Talk about a vibe.
It contains some wonderful saxophone, and has a wonderful feel throughout and of course that infectious scouse chatter.
A really clever piece of music - chillout perfection!!!
I think she'd had a bad day - what do you reckon??
There's a great bit of information taken from Discogs about this track.
"One day a woman arrives unnanounced at the One Little Indian offices in London. She tells label boss Derek Birket that she wants a deal for her new single. Let's hear it then, he replies.
Instead of playing him a demo, she reads out, in a dour northern accent, her 'imperfect list'. Birket is blown away by the words, and decides to take a punt, offering her a tiny recording budget
A few weeks later, the anonymous lady returns with the masters. To everyone's amazement, not only is the track kinda amazing, but it is recorded by Robin Gutherie of Cocteau Twins and Pete Wylie, and has Andrew Weatherall remixes already arranged...
It's a jaw-dropping song, this, especially in its original beatless version - a list of evildoers and nastiness spat out in a vitriolic Scouse accent over a dark ambient drone."
"Adolf Hitler. the dentist. Terry & June. fucking bastard Thatcher. Scouse impersonator. silly pathetic girlies. silly pathetic woman. macho dickhead. Bonnie Langford. neighbours. lost keys. phoney friend. ungrateful accusing mate. the Royal family. Stock Aitken & Waterman. smiling Judas. heartbreaking lying friend. Myra Hindley. acid rain. stinking rich female in furs. disloyal lover. wife & child beater. drunken abuser. racist. bully. The Sun newspaper. AIDS inventor. Leon Brittan. all nonsense. massive massive oilslick. Jimmy Tarbuck. loneliness. cancer. hunger. greed. gut wrenching disappointment. evil gossiping fashion bastard. tasteless a&r wanker. hard cold fish. overdraft like a mountain. the Jimmy Swaggart show. the Tory invention of the non-working class. poll tax. commie bashers. mister Jesse Helms. Hillsborough. weird british judges. apartheid. John Lennon's murder. anyone's murder. the breakdown of the NHS. the death of the rain forest. Heysel stadium. rednecks. rape. homelessness. the all-American way. Clause 28. Tiananmen Square. sexual harrassment. Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. Nancy's term. Ronnie's term. miscarriage. where were you?"
Big Hard Excellent Fish - Imperfect List (1)
(Andy Weatherall Remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?lba33n1tlc8x4e4
cracking record. A world away from your normal suff. Good on ya
ReplyDeleteLove the blog, love this track.
ReplyDeleteOne day soon I'll be able to download it...
Cheers
I think you are way to harsh regarding the need for passwords. I've really enjoyed your blog but have rarely left a comment as it isn't really my thing besides I very often don't fully appreciate the song till latter on when I'm no where near a computer to comment. I'm a 70's child and have never really got into the computer/facebook/twitter scene and reading your comments & downloading & enjoying the odd classic track (which I never managed to purchase back in the late 80's/90's) is the extent of my interest. My point is that just because people don't contribute to your blog or leave a comment it doesn't mean they don't enjoy it and surely that is the point of doing a blog that people out there get enjoyment from your hard work which they surely must be if they are visiting and downloading from your site regularly. Free the music.
ReplyDeleteHi MBR,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments and I fully appreciate your point of view.
However, people basically treat the blog like a public music service. They just come along take what they want without ever giving anything back. In my day I spent £000's and hundreds of hours in record shops purhcasing all the great tracks which now appear on the blog. People now get all this wonderful music given to them for free. Not only that they get the finest tracks selection, the best remixes identified, the endorsement that these tracks were played by the greatest club DJs and that they had a huge impact on the best club dancefloors across the country. My blogging is done purely for the love of the music, I have a very busy day job and very little free to time (and what I do tends to be spent on the blog). If people can't have the decency to give something back; a comment; a track suggestion; a link to share, then basically the're using this blog as a free public service, which it isn't. Blogging should be a 2 way communication - otherwise why would bloggers bother. The passwords will continue and those that want to get involved drop me an email. If people want one or two tracks to download, I'll provide passwords as long as comments/feedback are left. You mentioned you're not next a a computer when listening to what you download, well there's nothing to stop you leaving a comment when you return and are downloading the next "free" track.
I'm sure you understand the stance?
Best regards, PCC
Great stuff - I've been after a copy of this for years... Kudos!
ReplyDeleteAndrew weatherall is one of the best 90's producer but everybody with 2 ears know that!
ReplyDelete"leechers" just come to download tracks and obtain "free" music, with no comments, no feedback and no gratitude for those who spend all their time posting this great dance music."
ReplyDeleteOh please! Spare us the bullshit. I've just stumbled on to this site through a link provided to me by an actual artist who's music you have featured here. You are merely posting music to the internet and sharing it for free with no compensation or gratitude to the artists themselves who "spent all their time" creating those tracks. I find it hypocritical of you to make such a claim about people doing the same to you except all you do is get a *free* blog and write a few lines of text, upload an image that chances are *you didn't create*, and upload a song to a *free* hosting service. Not spending hours in an expensive studio trying to perfect a song. Now you must know how you affect the artists, except they actually lose money from your actions and you lose nothing from not getting feedback or comments about somebody else's hard work that you wish to benefit from. You should be at least content with page hits. That's gratitude enough for a leech like you, anything else is just to stroke your ego.
You are taking absolute nonsense my friend. Almost all the tracks on here are made by artists who have long disappeared and many of the tracks are deleted or impossible to find. This blog is about celebrating and promoting those artists, remixers and DJ's who made such fantastic music and made the scene so great. It's certainly not about ego's, but I guess you are one of those freeloaders who contribute nothing and expect everything for free. I spent many hundreds of hours in record shops and many thousands of pounds buying vinyl and supporting the artists, so don't give me any bullshit about freeloading. Not to mention all the nights and money spent clubbing again supporting the artists and DJs. What have you ever contributed except a few lines of pathetic text above. Do me a favour!!!
ReplyDeleteBest regards, Pure Club Classics
Great selection of tracks. Wethaerall was and still is genius.
ReplyDeleteNice song and story. Never heard this before.
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