c/d My Computer-Vulnerabilia

"For somebody else" is hilarious, "Fill my cup" is beautiful.
"I don't care how you treat me" breaks down into fantastic drum'n'bass chaos.

The more I listen to it, the more I feel that "No CV" is one of the great forgotten records. I'm about to get hold of "Vulnerabilia" as well, hopefully that one's got the same magic.

"Vulnerabilia" is more accessible. I kind of like both, although they have sort of stagnated for me, and they weren't quite as great as I expected them to after the first couple of listens.

I already love Vulnerabilia on the basis that its opening track has the best name for any first-track-on-a-first-album EVER.

No CV is better but Vulnerabilia has a lot of great stuff, notably the aforementioned opening track. Such a shame they faded away after its release.

Update: Vulnerabilia is awesome. No CV might still be even better, but Vulnerabilia has a charm of its own, fractured and intimate, horrendous in the best possible way, full of broken life, euphorically damaged.

There's actually a third album ("No Computer") which is basically just the singer and an acoustic guitar. I haven't heard it.

I'd actually rather that "Heart" and the third album don't exist (if My Computer are no more), or that the third album was recorded under another alias, because an arc beginning with "All I Ever Really Wanted Was A Good Time" and ending with "Pulling Myself Together" makes perfect and beautiful sense. Those two songs are absolute monsters, sonically and emotionally. The stuff in between ain't bad either.

http://eardrumsmusic.com/2007/06/25/good-neighbour-eardrums-interview-with-andy-chester-previously-of-my-computer/

Really sad story about this band. Glad to see this dude got it together, even if he doesn't know quite how special his band really were, but his erstwhile songwriting partner?

("No Computer") is on Spotify and isn't bad on first listen, although obviously not a patch on the mind-altering if ultimately destructive alchemy which preceded it

Funny, just yesterday when I got to My Computer in my CD-to-flac project, I wondered what happened to them and looked them up on Allmusic. My Computer - No Computer is pretty much a guarantee to discourage fans from finding anything on Google. Such a bad choice for a name, I wonder if it played a part in their failure. Glad to see some appreciation for them, though. Thanks to the interview I know to find it at CD Baby. There are some awkward and melodramatic moments, but the first two albums are definitely underappreciated gems.

even if he doesn't know quite how special his band really were

I really thought you meant One Lady Owner there.

Should probably give this album another go, I think I only listened to it once after picking it up cheap in a HMV sale about 6 years ago.

Listening to 'Sirens' after discovering it on Spotify. A cursory Internet search reveals this as probably the least-reviewed, least-heralded, least-heard album I've probably ever heard in my life.

I guess I'd better. It's an Andrew Chester collaboration, this time with a dubstep producer. So far it's quite good.

Nobody's written a word about this record except Chester himself. Nobody appears to have even listened to it. It's eerie. The music's eerie as well. It feels like I dreamed this entire evening.

It's pretty astounding, actually. Really messed-up production, surprises everywhere, and Chester rambling through some almost absurdly detailed confessional colloquy, occasionally breaking out into an unexpected hook or a bizarre mantra. Really happy I discovered this

following a recent ilm nudge i have decided that i need to give the 2 albums i have another go, so i dug hard, and have now added them to the digital archive.

opening track of vulnerbilia = house of love vs the weeknd.

could this be the rediscovery of 2014 i wonder ..

:D my blabbering pays off at last

opening track of vulnerabilia is amazing yeah, nobody's used vocoder better

2nd album even better; after the fake-out rock opening (which I take to be a brilliant evocation of bipolarity) it's a pretty devastating (and occasionally poptastic - Dig A Hole could have been a smash hit in a parallel universe) trip