Entertainment For Lively Minds
Who are The Cults?
I was browsing in HMV at lunchtime, fighting my way through racks of DVD box-sets, Ramones T-Shirts, crap books, Hollyoaks calendars and iPod accessories to reach the musty old broom cupboard right at the back of the store where they keep their *whisper it* CDs.
Don't know why really, HMV is rubbish but there's always the vain hope of finding something new and I sort of did in a strange way.
They were playing a decent sounding song, a bit of a shimmery shoegazing Shangri-La's shong...shorry about that. I went up to the counter and asked the spotty youth behind the counter "who's this you're playing now?" Actually, one of the simple pleasures of getting old is that you no longer feel any sense of shame in approaching a record store's sales person and asking outright what they're playing.
"That's The Cults grandad duuuhh..." he replied, well maybe not quite. Now, I do try and keep up with modern music and what's going on but I can honestly say I have never knowingly heard of The Cults. I checked their CD, they are on a major label and getting played at an HMV store - so where the hell did they come from?
So I thought, they sound pretty good - any Massive members heard of them and are they worth investing in?
Second question, have you ever discovered a band from hearing them first time played in a record store where you've had to go up and ask "what's this your playing?"
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Portishead
The first album. I heard it in Tower in High Street Kensington. I was captivated.
I made my wife go and ask what it was. And then I bought it somewhere else.
haha...
just what is with guys being scared to go to the music counter to ask??
Alight of Night
by the Crystal Stilts in Rough Trade.
I think
they're just called "Cults" rather than "The Cults" (or, indeed, "The Cult"). Anyway, they're today's band tipped to be the next big thing.
My friend met them at the Dot To Dot Festival on Saturday. They promised him an interview if he went to their show. He watched their show, caught up with them, asked them for the interview, they said they'd just check with their tour manager, and walked off, never to return.
"Cults"
evidently misspelled then....
Cults
I think its just Cults with no The, if you see what I mean...erm...grandad! (sorry!)
Sufjan Stevens
Heard his first album in Fopp Manchester had to check who it was with the assistant glad I did
Not much of a fan
but I do like his dad Cat's records...
Sufjan Stevens
Don't his friends call him Shakin'?
Shakin' Sufjan
Surfjan Stevens 2
Did exactly the same thing myself in Birkenhead HMV. No more in stock so I got the one playing in store.
Good album IMHO.
Cults
*shrugs* they're ok I guess, but I preferred their earlier stuff.
Ahh, but..
which earlier stuff, Southern Death Cults or Death Cults?
Cults
in living colour on the new releases page of the Word download site.
Groove Coverage - Indonesia
I heard this song blaring out of Merlin's in Limassol, Cyprus. I asked what it was and immediately bought the album. There's nothing on the album as good as this, but it's still pretty good if you like that sort of thing.
read
about them over the last few weeks, picked up the album in rough trade on monday and it's been on repeat on the ipod since along with the superb new my morning jacket, great tunes, great album - pretty much what everyone said the best coast album would be last summer but it didn't quite live up to it.
check out 'abducted' on youtube - opening track.
The Go! Team's...
..."Bottle Rocket", being played at Fopp Covent Garden - I was the second of 3 people to go and ask what it was, and it's still a choon...
aye, it is...
and it's STILL not even a patch on Ladyflash!
Is this the track? Their album is out next week.
that's the one
good tune
Nada Surf
many years ago in Sound Knowledge, Marlborough.
Yeah someone was
playing this thing byThe Beta Band......
If you're a fan of Green Day
Have you heard Stiff Little Fingers?
Little Latin Lupe Lu
What's wrong with the Righteous Brothers???
I think Joe R
may be hitting on me cos I look like someone from 'Roseanne'.
Dan obv not Sarah Gilbert
(double post)
I put on the Cults album at
I put on the Cults album at work (in HMV!!!!) on Monday. It's generally good, but the second half of it really drags on in comparison to the first. The first half is instantly memorable and just good fun really.
I probably wouldn't buy it, but I'll probably have it on the playlist a couple more times.
Second question
Yes. In Fopp on Earlham Street twice in recent months.
First was hearing 'Cousin Dupree' playing. I didn't know it was Steely Dan (for shame).
Second was Porcupine Tree. Their most recent album was bowing out the windows in the CD section upstairs. Never heard them before so had to ask what it was, for I was mightily impressed.
Subway records in Fareham. About 1984.
Time To Turn by Eloy and, a couple of weeks later, Trancefer by Klaus Schultze.
Someone in there liked his German music.
28 years back
me and a few mates were idly flicking through the albums at a local emporium when this came on the shop stereo. Heads started nodding in unison, shoulders started swaying, eyes drooped in a hey-hip-cat-deluxe fashion. Ten minutes later enquiries were made at the counter and after a swift parting of cash I was the proud owner of a rather pricey Blue Note box set.
Twice
Both times in HMV Newcastle. First time was hearing Afro Celt Sound System's Release , second time Flunk's cover of Blue Monday. Epiphanies. Bought there and then.
Who are the cuts?
Jeremy Clarkson
Jim Davidson
DLT
I really must get some new glasses