The Bluetones - New Album

[Andy]

...it's great, buy it :)

I know they're no longer 'fashionable' but they have crafted some great songs over the years and this album is very much a return to form.

My Neighbours House is a cracker.

Gets a :thumbs: up from me.

[TheoGB]

I think they stopped being 'fashionable' around the same time they released their 2nd album. ;)

I saw them a few years back at the Metro. I hadn't realised that track used in Spaced for the Camden gun fight was theirs until they played it, though I knew they were in the Robot Wars episode and stuff.

They were still a great band to watch but it was only a 30 min set with one track from the first album (Expecting to Fly? I think they played Cut Some Rug).

[HubbaHubba]

Haven't picked this up yet but got the single. How does it compare to Luxembourg? I thought that was ace and the best album they'd released since their first.

[morantic]

Another thumbs up from me - I think it is possibly their best to date, it has some really good songs on there - nothing flashy, just good quality songs. Well worth getting I say.

[wozwebs]

Didn't know they had one due out. Love their debut, still listen to it reguarly on my iPod

[GK]

Far, far more band interesting than their reputation these days might suggest - intelligent, skilled, soulful and wearing well. Just ordered this based on my love for the last album and a general long-standing fondness from afar. Love the line about the geese, still.

I think it's about time I popped my live cherry with them, despite the rather off-putting level of coarse, sweary fanboy-ness I just found on their forum.

Good review here at CDTimes (http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=3430)

[Andy]

I saw them live at the Sugarmill in Stoke - very good they were too.

I loved Luxemburg too, but this I feel is their best since their debut.

[HubbaHubba]

Great, might try and pick it up after work.

Well worth seeing live. Seen them loads of times over the years from supporting The Charlatans (back when Are You Blue... came out I think it was) up to recent tours. Hoping to catch them again in November at the Leadmill, which is where my fondest memories of them are. Especially their special "Blue Christmas" gig where blue Santa hats got handed out on the way in :D

[The Bear]

Gonna have to check this out. I like My Neighbour's House, and I liked Luxembourg, there were some great tracks on there.

[Bigsby]

Played on the same bill as them at a festival in Scotland last year, which says more about how far they have fallen than it does about how successful my music career has been.

[Karl]

Also really enjoying this. And going to see them for the umpteenth time at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham next month.

[KeyserSoze]

Haven't listened to Bluetones in yonks.

Just had to dig them out after this thread. Bleedin' eck, how good is Expecting to Fly?

[MetalGearAl]

Just digging this thread out as I went with someone to my first Bluetones gig in Southampton the other night and it was great!

Embarassed to say I couldn't remember anything by them (until a dawn of realisation when Slight Return was played) but I'd been listening to the new album and really enjoying. They played a good 15 songs or so (gig was about an hour long) with about half of that from the new album and the other half split across their previous albums.

Would definitely go see them again, they play a really good live set :thumbs:

[Karl]

They have a new album out on the 26th February.

BBC Radio Sessions
Released: February 26, 2007


Tracks

1. Slight Return (John Peel session 1994)
2. Talking To Clarry (John Peel session 1994)
3. Glad To See Y' Back Again (Evening Session 1995)
4. String Along (Evening Session 1995)
5. Castle Rock (John Peel session 1996)
6. Vampire (John Peel session 1996)
7. If (Evening Session 1995)
8. Sleazy Bed Track (Evening Session 1998)
9. Solomon Bites The Worm (Evening Session 1998)
10. Basement Song (Evening Session 2000)
11. Last Of The Great Navigators (Evening Session 2000)
12. I'm Over Now And I Know It (Evening Session 2000)
13. Slack Jaw (Evening Sessin 2000)



With a "exclusive Limited Edition Lyric Sheet" if you get it from www.townsend-records.co.uk

[Philc]

Best song they have ever made is Putting Out Fires without a shadow of a doubt.

I stopped listening to them when they released Luxembourg album and it was drivel.

[The Bear]

I thought Luxembourg was overly-dissed and it had some very good tracks on it.

Liquid Lips and Here It Comes Again are both excellent tracks.

[Johnny Vodka]

Worst band ever, bar, perhaps, Shed Seven. ;)

[DM]

Worst band ever, bar, perhaps, Shed Seven. ;)

Totally untrue, some cracking singles IMO.

[KeyserSoze]

Bluetones are excellent what the hell?

[Sick Boy]

Return to the Last Chance Saloon is in my list of top albums. Love every track.

[Johnny Vodka]

I was perhaps exaggerating a little, but I still don't see them as anything more than a middling indie band (singer has an annoyingly whiny voice too). My sis and her mate used to be Bluetones groupies and go on about them all the bloody time, which probably turned my mild dislike into hate. ;)

[LouBarlow]

Totally untrue, some cracking singles IMO.

Agreed - JV doesn't like anything without synths...

[KeyserSoze]

I love the singers voice. He must have taken a few kicks to the nads to get a voice like that.

[Johnny Vodka]

Agreed - JV doesn't like anything without synths...

Not at all. I just think The Bluetones are a band without any frills, and I wouldn't even say their tunes are good. :razz: ;)

[Walrus Man]

Worst band ever, bar, perhaps, Shed Seven. ;)The Bluetones are pretty decent, although the last album is only average (I bought it due to recommendations on here...) but Shed Seven are just totally awesome, probably my favourite band. :notworthy

[Lorne.t]

I used to love "Bluetonic" and also liked their song with the "Bugsy Malone" type video - "After hours".