― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)
1987 onwards = meh.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
Stewart and Alex OTM, up to the early eighties SLF were essential.
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)
Also highly recommend the "All the Best" 2xLP compilation, which has unreleased stuff, diff. versions of the v. early material.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c331/c3317182kgb.jpg
Fun trivia -- the green-tinted feller there who is wearing a barely visible Marc Bolan T-shirt ended up on my now-essentially defunct T. Rex mailing list for a while. Other celeb guests on said list were Tony Visconti and Boz Boorer!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 16 January 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eric Wahl (Eric Wahl), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)
― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)
They've been doing a St. Patrick's night show at Glasgow Barrowlands for years now, the Glasgow Irish crew turn out in force and it's as crazed as you might expect.
― Soukesian (Soukesian), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)
-- Baked Bean Teeth (ilxo...), January 15th, 2004 10:57 PM. (Baked Bean Teeth) (link)
AFAIK there's nothing unreleased on All The Best, the diff versions of early material are the single versions. It's still a good way of getting all the single versions without shelling out for the original vinyl, as the reissues of the first 2 albums are still missing most of the singles tracks (I think the single version of Suspect Device is on Inflammable Material but nothing else). Well worth it for the single version of Gotta Get Away which kicks the album version's arse.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)
As part of the “Rediscover Northern Ireland” film festival at the AFI Silver Theatre outside DC two old movie docs are showing - “Shellshock Rock” (1979), and "Teenage Kicks". Are they worth seeing? Here are the blurbs cut and pasted from the AFI Silver website:
SHELLSHOCK ROCK
Charting the creative explosion of punk music during the Troubles in 1970s Belfast, documentarian John T. Davis captures the bands behind the Good Vibrations record label, including the legendary Stiff Little Fingers (fans of HIGH FIDELITY will remember them as John Cusack's character's favorite band) and the meteoric rise and fall of The Undertones.
DIR/PROD John T. Davis. Ireland/UK, 1979, color, 46 min. NOT RATED
With TEENAGE KICKS: THE UNDERTONES
The story of legendary proto-punk band The Undertones, as told by radio personality and #1 fan John Peel, from their formation in Derry to their rise to fame with seminal LP Teenage Kicks, through their rancorous split and tentative reunion.
DIR/SCR Tom Collins; SCR/PROD Vinny Cunningham. Ireland/UK, 2001, color, 72 min. NOT RATED
Friday, June 1, 9:30
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)
Boy, Jake Burns solo stuff isn't very good aside from the first single, "She Grew Up" b/w "Race You To The Grave". The singles and BBC sessions are all compiled on "On Fortune St." and some of this stuff is embarassing. "Breathless" is particular bad songwriting - it all sounds shoe-horned together. Pity, but the first 4 SLF albums are still damn great.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 25 September 2009 17:11 (sixteen years ago)
Didn't their manager write all the early singles?
― bendy, Friday, 25 September 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)
Looks like he cowrote them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Best_%28Stiff_Little_Fingers_album%29
I don't know much about Gordon Ogilvie. All Wiki says is that he was a Marxist journalist.
― bendy, Friday, 25 September 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)
So, CLASSIC while the Marxist journalist was co-writing!
― bendy, Friday, 25 September 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)
If I were Obama, I'd set up some sort of New Deal program to hook up out of work Marxist journos with punk bands. Who's got a good acronym?
― bendy, Friday, 25 September 2009 21:26 (sixteen years ago)
Gordon Ogilvie wrote the lyrics and Jake wrote the music.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 25 September 2009 22:01 (sixteen years ago)
No one will rep for "Now Then"? Granted, the half of it on "All The Best" are the best bits ("The Price Of Admission", "Touch And Go", "Stands To Reason", "Bits Of Kids", "Talkback") but overall it's unduly been consigned to the dustbin of history.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 26 July 2010 02:33 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2019/07/02/stiff-little-fingers-founder-henry-cluney-lives-in-rochester-rocks-everywhere-else?fbclid=IwAR3c48lz6NE1cLQfJLj0144zqQsgLWqShLN-cjKNnSC23MHkcOoq_g5Rgt0
This is wild, he's lived here since 97!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:08 (six years ago)
anyone seen these lads recently-ish? I still love Hanx!, wondering if a little road trip is in order
― gneiss, gneiss, very gneiss (outdoor_miner), Friday, 9 February 2024 01:38 (two years ago)