A Certain Ratio's Website Has Been Revamped
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Can't let this one sink without a reply, OB.
At the very least it deserves one for your enthusiasm.
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depthcharge wrote: Can't let this one sink without a reply, OB.
At the very least it deserves one for your enthusiasm.
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It's OK mate, it was purely for information purposes. However, if anyone can tell what the name of the track was that they played between Flight and Loosen Up Your Mind at the Apollo then I'm all ears.
However, if anyone can tell what the name of the track was that they played between Flight and Loosen Up Your Mind at the Apollo then I'm all ears.
Clive, Apollo set list was as follows - Choir, Waterline, Do The Du, Flight, Way To Escape, Wonder Y, Won't Stop Loving You, Wild Party, Shack Up, Be What You Wanna Be...
Uncle Liam wrote: Like the MP3 player. Does it have Hookys spiel before Heart and Soul?
yes it does.
Andrew Sayer wrote:
Clive, Apollo set list was as follows - Choir, Waterline, Do The Du, Flight, Way To Escape, Wonder Y, Won't Stop Loving You, Wild Party, Shack Up, Be What You Wanna Be...
Cheers mate.
Andrew Sayer wrote: Choir, Waterline, Do The Du, Flight, Way To Escape, Wonder Y, Won't Stop Loving You, Wild Party, Shack Up, Be What You Wanna Be...
You have to admit, that's a cracking setlist. Bit New Order'ish in its structure - mixture of Old Skool tracks at the start, then the copyrighted slow(ie. shit!) section where you can head off to the bar, then all the crowd-pleasing anthems to close.
Er, pity I was still in the Apsley for the majority of this. :(
They played their hearts out but were a little let down by the sound at times. the main vocal was panned over HARD left (is that an ACR artistic thing or just a screwup?), and at least from where I was, the sax playing chap may as well not have been there as almost nothing he played on any of his instruments was particularly audible, which was most noticable and most upsetting when he was blowing his horn for all he was worth, you could hear it, but it should have been seeringly clear. Pretty sure their exceptionally funky drummer had a grin and a boner the whole time, he was playing really gently and sweetly for the most part and the PA and room rounded his kit our a treat. And that backin singer chick, wow, she may have been the most talented (in the broadly acceptable pop music sense as opposed to the strange sideways version of talent NO possess) person to have stood on that stage all night, I say that mainly because her voice just cut through the shortcomings of even the venue and SHONE out.
I reckoned I'd already had me money's worth by the end of their set anyway :)
they're definitely New Order's (musically) educated sibling :)
And it's only just occurred to me I totally forgot to make any attempt to view their webcast to see if the chaps had scrubbed it up any (they did an OK job on NO even if it did mean BRUTALIZING the bottom end to get anything else to be audible). Dipshit of the month award to me then.
Have they done a er well not exactly a greatest hits CD but a decent best of CD?
I saw them a few times in the '80s but don't think I ever bought anything by them, possibly excepting 'shack up'. I thought the webcast was good, so what do people recommend I should get? 
delilah wrote: Have they done a er well not exactly a greatest hits CD but a decent best of CD?
I saw them a few times in the '80s but don't think I ever bought anything by them, possibly excepting 'shack up'. I thought the webcast was good, so what do people recommend I should get?
Grab Soul Jazz's Early if you can find it. It has the best amalgamation of their early and later tracks, The Old & The New reissue will be easier to find, but it pools stuff soley from their '80-'81 era, though it does have a fantastic live rendition of Oceans.
It still irks me that most people disowned them after they quote-unquote "Sold Out" (Translation: Learned how to play their instruments). They were definitely the most technically talented of the Factory alumni even if most of that came from DoJo and Topping.
DoJo was the other half of BeMusic by the way.
delilah wrote: Have they done a er well not exactly a greatest hits CD but a decent best of CD?
I saw them a few times in the '80s but don't think I ever bought anything by them, possibly excepting 'shack up'. I thought the webcast was good, so what do people recommend I should get?
Well, id imagine Me, Uncle Liam, Clive, Jarvo, J.Giles etc.. would all pick different albums. I suppose it depends what you like youself - jazz, pop, house soul, funk etc. They haven't done a best of as such, (tho the early Factory stuff has been released & updated on SoulJazz. I personally like Force from 86' and some of the Simon Topping records. The later A & M stuff is good as well. They started to embrace house a bit more then. But also, some of the dancy stuff they put out on Rob's records in mid 90's was good. I find the hardest record to get into originally is Sextet- it does take time & patience. My advice buy the lot and do your own compilation. :D
