#28

^ probably better than anything TPOBPAT ever wrote :man_shrugging:

#29

I don’t really have anything to add that hasn’t already been said in this thread. I got massively into their first album and loved all the singles and EPs up to and around the second album and listening to the first album now immediately takes me back to a somewhat directionless and low point in my life as an undergrad. The original band made me feel an impalpable yearning that very few contemporary bands really made me feel. Listening to Young Adult Friction will always remind me of walking home from the library late at night and seeing all the drunk people lining up outside clubs and bars.

I’ll always have great memories of seeing them live for the first time at ATP Nightmare Before Christmas. There was something so pleasing about a group of indie pop anoraks having their own success at a fairly mature age (I think Kip was approaching 30 when the first album came out).

I do think Kurt and Peggy were the ‘cool’ members of the band holding back some of Kip’s overly maudlin songwriting tendencies lol. They all seemed like really sweet people though.

: (

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#30

The original drummer Kurt continues to make really cool music. He has this project called Ice Choir which I’d describe as sophisti-pop/city pop that’s particularly inspired by Scritti Politti. I think his songwriting, composition and production skills continued to grow after Depreciation Guild (which seems to be an unpopular opinion, but Ice Choir is a super cool project and needs more recognition)

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#31

didn’t know this was the case. I thought that she was offered a job she couldn’t turn down…? (as Buzzfeed IIRC)

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#32

Also they totally ripped off The Field Mice

Always presumed ‘This Love is Fucking Right!’ is a direct answer to

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#33

Fair enough. Apologies if I’m wrong.

The band’s output after their first album would have been far better I think if she remained in the band.

#34

Nah, it’s all good! And I agree, a definite trend of progressively worse albums since she left.

Google tells me she’s in another band now

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#35

Another in the “loved the first album and surrounding EPs then gradually fell off” camp. Didn’t get much out of the last LP at all.

#36

When I saw all the headlines pop up with their name, had assumed/hoped it was for 10 year anniversary shows :frowning:

#37

saw them at dot to dot in Bristol. hurt my delicate ears

#38

Weren’t they basically a solo project at the end anyway? Kip has basically split up with himself.

#39

He’s the anti-Emma Watson

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#40

First time I saw them in Cambridge was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to, although at least 50% of that was because I was super-fucking depressed at the time (and very nearly didn’t go) and it turns out that a wall of fuzzy boy-girl indie pop was exactly what I needed to take me out of myself for a bit. Chatted with them a bit afterwards and they were all dead lovely.

As others have said, though, it basically became Kip Plus Some Musicians On Tour after Belong, so this is more end of a project than a band splitting. Will always have a soft spot for them, though.

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#41

Yup this sounds like exactly my experience with them!

#42

Kip talked about the lineup stuff in a couple of interviews, like here

Says most of the others didn’t want to tour anymore.

I’m sure there was another one from around 2014 but I can’t find it.

#43

Clearly remember around the Belong era Kip making a post on Facebook saying something like “looking for a new backing vocalist, get in contact if you’re interested!” and some of the members of the band being like “???” in the comments underneath, and then Kip making a post backtracking shortly after :grimacing:

#44

Quite liked Belong. When we saw them the TV bought the third album and Kip awkwardly insisted on signing it, even though she said she didn’t want him to.

Also we once had their first album on and my dad said “this sounds just like the Smiths” - he really hates the Smiths so we turned it off.

This concludes all of my stories about The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

#45

Actually I have a third one which is that at that same show I loaned my pal the cash to buy a t shirt which he later on sold to the TV for the same amount of money as he / I bought it for.

Highly enterprising fellow.

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#47

Kip took a photo of me but never put it on his Flickr.

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