Dancing About Architecture 11.25.08
Posted by Ian Wright on 11.25.2008
The Kinks boxset, a cover collection, Richie Edwards, Noise Pop, an awful tour and more.
The bit at the start
"Wow, it's late, nearly 2AM here. No time for the small talk."
That's what I opened the column with last week. This week it's after 2 and the sentiment remains.
Beg, borrow, buy, steal or download this album.
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ‘08
Boy can that boy write a tune. And fast.
You news, you lose
Girl I want to be with you all of the time.
Of all the giants of British music that emerged from the 60's it's the Kinks that I hold the most affection for. I never liked the Stones and their cod delta blues bullshit save for the odd song and as for the Beatles, the only album of theirs that I've ever loved is Revolver.
But the Kinks wrote "Waterloo Sunset", and that's enough to win my heart.
And now they're putting out a boxset, their first in fact. Picture Book, The Kinks is out on December 8th and collects 130 songs in a chronological fashion over 6 CD's and features live tracks, rarities and demos (some dating from back when they were known as The Ravens) as well as all the hits. The set comes with a 60 page booklet featuring a biography, a Kinks timeline, and previously unseen photos.
Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
01 Brian Matthew Introduces the Kinks
02 You Really Got Me
03 I'm a Hog for You Baby
04 I Believed You
05 Long Tall Sally
06 I Don't Need You Anymore
07 Stop Your Sobbing
08 I Gotta Move
09 Don't Ever Let Me Go
10 All Day and All of the Night
11 Tired of Waiting for You
12 Come on Now (outtake with two false starts)
13 There Is a New World Opening for Me (Kassner publishing demo)
14 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
15 Who'll Be the Next in Line
16 Time Will Tell
17 Set Me Free
18 I Need You
19 See My Friend
20 Wait Till the Summer Comes Along
21 I Go to Sleep
22 A Little Bit of Sunlight (Kassner publishing demo)
23 This I Know (demo)
24 A Well Respected Man
25 This Strange Effect (With Brian Matthew speaking over intro)
26 Milk Cow Blues
27 Ring the Bells
28 I'm on an Island
29 Till the End of the Day
30 Where Have All the Good Times Gone
31 All Night Stand (Demo)
32 And I Will Love You
33 Sittin' on My Sofa
Disc 2:
01 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (alternate stereo take)
02 She's Got Everything
03 Mr. Reporter (Ray vocal)
04 Sunny Afternoon
05 I'm Not Like Everybody Else
06 This Is Where I Belong
07 Rosie Won't You Please Come Home
08 Too Much on My Mind
09 Session Man
10 End of the Season
11 Dead End Street (first version)
12 Village Green
13 Two Sisters
14 David Watts
15 Mr. Pleasant
16 Waterloo Sunset (mono mix)
17 Death of a Clown
18 Lavender Hill
19 Good Luck Charm
20 Autumn Almanac
21 Susannah's Still Alive
22 Animal Farm
23 Rosemary Rose
24 Berkeley Mews
25 Lincoln County
26 Picture Book
27 Days
28 Misty Water
Disc 3:
01 Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Top Gear session with Brian Matthew intro and outro)
02 The Village Green Preservation Society
03 Big Sky
04 King Kong
05 Drivin'
06 Some Mother's Son
07 Victoria
08 Shangri-La
09 Arthur
10 Got to Be Free
11 Lola (mono single version)
12 Get Back in the Line
13 The Moneygoround
14 Strangers
15 Apeman
16 God's Children
17 The Way Love Used to Be
18 Moments
19 Muswell Hillbilly
20 Oklahoma USA
21 Twentieth Century Man
22 Here Come the People in Grey
Disc 4:
01 Skin and Bone
02 Alcohol Live
03 Celluloid Heroes
04 Sitting in My Hotel
05 Supersonic Rocket Ship
06 You Don't Know My Name
07 One of the Survivors
08 Sitting in the Midday Sun
09 Sweet Lady Genevieve
10 Daylight
11 Mirror of Love
12 Artificial Man
13 Preservation (U.S. single)
14 Slum Kids (live)
15 Holiday Romance
16 Face in the Crowd
17 No More Looking Back
18 Sleepwalker
19 The Poseur
Disc 5:
01 Sleepless Night
02 Father Christmas
03 Misfits
04 A Rock 'N Roll Fantasy
05 Little Bit of Emotion
06 Attitude
07 Hidden Quality
08 A Gallon of Gas
09 Catch Me Now I'm Falling
10 Nuclear Love (demo)
11 Duke (demo)
12 Maybe I Love You (demo)
13 Stolen Away Your Heart (demo)
14 Low Budget (live)
15 Better Things
16 Destroyer
17 Yo-Yo
18 Art Lover
19 Long Distance
Disc 6:
01 Heart of Gold
02 Come Dancing (demo remix)
03 State of Confusion
04 Do It Again
05 Living on a Thin Line
06 Summer's Gone
07 How Are You?
08 The Road (live)
09 The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached
10 Down All the Days (To 1992)
11 The Informer
12 Phobia
13 Only a Dream
14 Drift Away
15 Scattered
16 Do You Remember Walter? (live)
17 To the Bone (demo)
Cover me.
Hold on to your hats Engine Room Recordings are set to release the second volume in their Guilt By Association covers comp. The idea is that acts pick a song that's a guilty pleasure of theirs. Volume 2 features the likes of My Brightest Diamond and Frightened Rabbit amongst others.
The collection is out on February 17th physically but it's available now via iTunes (as ever I recommend against buying from iTunes, or any other online store) but if you did you'd get as a bonus a cover of "Lady In Red" which might just be the worst song in the history of everything.
Tracklisting:
01 My Brightest Diamond: "Tainted Love" [Gloria Jones/Soft Cell]
02 The Bloodsugars: "Self-Control" [Laura Branigan]
03 Robbers on High Street: "Cool It Now" [New Edition]
04 Frightened Rabbit: "Set You Free" [N-Trance]
05 Matt Pond PA: "I'm Not Okay" [My Chemical Romance]
06 Takka Takka: "In the Air Tonight" [Phil Collins]
07 Kaki King: "I Think She Knows" [Justin Timberlake]
08 Francis and the Lights: "Can't Tell Me Nothing" [Kanye West]
09 Lowry: "Africa" [Toto]
10 The Forms: "We Didn't Start the Fire" [Billy Joel]
11 Rafter: "If You Leave" [OMD]
12 Cassettes Won't Listen: "Need You Tonight" [INXS]
13 Jukebox the Ghost: "It's a Beautiful Life" [Ace of Base]
14 Max Vernon: "I Kissed a Girl" [Katy Perry]
15 The Bloodsugars: "Lady in Red" [Chris de Burgh] *
* iTunes bonus track
For the best.
One of the most convoluted and saddest saga's in British music in the past 2 decades concluded last week when Richie Edwards, guitarist and lyricist with The Manic Street Preachers was finally declared "presumed dead" 13 years after he disappeared.
Edwards was last seen on the morning of February 1st 1995 when he checked out of his London hotel. His abandoned car was found two weeks later at the Severn Bridge, a popular spot for suicides.
Welsh newspaper The Western Mail quoted Edwards' families solicitor as saying that the decision to upgrade his status from missing to presumed dead is "an acceptance that his affairs have got to be sorted. That's not the same as an acceptance that he is dead."
A spokesman for the band also said, "The band has been aware this was coming. This is the parents' choice and the band is happy to go with what the parents decide is best. We all dream Richey will come back one day. You hope he is still around somewhere. But it is no longer a realistic hope and if this offers some kind of closure then the band will be content with that."
The Manics are currently working on their next album with Steve Albini and are using some of the lyrics that Edwards had written prior to his disappearance. A message on the band's website said that "Finally it feels like the right time to use them."
The last Manics record to feature Edward's lyrics was Everything Must Go back in the 90's, coincidentally it's also the last decent thing they did.
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Next year's Noise Pop Festival takes place from February 24-March 1 has announced the first batch of names to play and it's already looking like they've picked a few winners.
The event, which will take place in various venues around San Francisco has lined up performances from the likes of Antony and the Johnsons, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman, No Age, Goblin Cock (featuring Pinback's Rob Crow), and Unicorns offshoot Clues. The event will also see a number of films being screened including Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and Agile Mobile Hostile: A Year with Andre Williams.
If I were you I wouldn't go to these gigs.
Pretty much the worst tour imaginable. Kaiser Chiefs will head off on a UK and Ireland tour kicking off next February and if that didn't look like a boring enough night out then he's bringing along the giant bag of Florida shite that is Black Kids.
Urrgh.
The tour starts in Dublin on February 19th so maybe if I'm in a particular mood I could do all of these islands a favour.
Make alternate plans for these dates.
02-19 Dublin, Ireland - O2
02-20 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Odessey
02-22 Nottingham, England - Trent FM Arena
02-23 Sheffield, England - Sheffield Arena
02-24 Birmingham, England - NIA
02-26 Edinburgh, Scotland - Corn Exchange
02-27 Aberdeen, Scotland - AECC
02-28 Newcastle, England - Metro Radio Arena
03-02 Manchester, England - MEN Arena
03-03 Liverpool, England - Echo Arena
03-04 Cardiff, Wales - CIA
03-06 London, England - Wembley Arena
The YouTube video of the week
What a dickhead.
If you can you should go to these gigs.
Radiohead
03-15 Mexico City, Mexico - Foro Sol
03-16 Mexico City, Mexico - Foro Sol
03-27 Santiago, Chile - San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium (Cristal en Vivo Festival)
Broken Social Scene
11-18 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom #
11-19 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse #
11-20 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon #
11-21 St. Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing #
11-22 Pompano, FL - Club Cinema #
11-27 Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy #
11-28 Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy ^
01-30 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
01-31 Austin, TX Bass - Concert Hall
02-02 Houston, TX - Numbers
02-04 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
02-05 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
02-06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum *
# with Land of Talk
^ with the Beauties
* with Tegan and Sara
Writing under the influence
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