#91
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
Every ginger solo album has been good other than yoni which i hate the sound of.
SIlver Ginger 5 was my favorite (it counts as a solo album ok)
and I reckon a break in the weather is up there.
Posted on Mon, 28 April 2008 at 15:49
#92
Dusty (Chris Davies) wrote:
There cover of Unsung by Helmet is up on there myspace. Pretty good , suprised that CJ is on the vocals though.
Posted on Mon, 28 April 2008 at 17:03
#93
Superunknown wrote:
OK, but I don’t get the purpose. They didn’t change a thing and Helmet sound well enough themselves on their recording.
Posted on Mon, 28 April 2008 at 22:35
#94
Superunknown wrote:
and that should be: “they sound good enough”.
Posted on Mon, 28 April 2008 at 22:35
#95
Taunty Dan wrote:
Superunknown wrote:
OK, but I don’t get the purpose. They didn’t change a thing and Helmet sound well enough themselves on their recording.
absolutely, the helmet version is definitive, why they’ve chose to cover it is beyond me. The best wildhearts cover for me, indeed one of my fave wildhearts songs, is costellos “pump it up.”
Posted on Mon, 28 April 2008 at 22:46 in reply to an earlier post
#96
buffalo-boy wrote:
guess who has just been announced for Download! Whoo-hoo. thats opne good band at least! OK 2 - Motorhead as awsell
Posted on Tue, 29 April 2008 at 07:25
#97
deadsetgav wrote:
buffalo-boy wrote:
did you really expect a ginger solo album to be any good?!
It would have been nice…
Posted on Tue, 29 April 2008 at 07:40 in reply to an earlier post
#98
buffalo-boy wrote:
im a huge wildies fan but everything ive heard by ginger solo has been not good to my ears. i didn’t like clam abuse, didn’t like yoni and didn’t like him at download 2006. i saw ‘a break in the weather’ album on import and thought it must have been rare, but just couldn’t bring myself to buy it!
Posted on Tue, 29 April 2008 at 11:05
#99
deadsetgav wrote:
To be fair - the break in the weather stuff was ok (it is basically just the songs from the failed singles club).
Silverginger5 was ok as was some of the stuff off Valor… but when you hold it up against the Wildhearts stuff its sub par.
I can’t understand how it can go soooo wrong though when he is the primary (at times sole) songwriter in the WHs
Posted on Tue, 29 April 2008 at 11:39
#100
Paddy wrote:
Much to my eternal shame (seeing as i was in my late teens in the mid 90’s) ive only just got into the wildhearts, and are kicking myself for missing out 15 years ago!
Posted on Wed, 30 April 2008 at 08:18
#101
Dennis wrote:
10/ 15 years ago you could go to any gig anywhere in the world by any band and be guaranteed that the Wildhearts would be somewhere on the bill.
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride…
Posted on Wed, 30 April 2008 at 08:23
#102
Paddy wrote:
… Like a rock version of cast? (ducks behind sofa waiting for a barrage of abuse)
Posted on Wed, 30 April 2008 at 10:28
#103
Dennis wrote:
Why have you got ducks behind your sofa..?!
The Wildhearts have been added to the bill at The Bulldog Bash, so if any WoMbles are going let me know and we’ll meet up - I go the Bulldog Bash every year (hence I have seen the Wildhearts there a zillion times)
Posted on Thu, 1 May 2008 at 10:01
#104
deadsetgav wrote:
They are waiting for a ‘barrage of abuse’ - it says so in his post!!
Posted on Thu, 1 May 2008 at 11:15
#105
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
Im at the bulldog bash by the looks of it dennis, my mates band are playing and hes probably going to sort me out.
Posted on Sat, 3 May 2008 at 15:25
#106
Dennis wrote:
Sound mate, I’ll come down and have a drink with you and catch your mate’s band.
:cool:
Posted on Sun, 4 May 2008 at 11:20
#107
caffeinebomb wrote:
Carmelita is up on MySpace now. It’s better than Unsung, but not as good as Understanding Jane.
I’m loving this new covers album business
Posted on Mon, 5 May 2008 at 15:55
#108
CS (Colin S) wrote:
Agreed Bomb. I love Understanding Jane.
Posted on Mon, 5 May 2008 at 16:13
#109
Superunknown wrote:
Dennis wrote:
10/ 15 years ago you could go to any gig anywhere in the world by any band and be guaranteed that the Wildhearts would be somewhere on the bill.
Sorry, but that’s not true. I know because I kept crossing my fingers for them to play Austria one day and they never did… except for this one time when they opened for The Darkness, a show which I attended, skipping the opening act BECAUSE I HAD NO CLUE IT WAS THEM. FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Posted on Mon, 5 May 2008 at 23:57 in reply to an earlier post
#110
Superunknown wrote:
deadsetgav wrote:
Sounds like it might make up for the pile of dogshit that was ‘market harbour’
Out of all his solo albums, this one seems to be the best so far. I think it’s admireable how prolific this guy is still.
Thinking about it, I’d say Ginger’s solo albums are pushing the borders more than anything The Wildhearts have done since “Endless, Nameless”. Unfortunately, neither the solo nor the band records are very consistent anymore. And on top of that the solo albums are flawed by really bad production.
Posted on Tue, 6 May 2008 at 00:00 in reply to an earlier post
#111
Superunknown wrote:
Jesus, their cover of “Carmelita” is worse than I expected…
Did anyone read the article that scrolls by in that window, which features Andy of Therapy? I’d love to know what he wrote or said about The Wildhearts.
Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 at 01:10
#112
caffeinebomb wrote:
Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 at 06:41
#113
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
Anyone whos doubting gingers solo work needs to hear The Saga Of Me and you.
i’ll email it to you if you aint got it, you need to hear it.
Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 at 15:21
#114
Dusty (Chris Davies) wrote:
Not keen on the latest cover they’ve put up , Just not keen on Scott’s voice.
As far as Gingers solo stuff goes i like the majority , SG5 and Valor are up there with the best Wildhearts stuff. Break in the Weather is really good aswell. Yoni and Market Harbour both have there moments of greatness.
Theres a whisper going round that apart from the Wildhearts , Ginger is giving up signing on the solo stuff.
Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 at 15:35
#115
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
well apparently ginger diddnt enjoy doing the acoustic tour as much due to the fact he was sober every night.
tbh i see that happening, the amount of wildhearts releases upcoming it seems logical.
but i always see him doing more solo stuff down the line, it seems a bit like his outlet for some stuff in a way.
Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 at 21:10
#116
buffalo-boy wrote:
Dusty wrote:
Theres a whisper going round that apart from the Wildhearts , Ginger is giving up signing on the solo stuff.
eh? Ginger is giving up signing? what the hell goes on at a ginger solo gig??
Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 07:09 in reply to an earlier post
#117
Dennis wrote:
Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 09:05
#118
Dusty (Chris Davies) wrote:
@buffalo-boy , I assume its just on the albums , thats what hes said on the new york gigs hes currently doing.
I wish he’d do the old acoustic gigs , the ones with Random and Hot steve , they were the best ones. But as Grant said Ginger is sober these days so it probably does get a bit boring after awhile. But hey , the more Wildhearts thats happening the better tbh.
Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 09:58
#119
buffalo-boy wrote:
ginger underrates himself as a singer. for someone who isnt trained he sure is good at harmonies and he must be using the right technique cos as far as i know he hasn’t cancelled any shows cos of throat nodules which is very common among untrained singers.
Posted on Fri, 9 May 2008 at 07:19
#120
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
ginger actually taught himself to play guitar as well, or so the legend goes.
I guess some people just have it naturally.
Posted on Fri, 9 May 2008 at 14:02
