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falling out of love with...
Posted by jimmyh on 10 February 2012 - 12:48pm.
We've all been there. When our favourite (or one of) artists releases something just a bit naff, and leaves you failing to recover that initial, long-standing loyalty with said band or singer.
Couple for me:
The Charlatans. From 93 - 01. A hugely underrated live force and a string of great albums but from Up at the Lake, then Simpatico, I havent even bothered with the last two.
Forever 1999:
Bunnymen:
From The Fountain
Dreadful.
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Fairly obvious really...
...but New Order. Untouchable from Ceremony through to Republic; then the remixes and best ofs start pouring forth; then - clunk - Get Ready & Waiting for the Sirens' Call. The last two have - to misquote George Bernard Shaw on Wagner - some good moments (Crystal, Someone Like You, Waiting for the Siren's Call) but some terrible half hours (pretty much everything else).
I'll still buy the forthcoming Lost Sirens out-takes album but more from a sense of duty than love.
Pedantically yours...
The quote about Wagner was actually from Rossini "wonderful moments, but terrible quarter hours".
Oh OK
In that case shan't ever believe anything that The Indexer tells me again!
I knew the quotation, but wasn't sure whose it was. A quick Google turned up the aforesaid gentleman's site and his claim that: "Most would agree with George Bernard Shaw, who was an admirer of Wagner, when he said that his operas contained "some sublime moments but some terrible half hours." Maybe Shaw did say that but he was knowingly (mis)quoting Rossini?
The Charlatans will rise again
I must defend The Charlatans' honour here. 2008's You Cross My Path was up there with their best efforts.
Agree the reggae-influenced Simpatico wasn't much cop but you're missing out if you don't give You Cross My Path a listen.
It is very New Order, funnily enough. Especially the basslines.
Hey - someone has to be New Order nowadays...
You Cross My Path
I agree, excellent album.
True Love Never Dies
As a teenage Smiths fan in real time, pretty much every single they released from Shakespeares Sister onwards was "terrible", we'd sit around our pints and talk about how they'd lost it. Absolute rubbish in retrospect, of course, and in reality my love has only wavered at times. Mind you, Golden Lights has to be one of the worst things any band has ever recorded. Even so, I could never just walk away from them.
I quite liked the Charlatans until I heard that total ripoff they did of the Dylan at the Albert Hall arrangement of, oh what's it called, She Just Acts Like We Never Have Met or something...that one. A blatant theft, lost all respect at that point. They presumably thought oh it's just a bootleg, it's just an arrangement, we can steal it wholesale. Terrible plundering.
There's little enough to fall in love with without holding grudges for a wrong turn.
you mean this one...a
you mean this one...a blatant rip if ever there was.
Good Gosh
I've just listened to the Dylan song for the first time ever knowing the Charlatans song quite well. I actually prefer the Charlatans doing Dylan more than Dylan doing Dylan. This is my favourite one of theirs - includes patented out of tune harmonica. Any pointers on the source material would be appreciated.
They do have previous form
for this kind of thing - here's their version of Pink Floyd's 'Fearless' - I mean, their own 'Here Comes A Soul Saver'
Another vote
for The Charlatans - I got off after 'Up At The Lake'. They seemed to have lost their roll from their rock - the swagger was gone.
I have also grown tired of Jack White - I shan't be purchasing his solo album.
It was a sad day when it happened with the Wu Tang Clan and associated solo projects. I thought that was the gift that just kept on giving, but after the second round of solo albums (Beneath the Surface, Judgement Day, Immobilarity, Bobby Digital), I had to bail.
The Cure
Rivalled The Smiths as the best British band of the 80s. Not only were they instrumental in the creation of gothic rock but also wrote some of the damned catchiest pop songs in existence. Unfortunately went downhill at an alarming rate during the 90s, Wish (1992) being their last record of note. Now trot out one mediocre album after another, a parody of their once former greatness. And no, Bloodflowers isn't any good, it's shit.
Also someone has gotta to tell Robert to stop with the messy hair and eyeliner. It worked in his heyday, but now he's middle aged and paunchy it looks ridiculous.