Inspiral Carpets - crap/not crap?

[upsidedownwalrus]

Slightly unfortunate phrasing....

and technically they were from Oldham, not Manchester (Inspiral Carpets, not Nirvana). Important difference if you're ever in Oldham and don't want to get your head kicked in.

My course mate is from Oldham and he considers himself a Manc.

 

[ddraig]

one of my fave bands for years, got loads of it on vinyl

Inspiral Carpets are one of the most melodic, full-on, singalong, anthemic bands of all time and certainly of that era.

I loved the Happy Mondays/Roses (I was going to say The Farm but I think they were earlier) but cannot begin to describe the upliftingness of 'She Comes In The Fall', 'This is how it feels to be lonely' 'How It Should Be' et al.

If you haven't heard and appreciated 'The Beat Inside' you haven't lived.

They're one of my all time favourite bands.

They had a really shit band name though.

very much agree with that as fook

they were in there with the t-shirts

oh ai, had one of them, prob a bootleg when we did trip to gmex to see them.

what's the tune with the penguin on the front?

 

[isitme]

that album they did which was yellow and orange and was like 70s rock was great

it was after they were part of that pillheads with bowlcuts thing i think, and much better

i liked em

I'm goin down
In uniform

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

They were SO dreary!

 

[ohmyliver]

Well, I like their manc garage punky tracks like

http://www.last.fm/music/Inspiral+Carpets/_/Find+Out+Why?autostart

 

[Kanda]

Dodgepot is dreary.

 

[The Groke]

One of my faves back in the day, still get a kick out of them now.

Went to the reunion gigs the other year - had a fucking ball.

Haterz can get te fuck.




(weird that I can't actually find a thread on them by me here - I swear I posted one when the gig was coming up... )

 

[Silva]

I've bought their boxset (with the best-of, rarities and DVD) and love it, but can't be arsed with their albums.

 

[Maggot]

Top Band. Top organ sounds.

I saw them once, they were a surprise guests supporting Carter USM at Brixton Academy. Although at the time they were bigger than Carter.

I can believe that electrogirl know the full name of minor Big Brother contestants, yet she hasn't heard of the Inspirals.

Surprised no-one has mentioned the legendary Cool as Fuck T-shirt, which I can't find on Google Image.

 

[dodgepot]

i think that's what dodgepot was on about when he said "they were in there with the t-shirts" on this thread last night.

 

[Voley]

I can't believe no-one's mentioned the T-Shirts.

 

[Maggot]

i think that's what dodgepot was on about when he said "they were in there with the t-shirts" on this thread last night.

Why are you talking about yourself in the third person?

 

[dodgepot]

wut?

 

[Sweet FA]

Definitely not crap.

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[Flashman]

Not crap. Saw them live c90/91. Great, great cover of Gimme Shelter.

Was well into all that baggy shite.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

clint boon is a bit of a hero round here

 

[Part 2]

I always thought Tom thingy was trying a bit too hard. The Inspirals were the band with no attitude and didn't have the appeal of The Mondays or The Roses. All a bit too clean. They were probably to blame for bands like The Mock Turtles and Shed 7.

There was loads better than IC from Oldham, Paris Angels for one.

Band of the moment for me was always New Fast Automatic Daffodils. Saw some top gigs of theirs.

In fact if anyone has their album I'd really appreciate a download

 

[brix]

I got a credit on one of their albums. Think it was this one:

 

[ezone]

loved this one - joe



had this on a cnd/nme compilation vhs back in 1990 looked great on ecstasy.

 

[the button]

Fence-sitting for me. A few good songs, but I could never get really excited about them as a band. Mind you, I feel the same about the Stone Roses.

 

[purves grundy]

By jimmeny, they were fucking abysmal

 

[stupid dogbot]

Abysmal. Whatever your view of Nirvana, you have to admit that they were absolutely essential in blowing away the tepid drollery of the poor end of Madchester represented by the Inspirals et al

Lol. You hear this sort of guff from deluded Nirvana fans so much. They killed metal. They killed this, they killed that...

How is your hero? Any good songs recently?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Lol. You hear this sort of guff from deluded Nirvana fans so much. They killed metal. They killed this, they killed that...

How is your hero? Any good songs recently?

 

[stupid dogbot]

I don't see how Nirvana had anything to do with the Insprials, being the point, certainly not their "demise".

 

[mauvais]

Not crap at all, but Clint Boon's "White No Sugar" was still better than everything they did.

 

[Termite Man]

They are probably saved from being crap by the fact that they recorded Saturn 5 which I think is a very good song .

 

[bluestreak]

They are probably saved from being crap by the fact that they recorded Saturn 5 which I think is a very good song .

Which is exactly the tune i played the missus just now to explain my fence sitting decision!

 

[Ketamoid]

<<< as fuck

 

[machine cat]

Not crap at all, but Clint Boon's "White No Sugar" was still better than everything they did.

this

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Pretty crap but I did like plane crash and I want you would have been awesome if that inspirals singer left Mark E Smith to the singing.