Del Amitri: Classic or dud?

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Seriously, I know someone who loves Del Amitri more than any other band. I need arguments demonstrating how utterly sick she is. OR I need arguments demonstrating how wrong I am as I say dud of all duds.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

No comment.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 5 October 2002 06:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Why? Do you know them?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 5 October 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone for Currie? *hint*

― kinski (kinski), Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah! Are you saying that Momus and the guy with the sideburns are brothers? That is terrific.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Cousins.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Twisted is classic just for Driving with the Breaks on...the rest of their discography is innocuous.

― bris bris, Saturday, 5 October 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I have ever seen a so-so in despair.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 October 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

all the curries are one big happy family

http://edwina.currie.co.uk/Images/chasing_full.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

*Why* do radio stations still consider "Nothing Ever Happens" worthy of any airplay at all?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

As I once said in another thread, the first Del Amitri record was utterly great and the rest are utterly shit.

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Classic!

― Favor, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd be the last to know...

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

'Don't Come Home Too Soon' is the worst World Cup record ever, even worse than 'How Does It Feel (To Be On Top Of The World)' which was saved only by the fact it bore a slight resemblance to 'How Bizarre'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: "Always The Last To Know"

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bit strange!!!! There's a lot of duds by tha DelBoys, but one or two classics, (eg "Jimmy Blue", "Always The Last To Know") which makes them a smnall bit classic and a fair bit dud....

Hence, Del Amitri = Clud!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

"Dead" and "cab" don't rhyme.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 July 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'll say it again: "dead" and "cab" don't rhyme.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

i heard a dels song in the supermarket the other day... it WASN'T "roll to me"

― dl, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

I remember them but I can't recall a single song by them.

― Oh Lord, My God, is there no help for the widow's son? / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Dom was listening to Del Amitri recently. "Nothing Ever Happens", wasn't it? (I liked that song, once)

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

"Driving with the Brakes on", "Just like a man" and "Always the last to know" are classics, I think, the rest is just background music

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

First gig I ever saw (other than the local kids) was Del Amitri - whenever "Hammering Heart" came out (1984?). Although they are desperately untrendy they've got some good ones. "Some Other Suckers Parade" for example.

― everything, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Actually I will comment, despite being the Justin's cousin. I really like their first single and first album. "Sense Sickness", for instance, is a really haunting song. After that they had a tendency to sound like Bryan Adams crossed with Sting.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

At the beginning they were a kind of post-postcard jerky pop band with a reputation for rapid, wordy lyrics. It seemed like they went away for years, played next to no gigs and generally disappeared. I think one of the members died or something. Three or four years go by and sudennly they're back, looking about 10 years older with stubble, mullets and big guitars. Very Glasgow. See also The Boy Hairdressers similar transformation into Teenage Fanclub and the "Swirling Round The Garden" twee-as-fuck-with-a-sissy-girl-on-tamborine Soup Dragons turning into the leather trousered "Crotch Deep Thrash" Soup Dragons. Nobody bought that one though.

― everything, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I vote classic.

― bbsan (bbsan), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i vote dud. so there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Just heard the first album for the first time, strangely. Very good and very difficult to equate with later efforts.

Although I still love 'Nothing Ever Happens'.

So maybe, classic!

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I vote driving ban.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'll stick up for "Don't Come Home Too Soon" as well as the first album and various bits and pieces thereafter. They weren't all bad, though they veer towards the irredeemably mediocre far too often.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

First album still great, rest still pretty much shit.

― J (Jay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

And dare I say Momus OTM?

― J (Jay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

The first self-titled album and the second, Waking Hours, are total literate pop classics. The next one was almost as good but Twisted and Some Other Suckers parade were very mixed bags. It was clear that they or their label were going for a certain mainstream sound because the b-sides to singles from those albums were OUTSTANDING, far far better than anything on those albums. Their last album, Can You Do Me Good, is one of those so-wrong-it's-right albums, much like Lloyd Cole's Bad Vibes, where they try to add things like breakbeats to their sound that just shouldn't work but does.

Definitely one of the best b-side bands ever, though.

― Mr. Odd, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I know nothing about these guys at all except that I knew a guy years ago who really disliked the fact that "Roll to Me"'s chorus was stupid. He argued, convincingly, that the lyric should have been his mishearing: The right time, the wrong me. "His is nonsense - mine is poetry!" I finally heard the damn thing in the supermarket or someplace a while ago and damned if it hasn't been stuck in my head ever since. Nonsense or not, they get a great, weird harmony on the hook that you can't re-create yourself so you have to listen to it again. It's one of those songs where the chorus comes around a little too frequently, though, so I think I'm going to burn out on it soon. Do they have other stuff this catchy though?

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 02:54 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

I went into a pub on Saturday and the guy from Del Amitri was dancing to Del Amitri songs playing on the jukebox.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:58 (ten years ago)

It's good that he still likes his own work. I saw them years ago and he said, "Our big hit {Roll To Me} bought us all cars and houses but we really don't like it."

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:56 (ten years ago)

Classic, unironically.

― michaellambert, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:03 (ten years ago)

Yeah, I concur. The first couple of Justin Currie solo albums are great as well, the most recent one is missing something.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:37 (ten years ago)

Funnily enough I only just got the first one the other weekend and it was a lot better than I expected. I probably prefer the third to the second, though.

If you've not heard them already there are a couple of unreleased post-'Can You Do Me Good?' Recordings up on their soundcloud. Enjoying both.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 08:15 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

feels super old to conclude that _waking hours_ is actually pop-formalist classic, tho i’d not bothered to listen for 25+ years.

― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 04:53 (seven years ago)

I lurve that album, it's full of nostalgia, of course, but the tunes are really sticky.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:04 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

Reformed, with new album "Fatal Mistakes" out today! First listen reveals the same old lyrical charms and a sound that suits them well.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 28 May 2021 23:35 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Still classic. Have been listening to their cover of “Bye Bye Pride” a lot lately.

― hamicle, Saturday, 10 December 2022 23:37 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

"Just Before You Leave' from 2002 could almost be recent Arctic Monkeys.

― nashwan, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 12:30 (two years ago)

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