#69

A totally solid high end 3, pushing into a 4 because Tim was about 9 when he wrote all their best songs.

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#71

No opinion/5

#72

Maybe just once I would like to try a Henry Winterman cigar, just to say I had.

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#73

3, they’re absolutely fine. I went in big on Trailer when it was released, absolutely loved it. Kung Fu and Girl From Mars promised so much and then 1977 dropped and I was bitterly disappointed. Just didn’t engage with me and I’m not sure why.So I then just lost my way with them. A few bangers for singles (Burn Baby Burn, A Life Less Ordinary) piqued a bit of interest, but then absolute plodding, rubbish (Candy, Shining Light) quickly watered that interest down again. That reads like a 2, but, BUT, I saw them at a festival about 10 years back and it was almost 100% solid-gold bangers. Such good fun.

Summer of '95 was also good fun. Seeing them at the tiny Penny Theatre in Canterbury on one of the hottest days of the year was absolutely bonkers. The room itself has such a lower ceiling that you’d actually be in danger of cracking your head if you pogo’ed too hard. We’d also got in on a guest list so was able to escape to the back-stage courtyard. Mark genuinely looked like he was going to die when he stumbled off stage.

#74

Saw them at Leeds fest in 2002 when it was still good. Ash // Muse // Foo Fighters. 3 hours of solid singing along, bouncing up and down and being soaked with carling.

I was due to see them on their greatest hits tour in March but something happened to cancel it, I forget what.

Several great pop albums full of singalong bangers, some questionable later output but even now there are still a few tunes on every record.

Solid 3.3/5 overall but I’ve gone for 5 to counteract the surprising and undeserved Vitriol upthread.

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#75

Just listening to Kablammo! again now, to see if I was correct in remembering it as, great and I certainly was very correct in remembering it as, great.

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#76

:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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#77

Surprised that so many users seem to think Ash exist

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#79
#80

A high 4 for me with nostalgia (realistically probably around a 3.5). Saw them 6 times in a year around Free All Angels as they’re my best mate’s favourite band and we had the time and they were on outstanding form.

One of the best pop-rock bands around and still passable when turning their hand to other stuff (Meltdown and Twilight of the Innocents both have their moments, even if they’re not as good as the earlier era).

#81

Generationally I’ve always had little interest in them. That said, there are some great singles and for some reason I head the Meltdown album quite a few times around 2004 and it’s fairly decent.

I dunno, they just seem kind of likeable - but there’s not really that much going on that hasn’t been done before.

The Indie / Pop U2 it’s ok to like and they seem forever young to me somehow.

A not to considered and perhaps generous 3.

#82

Campag Velocet!

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#83

Franz Ferdinand - This Fire

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#84

A 3 for me - 1977 is the only album that resonated for me (so many good singles, and lose control is an absolute barnstormer of an opening track) and enjoyed most of their other singles too

Gateway to Charlotte Hatherley though (who i think is ace)

they did do this outstanding cover version (the last minute or so of this is air guitar central)

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#85

I love the story about how they had to ask their headmaster if they could have time off school so they could support Therapy? on a UK tour

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#86

In 2002? Those bands were in their prime back then. It was just hit after hit m8, like going 10 rounds with tyson

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#87

Also love the story where they beat Janet Jackson to number 1 and Rick rang up her record company and started singing Outkast’s ‘Miss Jackson’ down the phone to them

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#88

its a 1.

#89

Favourite B-Sides/deep cuts?

#91

Ha, infinite indie points going your way.

For me, Ash could have been my favourite band of all time. I loved everything up to Goldfinger, played Trailer to death, knew all the words to the b-sides of Kung Fu etc.

Then 1977 came out and it just wasn’t great, and Oh Yeah was a terrible single. Never ever liked them the same after that. Shame.

Still 4/5 for all the early love.