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Post by ianindependent on Sept 23, 2014 17:48:32 GMT
Anyone a fan of this group? I wasn't until recently. They just washed over me and I think that is why I didn't listen but now seem to get it. Over the last couple of months it's clicked with me. But, they have such a vast back catalogue and I still tend to think they are, perhaps, a one trick pony?
I knew a girl who named her dog 'Tinder' after them but what do others think and what albums should I listen to. I've mainly being listening to 'Waiting for the Moon' and 'The Hunger Saw'.
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Post by richc6 on Sept 23, 2014 18:10:05 GMT
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Post by SmellyFlowerpotGuest on Sept 24, 2014 8:38:47 GMT
How do everyone, ta for the invite Rich.
I've been hiding my love for the Tindersticks under a great big flowerpot. After all, they're from Nottingham, the City that tries to claim they started the English Civil War when everyone knows it was Hull (according to my old History teacher, Harry Aspden), the same place that claims they hold the biggest travelling fair when it's piddling next to the one on Walton Street. And they've won more trophies than the Tigers. For now.
I first heard them sometime in the mid 90's when I used to pay the princely sum of 30p to hire cd's from the City Centre Library for two weeks at a time. I'd read about them in one of the music monthlies and thought I'd give them a go. I listened to the first two lp's (both called Tindersticks) with my first wife while wrapping Christmas presents. She left me fairly soon after and I can't help holding them partly responsible. Most of the music was barely above a funereal pace and was quietly introspective with busrts of squealing guitar and string noise. Subject matter on first hearing was rather solemn, which wasn't helped by Stuart Staples deep sub-bass tones which I'm sure could have been used as a weapon of mass destruction at the right volume. The whole suggested something akin to a wet weekend in Macclesfield. But I loved 'em! They were strangely uplifting and were quite humorous in their own way (check the twist at the end 'Chocolate' on The Something Rain lp). I still love those first two lps, and the aforementioned The Something Rain, but have to confess I haven't heard all the intervening lps. They also do a lot of film soundtrack work which is worth investigating, especially with a French film maker called Clare Dennis and an upcoming release called 'Ypres' which they were commissioned to record as an accompaniment to a film about the Great War. There's a track or two floating around their official page on Facebook. It fits perfectly- think the music from the old tv documentary 'World at War', but a bit less dramatic. Hope this hasn't put anyone off, they're worth investigating as a band ploughing their own little furrow, completely ignorant of trends and fashions.
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Post by ianindependent on Sept 24, 2014 16:16:42 GMT
Cheers Smelly. Interesting answer and history (personal and general) Lesson. You can still get CDs from library they are now 80p for 3 weeks. Which is really good as you can get a lot of good stuff to check out.
Someone else suggested the first two or three albums which I've given a quick listen to. A bit starker more guitar and less orchestration than the albums I mentioned.
Sombre is good and can be very entertaining. Reed, Morrisey and Cave have had whole, and successful careers ploughing that furrow. The thing I think made me miss out on Tindersticks for a long while is that they are for a casual listener essentially an easy listening lounge act. It's only when you listen more closely to the arrangement and little idiosyncrasies plus the lyrics that you realise they are a very original act. I still think after nearly as many albums as The Fall they are a very much stuck n a singular style.
The first two albums might have been responsible for you splitting with your first wife, eh? I suppose that's worth a try. I've been playing The Fall for 30 years and that hasn't worked.
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