Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Livingroom

Couldn't find a thread for Win so, here's as good a place as any.

After much searching, finally found someone hosting the Uh! Tears Baby album by Win, at Clubeighties blosgpsot andit's even better than I remember it to be. Far be it from me to suggest you illegally download it, but...

Fire Engines comp, Hungry Beat, including Lubricate Your Living Room, the Candyskin/Meat Whiplash single and the Big Gold Dream single (with BGD in it's full version and not the edit on Fond), all remastered, will be out on Acute Records hopefully in the fall (the season, not the band). Basically it's remastered Fond with better Big Gold Dream but without the 2 BBC tracks. For more information, sign up for the Acute mailing list:

http://www.acuterecords.com

Dan, that's fantastic!

Win are one of my favorite bands of all time. Both Uh! Tears Baby and Freaky Trigger are excellent meta-pop. I don't know why they've never been re-released. I'm sure, like with the Distractions, there's some nasty complicated copyright issues involved.

Rah for the Dan!

That's cool Dan, Fond has been OOP for years. It took me ages to find a copy (I did eventually find an online site that still had copies left in about 99 or 2000).

Win stuff is/was on London. In my experience, it's not even worth trying licensing from the larger labels. Not only has Fond been out of print for years, it was never released in the US.

Freaky Trigger was on Virgin according to the CD I have. Uh! Tears Baby and stuff from that era was on London. Neither company are particularly good at reissues as witnessed by the way The Human League's catalogue has been handled.

And I'm listening to the Hungry Beat comp now. Great to finally hear this stuff.

Glad you got it. Release date is October 1st in the UK, October 2nd in the US.

Updates will appear on the Acute site and blog, and there will be a Fire Engines page on the Acute site sometime in september probably.

Did anybody get Codex Teenage Premonition when it came out? It does me fine.

It's cool stuff but this is an entirely other thing, completely different studio versions, string sections, back-up vocals, it's practically Steely Dan.

really? It is the only Fire Engines I know, so I figured it was pretty standard.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but those were all demos, radio sessions and lo-fi recordings. Hungry Beat is all studio stuff. Check out Meat Whiplash, posted various places including:

http://threethreefourfive.blogspot.com/

Hey! Was that a sneaky myspace plug!? ;-P

Seriously though, thanks for that.

no, http://myspace.com/acuterecords is a sneaky myspace plug. Maybe not so sneaky. I have nothing to do with the above blog.

no, but there's a direct link to your myspace page on it. I see what you did there!

More importantly, there's a direct link to my blog. I don't need to be sneaky when promoting my myspace on ILX, I'm a self-promotion whore!

I'm just joking. But I may read that blog now.

Hang on, what's it called?

It's a secret.

We will never give it up.

Its quite good.

My blog? Totally.

Can anyone tell me which are the BBC tracks on Fond missing from Hungry Beat?

"We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing" and "Discord (version)".

A version of "Discord" (broadcast 9/3/81) and "We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing" (Heaven 17 cover, broadcast same date). I think they were recorded 23/2/81, which suggests that the dates are all in the British system, not US. And Fond was an English release (Creation/Rev-ola).