[ni'k]

 

i love this band! adorable visceral raw experimental pretty feminine gentle punk rock wonder. they make me feel so alive and joyous. So discuss this amazing band, i want to know everything about them. downloaded a their first album. it is now officially one of my favorite albums of all time. a record hasn't touched me this much in so long.

 

from the smells like records site -
t seemed for a while in the wake of Pistols/Clash hysteria that post-punk Blighty might just change the face of popular culture. And no small thanks to some females who didn't care to be written off: The Slits, Kleenex and most enduringly, the Raincoats. Their brief career included a few LPs on Rough Trade, but the band fell pray to inner turmoil by the turn of the decade. That was way before their biggest fan, a semi-famous guy named Kurt Cobain began singing their story to every journalist in the land. Soon enough Steve Shelley was behind the drums in a revamped version of the band. With this new lineup, Extended Play came to be, a preface to their triumphant 1994 reunion album on the DGC label. Available as a 10 inch vinyl EP record or CD.
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"I don't know anything about The Raincoats except that they recorded some music that has affected me so much that whenever I hear it I'm reminded of a particular time when I was (shall we say) extremely unhappy, lonely and bored. If it weren't for the luxury of putting on that scratchy copy of The Raincoats' first record, I would have had very few moments of peace. I suppose I could have researched a bit of history about the band but I feel it's more important to delineate the way I feel and how they sound.

When I listen to The Raincoats I feel as if I'm a stowaway in an attic, violating and in the dark. Rather than listening to them I feel like I'm listening in on them. We're together in the same old house and I have to be completely still or they will hear me spying from above and, if I get caught - everything will be ruined because it's their thing. They're playing their music for themselves. It's not as sacred as wire-tapping a buddhist monk's telephone or something because if The Raincoats did catch me, they would probably just ask me if I wanted some tea. I would comply, then they would finish playing their songs and I would say thank you very much for making me feel good."

Kurt Cobain, June 1993.
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[Anngella]

LOVE them. Adventures Close To Home is just great, though I think it's a Slits cover? Or The Slits covered them? Who knows, I just love that song.

[ni'k]

i just checked and it was the raincoats that covered the slits. great song.

the void is one of the finest i've heard so far. it's dreary and lonely and hauntingly beautiful.

[GravitySlips]

I like The Slits, and I've been meaning to listen to this band. I'll slsk their first album.

[ni'k]

if you want to d/l it off me my username is threads

[gmku]

I've always wanted this album. Is it out on vinyl?

[ni'k]

if your kurt cobain in 1992 you might have had a chance. now i think the chances of finding raincoats vinyl would be exceptional. im in the same position cos i dont want to buy all their stuff on cd's if i could get the vinyl, hopefully they will get a vinyl reissue someday

[gmku]

Originally Posted by ni'k

if your kurt cobain in 1992 you might have had a chance. now i think the chances of finding raincoats vinyl would be exceptional. im in the same position cos i dont want to buy all their stuff on cd's if i could get the vinyl, hopefully they will get a vinyl reissue someday

Seem to find more and more great reissues these days--so many in fact that these days I feel comfortable holding out for the vinyl. Almost got Wire on CD a few months ago but I'm glad I waited. A few companies are doing a great job--Sundazed, 4 Men with Beards, Rhino, among others. I've been surprised by recent reissues of stuff like the Pil Metal Box, Black Sabbath, Wire's first albums. Maybe one of these companies will pick up the Raincoats album.

[Cantankerous]

didn't i already make a raincoats thread?
i've spent so much time listening to them that i've deciphered all the words, a task previously thought to be impossible.

edit: no, i didn't make a thread. carry on.

[gmku]

Somehow 4 Men with Beards has the absolute quietest, nicest vinyl. I don't know how they do it. I've got a fairly decent Grado cartridge that not only picks up about 90 percent of the music but also 90 percent of any imperfections (surface noise), and even with headphones, I hear hardly anything in those grooves that is not music. No hiss, nothing. I wish all vinyl makers these days could do as fine a job.

[guitarpro]

Love em to

[PAULYBEE2656]

only was listening to it a few mins ago. its a fucking wondrrul record. ive the ep they did with s shelley about 10 years ago too. thats pretty ok but that album rules all.....

[sun city girl]

that first lp RULEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

[wax]

maybe a coincidence that this thread popped up around the same day that i got my hands on the 1st raincoats album.
what a fucking album,.
last night i took the train listening to the raincoats all the way, barely holding myself back from screaming along amongst the millions of straight faced salary men and sleeping passengers,
i went to a drum and bass club all night for 6 hours, as good as it was, i left at 6am...very drunk, put on my headphones to the fucking amazing delights of off duty trip and lola, feeling like i should break down and cry or vomit or something. wanting to scream the lyrics outloud and doing so at some point after i got offa the train. i got home, listened again, went outside and wrote THE RAINCOATS on the wall with a paint pen that never comes off.

[sun city girl]

thanks wax, cool story!

[Thomas Moronic]

Good call. Raincoats rule!

[Bastian]

There was a pretty nice show of two of the Raincoat girls in Berlin recently.

[evollove]

Everyone loves the first.

The ones who love the second can all fit on a very, very tiny raft.