Wall of Mouths

gimmie wrote:

EDZ your double my age plus 6 :(

welcome by the way

Cheers for the welcome.

Ouch, that makes me sound positively ancient :eek: I’m reliably (and often) informed that I don’t act old ;) Just relieved I ain’t the oldest…;)

More to the point though, the apparent age range speaks volumes about the appeal of this band, though, dunnit?

varshamail@tiscali.c wrote:

I’ve stopped buying SLF releases but like T? they remain brilliant live.Saw them for the seventh time in March when they finally came to Bournemouth & they were truly amazing.I will never tire of Jake’s between song mumblings & banter!

Damn right! Live, SLF still cut it BEEG time. As for Inflammable Material, I admit I like its rough and readiness, but my faves are the Peel Sessions CD (I think there’s two BBC sessions, actually) and the live one “Hanx”, which certainly does Alternative Ulster justice, and has a cracking version of Johnny Was.

T? Live, well they just get better. It amazes me the sound they manage to produce as a three piece, notably no less “big” than when they had two guitars.

Yay live music :)

Title: Age … just a number

I’m 36, and I bought “Pleasure Death” on a whim (well, actually, it had quite a lot to do with the cover ;)) as part of a record buying spree for my 22nd birthday. Definitely one of my better whim buys, and I’ve been a beeg beeg fan ever since, that’s for sure :D

I still have the LP, but not quite in its original format - an ex-girlfriend melted it under the grill, by way of a … um … leaving present. Such heathen behaviour :rolleyes: We clearly weren’t suited ;) Anyway, the outside edges all curled up and it now makes a rather natty, if over-large ashtray. I also appreciate the dark irony of having an ashtray called “Pleasure Death” …

buffalo-boy wrote:

Scary… SLF lost it years ago! Anyone heard Get A Life? Poor album!

Indeed, my point entirely. “Walk through Darkness” sounds like vintage SLF, the like of which we haven’t heard in a while. Thought “Flags and Emblems” (and “Get a Life”) were so-so, but admittedly the most recent lot of SLF albums have been seriously lacking…

Graeme55? wrote:

i like shameless, and ocfa

Always thought Shamless was about the weakest of all T? releases, but then all their albums have good things going for them, to a greater or lesser extent, so that’s not being too harsh… Personally I love OCFA … because it’s an album full of good songs - there’s only a couple that head towards “filler” territory - and it’s an album that benefits from listening to as a whole; from “Sprung” which gives you everything you want in an opening - full - track (fills you with adrelalin, sends fingers up yer spine, puts a big melon-slice grin on yer gob … starts proceedings with a BANG) through to Walk Through Darkness with it’s unexpected ending (Jake Burns would surely have KILLED to write a track like this … sounds more like SLF than they do themselves).

But above all I like it ‘cos it’s resonant throughout of all T? eras - there’s the BIG sound of more recent releases (and “Troublegum”), AND touches of the sparseness of earlier releases (I love the middle parts of Lose It All) and the more brutal stuff on Suicide Pact (I love that album). The influences are clear too, too many to mention but Killing Joke and Joy Division come to mind … but above all T? manage to incorporate so many sounds and yet still sound utterly distinctive, which is what I love about this band the best!!!

mfgeorge wrote:

suing god
straight life
sister

Yay, someone else wants “Sister”. My first posting on this board, and its taken me a couple of days to write it … brilliant idea, this gig thang, but AHHHHH was it hard to choose …

Innocent X
Moment of Clarity
Sister

Plumped for the less obvious (sort of) / unreleased - can’t see the point in anything from Troublegum, much as I love it. Not only to hear older toons, but also hear them done NOW. Not re-worked, necessarily (I like the early stuff as it is) just as a fresh version! Nearly picks included “Limbo”, “Loser Cop” and “Die Like a Motherfucker”. And where’s “Punishment Kiss”? Also “Dancin with Manson” but eliminated that cos it’s on the audio section of the site! Heh, had difficulty in eliminating pretty much EVERY song at one pont, though.

Kind of hoped that “Isolation” would be a choice, always found that’s the kind of encore song that sends fingers walking up yer spine and leaves you with a stupid melon-slice grin on yer gob. Notice it hasn’t been mentioned, yet, however … not a popular choice?

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