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Jaylib - Champion Sound

with the windows open and the SUN SHINING

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what a bloody song

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this fucking epic album

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a teenage favourite. really enjoying it. so sue me.

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i’d just like to spend a few days in a dark room listening to this on repeat

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yess queen

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a Self Defense Family playlist very nicely made by @Severed799

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Aw thanks! I was pretty happy with how that one hangs together

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Wonder if this is the best ever track released by an 80 year old
amazing stuff

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was just listening to this having opened it in a new tab earlier, came back to thread to tell you how great it is and then see this bombshell. Absolutely banger from the old lady.

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@WizardLizard have you heard this version? much less random noise than the album version, so good.

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I met up with a friend I haven’t seen in ages yesterday, partly because she had to go look after her father with terminal cancer and she was describing her grief as an “ache”. So:

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Frankie Sparo is the absolute best, I really wish everyone would realise this.

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Cheers for the link! Oh man this is 100 times better than the album version! Just read up on the track and found a quote from Brix’s book:

Brix herself comments in The Rise, The Fall and The Rise that “Bonkers in Phoenix” is based on a song she had written while back in LA called “Shiny Things”: “I thought ‘Shiny Things’ was maybe one of the best things I’d ever written. I didn’t even understand exactly what it was about - but it was extremely personal. When I look back at it now, it was inner child speaking. It was about not using the superficiality of outside influences to boost your self-esteem; but that all your strength and good feelings come from within you, are not false… Happiness comes from the inside. It was a really special song. When I wrote it, I dug down really fucking deep.” She expected great things of it, a lovely duet with Mark to go with the “gorgeous, subtle soundscape counter-melody” played by Scanlon. But of course: “Mark obliterated the song, in my opinion. He put the most ugly, vile noises on it, and drowned out any of the delicacy, and sped up my voice so I sounded like a cartoon demon - Alvin and the Chipmunks on crack. He wiped off Craig’s guitar… Mark says it was meant to be an experimental exercise of wandering between bands playing simultaneously at a festival… but I think he just wanted to destroy something that was special to me.”

The track definitely feels more comfortable as like shoegaze-y style ballad! It would have still stuck out like a sore thumb on Cerebal but for better reasons imo…

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I always really like ones where Brix or someone else is singing properly and Mark is chatting some nonsense over it in the background

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Cracking album Gromit.

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Hmm me too usually but I think on the album version of bonkers, MES’s contributions are too high in the mix and shouldn’t take centre stage.

I reckon if they’d cut Bonkers and Pine Leaves, Cerebral would probably be more highly regarded. Both stick out like sore thumbs!