Very weird, Class Clown was definitely on streaming when it came out, English Little League wasnât for some reason. They eventually added ELL but took down Class Clown. No idea why.
Luckily I have the CD (though I donât have it to hand until later in the week)
Would be a shame as itâs a good one!
yeah but legit think weâll have to - I was gonna make a YT playlist but 6 tracks are missing, nearly a third of the album
very odd all round
powering through the bizarre availability issues weâll skip to the third part of The Great Comeback of 2012 with THE BEARS FOR LUNCH
PS if anyone finds a good solution for Class Clown soon then weâll go back to it next week
Iâve got the Class Clown mps on my laptop so I might be able to upload a cheeky zip file for anyone who wants to hear it?
wonder if thereâs somewhere it can be uploaded and still be playable in browser ⊠also might look around reddit, surprised no one else has found an answer to this
Wonder if I can upload the missing tracks to youtube. Havenât done that in a while
The rockier numbers are mostly quite droney, or like a version of drone done by the band in history least temperamentally suited to playing droney rock. I keep coming back to thinking of the contrast between say Spiderfighter and the chiming held chords or notes in songs like King and Caroline or My Kind of Soldier. I dunno, I just get a buzz hearing them working their magic over what often sound like warm up jams
Feels like a genuinely good song to me, except for the bits where he sings the title and I think completely ruins it
Ah, I just assumed weâd at least be able to stream it from Bandcamp. Would be shame to miss it, though, as itâs probably the best of the reunion records!
IcSmic is gonna fix it all for us (for next week)
On it now, just having to use my parentsâ slow country broadband
Nooooo, Class Clown is mostly very good.
Happy to wait a week if necessary, but it needs to be covered IMO.
Should be able to get the missing tracks on youtube by this evening
Brief hot take on both albums:
Class Clown cleans things up considerably from Factory, cleaner production but not as glossy as the early 00s albums, more of a mid-fi Under The Bushes sound. A more even and consistent listen than Factory - though imo the highs arenât quite as high.
Bears For Lunch continues in the same vein as Class Clown but with better songs (aside from one stinker). For me itâs easily their best album from either reunion period.
Spill the beans!
Tree Fly Jet is awful and goes on for far longer than it should!
I was never sure about âHangover Childâ being one of the singles, itâs a good moody song but not really an obvious choice for a preview track IMO. âThe Challenge Is Much Moreâ wouldâve been a much better pick, I reckon.
The other two singles are two of the absolute best from this era, both of them gems: âWhite Flagâ is beautifully melancholic and features a gorgeous wandering bassline which winds its way through the whole song, whereas âEverywhere Is Miles from Everywhereâ is a triumphant, slightly proggy jangler. Both are genuinely wonderful.
Incidentally, âEverywhere Is Miles from Everywhereâ was nearly my clever-clogs pick for the âSong Title Which Starts & Ends With The Same Letterâ round in DiS ML13.