The Divine Comedy- Victory For The Comic Muse

[airboy paul]

Ok, this album will probably be ignored by most of you, what with y'all being american and mostly interested in american bands or popular/nme uk bands (so i am guessing), but dang this album is just amazing.
Liberation, Promenade, Casanova, A Short Album About Love, Fin De Siecle, Regeneration, Absent Friends, all mighty fine consistently awesome albums by this great band/chap. This album can easily join them, currently beating them for me- awesome songs and album.

Obviously Helen loves them (what do you make of it?) and I know that James has a fondness of Come Home Billy Bird, and Steve has Fin De Siecle, but not sure about anyone else.

A Lady Of A Certain Age is just one of the greatest songs ever.
To Die A Virgin is super great pop.
& The Plough, Snowball In Negative, & Count Grassi's Passage Over Piedmont are impressively different brilliant songs. I'm looking forward to getting to listen to this more and more and getting to know and love the songs even more.

OK, excitable post over.

[stephen]

i've only heard the new song but i really love it! it'll be the next album i buy i expect

[monet2u]

pfft I like them just fine, thank you very much...nice way to pigeon hole people

[Sybil]

What Jackie said.

Sy "thank you Ben Folds for covering a Divine Comedy song" bil

[airboy paul]

ah it gets more of a response pigeon-holing people
Ooh, and I forgot that TDC was support for Ben Folds in America not long ago, so maybe some more know them via that.

[eebs]

the reviews i've seen haven't been so kind but i'll probably grab a listen when i'm next in a record store.

(saw them play the astoria 96, reading 96, barbican acoustic 98ish, reading 99, portmouth 00/01 + a random neil sighting in sainsburys, clapham)

[airboy paul]

Yeah, the reviews don't seem to be as good as they should be. I'm loving it though. It may be this year's Illinois for me, gonna play it to death and still not get sick of it.

[airboy paul]

...nice way to pigeon hole people

Was pretty much right though

[Jan]

I saw them on Jools Holland last night and was unimpressed. The Flaming Lips and Cat Power were far better. I even enjoyed The Strokes pish new songs more.

[monet2u]

...nice way to pigeon hole people

Was pretty much right though

considering there are a bazillion bands/artists in the world.....not really. I mean people have so many choices you can't possibly expect them to choose your selection over the others....then again, if you perhaps made a suggestion to folks saying "this band is great, check them out" ...that might peak their interest...but saying they won't "get it" or something along those lines is more likey to turn them off.

just a thought.

[airboy paul]

Nah, I reckon it would have been ignored all the same.
Anyhow, my point was that I tend to feel that American folk don't ever seem to like all the smaller UK bands that are about- unless an NME stylee hyped band ready/hoping to become huge. But maybe it's just harder for Americans to find out about smaller UK acts? Much easier for us Brits to find and like the tiny American acts, which I'd say we do more than vice versa.

I saw them on Jools Holland last night and was unimpressed. The Flaming Lips and Cat Power were far better. I even enjoyed The Strokes pish new songs more.

I wasn't overly impressed with the sound of the songs, not as good as when I saw them live recently. Cat Power I found depressing and bleh, and The Flaming Lips ok (used to love them, gone bored of them a bit now), and their Warpigs cover was pretty bad.

[Jan]

But maybe it's just harder for Americans to find out about smaller UK acts?

I'd imagine it's pretty difficult to find out about cult UK artists if there is no press coverage across the pond.