#Lloyd Cole

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Going insane in your house lyrics

Hamish Hawk - Rest and Veneers

James - Curse Curse

Florence + the Machine - Girls Against God

Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Mysterious Power

Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Four Flights Up

[bandcampsnoop]

10/3/24.

This release took me completely by surprise. From the cover, I kind of thought I might be getting some honkey tonk. Instead, Hataałii (full name Hataałiinez Wheeler from Window Rock, Arizona) has a bit of country, some crooner, and some good old fashioned alternative sound.

Window Rock known in Navajo as Tségháhoodzání is the capital of the Navajo Nation. Hataałii means "to sing" in Navajo. My immediate thought was that "Waiting For A Sign" had a similar sound to David Vassalotti (formerly of Merchandise). Hataałii's voice also sounds a bit like Lloyd Cole or Edwyn Collins.

Dangerbird Records released this album.

[midnighttraindemo]

V98 music festival official program and info guide for the chelmsford site.

my parents attended, as well as going to reading and glastonbury in the same year.

[severeprincesheep]

Lloyd Cole - No Blue Skies

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Lloyd Cole - Myrtle and Rose (2013)

The longer you were gone the less the longing

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lloyd cole of the commotions dancing the most eighties dance in lost weekend

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions  Rattlesnakes

1984's Rattlesnakes was a tremendously mature, accomplished debut for Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, a set of ten brilliantly crafted pop songs with superb hooks, melodies to die for, and lyrics that were as clever as they were coolly literate. As a singer and tunesmith, Cole was as keen a chronicler of pop culture iconography and human interaction as Morrissey without his smugness, and Rattlesnakes is among the best British LPs of the 1980s.

- Mark Deming

[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

Lloyd Cole - No Blue Skies

Music Video

Artist

Lloyd Cole

Composer

Lloyd Cole

Lyricist

Lloyd Cole

Produced

Lloyd Cole Fred Maher Paul Hardiman

Credit

Lloyd Cole - Vocals, guitar, piano harmonica and programming Robert Quine - Guitars Blair Cowan - keyboards Matthew Sweet - Bass Guitar, backing vocals Fred Maher - Drums and Programming Nicky Holland - Backing vocals

Released

February 21 1990

Streaming

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[ncrediblechels]

Are you ready to be heartbroken? 🥀

[kunstmull]

The moment when Lloyd Cole takes off his NHS specs and you realise beneath that facade of ironic, detached intellectual, he is actually a total heartthrob

[musickickztoo]

Lloyd Cole  *January 31, 1961

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9/3/24.

Following up on The Ladybug Transistor post was easy. Frequent Gary Olson collaborator, Phil Sutton, is releasing "another "Blue" by Love, Burns (Queens, New York). This band sound remarkably like Pale Lights, but the lineup is sort of an all-star one: Kyle Forrester (Crystal Stilts), Hampus Öhman-Frölund (drummed with many including Jens Lekman) and the aforementioned Gary Olson.

There have been many Love, Burns/Pale Lights posts over the years but I will repeat my RIYL: Felt, Lloyd Cole, Edwyn Collins, and many many more.

This is being co-released by Kleine Untergrund Schallplatte (KUS) and Jigsaw Records.

[mywifeleftme]

102: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions // Rattlesnakes

Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole & the Commotions 1984, Polydor

I probably first heard Rattlesnakes about 15 years ago when I was in the heart of a mania for jangle pop, and my immediate thought was that it struck me as a spiritual predecessor to Vampire Weekend’s hyper-literate, collegiate guitar pop. I no longer feel like that’s a perfect comparison; it’s more like if Orange Juice scored a Whit Stillman movie. But if that comparison is bespoke enough for you to wanna close this tab already, let’s go back to the Vampire Weekend thing. Like Ezra Koenig, Cole had a knack for lampooning urbane trust fund kids, even as his characters nakedly yearn for a place in that cohort of bright young romantics. But, despite similarly precocious gifts as a songwriter, Cole is much more likely than the aloof Koenig to play the fool, both intentionally (“It wasn't my style to find surf in my eye / It was much more my style to find sand in my eye”) and otherwise (“If you really want to get straight / read Norman Mailer”). That’s a great part of the charm of Cole’s early music: it’s the sound of a young man who believes himself to be brilliant mostly proving himself right, the wild successes and groaning errors that come with growing into the role. (Sadly, like a lot of brilliant young men he peaked early with this effort.)

Rattlesnakes is one of the most consistently fun jangle pop records to come out of the ‘80s UK scene, and I don’t find there to be a bad song in the bunch. Each of the four singles is a worthy contender for the jewel in the crown, but I’ve always had a soft spot for the tender “2cv.” It’s one of the few songs where Cole steps away from his bookshelf and simply writes what he feels. In the context of his delicate melody, he accomplishes the Morrissey-esque trick of writing lines that give a pang, even as you realize they’re quite funny:

"She took her mother’s car to get away from me Heaven knows that I… I can sympathize Oh, I can sympathize

For we were never close if the truth were told All we ever shared Was a taste in clothes"

102/365

[rainingmusic]

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Speedboat 

[momentsinlove]

Moments in Love #27 with Matthew McFarlin

Guest mix: @theoffcomer

David Bowie / The Mysteries

Joni Mitchell / One Week Last Summer

Lloyd Cole / Loveless

Jeff Beck / Where Were You?

Dead Can Dance / The Carnival Is Over

Depeche Mode / Leave In Silence (Claro Intelecto mix)

Mark Isham / Ashes And Diamonds

Josh Rouse / O, I Need All The Love

Rickie Lee Jones / We Belong Together

Joni Mitchell / My Best To You

Adem / There Will Always Be

Maurice Jarre / Carpe Diem

Photo: Matthew McFarlin, 2022 @theoffcomer