British Sea Power - April UK dates.
http://britishseapowertickets.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DisplayItems.html
New album soon as well. Very much looking forward to that.
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Excellent.
Really enjoyed seeing them live previously, so I'll be going along to the Cardiff gig I reckon.
I think I may just
I think I may just get to the cardiff gig also
I have also pre-ordered the album, and it's going to be gooooood.
managed to miss them twice in Edinburgh
so feel like I really should make the effort and go to the Glasgow date
Great news!
Is it me or are there less threads about BSP than there used to be?
Really good to see this band back in operation, they're a one off!
the general consensus on dis seems to be of a band getting progressively
worse with each album. One I would disagree with strongly. I think Valhalla Dancehall was their best album to date !
The Zeus EP was good
I used to dislike the majority of Hamilton's songs but Cleaning Out The Room is an absolute blinder. Only beaten on that EP by Bear.
Yeah, Valhalla Dancehall was ace
Better than DYLRM? IMO
To be fair, every album they (and most bands in the history of the world everr) have made is better than DYLRM?
I've not heard Valhalla Dancehall because I was so disappointed with the afore-mentioned embarrassment of an album but I'd love them to make something even close to how good I expected them to become when they first started out...
Don't understand the hate for DYLRM in the slightest
It's like Open Season but a bit louder. What's everyone got against it?
I don't think it's a bad album at all, personally
It's just my least favourite.
Quality of songs basically.
Open Season had at least seven or eight really strong really memorable songs.
DYLRM? is utterly utterly dull and utterly utterly forgettable with the single (Waving Flags, I think) the only time anything even vaguely interesting happens.
Nah
Lights Out For Darker Skies and No Lucifer are great too, and the last three tracks form a lovely Yo La Tengo-esque slow burn finish.
The middle section is dull though and that's what lets it down.
Waving Flags is one of the duller tracks I think
I was listening to the album just the other day, I always forget how great A Trip Out and Down On The Ground and Atom are.
See, those are pretty much the three that ruin it for me
could you explain what you don't like about them?
they just grabbed me so instantly and have stayed with me so long that I can't work out what a BSP fan wouldn't like about those tracks
To me they're just very dull, by-the-numbers rock songs
British Sea Power are one of my favourite bands, but I just find those three all bluster... I don't know what else to say, I just don't think they're very good.
I love Waving Flags though. Horses for courses I guess.
I don't think we were even listening to the same album from that description
same here
DYLRM challenges Decline for their best album for me - it's only Waving Flags and Canvey Island that at all let it down, and they both still have awesomely unusual subject matter and everything. Lights Out and A Trip Out might be two of my favourite rock songs and No Need To Cry might be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Open Season is kinda boring to me, as an aside
Took me a while to get into Open Season actually
I found it really dull compared to Decline and DYLRM at first, but it just clicked after a few listens. There's not really much separating the first 3 albums for me. I really like Valhalla as well but as a whole it's just not quite up there with the others.
those are two of their best tracks!
They are getting worse with each album
but this doesn't mean that they're not still really good.
Yeah, kind of hard to compare everything to Decline
When that is one of the greatest indie-rock records of the 21st century
I agree with the general consensus then, peaked with the first album -
by some distance their best record.
The first album has some superb songs but I really think Open Season is the strongest and most consistent (of the first three at least...)
Just signed up to do voluntary stewarding at the Phoenix yesterday
So I'll be going to that one for free. Awesome.
Let's have your top five BSP songs then
1. Lately
2. Once More Now
3. Fear Of Drowning
4. Please Stand Up
5. Waving Flags
People not putting Lately as their number one... just don't bother, alright.
No particular order:
Carrion
How Will I Ever Find My Way Home?
No Lucifer
Apologies To Insect Life
Favours In The Beetroot Fields
Lately just missed out, DON'T HURT ME. Mongk II just missed out as well.
Why are the playing Glasgow that day
Homegame/Gnomegame is on that day. I've been dying to see BSP for a few years now.
BSP have become one of my very favorite bands...
over the last few years. I think they excel at subtly reinventing themselves with each record, and each release has a lot of depth. I'll often find a new favorite BSP song off of one of the old albums. I'm really psyched for Machineries of Joy. The EP series they released last year probably had enough keepers for two albums so it will be interesting to see what makes the grade.
Current Top Five:
Radio Goddard
Cleaning Out the Rooms
Like a Honeycomb
Victorian Ice
The Land Beyond
Definitely one of my favourite bands
Don't have any particular hate for DYLRM- does have a weak middle maybe, but lots of good on there too. I'd say their best album after Decline might well be Man of Aran actually. Or possibly a theoretical 2 disc B sides collection (they have a lot of really strong b sides)
They have so much great material that I'm not too fussed about which albums are my favourites. I skip around the discography a bit.
Gale Warnings In Viking North is a great b-side
I was dissapointed with Valhalla Dancehall
but think the other records are all great, my faveourite has to be Open Season though.
top five:
True Adventures
Atom
It ended on a oily stage
Land Beyond
Carrion