The Cure: A Chain Of Flowers, Adonais, The Big Hand Morrissey: Michael’s Bones, Jack The Ripper Peter Gabriel: Don’t Break This Rhythm Genesis: Twilight Alehouse, Feeding The Fire Nick Cave: The Train Song, Until The End of the World (eventually was a b-side) Richard Ashcroft: Precious Stone Suede: Living Dead, My Dark Star, Europe Is Our Playground, Whipsnade So many others...more later...
Very nice. I'm going to add this as a hidden track to the end of the homemade Best Of Enya cd that I made for myself.
Foo Fighters - Win Or Lose. It's a simple yet catchy song, that as far as I'm aware is the only b-side that was rerecorded for another b-side. It was first recorded as "Make A Bet" on the Learn To Fly single and this rerecorded version was done for "The One" (and reissued on "All My Life") a few years later. The song was actually demoed whilst Dave was still in Nirvana in 1992, I think he just could never find a slot on an album for it.
Here's a great B-side by Tommy McLain (written by him also) "I Need You So" (A-side is his 1966 hit version of "Sweet Dreams"). I first heard the cover version by the Cruisers before I heard Tommy's original.
Garbage - #1 Crush Kula Shaker - High Noon The Verve - So Sister Moby - Flower Bjork - Charlene Say Lou Lou - Fool of Me ABBA - Should I Laugh or Cry, Crazy World The Cranberries - Liar Portishead - Scorn Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going Tori Amos - Snow Cherries from France Alanis Morissette - Simple Together Ryan Adams - Fool's Gold Stevie Nicks - Mirror, Mirror Elton John - Tortured Patti Smith - Chiklets Bic Runga - All Fall Down Imogen Heap - Speeding Cars Roisin Murphy - Sweet Nothings Damien Rice - Lonelily
Fear of Falling, the B-side to Apply Some Pressure, is one of my favourite Maxïmo Park songs. B-sides have sort of been killed off in my generation, so I don't have too many favourites. I can't think of any others.
1. Fantastic to see Maximo Park mentioned on the forum. 2. I have Apply Some Pressure but haven't played Fear Of Falling. 3. I would tell you my favourite Maximo Park single but I'm going missing.
It's also on the Missing Songs compilation (along with all of the B-sides of that era). Missing Songs as an album is better than a lot of other band's main albums of that time. The other one I really like is A19.
See, I never followed them up. Around the time, 2003-ish they came under my radar - these two songs are all I know really - I love the video to Going Missing and... ... is one of my favourite endings of a song. Think they're from the north-east aren't they? Sometimes I think the lead singer has the look of Bryan Ferry about him.
Yes, they're from Newcastle, although Paul (the lead singer) is from Billingham. It was a bit of a golden age for North East bands, because they came through at the same time as The Futureheads, and there's not been much from the region since (Little Comets, Nadine Shah and Frankie and the Heartstrings being the most successful, along with a few indie scene acts like Du Blonde, and some pop artists like James Arthur). Most people say that they really tailed off after their debut, but for me Our Earthly Pleasures is a good album too (few more keys/synths, though), and Quicken the Heart is arguably just as cohesive as A Certain Trigger. They start to fall off with The National Health, although it has its moments, and Too Much Information is their low point. Their most recent album is decent, but they're a long way from where they started now, and I have a soft spot for them so I might be biased. Furthermore, note that the lead singer has three solo (well, sort of solo) albums, and the guitarist has one as well as a side project called Nano Kino, and the drummer is in a project called Warm Digits. Paul also did a more eclectic album with the guy from Field Music. So, there's a lot there, if you want to check it out.
Nothing wrong with having a soft spot! Or even a guilty pleasure. I find There's often a symmetry in bands having a 1-2 or 1-2-3 punch and then they experiment and change. The Stranglers, U2 - classic examples. I love the rawness of early works and then they go and spoil it all by saying somethin' stoopid like I love you! Sounds from what you've advised, and I thank you for it, I'm likely best to try the first two albums only.
Our Earthly Pleasures is their second best rated, and the last time they had hits (although that had more to do with the singles chart of the time and the low unit sales), but you might prefer Quicken the Heart. There's nothing as raw as A Certain Trigger, though, so you might be better off listening to that and Missing Songs. Songs like Once, A Glimpse, Graffiti and Now I'm All Over the Shop are probably likely to be your favourites. I wish they still made music like that, but unfortunately I think Paul and the band grew out of it very quickly. He's never looked as angry since.
