big satan said:
benjybars said:
any more? also, i get the feeling The Raincoats are classed very much as a 'girl' group (not that the music's for girls, but that the fact that they are female is important..?) anyway, that's not particularly why i like them, so don't feel to restrict suggestions to female groups only.. thx.
and probably
early (ie pre fashionable clubbing makeover)
Everything But The Girl and
Tracy Thorn's solo "From a Distant Shore" as well
(that pleasingly turned up last autumn as
a cult recommendation in The Indie ) and maybe around-the-same-timish
Ben Watt's "North Marine Drive" (you get the idea - these were coastal times - I tend to play Tracy and Ben's solo albums back to back whenever I pick one of them up from the crates;
they belong together and it's no wonder they later became an outfit in more than one sense).
Virginia Astley - whose "From Where Gardens Where We Feel Secure"
is a celebration of a warm English summer with birdsong and distant churchbells and
all (when is bloody spring coming to London anyway this year?)
And when you're at it (and if you can afford it, I presume you are buying
at least some of this stuff) - get the
Durutti Column's debut album "The return of ..."
(every man&woman in the land should have some Vini in his collection).
And this might be stretching it a bit (?) - but
Eyeless in Gaza might fall in taste.
If you are short of cash - start with Young Marble Giants - one fantastic album,
a couple of singles and that is it . Easy to collect and not one bad release.
The Slits would probably be the critics (ie Blissblogger's) iconic and
obvious "one" choice album.
But this is Dissensus, not Consensus as someone wrote the other day ...