Realistically a high 3/5, but gonna vote them up to a 5 because I can, and they were a big part of my music discovery as a teenager.
I had the first broadcast video from a Skateboarding company called Blueprint and the soundtrack was full of obscure (to me at the time) British bands.
Remember hearing Here It Comes for the first time and being transfixed. Spent ages playing Vaughan Bakerās part back over and over. The track really got its claws into me. Went out and got Lost Souls and consumed it. A couple of months later the video for There Goes The Fear came out and was shown a whole bunch on MTV2. 15yo rich-t thought this was brilliant, a clear move on in sound from the first album Iād heard and the other singles backed that up. Listened to that album a whole bunch on my paper round. Thought some cities was a great album, and still do tbf, possibly my favourite of theirs, but kingdom of rust was a clear misstep, a couple of singles aside. The comeback album last year was a good listen but itās not one Iāve come back to much since itās release.
Not ground breaking but those first 3 albums are such a big part of a specific period of my life that I canāt not score them a 5
Theyāre just OK, arenāt they? Nothing to get too excited about but nothing to offend either. With a spattering of really good songs to elevate them a little above blandness.
Cedar Room is fantastic. The Last Broadcast is a very good album. I donāt think Iāve listened to anything post Some Cities.
Oooh Iām going to vote in this one, I think! Iāll post in greater detail later, as Iām at work at the moment, but I think Iām going to go for a 4.
really dull. although i did hear a song once and think wow, this is really lovely - but iāve never been able to find it since. Every time iāve tried to find it iāve been bored by what iāve heard.
The Last Broadcast is just the most ābeing 15ā album for me, the chiming guitars on the last verse of Words and the whole of There Goes The Fear.
Not sure if I should give them a 4 or a 5, as Iāve only heard (and really liked) a few other songs of theirs; might lump it on 4 for now then think about changing it later today.
Wrote the second best song called Sea Song as well, so well done them!
I was at that Barras gig! It was the day the album came out i think so me and my mates were trying to squeeze in one full listen of the album on the way there. If i remember correctly, the last two songs were āHit The Ground Runningā & āSpace Faceāā¦great gig!
Anyone who says theyāre dull canāt have listened to them properly, much more going on than their reputation suggestions (same applies to Elbow).
The Last Broadcast was always the album we put on at the end of a long night as the sun came up, worked perfectly for that moment.
Never much rated Cities or Rust at the time but I think they really hold up now, and the last one brought much joy to a year where that was much needed.
