wedding present "take fountain"

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Any one heard it? Does any one care?

― mohair (jon kapper), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it's pretty good (great, even?)
but mostly it makes me want to listen to seamonsters or torino

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's...not particularly involving or exciting, but it's Gedge and therefore a fit. His singing has come on, if you were ever one to notice it. It's For You and Return From Seatac are of old. Don't Touch That Dial irritates me to hell...the lyrics are ace but the music is like something I'd write, and after a really bad day four tracking with a friend, that is the furthest you can get from a compliment. There's some songs free of any idea you can't already find from their 95-97 period. Hell...as rentboy said, you'll like it, but you'll also spend about five minutes searching for Seamonsters within an hour.

― barbarity itself, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Wah, some of that typing. A few glasses of rubbish white wine'll do that.

Oh, and Interstate 5 is good in a chugging way.

― barbarity itself, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Interstate 5 is marvellousness itself. Thing is though, it's Cinerama, innit?

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah yes, I see someone has mentioned C******* already.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Couldn't be helped, really though, could it? I'll still be dahn t'front next month though.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

can't be arsed re-typing what i said on the other thread, but si is absolutely right: it's a cinerama album

wedding present reform..

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Well, this was released today. Anyone have any more comments on this album? Is it worth picking up? Bueller?

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, it's worth getting. it's by no means a classic, but the songs are good and ... well, it's the wedding present, innit?

(actually, no: it's cinerama. but hey.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

On the "Interstate 5" e.p., the second track, "Bad Thing", is a thousand times better than the single.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I bought Take Fountain and then sorta forgot about it, and it sat uplayed on my desk for the longest time (this was during my burnt out lull). Am now starting to discover it. A friend has already secured tix to see them when they plough through town next month. While I'm liking Take Fountain, it's just not captivating me in the way of say, Bizarro (or even Watusi), but y'know....it's still early.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sorta reminds of....well, this is going to sound odd, but there are certain restaurants and bars around town that my wife and I just don't go to anymore. It has nothing to do with their quality of fare or anything, but rather that they're so stuck and rooted in certain eras for us. "Cafe Spice? That's just so 1999. Can't go there anymore." I'm afraid that's how I'm feeling about new Wedding Present material, I guess. I played George Best not too long ago, and it's still great and I love it, but to get into a new TWP album? Hmmm...dunno if I can make that work.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 March 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

This morning, by the grace of a (likely non-existent) deity, I awoke to hear playing on my clock radio my favourite song off Seamonsters - "Octopussy". What a way to WAKE UP when you have to go to work! I love my clock radio! I was going to start a thread about this song actually because I could still hear it in my head on my way home at the end of the day, and even absentmindedly softly SANG a bit on the bus, and then felt a little embarassed although I doubt anyone noticed. It's something about the way the melody goes all up and down like a rollercoaster and the guitar is so insistent, persistent and gorgeous and spare...and the way he keeps saying "you've just become my FAMILY!" I don't know it just does something to me.

This morning in my sleepiness all I could think listening to it was "GOD they DON'T make them like that anymore. I mean, they do (thinking of LCD Soundsystem) but not ROCK like that"

And of course I thought of how Gedge fell from grace. I haven't heard the album, but from the single and what I've heard about the album, I mean I really don't even want to hear it, you know?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 March 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The new album, I mean of course.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 March 2005 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, but I couldn't not hear it, y'know? I used to fuckin' worship this band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 March 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I understand. Really I do.

But all grimly fiendish had to do was say it sounded a smidgeon like Cinerama, and I lost all interest.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 March 2005 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"take fountain" is decent enough, but if it had been released as a cinerama album i don't think anybody would have noticed. they'd have just said, oh, cinerama have gone a tiny tad more rock.

however: GO AND SEE THE WEDDOES LIVE on this tour if you get a chance, because they are still absolutely astonishing.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 25 March 2005 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

if it had been released as a cinerama album i don't think anybody would have noticed. they'd have just said, oh, cinerama have gone a tiny tad more rock.

Well, no, they would have said 'Cinerama sound like the Wedding Present now'. But as it's a WP album everyone keeps saying 'it sounds like a Cinerama album!'. The line between the 'two' 'bands' has got less distinct as Gedge strayed from more and more from his original intention for Cinerama, increasingly adding scuzzed-up guitars. Take Fountain sounds Wedding Present-y enough for me. Okay, so it doesn't sound like Seamonsters. But then Seamonsters doesn't sound anything like George Best, which in turn sounds completely different to Saturnalia. (hmm, odd all this for a band whose songs "all sound the same").
What I mean to say: what's stopping Take Fountain from sounding authentically Wed Pres? Songs not fast enough?

I'm liking Take Fountain more and more now, it's def a grower. Sad I missed 'em live recently.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 25 March 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What I mean to say: what's stopping Take Fountain from sounding authentically Wed Pres? Songs not fast enough?

not angry enough, i think. not visceral enough. it's got that slightly saccharine feel about it; the one thing that stopped me enjoying cinerama as much as i should have done.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 25 March 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I mean there's an awful lot of Cinerama slagging going on in here, but I think Torino is probably my second or third Gedge-related album:

1) Bizarro/Seamonsters (too close to call which takes the title)
2) Torino
3) The Hit Parade singles (the a-sides mostly, truth be told)
4) George Best
5) Watusi
6) Disco Volante

After that I don't much rate them. Tommy has some good moments, but it's not got an album feel. (And before you say anything about my number 3 choice, put all 12 a-sides on a cdr and tell me it's not cohesive as an album. go on, try it...)

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 25 March 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody should underestimate the hit parade singles. some of their best work is in there: "flying saucer", "sticky", "come play with me". and their cover of "falling" is mind-blowing.

i really, really need to go and buy watusi. i borrowed my flatmate's copy for two years but then had to give it back. they played the guitar-y version of "spangle" live the other week and it reminded me of a) what an amazing song it is and b) just how fucking astonishing the album version was. "click click" as well ... i adored that.

i've got my double-10" saturnalia sitting by my record player waiting for an airing. i really can't remember what it sounds like.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 25 March 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It's something about the way the melody goes all up and down like a rollercoaster and the guitar is so insistent, persistent and gorgeous and spare...and the way he keeps saying "you've just become my FAMILY!" I don't know it just does something to me.

This is going to sound so lame, but I used to think he was singing "just because I'm fumbling." What he's really singing is infinitely better. It's so English! I listened to Seamonsters today to order the tracks by preference for myself, but I still haven't quite settled on an order yet, mostly because they're all so good.

― youn, Friday, 25 March 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

what's stopping Take Fountain from sounding authentically Wed Pres? Songs not fast enough?

Chord structures and rhythms and things! I mean, somewhere around 1997 Gedge started writing the kinds of songs where you use like a nice seventh or a dimished chord to, I dunno, step from the chorus back down into the verse; he started writing the kinds of vocals that are actually trying to make interesting motions around not-dead-simple chord changes; he started writing with a comfy bounce. That's just the way he's writing now, no matter which project it's for. Take Fountain brings back the sounds and timbres of the Wedding Present, and throws in a few of their dynamic tricks, but the songs themselves are still the kind where you sit around working out the right sustained-fourth to use in the bridge.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Does anyone still care about this album?

I'm still liking this one alot.

― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 26 November 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Nope. But George Best died yesterday...and it made me want to play that album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 November 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Love this album two years down the road, still think it's fantastic. Anyone else? Hmm??

― stephen, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about some kind of new gimmick combining wedding favors and fountains. I guess that means it's time for bed.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, you don't know who the Wedding Present are, Hurting? I'm sorry to hear that.

I don't know "Take Fountain" but I heard "Nobody's Twisting Your Arm" at a friend's birthday party a few weeks ago and god, it was great to hear that again. I'd rather like to hear the Saturnalia album again, too, come to think of it. I'll see if I can dig that one out soon.

― Bimble, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

ah yes, "Twisting" is great as is the entirety of George Best, and i like Saturnalia well enough, anyway.

― stephen, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

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