Hello! That came around quickly. Yes I can do something for next week.
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Lovely - I usually send out a reminder on Fridays, looking forward to your selection!
Yeah, all good here. Got something lined up
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+1 for hoping @tilty is fine.
With a week off maybe I can get around to posting some thoughts on all the albums I’ve listened to and not commented on yet without disrupting somebody else’s week.
That Lard EP you posted is amazing. I’d say the first album is definitely up there with anything we’ve had but the EP is better and anyway they’re American.
Plenty of bands from that time who had a couple of great singles and either never made it to an album or ran out of good material. The first two Bleach EPs were amazing and then their album was a big disappointment.
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Ace, also looking forward to that one!
I almost posted Bethesda by Bleach! Yes, they were really good too.
Oops, didn’t realise LARD was any more than a one-off - so if anyone wants to choose an album by them then go for it!
There’s the Power of Lard ep and The Last Temptation of Reid album. It’s great,
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Yeah. Last Temptation of Reid is great. Quite jealous of someone getting to hear it fresh.
Pure Chewing Satisfaction isn’t as good.
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I LOVE Sweet Jesus. (Or I used to, anyway. Must see if I still do.)
How about Kinky Machine, in there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDX728jOfU
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Because this thread is mostly UK based artists, and because I found their album a little disappointing compared to this banger, I hope I’m ok to post one of the greatest singles of the eighties
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‘The Mercy Seat’ is definitely the standout track but the self titled is still a great album although the follow up ‘Joy 1967-1990’ is a masterpiece.
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Have to agree with you - ‘Special One’ is the only other UVS tune that I really like (and that’s probably cos Kim Deal’s on it)
This is a great tune. Always reminds me of when I used to car share as a youngster and my slightly older pal would sometimes play indie tunes from the 80s which I never heard at the time. This was one. Song to the Siren was another!
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Did anyone like this one? It just qualifies for the club range (think it was out in November 1994) and its something Steve Lamacq played maybe once or twice on the Evening Session. I had a tape ready to record a Supergrass session and ended up recording this too cos it was so good. But I’ve never met anyone who’s ever heard of it since. I love it!
Great pick with Bleach but I rate the album…EPs are their pinnacle though…agreed
Thanks for this…love that Cherry Forever track - a beautiful shoegazey mess – see they were on Wilde Club records (Catherine Wheel’s first label) - just bought the EP on the strength of this
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This seems a good candidate…Christian Savill in his pre-Slowdive days…was delighted to see Slowdive play this live in Bath a few years back (fits right into their Just for a Day/early EP ouevre) and that’s how i discovered it …
The C86-92 comp series on Cherry Red is a good source for unearthing tracks that fall into this category. This is one I liked a lot from C90…quite gloomy! Like the above its also from the Sarah Records stable. And the above is also on the same comp.
Finally, I find it hard to believe Ride didn’t hear this in their formative years (certainly the vocal delivery reminds of the early EPs) - which is curiously on a CD86 comp as well as Cherry Red’s C87.
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Hello! It’s my turn today.
The Field Mice - For Keeps
(This should be one of those fancy album links, although it isn’t embedding for me it does seem to work)
I absolutely love the Field Mice. The way they blended jangle and ambient electronics basically became a template for loads of bands by the late 1990s (see: lots of stuff on Darla Records), and the songs are melancholic without ever really over doing it.
I imagine most people here have some awareness of them so I won’t overdo it with the text. This is the their third and final album, originally released in 1990 on Sarah. They would split up the following year after one final single and while touring this album, as Bobby Wratton had just had enough I guess.
Both Wratton and Michael Hiscock would go on to form other projects (and indeed both released new albums last year) and generally they continued to follow this sonic template, but I don’t think either really bettered their Field Mice work. I think it’s just one of those relationships where they brought out the best in each other.
To be honest I actually wanted to pick their second album - the songs are all stretched out and weirder - but it isn’t on streaming for no reason I can gather. The band’s catalogue is not really being looked after, which is a shame and odd given how influential and generally well thought of they are. Everything was reissued across a series of 2CD sets in the early 2000s but even those are really expensive on the secondary market. Digital services have some but not all of their material - most of the singles are missing. A shame.
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Thanks for this! It’ll be interesting to hear more later Field Mice as I’ve a lot of love for the early singles like ‘Emma’s House’, the two 'Autumn Store’s and especially ‘Sensitive’ which I just love.
I have ‘Missing the Moon’ among my MP3s and I’ve always been interested in how they went a bit “dance music” on it so it’ll be great to hear the album that immediately followed it.
I’m going to finally get hold of ‘Snowball’ and ‘Skywriting’ while I’m at it and have a nice week of the Field Mice.
Great to get representation from Sarah Records in our club 
(As far as availability of the music, it is a real pain. If any of you are still happy with MP3s - all I use! - then if the 4 letters “slsk” ever meant anything to you I can tell you it still lives and is the best place to find stuff from the indie Marie Celeste - of course, if it’s on Bandcamp or whatever then I definitely DO NOT endorse its use)
Here’s another way to listen too if you need
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Good choice, I’ll look forward to revisiting this. I was at the final tour, I’m afraid that I remember them being pretty underwhelming.
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Oh man, I haven’t listened to this record in aeons
Listening again now & a flood of memories coming back. Music really is a time machine
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