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Post by petrolino on Oct 27, 2019 2:26:57 GMT
Please post your thoughts on The Charlatans of Manchester here, be they negative, or positive. They've made some memorable recordings and sold a healthy load of records. They're a pretty wild crew but they're nice lads really. Mad for it!
"In 2006 The Charlatans' frontman Tim Burgess quit drinking and drugs after taking cocaine every day for almost ten years. Since then The Charlatans have released two more albums and continue to tour and Tim has set up his own record label to release some of his favorite artists. He’s also written a book, which has just come out, called Telling Stories, chronicling some of the hairier experiences from living life so close to the edge has seen him through. One of them includes blowing cocaine up his, and his tour buddies assholes, just so you know. Tim calls it "Cocainus".'
- Joshua Haddow, VICE
'Just When You're Thinking Things Over'
"Hello."
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 27, 2019 2:46:08 GMT
"The Only One I Know" is one of the all time great pop singles.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 27, 2019 2:52:11 GMT
A Halloween favorite
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Post by petrolino on Oct 27, 2019 2:52:56 GMT
"The Only One I Know" is one of the all time great pop singles. Mark Ronson recorded a cover of this song with Robbie Williams.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 27, 2019 2:59:33 GMT
Happy Halloween!
"With the rock’n’roll half-century now an all too frequent-celebration, last summer it was the turn of rock band The Charlatans to mark their anniversary. No, not that baggy lot; the Mancunians were barely out of the cot when the original Charlatans quintet debuted at the Red Dog Saloon, in Virginia City, Nevada in the summer of 1965. At this now legendary residency, awash with LSD, the band and coterie indulged their fantasies to the utmost, playing Cowboys and Indians for real out in the hills of the Comstock. The Red Dog had all the atmosphere of a fabulous, invitation-only party but the after-effect was akin to the West Coast's own psychedelic Kismet. A signal event amongst the many other indicators that told a particular generation something big was about to happen. What’s generally not known is that The Charlatans might also have been one of the first conceptual rock aggregates. A full ten years before the likes of Devo, George Hunter, a recent transplant to San Francisco from southern California, had envisioned a band of post-Beatles uniformed automatons, manipulated by a central controller. Hunter was an artist, not a musician, and his head brimmed with ideas that melded Burroughs-style post modernism with an appreciation of turn-of-the-century, Maxfield Parrish sensibilities. A slant perhaps not dissimilar to today’s steampunk movement."
- Alec Palao, The British Broadcasting Corporation
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Post by Dayodead on Oct 27, 2019 8:48:46 GMT
Like the first three albums. After that, their shtick gets a bit samey...'Up to our hips' is their most complete effort...
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Post by petrolino on Oct 27, 2019 13:13:03 GMT
Like the first three albums. After that, their shtick gets a bit samey...'Up to our hips' is their most complete effort... I'm the opposite. I find their shtick on the first three albums a bit samey, though it elevates on odd tracks. I view their best work as 'The Charlatans' (1995), 'Tellin' Stories' (1997), 'Us And Us Only' (1999) and 'Wonderland' (2001).
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Oct 28, 2019 3:21:44 GMT
Seen them live 3 times, very good live band. Definitely for me at their best 95 to 99, the self titled 95 album is a peronal favourite.
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Post by sostie on Oct 29, 2019 12:39:29 GMT
The Only One I Know is a great debut. They have some great albums, but are a better singles band for me. They were a fine live band as well.
I have Telling Stories on my "to read" pile. Have read Tim Book Two - Vinyl Adventures (2016) which as a vinyl collector was an especially good read.
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