Wall of Mouths

Hmm, does this live album smell of contractual obligation? I wasn’t there sadly but it sounded like the day was a bit of a let down when it should have been amazing: Ginger with injured finger not being able to play his best, quite a short set without any huge surprises. It would have been great if theyd been able to do a big sprawling set with loads of interesting tunes for the no doubt hardcore crowd they had. Not sure whether to pick this up or not, and I am a bit of a wildhearts devotee. Probably worth it to hear the version of Geordie though.

Glad someone finally mentioned Husker Du, that was becoming worrying.

Wire
Bad Brains
Magazine
PiL
Clash
and someone has to mention… THE FALL.

The Fall are just brilliant, and the only band from the first wave of UK punk to have kept the same make-and-do attitude, kept going and moving forward and changing, not looking back, which is what punk was meant to be all about. Unfortunately they are also like a disease and can take over your listening habits completely unless you fight them off a bit from time to time… Fave albums at the moment would be country on the click, bend sinister, and i’m really enjoying Slates at the moment… Pretty daunting when you first get into them as their back catalogue is massive, I’ve got about half the studio albums now and every one has gems on it. They took me a while listening to them to really get into them, but once you’ve cracked it they are a very rewarding band to follow.

Title: Wildhearts fans

Any ginger fans out there who haven’t read the new ‘Ask Ginger’ on the wildhearts website should do so… its a bit of an eye opener.

Title: Kerbdog fans

I just ordered the first album off Amazon for about £3.00 including postage!! Always been a fan of On The Turn, never heard this one. Whats it like then?

Uhh I mean ‘live’ version, not liver…

Anyone see the Babe Im on Fire video? Very very funny. I love the way the band has a real tongue in cheek sense of humour despite wha the music might suggest! Stagger Lee video’s another amusing one…
Dunno why everyone’s advising Murder Ballads, true I’ve only listened to it twice but it didnt really strike me as being particularly interesting, maybe someone could explain what I missed? I did like the PJ Harvey song and Curse of Millhaven is really funny too… the liver version on God is in The House DVD is cool.

The Best Of is a good way in. Let Love In is good, kind of shows off all his styles. I don’t like Murder Ballads, it’s mainly a bit unfocussed and shallow… though Stagger Lee is an ace song, brilliant when I saw him sing it live last year (smug!). No More Shall We Part and Abbatoir/Lyre are fantastic but softer in places, and if you just want your head caved in (no pun) then go for the early stuff. So in short… probably start from the Best of and see what you like!

Cure adverts:

Read an interview with robert smith recently, he said hed been screwed over by someone at fiction records and to get control back over the cure material before he moved to another label, he had to give the record company some concessions ie using some songs for adverts. He sounded pretty pissed off about it too, and that it was something they had never done before and never wanted to.

Watched 24hourpartypeople for 1st time the other day, got me listening to joy division again, had been meaning to listen to She’s Lost Control again since T? heve been playing it. Joy Div were a great band, I only have Substance and Closer but I find the whole ethos really appealing, all the song titles like Incubation and Digital and stuff and the artwork is great too. Keep meaning to get another album! Never really thought in great detail about their influence on T? but can see what u mean about unbeliever. New Order on the other hand never really appealed to me, are they worth trying?