I just bought a used copy of that Cornershop album and have been enjoying. It's great driving music.
Isn't it, though? I tend to skip around on that disc, though...I love "Brimful of Asha", "Good Shit", "We're In Yr Corner" and "Sleep On The Left Side", but there's a lot of hit-and-miss experimental stuff on there which I can't always get through...
I've totally lost track of this group. I think they followed that album up, but I don't remember even seeing it! I know the lead guy, Tinder Singh (I think that's his name) guests on a lot of people's stuff, and it's possible he may even be in a new group of some sort. Too many artists, too little money...
No kidding about that last part! I end up buying a lot less music than I want to. Maybe someday when I'm rich.....
I also tend to skip songs on Cornershop, but it changes based on my mood. I've never really liked "Norwegian Wood," but sometimes the experimentation works. I almost bought Nonsuch, too, but that and Cornershop and a lot of others are rebuyings of albums I used to have and no longer do, and I'm unnecessarily hesitant about those. I do need some more XTC soon, though, because it nags at me every time I go to a music store.
But I may infringe on your music-blogging territory soon, because I really need to review a spectacular cd of Turkish surf and psychedelic music from the 60s that I bought for full price becuase it was irresistible.
Of course, you know that "Norweigan Wood"=Beatles song=Dave like. So I simply can't process that you don't like that song. But it's OK. It takes all kinds...
You definitely should get some XTC, sooner rather than later. Nonsvch was definitely a grower for me. When I first got it, "Peter Pumpkinhead" was the only song that I really liked, but one or two others wormed their way into my headspace not long after ("Dear Madam Barnum", "Rook"), and now I listen to it quite often. I still don't think it's as good as Skylarking, but then again I think Skylarking is one of the best albums anybody's done.
Psychedelic Turkish surf music! Wow! Sounds cool...
You think that because Skylarking actually is one of the best albums anyone's ever done!
I'm not bashing the Beatles at all, but the Cornershop version doesn't always work for me. Luckily it's tucked away at the end of the album, so I usually don't bother skipping it, and it's growing on me.
Cornershop had an album out a year or two ago called Handcream For A Generation that wasn't too bad, but too often they bring out albums with two or three great tunes and too many mediocre ones. They'd be an ideal band for a compilation, though, just so people can hear the classic 6 a.m. Jullander Shere, which sounds like the Velvet Underground singing in Urdu.
Have to say I'm partial to that Daisies of the Galaxy as well.
I remember Handcream now. Guess I kept thinking I would run across it in a used CD bin somewhere...but I forgot all about it!
Yeah, I think Daisies is an amazing record. Not since the heyday of my man Nilsson have we had the vulgar, the profane and the winsome and beautiful co-existing so peacefully on the same space. Plus, there's a lot of funkiness on that record, too, in that Beck-ish tradition. E seems to be more infatuated with dissonance and harsh guitar than melody these days, and while he's still making interesting music I kinda wish he'd indulge his softer side again. Of course, I haven't heard all of Shootenanny yet, so he may have done this without me being aware...
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