10 Years ago today... - Page 5 - Forever Delayed

Slideling · #61 20-03-2011, 21:11

Say what you want, nothing will ever replace KYE for me. 'citing times, they were.

The Gutless Wonder · #62 20-03-2011, 21:58

'But I still love, the smile on your face!'

2004567 · #63 20-03-2011, 22:03

But I still love, everything about this place!

The Gutless Wonder · #64 20-03-2011, 22:08

'Wake up and pour myself another ICEBREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRR!!'

The Gutless Wonder · #65 20-03-2011, 22:09

My Guernica rocks my world!

2004567 · #66 20-03-2011, 22:32

I'm loving Dead Martyrs at the moment!

Son of Stopped · #67 20-03-2011, 22:36

And yet when I get to the end of Baby Elian and the start of Freedom Of Speech... I want another 16 tracks!
Despite the subject matter, those songs always make me think of sunny summer days.

darkanddivine · #68 20-03-2011, 22:38

Ah the college days! Yeah I remember KYE coming out and having it on my CD walkman all morning, much to the disapproval of tutors and friends alike!

The difficult 6th album it seems this was, there are great moments on there. I have to say my appetite was whetted by Locust Valley, but the sheer experimentation does keep it from being a classic of any kind. In many ways it's an album for the 00's, lots of individual moments but no cohesive album feel. Perfect for dipping into. That said it's peppered with some great rock moments, the thunderous middle of Inravenous Agnostic, the straight up rock of Found that Soul and Dead Martyrs, weird experiments like So Why So Sad and Miss Europa, and basically the band playing loud!

in a lot of ways, KYE is the experimentation bands go through before they then go and make a record. They did well to make it stick, but the effects were clearly felt afterwards as people voted by not buying the follow up Lifeblood. In many ways though it galvanised the band in some way, as they went from a slump onto a decade of some of the best live shows I've ever seen.

Scarecrow · #69 20-03-2011, 22:41

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Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

My Guernica rocks my world!

Probably in my top five on the album. Love it.

Noisy Cat · #70 20-03-2011, 22:45

I got up early to queue outside the Manchester Virgin Megastore, as the first 100 (?) people to buy the CD got a wristband to a meet-the-band signing session before their gig at the Apollo later that month. And that turned out to be the first time I met them!

Anyone else in that queue? If you have an outstanding memory, I was the one sitting down on my own, reading Sartre's Nausea and trying hard to look like I fully understood it.

Son of Stopped · #71 20-03-2011, 22:47

Plus around the time you had Radiohead and their Kid A and Oasis, The Strokes and Ash making their bids for guitar dominance.
I wouldn't call KYE a cross between Kid A and Oasis, but to really enjoy KYE, you have to remember what else was around at the time.
If KYE had come out with the same tracklisting in 2009 or even this year do you think it would have been more accepted or a nail in the coffin?

EDIT: Plus Dido had the biggest selling album of the year with "No Angel". Amazed I forgot about that seeing as it seemed to be everywhere at the time!

darkanddivine · #72 20-03-2011, 22:58

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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

do you think it would have been more accepted or a nail in the coffin?

If it had come out nowish I get the feeling it would appear like a desperate attempt to be all "rock" when they'd been through TIMT, Lifeblood and PFAYM (discounting Journal for a second)

I love the fact that they are still a "loud" band, and until Journal they could pull it off, but I feel now to make a KYE wouldn't go own too well.

Europa Gluten Free · #73 20-03-2011, 23:01

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Originally Posted by Noisy Cat

I got up early to queue outside the Manchester Virgin Megastore, as the first 100 (?) people to buy the CD got a wristband to a meet-the-band signing session before their gig at the Apollo later that month. And that turned out to be the first time I met them!

Anyone else in that queue? If you have an outstanding memory, I was the one sitting down on my own, reading Sartre's Nausea and trying hard to look like I fully understood it.

Haha. You were a complete walking embodiment of the KYE era!

Scarecrow · #74 20-03-2011, 23:01

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Originally Posted by Noisy Cat

I got up early to queue outside the Manchester Virgin Megastore, as the first 100 (?) people to buy the CD got a wristband to a meet-the-band signing session before their gig at the Apollo later that month. And that turned out to be the first time I met them!

Anyone else in that queue? If you have an outstanding memory, I was the one sitting down on my own, reading Sartre's Nausea and trying hard to look like I fully understood it.

I wasn't in that queue, but I was at the gig. I recall before they played Yes, James mentioned someone turning up with a painting of Richey at that signing.

Scarecrow · #75 20-03-2011, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

Plus around the time you had Radiohead and their Kid A and Oasis, The Strokes and Ash making their bids for guitar dominance.
I wouldn't call KYE a cross between Kid A and Oasis, but to really enjoy KYE, you have to remember what else was around at the time.
If KYE had come out with the same tracklisting in 2009 or even this year do you think it would have been more accepted or a nail in the coffin?

EDIT: Plus Dido had the biggest selling album of the year with "No Angel". Amazed I forgot about that seeing as it seemed to be everywhere at the time!

Aside from any nostalgic memories that I sometimes get from listening to that album, can't say I ever looked at it like that. I like Kid A and a few Ash tracks from the late '90s, but I never had any interest in the Strokes or Oasis and certainly didn't listen to much indie around 2001.

As for what would happen if it came out in 2009, I think it would've been received like "oh they're trying to be a guitar band again, but don't seem to know which direction they want to take".