Hope you like them.

For no good reason, Ginger's top 20 British rock albums. Think it was just printed in Classic Rock.

1 - Queen - Queen II
2 - Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
3 - Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
4 - Beatles - Abbey Road
5 - Damned - Strawberries
6 - SLF - Inflammable Material
7 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
8 - The Clash - London Calling
9 - Cardiacs - On Land And In The Sea
10 - The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith
11 - Motorhead - Overkill
12 - The Go Team - Thunder, Lightning Strike
13 - Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
14 - Buzzcocks - Love Bites
15 - The Sweet - Desolation Blvd
16 - The Kinks - Arthur
17 - Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
18 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe
19 - LowFidelity Allstars - How To Operate With A Blown Mind
20 - Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust.

[QUOTE=munky_magik]
25/03/06: Newcastle - Legends - Ginger and the Sonic Circus[/QUOTE]

:(.

Was sick. Three months doing as close to nothing as makes no odds, and I'm fine, only to be pointlessly ill the day before, the day after, and the day of him playing in Newcastle.

Had my ticket and everything.

Yeah, I did. And it was so good, though I'm still not entirely sure who took Kirsty MacColl's part. Dropkick Murphys were good in support, too, and I even had some drunken guy trying to dance with me for most of the night.

Only problem worth mentioning is that it seemed a bit conspicuous, seeing them in an arena.

Ali sent me a handful of Ginger tracks in his trademark drunken stupor a couple weeks ago, haha.

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]Was Drinking in the Daytime one of them and how much do you love it?[/QUOTE]

Hahahahhaa, how ironic would that have been if he sent me that song.

But no, he sent me...

Yeah Yeah Yeah
Keep It Cool
Bulb

And they're all really catchy. I was surprised/glad he sent them to me. I was expecting some guy with a whiny voice - so much for stereotypes!

Nope :eek:

I'm surprised he didn't send Drinking in the Daytime.

Why expecting a whiny voice, incidentally?

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]Yeah I suppose it's a bit of an odd setting. In many ways they're suited to it though. Shane brought his mother on for FINY the first time I saw them, I think. Odd occasion.[/QUOTE]

This one looked a bit young to be his mother, I think. But then if I didn't know better I'd probably badly mis-estimate Shane's age, so maybe.

[QUOTE=Bartender]I'm surprised he didn't send Drinking in the Daytime.[/quote]

Hahaha, that's what SOP said earlier - and I laughed at the irony, since the only time he seems to write me is when he's a bit... shall we say... inebriated? Yes, that's a pretty safe term :)

[quote]Why expecting a whiny voice, incidentally?[/quote]

I have no clue, to be honest. I guess I was expecting something poppy and light, but I was definitely surprised [size=-2]and proven wrong bigtime[/size].

NP: Yeah Yeah Yeah

Just 'cuz I'm a guy, am I supposed to buy all of your bullshi[font=verdana]t[/font]?

You said you're gonna make it up to me, saying "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

Hahahhaa. What a fun song. I'm glad I was sent some songs.

CJ has some new solo tracks on his [url=http://www.myspace.com/cjwildheart]Myspace[/url] in case anyone cares.

As always, I can't get that damnable myspace to play anything. It's good to know he's working on something, though.

[url=http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3DW5KLCLNDRRS3VRVUC2I4T6G0]*Cough*[/url]

[quote=]Wildhearts Update]Quite a bit of news from Ginger to report following the successful completion of the UK tour. Ginger has been in the studio from July 17th recording his new solo album (not to be confused with the next Ginger and the Sonic Circus album).

Says Ginger: "The album I'm recording is my new solo album. I don't want to reveal the title yet, just in case I change my mind. It will feature new drummer Denzel Pearson on drums, and Jon Poole (who else?) on Bass. Jase Edwards will be involved in production / engineering / recording as well as playing guitar. Tim Smith will be producing. Watch this space for more details on this, and the forthcoming Howling Willie Cunt album, 'World Of Filth'."

Ginger and the Sonic Circus hope to record a separate album this year, and Ginger has also mentioned the possibility of the Wildhearts starting work on a new record before the year is out.
[/quote]

:D.

Hooray!

Ginger's space is [url]http://www.myspace.com/silverginger[/url]

Awesome.

[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000GYJNSU/202-5641504-9734202?v=glance&n=229816&s=music&v=glance[/url]

hmm.

I'd no idea that was being released. Does anyone have it?

Awesome, thanks for pointing me towards that. Sorry for the delayed response, computer was temporarily packed away.

Anyway, I'm excited.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hun71nM568k&eurl=[/url]

Lucky bastard Japanese.

EDIT: The Yeah Yeah Yeah single's good. The b-side is a (non-Ginger) cover of Caffeine Bomb, more like the version at the end of [i]Grievous Acoustic Behaviour[/i] than the actual one.

[quote]Ginger's new album Yoni is set for release in the new year on Jan 22nd.

The full tracklist is:

1. Black Windows
2. When She Comes
3. Holiday
4. This Bed Is On Fire
5. Smile In Denial
6. Jake
7. The Night I Was Born Again
8. Why Can't You Be Normal All The Time
9. Can't Drink You Pretty
10. Save Me
11. Wendy You're Killing Me
12. Siberian Angel[/quote]
Yay.

[i]Geordie...[/i] isn't as good as I'd hoped. I like the sing-along for Geordie, though.

It's really, really good. Probably not a surprise coming from me, but I actually wasn't so sure it'd be all that great for various reasons. But it's really, thoroughly awesome, I think.

Tim Smith is all over it. I don't think there's anything quite as weird as a lot of Cardiacs stuff, and I don't know if you're a fan of Cardiacs, but his influence is all over the place, in a few of the better melodies as well as some of the general sound. There's huge variety in instrumentation; all the usual stuff, and then some piano and different types of percussion (steel drums, for example), but then there's harpsichord, mellotron, strings, synths, trumpet, sax, tubular bells, extra vocalists, etc (a lot of them played or arranged by Tim Smith). Not all on every track (thankfully), but at various points. For recurring musicians; well, Ginger's Ginger, and Smith's just plain talented at pretty much everything he does, but the drummer guy's about as good as he seemed to be on the unmastered "Black Windows", and Jon Poole gets several opportunities for some great bass, too.

I won't say anything particular about any track for now, as I think you really want to be discovering them all yourself (that is, if someone had spoiled several of my first listens of songs here, I'd be attempting to kick them in the throat right now). So just a couple of non-general notes. First, "Jake", despite being eight minutes long, with sentimental lyrics and strings all over it, still kicks a[font=verdana]s[/font]s and is loud. And, "Black Windows" may be the worst (least good) song here.

Now to muddle my way through [url]www.hmv.co.jp[/url] to get their version.

[i]Yoni[/i] is awesome, agreed? Wonderfully poppy but I hope he he doesn't bring too much of it to the new Wildhearts record.
I should hopefully see the Wildhearts on the 4th and 8th in Glasgow and Manchester, respectively, assuming that my exam timetable doesn't mess that up. Hopefully they'll play the Carling festival as well so that I have a reason to go this year :)

I've no idea which I'll be going to. All the ones I have a chance of going to (Newcastle, Bradford, Glasgow - got a friend (one I introduced to the Wildhearts) at Edinburgh) seem to be inconveniently arranged. So I'm just going to have to wait and see.

Still liking _Yoni_ though, and it's got me looking forward to a hopefully less light Wildhearts album now.

Tickets to see The Wildhearts on May 4th. New album on April 23rd. Life is good :)

New single The Sweetest Song is out now, though this is a download only version. I think I shall try and get it now.

EDIT: I have the song. Opinion/YSI pending.

EDIT *2: [url]http://download.yousendit.com/1C3784AE75F3A200[/url] For those that want it.

Uh, It has heavy bits and poppy bits as promised. It just doesn't strike me as classic Wildhearts though. A good song and the poppy bits are catchy as f[font=verdana]uck[/font] and even though this song isn't supposed to feature on the album, it sort of strikes fear into me :(

EDIT *3: It's kinda growing on me. Curses. This chorus is really catchy.

I like it, yeah, the contrast between the verses and the chorus. I'm interested to see how different this version is from the album version.

I already have the album, but not in my hands and so haven't been able to listen to it yet. I pre-ordered it a while ago, and it arrived sometime earlier this week, but unfortunately it did so back in Newcastle. So I'm waiting for it to be posted down here, should get here around the actual release date, annoyingly. Really looking forward to hearing it, though. The List reaction so far has been, as ever, ridiculously positive. Which is predictable, but still has me excited.

So getting this was pretty easy. I just walked into HMV and it was there. For Once.

First impressions are good, but I'll let you make up your own minds before I say anymore.

Oh, I see. First my football teams and now my music taste :mad:

I quite like it, though that was only to be expected. In saying that it's not vintage Wildhearts and it still has alot of [i]Must be destroyed[/i] in it.

What don't you like about it?

I need more time with it before I know what I think. My main impression at the moment is just how cool it is to have heard Dr. Phibes mentioned.

Wildhearts tonight. Oh my oh my oh my.