Good find. Another artist you and I agree on!
Good point. Seems like the music in the vid is about 18 secs quicker than on the record itself. I wonder why? I didn’t know about that remixed released…sounds good.
Who’s on bass now? I recall seeing that Paz got the boot.
I wonder if she likes them now? I say this because, I’m sure it’s a thing that people who used to think you/I were weird back then, will nowadays swear blind that they liked that stuff the whole time and that there was never a time they didn’t like it. In a slightly Orwellian way.
Once again, @perishthethought@lemm.ee’s Venn diagram of music taste, overlaps with mine!
The NME said at the time of its release…
Aztec Camera, the Housemartins, the Smiths and the La’s – all very special groups, and now you can listen to them all at once! Perfect. Crystalline. Divine. Confident…
Out of the all the bands who are in my top 50 most listened to, The Sundays are one of the few that I was never able to see live.
last.fm tells me that I have listened to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 110 times digitally. However, I also own physical copies on cassette, CD and vinyl. I reckon that I must have clocked up somewhere near 1000 plays by now.
Do you like their other 2 albums? They also have some very good songs that were b-sides.
Yes, I too think that this is what a band would sound like if Billy Corgan decided to make music like this. I didn’t quite get the same tingle of excitement with Silversun Puckups when I first heard them as I did with Smashing Pumpkins, though.
This is a great cover version and one of my favourite SK tracks. I hadn’t seen that performance before. I wonder what its story is?
Thanks for posting. I listened to this band for the first time, not to long ago and they’re pretty good, I think. I always find it tough to get over bands who have a particularly ludicrous name like this, though. 😀
That’s great. Thanks for commenting.
My take on this is that any listicle is there for the clicks. Most of them, you can read in a minute, then discard. Listicles seem to be one of Paste’s modus operandi, but they aren’t alone in this.
What made me want to post this one is that for me, there are definitely some interesting additions and that it seems that quite a bit of thought and effort went into it.
Of course, each one of us might quibble with what’s in there or not in there, or what order things are in, and so on. I don’t care about that debate, really. I like discovering things that are new to me, and there are quite a few on there that I will add to my “to listen” playlist, that I hadn’t considered or heard of before.
Would almost want to see the whole movie!
Definitely a smart move!
You’re welcome!
I must have a listen to their other songs. Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for the source and for your comment!
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