Out Come the Wolves was one of the cornerstone albums of my youth. Was spinning it last night with John and singing along to every single word. It's pop music, really. Seen this lot back in 98 and it was one of the most brutal pits ever.
Completely fixated with this song at the moment. Makes me want to get high.
I was friendly with this girl Who insisted on touching my face She told outrageous stories I believed them Till the endings were changing from endings before She's not touching me anymore
Untogether I couldn't help her I got hard You can try your life You can't save the unsavably untogether
I was shipwrecked with this frog Who was endlessly testing my faith He made out outrageous demands I ignored him Till I stepped on my boat Freedom surfed into shore He's not touching me anymore
Untogether I couldn't help him I got hard You can try your life You can't change the unchangably untogether
Now the birdnest keeps me turning and straining to see We threw outrageous parties We were golden Now the bird keeps her distance And I keep my space Sometimes there's no poison, like a dream
Untogether I couldn't help her It got hard You can dry your eyes You can't hold the unpossibly untogether
I'm currently fixated with Three Years by a 90s band called Barefoot Contessa, but they're so little-known that I can't find an MP3 or a vid of it anywhere to show you.
First time I ever heard this band I was about fifteen and mark Radcliffe played one of their singles; this was back in the golden days of Radio 1 when you'd have the Evening Session with Steve n Jo, then mark n Lard, then Peel. I only heard the song once but loved it and always remembered the name of the band. Some ten or eleven years later, when I finally got online, I managed to track down their first album, and it's been a favourite ever since.
has transpired in recent times that thet recorded a lot more than I thought so have bought a further two albums this week. This is off their second, from 1996. It's sparse as f*ck, just guitar and vocals for the most part, loads of reverb, plaintive strumming, beautiful melodies and a palpable sense of lingering loss permeating every single note. F*cking wonderful. If anyone's imnterested, hit me up with a PM and I'll send you some files, just like in the old days when I first darkened VRs door.
This is the b-side of the single. Have spent a couple of nights in the last week just spinning the 7" over and over and over again. F*cking love this, makes me feel like a horny teenager again.
Unfortunately the Beeb have scuppered them already by declaring them to be 'the future of rock'. They're clearly not - Peel played bands like this every night for years - but who gives a f*ck about all that? Really looking forward to getting the album when it comes out in July.
I adore this band and wanted to share some. Got five albums worth of theirs, but unfortunately this album is the only one that exists on YouTube, hence why I've posted this one. I do love this song, but nowhere near as much as some of their others.
I've got a bootleg of this whole set that I recorded off the radio at the time. I was fourteen. So funny that all the talk that summer was Blur/Oasis, but Pulp just stole the whole show with Common People and this absolutely wonderful headline set at Glasto.
I've got a bootleg of this whole set that I recorded off the radio at the time. I was fourteen. So funny that all the talk that summer was Blur/Oasis, but Pulp just stole the whole show with Common People and this absolutely wonderful headline set at Glasto.
Earnestly believe that Shatner did the definitive version of Common People.
This guy is from Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon. I don't really listen to those bands but this song is from a solo album of acoustic covers of AC/DC b-sides and other little known songs he done a while back, one of my favourite albums.
Wee bit obsessed with him. Going to see him again in September.
I've absolute caned that album this last six months, can't get enough of it. Got another one of his in the post. Proper distinctive voice. Really good lyrics too. Any craic live? He's playing the Scala in London on that September tour and any other month I'd've been heading down there to see him with Phil, but it's the day before Liverpool Psych Fest so can't do it. Hoping he'll crop up at the Brud at some point soon.
Ok, yes, I know, it's Anton with his Anglophile head on and it sounds like he wrote it after doing loads of smack and listening to nothing but Wish by the Cure for a month, but if you play this loud enough it's like touching the face of Jesus.
Emma:
So… Posting a new thread is Fission Mailing… so I’m putting this here.
Emma:
I know there aren’t many people looking at this anymore… but I have made the decision to stop paying for the VR hosting and to let the domain lapse.
Emma:
I think it will be going offline around the end of May
Emma:
It’s been almost 10 years since James passed away… and I feel like it’s time.
Emma:
A lot of the regulars can be found on the VR veterans group on Facebook - if you see this and you’re not in there, come join us.