 16 June 2008 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

Hahaha was going to avoid repping for "Sick Sober and Sorry" for obvious posts very much in character reasons.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 16 June 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

Things I remember about Gene:
1. The singer obviously really wanted to be Morrisey.
2. The drummer wore an extremely irritating hat.

― chap, Monday, 16 June 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Get ye to SPOTIFY for (pretty much) the complete discography.

― piscesx, Saturday, 29 May 2010 04:55 (fifteen years ago)

just counted: i have four albums and 13 singles by Gene. have not listened to them in a very long time. it's funny because Gomez was next and probably have even more records by them. same feeling, have no desire to listen to them either...sad.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:10 (fifteen years ago)

doesn't mean Gene can't stand up, could actually see loving some stuff.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Martin is doing a farewell solo show. There was something of a minor hoo-ha today over him not asking t’other members along as well or the larks. Not sure why they’d even care but *shrugs* the battle such as it is, is quietly still raging on Facebook.

― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 00:15 (six years ago)

He married my friend! Not that anyone cares, but that's cool to me.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 00:42 (six years ago)

A 'Farewell to the business' show?

I love the first couple of Gene albums and their early singles, then I'm out. His solo album was ok but didn't move me.

I met Martin once, nice bloke, very understated.

Did you 'marry' your friend as in performed he ceremony or he's their husband?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 13:39 (six years ago)

He's her husband, yes.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:59 (six years ago)

He's not left handed then?

― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:22 (six years ago)

Weirdly, I thought about "Sleep Well Tonight" this week. Thought about posting a link to a friend who I hoped would sleep well tonight. Then I thought "That would be a wank thing to do".

― djh, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:30 (six years ago)

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