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Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Pauly Shore.
It often gladdens my heart when these guys reappear on the scene. --Muzak McM
ReplyDeleteOh, hell yass
ReplyDeleteWritten by a couple of teenagers, recorded by a couple of old men. I'm calling it their best album, and as rock musical/concept/opera, it's hard to beat. Tommy? Nuh. One of the later Kinks efforts? Uh-uh. The Wall, maybe? *COUGH*. Chock full o' tunes, mucho variety, sincerity, authenticity, and a beautiful production. A quiet masterpiece, and early contender for album o' th' year.
ReplyDeleteAre you fucking kidding me? This is GREAT! It is fascinating to me that this was composed in 1974 by Difford/Tilbrook at ages 19/16 respectively - shelved because the duo thought their musical skills weren't good enough - and until now no one knew about because they happen upon original master tapes - and Voila! Makes me wonder how many other fabulous tapes are out there for other great artists that for a million different reasons have never seen the light of day. The thing that strikes me about this deliverable is how FRESH it sounds to my ears - but could blow us away like this offering. This may be one of my top 10 favorite drops by FT3 - BAYMI or otherwise. If I had a vote - I might respectfully suggest this slides out of BAYMI territory and goes more "mainstream".
ReplyDeleteAlso - off topic - but talking generally about music kept in the vaults for 50 years - have you heard "We Gotta Groove - The Brother Studio Recordings" - which has material from BB's "Love You" and the unreleased "Adult/Child" and other tasty nuggets? There is longer version of "Johnny Carson" plus a bunch of other cool things. If you have not - but are interested - I am happy to leave a deliverable (3 CD's) on the Island.
Good suggestion. I'll leave it up, and maybe get some more Squeeze action. I don't think they were master tapes as we understand the term - they made some rough demos they never got around to recording properly, and it was this tape that turned up. So what we hear is a contemporary reconstruction of what coulda/shoulda/orta bin.
DeleteYup, I blagged We Gotta Groove, but if you care to upload it higher than @193 for those with radio telescope antennae for ears, please do!
Thanks for the clarification on the "source material". I'm even more impressed knowing that.
DeleteThank you, I’ll give this a listen, always liked Squeeze but haven’t heard anything by them in ages. The last album of theirs I had was Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti in the mid 80’s on cassette.
ReplyDeletehere's a blurb from Spin magazine about the release:
ReplyDeleteMusic fans love the story of “the lost album” — the one project that got abandoned or crushed by the business. Now, more than 50 years into their career, British pub-pop legends Squeeze have rested their pints long enough to revisit Trixies (BMG), a rock opera founding members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook wrote as teenagers before they had a record deal. In 1974. The ambition! The naivete!
And the goods. Trixies is a song cycle centering on a mythical bar and its working class stiffs and gangsters that’s one-part Cheers, the other The Untouchables. Although its mid-’70s origins were in line with Squeeze’s propulsive pub rockin’, punk-adjacent roots, Trixies is not exactly the time machine longtime fans will remember (well, save for copious references to drinking). First, the technology used to make records has never been more flexible and imaginative. But most importantly (and expectedly), Difford and Tilbrook’s songwriting has gotten continuously more sophisticated and developed.
The swathe of great moments here is impressive. The proceedings begin with “What More Can I Say” and “You Get the Feeling,” two breezy acoustic numbers that conjure yacht rock ease and Laurel Canyon whimsy. The former feels like a travel commercial; the latter, a group of friends in Graham Nash’s living room, ca. ’69. But then the scenes kick in: “The Place We Call Mars” is a melancholy, Bowie-esque glam ascension, with Tilbrook perfectly channeling Mick Ronson, and “Hell on Earth” is the bouncy piano-powered nugget Madness forgot to write.
On the two tracks with Difford singing lead, he assumes the roles of sleazy dive bar narrator (“The Dancer”) and forlorn lover (the sophisto-pop “It’s Over”). There’s also crunchy tango (“Why Don’t You”) and a potential Stiff Records single (“The Jaguars”) that Nick Lowe could’ve produced. Given its scope, there’s no way this project could’ve been pulled off at any other point in Difford and Tilbrook’s storied career. Indeed, Trixies might be the duo’s personal masterpiece. So why stop at just an album? Somebody, please slip a flash drive of it to Baz Luhrmann.
Like Bambi, its been decades since I listened to Squeeze. But, I'll give it a listen if for no other reason than curiosity.
This is a nice listen, thanks!
ReplyDeleteFT# - Here is BB's "W_ G__ta Gr__ve" (2026) @320kbps. https://workupload.com/archive/6jQ5sYyayx
ReplyDeleteI pinch your claws.
Delete20 downloads of above deliverable thus far. I'm surprised it is that many (from more of an "acquired taste" part of their catalog imo - somebody has to be paying attention to the comments to even know it is there - and I futzed with the title and group name because of these bots I read about that supposedly look for stuff and go after people. And we certainly don't want unwelcome visitors to Isle. And maybe I'm being a little paranoid but with everything going on these days I'm of the "you can never be too careful" camp.
DeleteHow do you count downloads on workupload?
Delete(Counting page views - basically anything with T&A is going to get a high hit rate. The recent Van Morrison piece is unusually popular. Just a very little depressing.)
When I log into my workupload account - for each file I have shared - like the FT3 "mixtape" a few months ago - it lists a number under a column called "downloads" for each individual song. I just checked again and the lowest number of downloads for a song is now 15 ("Solar System") and the highest is 26 (for "Mona" and "Roller Skating Child". I assume every time someone accesses the file and/or an individual song using the share link - they are keeping track. but how it all works or if "downloads" means what I think it dies in this context - I have no idea. I do know that workupload works great for me.
DeleteI don't have an account. You may (or may not) find it convenient to drag all the files into one folder, and compress and upload that folder, resulting in an easier download for the whole caboodle. You can also name the folder something innocuous/anonymous, making it less likely to get taken down.
DeleteOh shoot - didn’t even occur to me to drag into a folder and compress. I will see if I can pull that off. I’m working on a new mixtape so I will try what you suggest and then post it in a comment in a few days as an experiment to see if I can do it. Thanks!
DeleteThis is a joy, though I'd still take their greatest hits album if I had to chose. But given their ages then and what they bring to it now, a real delight. Makes you wonder what else is out there...
ReplyDeleteHere on th' IoF©, choice is both a burden and an illusion. Greatest Hits - add to cart!
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/2fmdbDpFh9g
mil gracias
DeleteThanks Farq, this looks promising!
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