Favourite B-Sides

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Fri 13 Jun 2008, 16:11

I still listen to vinyl too. I've still got all of my old albums.

A little ol' turntable just doesn't sound the same though!

newborn Number of posts: 8 Registration date: 2008-06-20

For me these are the best ones :

Vum Gardia - a fantastic experimental track from one of the 'Red' eps... they used to play this song before starting the concert way back when they were not known. It gave me the chills the first time I heard it in the venue several years back (they played in Brussels for about 100 people then - now they're selling out venues).

About time - another excellent song taken from one of the 'Red' eps...

One thing that was bothering me - awesome song, very moving from the 'newborn' ep

Waving from windows - from the 'Grace under pressure' ep

Live on my mind - very beautiful, from the 'not a job' ep

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Mon 11 Aug 2008, 23:04

MCGREGOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 12 Aug 2008, 00:09

I'm sorry Leo, I didn't quite catch that..

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 12 Aug 2008, 03:26

McGreggor is pretty awesome. I remember George and I listening to it and pondering if this was a new direction Elbow might be taking. Then we heard Grounds for Divorce! Both quirky and excellent Very Happy

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 12 Aug 2008, 09:42

anyone got any mp3s or clips of their b sides please

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 12 Aug 2008, 09:46

The powderblue forum has a good thread on B-sides, you will have to sign up but the thread is here

http://www.atomicboards.com/board.pl?user=powderblue&board=1038&sid=4998&mode=read&action=401808

Also look at the imeem page for B-sides, which you can get to from the links on the homepage of this forum

http://www.imeem.com/groups/RfB8ZbNj,elbow/

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Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 12 Aug 2008, 10:26

thanks a lot MT (oh no capitals Very Happy

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Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Wed 08 Oct 2008, 14:13

We're away is such a lovely song!!

and vum gardia id enjoyable.

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Finally heard a song of theirs that isn't from Seldom Seen Kid today! (For those that don't know, I'm extremely wet behnd the ears on this forum, having only recently broke my duck with The Seldom Seen Kid, so please be patient while I bring myself up to speed on this band.)

Anyway, the song was George Lassoes The Moon. I love the keyboard on this - very prog rock, reminded me a bit of Van der Graaf Generator and early Genesis. I haven't taken to the rest of the song, the vocals seem a bit buried in it, but I'll give it another go when I get the time. It's A Wonderful Life is one of my favourite movies so the title of this song alone was enough to grab my attention.

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 28 Oct 2008, 03:40

Teardrop!! I haven't heard it. Sad

If I can only pick two I'll go with:

The Long War Shuffle
Hotel Istanbul

Subject: Re: Favourite B-Sides Tue 28 Oct 2008, 03:44

lee spoons wrote:

Elbow's B-sides are generally better than most bands' A-sides... what are your favourites?

Here's mine, in no particular order.

Love Blown Down - should've been on an album, it's brilliant!
George Lassoes The Moon - I think it's the Noisebox version I prefer
Theme from Munroe Kelly 2004 - instrumental version - it's the Eastern-sounding strings I like on this
The Drunken Engineer - who was that heart-broken engineer?
Teardrop - the only decent version apart from the Massive Attack original

I've probably missed a couple off, so many to choose from!

You know, I don't think I have any of these. I might know which singles they are, but can you freshen my memory? Also, anyone know how I can get these singles without paying a god awful price? Thanks for any help.

newborn Number of posts: 3 Registration date: 2011-05-06

There are lots of Elbow songs that do not appear on any of the 5 albums, and this is my personal playlist:

1. Brave New Shave
2. Snowball
3. McGreggor
4. Lucky With Disease
5. Suffer
6. About time
7. Love Blown down
8. Live on my mind
9. Loss
10. Puckfair
11. Hotel Istanbul
12. Gentle As
13. The Drunken Engineer

of which my fave has to be hotel istanbul. What's your favorite?