Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
The Bodines
Therese
(Creation, 1986)
7" of Proustian angel-cake in jangle-pop form.
We don't generally do singles in Disc Of The Day, but the news that Ian Broudie is to release his first Lightning Seeds record in 10 years had me pondering: could producing this 45 by Glossop haircuts The Bodines be the best thing the scouse pocket-popster ever did? Back in March, 1986, the 17-year-old me was convinced that CRE028 was the best thing yet to have happened to him: its rush of guitars making his heart swell in just the way he imagined romantic infatuation might strike (he was wrong, but in ways he had not predicted), its too-fast Motown drums pummelling like an out-of-control heartbeat, its supercool "'60s bird" cover starlet the paradigm of the kind of girlfriend that surely lay in wait, please God sometime soon. There's no other record that sounds quite like it, not amongst its C86-compiled contemporaries, nor recorded since. Echo & The Bunnymen were clearly a model - bassist Tim Burwood rocked the Les Pattinson; and Broudie produced EATB's Porcupine after all - but The Bodines were lighter, feathery but barbed. In Therese, there is an alchemy to the way the two glass-smashing rhythm guitars fit together - and Broudie lets them float, somehow untethered, in a sonic fever of love, while singer Michael Ryan declares, in a still-arresting piece of poetry, that she "scares the health out of me". Suspended between intensity and elaborately staged insouciance - the strange mesosphere of the late-adolescent male - hangs Therese, never bettered.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:42 AM GMT 26/03/2009
Further Listening
The Bodines – Played (Magnet, 1987)
Various Artists – CD86 (Castle, 2006)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Fortuna Pop!, 2009)
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it's a great single. creation obviously thought so, splashing out on a cardboard sleeve rather than usual poly bag with folded insert.
its predecessor, God Bless, is even better
when they signed to Magnet (home of Darts, for fox sake) they were never the same again.
Posted by showbizwhines at 11:24 AM GMT 26/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Classic. Classic. Classic. Classic. Classic. Cl.. well, you've got it. A classic.
Posted by Fabio at 5:31 AM GMT 30/03/2009 Report Abuse
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the "supercool "'60s bird" cover starlet" was Eilidh Bradley, later to front primo-grunge rockers Solar Race...
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