Awesome video James 😀🍿🎸🎶 I think ‘The Sensual World’ from KB is an underrated album; really great record of hers and great to hear it’s been a grower 😊 Not too clued up on Wire’s stuff after the ‘Manscape’ album; it be great to see them live 😀👍 Love the new Psychedelic background bud; hope you having a grand weekend bud 😀🙏🍿🎸🎶
Hi James. Fellow RUclipsr and new viewer. Really nice piece and looks some excellent material in your back catalogue to look at. The next one I will be watching is the Cob records edition, a shop I know very well indeed over the years so looking forward to that one. I have subbed to ensure I watch more of your newer stuff. Very good presentation indeed. All the best. Dave ✅✅
Thanks Dave, and welcome aboard! I have subbed and will try and remember to tune into your COB records video, but if you could message me to remind me that'd be great.
Hi James. I’ve always been very fond of that Kate Bush. Got the CD all the way back in the day. Been surprised to hear many say they have a problematic relationship with it over the past couple of years. Who knew… 🙂
@ I think it was my 3rd back then? After the compilation (the whole story) and Hounds of love (old vinyls I still have). I later got the even earlier stuff on CD.
Totally agree with you on The Blue Mask! Top tier Lou. For some reason, I seem to file it with 'Songs for Drella', at least in terms of quality. Love the recent finds vids!
Thanks Phil...'Songs for Drella' is an album I need to listen to a lot more than I have. I'm a fan of both Lou and Cale so I don't quite know why I've never got more into it. More finds vids to come before the end of the year!
Nice light 👍 Funny, I haven't played that Kate Bush record in ages, so maybe this will prompt me to dig it out. I really like that Wire album. I feel that the Blue Mask is underrated 🙂 The title track alone is killer.
Thanks Brian....yeah The Blue Mask probably is underrated to be honest. Cool that you know the Wire album. I did a whole video on them a few years back....I like a lot of their music though other patches of it leave me cold. I recently picked up one of their eighties records on vinyl, which will probably surface in the next finds video.
Spotlight Kid is a favorite. Moonbeans and Bluejeans is also very good. It is a commercial record but I enjoy it. I didn’t know Grace Jones was still making albums in 89.
Moonbeams and Bluejeans was the first Beefheart album I ever heard or got, and I've always quite liked it, particularly 'Observatory Crest'. He hated it though!
Psychedelic James and his saucerful of secrets...I've a copy of Sensual World I found in a charity shop a few years back, I ought to revisit it now that you are putting it out there but offhand I think I also prefer the previous albums. I remember first taking her early albums out from the public library, probably late 80's or early 90's and copying them to cassette (since replaced with proper vinyl copies). Full stop I do not think I have ever heard any Captain Beefheart. A bit wary to give them a try given how split opinions seem to be, especially regarding Trout Mask Replica. "Overrated, underrated/these things are so complicated", not a bad song lyric there James! I've had it in mind off and on to pull out Steve Hillage's L, the only one I have by him but keep forgetting his name, thanks for jogging the memory...cheers!
Captain Beefheart's reputation largely rests on 'Trout Mask Replica' which is quite an extreme version of what he did. There are other records in his catalogue which are really quite approachable, with 'Clear Spot' and 'Bluejeans & Moonbeams' almost sounding quite normal in places. I have 'L' by Hillage, another one I need to pull off the shelf. Thanks Doug!
Hey James, A Sensual World is the Kate Bush album I listen to least… you’ve put me in the mood for giving it a listen today. Spotlight Kid is great. It’s like Beefheart has been listening to Dr John with that heavy blues, but with that lingering sense of Beefheartian weirdness. I’ve never heard The Blue Mask. I need to get more of Lou’s solo albums… always like his songwriting. Interesting selection!
Cheers Jack, hope you enjoy going back to The Sensual World, it's definitely started to click with me at long last. 'Ariel' is next on my list, though I don't even own a copy of that. I'll keep an eye out for a copy of 'The Blue Mask', it's definitely one to have. Totally get the Dr John parallel with CB, probably more so than Van Morrison to be honest.
Far out James. I haven’t played that Kate Bush Lp for years and years! In fact I’m not sure I’ve played it more than once😂 Captain Beefheart. Never bought any of his stuff for a reason. Looking out for The Blue Mask. I’ve somehow ended up with loads of his records. Not sure how tbf. Love Steve Hillage. Om Riff is great - a recycled Gong riff - master builder from You. Palm Trees is my favourite Hillage track. He went on to do ambient house stuff with system7. The Nick Mason influence probably makes the Green album a bit proggie. Probably my favourite Hillage album Cheers James
Can't believe I overlooked that Nick Mason produced 'Green', that's what you get for making videos in the dark. I knew about System 7, I probably heard them quite a bit back in the nineties. Thanks Chris.
Wooo cool light - like Pink Floyd with Syd at the UFO All Kate Bush is interesting- I need a couple on vinyl still (directors cut is one of them that reworks some stuff from Sensual World ) - I think Dave Gilmore is on a lot of Sensual World ? Not got much Beefheart or Wire beyond a couple of CDs - have to dig them out and have a catch up ! Stay well 👍🫡🇬🇧
Can't believe I forgot to mention that Nick Mason produced the Steve Hillage album, and that David Gilmour played on Sensual World....with Floyd being one of my favourite bands! Thanks for watching.
I supported Wire with a band I was in (drummer) at Newport , S.Wales on the Chairs Missing tour… I loved Pink Flag so was excited when we got the gig but then a little frustrated on the night when it became obvious that they weren’t going to play any of their back catalogue, which at the time was ONLY Pink Flag and Chairs Missing had yet to be released , or if it had I hadn’t got it yet! Consequently throughout the years I’ve had to adopt a “I think they were good?” memory of the gig as I couldn’t really connect with what they were playing as I hadn’t heard any of it!….none of it. I wish I could go back and see it all again to take it in and absorb it as Chairs Missing is a masterpiece , …..a masterpiece I can’t remember
Great story David. What was your band called? I did a whole video on Wire a few years ago. Them not playing their old songs sounds very typically them. When they reformed in the eighties it was the exact same band line-up wise but it might as well have been a totally different group as they just completely re-booted and went off in a new direction. I guess as they've never really had any major commercial success, they're not tied into that thing of 'playing the hits'.
@ ….yes I think I remember your prior video about Wire and brought up the same things back then. I was only about 15-16 and the youngest in the band by quite a few years , which at that early age made a difference , our “in” on getting these gigs was our lead singer was studying art in Newport and he was able to wrangle support gigs for us ….we also supported the ReVillos , both only at Newport and not the full tours. Many years ago Colin Newman (lead singer of Wire) was asking the public for gig info to help fill in their past gigography , we had quite a few emails back and forth where I suggested we supported them at the Newport uni , but he insisted they had never played there , only at The Stowaway club , in the end I had to admit that certain aspects of my memory of the wheres and when could have been fading after all those years. Yes they had a policy at the time of only playing “new” stuff , which on the surface seems progressive and forward thinking ……but! …..only if your audience has been given time to buy and appreciate your new body of work , all it did for me was leave me with a 45 (?) year wonderment of if they were genuinely good or not ….i think they were but I can’t be sure !
Thanks David. I think I remember your story now! I have a couple of 'support gig' stories in my closet too. Back in the day my old band supported The Kaiser Chiefs at the Royal Park pub in Leeds (before they were called The Kaiser Chiefs), then sometime after that another band I was in supported a band (again in Leeds) whose lead singer went on to play Ian Curtis in the Joy Division biopic shortly afterwards.
Nice light effect!..I could do with something similar in the pink attic. I like The Fog too, and This Womans' Work is beautiful of course..have you heard The Directors' Cut?..I don't own it but streamed it recently..she reworks some of her earlier songs..I have to say for me, it doesn't always work. Beefheart is an artist I struggle with..Safe As Milk is the only album I really liked, which is very different from everything that came after ( that I've heard). I've only ever heard Pink Flag from Wire ( my brothers' a big fan). I really like early Grace, particularly Warm Leatherette which has some great songs..her talk style vocal is so unique. I think The Shamen and The Orb loved Green, and you're right it is ahead of it's time, perhaps that's why it was cited as an influence..I think it's a wonderful listen and is definitely my favourite Hillage..thanks for the mention James. All the best.
Thanks Rob. I haven't heard The Director's Cut...I read about it at the time and I didn't really like the sound of it (I hate it when artists 'rework' their classic tracks - I see Queen are at it again at the moment). Wire are worth exploring beyond Pink Flag although sometimes they're hard work. I think you'd find some of their more recent work interesting. I'll share a track with you on FB.
@jamesgriffithsmusic I haven't heard ' Queen 1' yet, but there's definitely mixed reviews out there..I believe they've autotuned Freddies' vocals amongst other production tweaks which sounds like it could be horrendous..I wish they'd just leave well alone 😔
Beefheart's not for everyone Nick...that said, not everything he did was as whacky as 'Trout Mask Replica', which was an extreme version of his thing really. Grace was certainly an alarming looking woman. Thanks for watching!
I love The Sensual World. It's one of my all time favourites. When I did my 80s ranking video I placed it at 23, but in hindsight it should probably have been higher. I think there may be more than one way to listen to it. Compared to all her LPs up to that point I would say that it has similarity with Roxy Music's Avalon in a sort of soundscape kind of way. If you notice, the whole album keeps pretty much to the same tempo all the way through. Van Morrison on acid. Nice. I should spin Grace Jones more than I do. You can't go too wrong with a Nile Rogers production. I've got a few Steve Hillage albums too but not that one. Did you know he produced the second It Bites album. I've often wondered what he thought about that as Frank Dunnery completely bases his sound on Allan Holdsworth, who was the guitarist that went on to replace Hillage when he left Gong. I'm impressed that you find the time to listen to so much. If I'm not careful I get stuck just playing stuff in my inbox. It needs to be done, but it can be quite unsatisfying sometimes. I did quite enjoy checking in with the Ritual catalogue before I made my spotlight video. Too much music, never enough time...
I must revisit your 80s ranking video, I remember enjoying that though I don't remember now what you showed (other than Duran Duran). I seem to remember you dissing Avalon at some point though, at least in relation to the early Roxy? I didn't know about the Hillage/It Bites connection. I've been listening to quite a bit of Holdsworth recently but more of that later.
You have been listening to some interesting albums. I haven't heard much of Kate Bush's catalog after Hounds of Love. Clear Spot is the only Captain Beefheart album which is probably his most accessible album, at least from my understanding. I have heard a lot of good things about Wire but have never checked them out for some reason. The Blue Mask is the only album that I have in my collection that you showed and I'm with you on what does overrated really mean.
Awesome video James 😀🍿🎸🎶 I think ‘The Sensual World’ from KB is an underrated album; really great record of hers and great to hear it’s been a grower 😊 Not too clued up on Wire’s stuff after the ‘Manscape’ album; it be great to see them live 😀👍 Love the new Psychedelic background bud; hope you having a grand weekend bud 😀🙏🍿🎸🎶
Thanks Sam!
very cool
Hi James. Fellow RUclipsr and new viewer. Really nice piece and looks some excellent material in your back catalogue to look at. The next one I will be watching is the Cob records edition, a shop I know very well indeed over the years so looking forward to that one. I have subbed to ensure I watch more of your newer stuff. Very good presentation indeed. All the best. Dave ✅✅
Thanks Dave, and welcome aboard! I have subbed and will try and remember to tune into your COB records video, but if you could message me to remind me that'd be great.
@ Hi James. Will do.
I'll give that Wire album a listen. One of those bands that passed me by mostly.
Great Martin, hope you enjoy it. If you do, also check out some of their other recent albums. 'Red Barked Trees' is a good one.
Hi James.
I’ve always been very fond of that Kate Bush. Got the CD all the way back in the day. Been surprised to hear many say they have a problematic relationship with it over the past couple of years. Who knew… 🙂
Hi Morten...I think I've just not spent enough time with The Sensual World. I'll get there!
@ I think it was my 3rd back then? After the compilation (the whole story) and Hounds of love (old vinyls I still have). I later got the even earlier stuff on CD.
Totally agree with you on The Blue Mask! Top tier Lou. For some reason, I seem to file it with 'Songs for Drella', at least in terms of quality. Love the recent finds vids!
Thanks Phil...'Songs for Drella' is an album I need to listen to a lot more than I have. I'm a fan of both Lou and Cale so I don't quite know why I've never got more into it. More finds vids to come before the end of the year!
Nice light 👍 Funny, I haven't played that Kate Bush record in ages, so maybe this will prompt me to dig it out. I really like that Wire album. I feel that the Blue Mask is underrated 🙂 The title track alone is killer.
Thanks Brian....yeah The Blue Mask probably is underrated to be honest. Cool that you know the Wire album. I did a whole video on them a few years back....I like a lot of their music though other patches of it leave me cold. I recently picked up one of their eighties records on vinyl, which will probably surface in the next finds video.
Spotlight Kid is a favorite. Moonbeans and Bluejeans is also very good. It is a commercial record but I enjoy it. I didn’t know Grace Jones was still making albums in 89.
Moonbeams and Bluejeans was the first Beefheart album I ever heard or got, and I've always quite liked it, particularly 'Observatory Crest'. He hated it though!
Psychedelic James and his saucerful of secrets...I've a copy of Sensual World I found in a charity shop a few years back, I ought to revisit it now that you are putting it out there but offhand I think I also prefer the previous albums. I remember first taking her early albums out from the public library, probably late 80's or early 90's and copying them to cassette (since replaced with proper vinyl copies). Full stop I do not think I have ever heard any Captain Beefheart. A bit wary to give them a try given how split opinions seem to be, especially regarding Trout Mask Replica. "Overrated, underrated/these things are so complicated", not a bad song lyric there James! I've had it in mind off and on to pull out Steve Hillage's L, the only one I have by him but keep forgetting his name, thanks for jogging the memory...cheers!
Captain Beefheart's reputation largely rests on 'Trout Mask Replica' which is quite an extreme version of what he did. There are other records in his catalogue which are really quite approachable, with 'Clear Spot' and 'Bluejeans & Moonbeams' almost sounding quite normal in places. I have 'L' by Hillage, another one I need to pull off the shelf. Thanks Doug!
Hey James, A Sensual World is the Kate Bush album I listen to least… you’ve put me in the mood for giving it a listen today. Spotlight Kid is great. It’s like Beefheart has been listening to Dr John with that heavy blues, but with that lingering sense of Beefheartian weirdness. I’ve never heard The Blue Mask. I need to get more of Lou’s solo albums… always like his songwriting. Interesting selection!
Cheers Jack, hope you enjoy going back to The Sensual World, it's definitely started to click with me at long last. 'Ariel' is next on my list, though I don't even own a copy of that. I'll keep an eye out for a copy of 'The Blue Mask', it's definitely one to have. Totally get the Dr John parallel with CB, probably more so than Van Morrison to be honest.
Far out James. I haven’t played that Kate Bush Lp for years and years! In fact I’m not sure I’ve played it more than once😂
Captain Beefheart. Never bought any of his stuff for a reason.
Looking out for The Blue Mask. I’ve somehow ended up with loads of his records. Not sure how tbf.
Love Steve Hillage. Om Riff is great - a recycled Gong riff - master builder from You. Palm Trees is my favourite Hillage track. He went on to do ambient house stuff with system7. The Nick Mason influence probably makes the Green album a bit proggie. Probably my favourite Hillage album
Cheers James
Can't believe I overlooked that Nick Mason produced 'Green', that's what you get for making videos in the dark. I knew about System 7, I probably heard them quite a bit back in the nineties. Thanks Chris.
@ was surprised you didn’t mention it. Cheers
Wooo cool light - like Pink Floyd with Syd at the UFO
All Kate Bush is interesting- I need a couple on vinyl still (directors cut is one of them that reworks some stuff from Sensual World ) - I think Dave Gilmore is on a lot of Sensual World ?
Not got much Beefheart or Wire beyond a couple of CDs - have to dig them out and have a catch up !
Stay well 👍🫡🇬🇧
Can't believe I forgot to mention that Nick Mason produced the Steve Hillage album, and that David Gilmour played on Sensual World....with Floyd being one of my favourite bands! Thanks for watching.
I supported Wire with a band I was in (drummer) at Newport , S.Wales on the Chairs Missing tour…
I loved Pink Flag so was excited when we got the gig but then a little frustrated on the night when it became obvious that they weren’t going to play any of their back catalogue, which at the time was ONLY Pink Flag and Chairs Missing had yet to be released , or if it had I hadn’t got it yet!
Consequently throughout the years I’ve had to adopt a “I think they were good?” memory of the gig as I couldn’t really connect with what they were playing as I hadn’t heard any of it!….none of it.
I wish I could go back and see it all again to take it in and absorb it as Chairs Missing is a masterpiece , …..a masterpiece I can’t remember
Great story David. What was your band called? I did a whole video on Wire a few years ago. Them not playing their old songs sounds very typically them. When they reformed in the eighties it was the exact same band line-up wise but it might as well have been a totally different group as they just completely re-booted and went off in a new direction. I guess as they've never really had any major commercial success, they're not tied into that thing of 'playing the hits'.
@ ….yes I think I remember your prior video about Wire and brought up the same things back then.
I was only about 15-16 and the youngest in the band by quite a few years , which at that early age made a difference , our “in” on getting these gigs was our lead singer was studying art in Newport and he was able to wrangle support gigs for us ….we also supported the ReVillos , both only at Newport and not the full tours.
Many years ago Colin Newman (lead singer of Wire) was asking the public for gig info to help fill in their past gigography , we had quite a few emails back and forth where I suggested we supported them at the Newport uni , but he insisted they had never played there , only at The Stowaway club , in the end I had to admit that certain aspects of my memory of the wheres and when could have been fading after all those years.
Yes they had a policy at the time of only playing “new” stuff , which on the surface seems progressive and forward thinking ……but! …..only if your audience has been given time to buy and appreciate your new body of work , all it did for me was leave me with a 45 (?) year wonderment of if they were genuinely good or not ….i think they were but I can’t be sure !
Thanks David. I think I remember your story now! I have a couple of 'support gig' stories in my closet too. Back in the day my old band supported The Kaiser Chiefs at the Royal Park pub in Leeds (before they were called The Kaiser Chiefs), then sometime after that another band I was in supported a band (again in Leeds) whose lead singer went on to play Ian Curtis in the Joy Division biopic shortly afterwards.
Nice light effect!..I could do with something similar in the pink attic.
I like The Fog too, and This Womans' Work is beautiful of course..have you heard The Directors' Cut?..I don't own it but streamed it recently..she reworks some of her earlier songs..I have to say for me, it doesn't always work.
Beefheart is an artist I struggle with..Safe As Milk is the only album I really liked, which is very different from everything that came after ( that I've heard).
I've only ever heard Pink Flag from Wire ( my brothers' a big fan).
I really like early Grace, particularly Warm Leatherette which has some great songs..her talk style vocal is so unique.
I think The Shamen and The Orb loved Green, and you're right it is ahead of it's time, perhaps that's why it was cited as an influence..I think it's a wonderful listen and is definitely my favourite Hillage..thanks for the mention James.
All the best.
Thanks Rob. I haven't heard The Director's Cut...I read about it at the time and I didn't really like the sound of it (I hate it when artists 'rework' their classic tracks - I see Queen are at it again at the moment). Wire are worth exploring beyond Pink Flag although sometimes they're hard work. I think you'd find some of their more recent work interesting. I'll share a track with you on FB.
@jamesgriffithsmusic I haven't heard ' Queen 1' yet, but there's definitely mixed reviews out there..I believe they've autotuned Freddies' vocals amongst other production tweaks which sounds like it could be horrendous..I wish they'd just leave well alone 😔
Hello James.....
I've tried listening to Beefheart but I just don't get it and Grace Jones used to scare the hell out of me !!!
Liked the lighting 👍👍👍
Beefheart's not for everyone Nick...that said, not everything he did was as whacky as 'Trout Mask Replica', which was an extreme version of his thing really. Grace was certainly an alarming looking woman. Thanks for watching!
I love The Sensual World. It's one of my all time favourites. When I did my 80s ranking video I placed it at 23, but in hindsight it should probably have been higher. I think there may be more than one way to listen to it. Compared to all her LPs up to that point I would say that it has similarity with Roxy Music's Avalon in a sort of soundscape kind of way. If you notice, the whole album keeps pretty much to the same tempo all the way through. Van Morrison on acid. Nice. I should spin Grace Jones more than I do. You can't go too wrong with a Nile Rogers production. I've got a few Steve Hillage albums too but not that one. Did you know he produced the second It Bites album. I've often wondered what he thought about that as Frank Dunnery completely bases his sound on Allan Holdsworth, who was the guitarist that went on to replace Hillage when he left Gong. I'm impressed that you find the time to listen to so much. If I'm not careful I get stuck just playing stuff in my inbox. It needs to be done, but it can be quite unsatisfying sometimes. I did quite enjoy checking in with the Ritual catalogue before I made my spotlight video. Too much music, never enough time...
I must revisit your 80s ranking video, I remember enjoying that though I don't remember now what you showed (other than Duran Duran). I seem to remember you dissing Avalon at some point though, at least in relation to the early Roxy? I didn't know about the Hillage/It Bites connection. I've been listening to quite a bit of Holdsworth recently but more of that later.
Directors Cut from 2011 has some reworked/re-recorded tracks from Sensual World.
Ah yes...I still haven't heard that album. I tend to stay away from re-recording projects but I will give it a go.
You have been listening to some interesting albums. I haven't heard much of Kate Bush's catalog after Hounds of Love. Clear Spot is the only Captain Beefheart album which is probably his most accessible album, at least from my understanding. I have heard a lot of good things about Wire but have never checked them out for some reason. The Blue Mask is the only album that I have in my collection that you showed and I'm with you on what does overrated really mean.
Thanks Randy. 'Clear Spot is pretty accessible, but 'Bluejeans and Moonbeams' is even more that way. He hated it apparently, and called it 'vulgar'.
A good Captain Beefheart album. I think The Blue Mask is overrated - it has some good moments on it, though.
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@jamesgriffithsmusic How are you, and sorry for me calling you Jamie last time.