Hup

Geir to thread.

Dunno. I don't own that album anyway. :-)

I think I would, if there was nothing else I really wanted to hear. It would be an interesting listen - it was my favourite of their albums and I think it would bring back times and places very vividly, particularly walking around Winchester, up near the library, on my way to see an old guy I was gardening for. I was a bad gardener so he just would sit and drink tea with me and tell me about his daughter who was an artist and his days in the Merchant Navy.

I think I would still enjoy "Thirty Years In The Bathroom", even though I don't think it's very good. I might still enjoy some of the other ones. I would think, like I thought at the time, that "Circlesquare" was one of their better records and they should have put it on the album. I wouldn't want to listen to it again.

"The Size Of a Cow" is a classic, but that one is from the "Never Loved Elvis" album..

Top-drawer answer, Tom.

I agree about 'CircleSquare' too.

But how about 'Golden Green'? Don't you like that?

I was trying to remember what the 'big tunes' on it were and I couldn't - I'd forgotten 'Golden Green'. I think even though it might be quite a good song I wouldn't like it, as it would remind me of how I went off the band when they started using the fiddles all the time.

What was the other single? I bought it on cassingle but I've completely forgotten it.

'Don't Let Me Down'!!

Oh yes, I'd probably still like that.

I was trying to remember other records from around that time and whether I still enjoy them. One I do, a lot - the first Sundays' album.

Ouch! Another girl, another planet.

I mean: yes, it's from that time, and that's part of what it's great; but it really shouldn't be treated the way we're treating the Wonder Stuff.

I think I'm saying I wouldn't treat it like that, Pinefox - it's very much a living record for me in the way Hup isn't.

In that case we agree.

However: I have just remembered another surprisingly good track: 'Unfaithful'.

I'll ALWAYS love the Wonder Stuff, but I must admit it isn't aging particularly well (though it's still aging better than Ned's Atomic Dustbin). The `Stuff still sound promising on Hup, slyly injecting newer, more expansive ideas into Miles' trademark bile. But, of course, it was all to go south relatively soon after. The fiddles, mandolins and introspection diluting all the snarky bite and punky punch. Once the Bass Thing was out, it didn't take long for the suckage to take hold.