Swervedriver 'Juggernaut Rides' Best Of, to come out Feb 25th

The Boos overview would have to rival my 4 CDR montrosity if it wanted to get every B-side..

I came across a collection called “A Boo-Sides Collection” and is mind blowing, IMO. Even though it is at 320, I hope a lot of those songs make it onto the CD so I can have an original copy. I think I own 26 singles so no matter what they do, two discs is not even close to enough.

Yeah, I’m a bit of a nut for the Boo Radleys. I figure one band to go overboard with is OK.

I wonder if it's the set that I made years back. I offered it around to a number of people.

http://www.swervedriver.com/downloads.asp

They're grrreat.

Hate gets you nowhere.

Disc 1 tracklisting:

1. Hip Clown Rag (demo)
2. Blues For George Michael (demo)
3. Reaching Out From Here (demo)
4. Sunfly
5. French Canadian Bean Soup
6. Skywalker
7. I Want A Rainbow Nation
8. Lazarus (12” Version)
9. The Sound Of Speed
10. Let Me Be Your Faith
11. Petroleum
12. Superintendent
13. Tomorrow
14. Last Night I Dreamt Of God
15. XFM Is Ace
16. Oh Brother!
17. The Queen Is Dead
18. There She Goes
19. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

Disc 2 tracklisting:

1. melodies for the deaf (colours for the blind) (bbc radio 9-96)
2. everything is sorrow (bbc radio 9-96)
3. c’mon kids (bbc radio 9-96)
4. naomi (mark radcliffe radio 5 9-91)
5. skyscraper (mark radcliffe radio 5 9-91)
6. song for up! (mark radcliffe radio 5 9-91)
7. smile fades fast (john peel radio 1 12-91)
8. towards the light (john peel radio 1 12-91)
9. lazy day (john peel radio 1 12-91)
10. boo! faith (john peel radio 1 12-91)
11. find the answer within (mark radcliffe radio 1)
12. 4st 7lbs (simon mayo radio 1 3-95)
13. wake up boo! (simon mayo radio 1 3-95)
14. wilder (french radio 2-95)
15. i want a rainbow nation (french radio 2-95)
16. stuck on amber (french radio 2-95)
17. peachy keen (wxpn philadelphia 11-93)
18. lazarus (wxpn philadelphia 11-93)
19. wish i was skinny (modern rock live 1993)
20. comb your hair (france inter c’est lenoir 11-98 )
21. bench at belividere (france inter c’est lenoir 11-98 )
22. the old newsstand at hamilton square (france inter c’est lenoir 11-98 )
23. heaven’s at the bottom of this glass (black sessions)
24. free huey (black sessions)

You got it -- I'm the one regular here from OC (there are a couple of other occasional posters) but there's a good chunk of us up in LA as well. Search out the 'Los Angeles' threads, we're always looking to find good folks!

That second disc for me would be the treat, as I have no real radio sessions from them, and I'd be interested in a swap. For the life of me I can't find the tracklisting of my own set, but in brief -- first three discs B-sides, rarities, oddities; fourth disc, remixes.

I’m a regular poster at Obner, which use to be CMJ, and discovered this board around December. Still feeling my way around and it crashed for a while, didn’t it?

In the 90’s I went overboard and collected singles. So I have an insane collection of a bunch of British bands. We might be able to exchange some goodies.

I think I have just about everything concerning the Boo Radleys, 26 singles will do that for you. Boo-Sides One filled in the last bit, I think? I did just discover “Black Session” France November 17, 1998 and will get that soon. I need to clear some hard drive space but with “Kingsize” live, my life is just about complete.

Where at? I'm in Costa Mesa.

If you ever find that tracklisting, Ned, please send me a copy...

Aside from I dunno Cocteau Twins , MBV,Wolfhounds,McCarthy and a handful of punk bands (it all gets a bit hazy- am I in the same time frame?), Swervedriver were truly great and I held them up alongside the best of all the US stuff of the same era.

I discovered them late too, thanks mostly to our lazy music press (ad my lazy self) who from recollection very wrongly had them in with the 'shoooooogazing set'

SD truly rocked ,were innovative and had a consistnt ear for a tune.

Does anybody recommend or care to comment on the ToshacK Highway stuff?

What are the rest of the band doing? I love the way the guitars intertwine and a great engine room too. Any chance of a reunion?

what were you trying to do / achieve in
swervedriver?

I think we were pitching to land somewhere between
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland and
Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. We also liked the
Stooges and Husker Du.

what do you understand by the term shoegazing?

I think the term was derogatory really, so nobody
embraced it. Andy Ross who coined the term "shoegazer"
later married Swervedriver's bass-player's
ex-girlfriend, so I suppose you could say that he
married into the shoegazer clan.

were swervedriver shoegazers? (why / why not?)
(feedback to the future is subtitled a compilation of
eleven shoegazing songs)

The shoegazer bands had floppy fringes and wore
chelsea boots; we had dreadlocks and wore baseball
boots. We were more like grungegazers I suppose...with
an umlaut on the 'a'.

do you feel any connection and/or kinship with the
other bands featured on
the compilation? (why / why not?)

Yeah, with some I guess. I mean, I've been to Russell
from Moose's house for Sunday lunch. We hung out with
both Slowdive and Silverfish.
The way I see it there never really was a "shoegaze
scene". There were a lot of bands running around
London back around 1990-91 - some of whom were later
called shoegazers and many that weren't - and I guess
everyone rehearsed at the same places and drank at the
same places so there was a community and probably a
friendly rivalry.
I have to say though I've never even heard of Blind
Mr Jones and have no idea who they are or what they're
doing opening this album

why does now seem the right time for a shoegazing
compilation?

It seems that there are a lot of younger bands,
particularly in the US, citing Swervedriver, Ride,
MBV, Slowdive etc as influences so this music has had
longevity I guess. There isn't one band in the US
citing the Manic Street Preachers as an influence.

unusually, swervedriver seemed particularly
enamoured with americana (highways, ford mustangs etc)
- can you explain?

The American cars thing probably came from Marc Bolan
who in turn was getting it from Chuck Berry songs and
that classic 1955 rock'n' roll thing. Also I wanted
people to be listening to Swervedriver the way we'd
listened to the MC5, driving at high speed down
country lanes...

hahaha

Yes! Listening to it now...