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 Post subject: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:35 pm 
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Saw some of their albums on a blog and I'm curious. Figured obners might have some insight. Worth it? Which albums? etc.

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steve harvey sucks and ruined last night's game.

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 Post subject: Re: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
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Kingfish Wrote:
Saw some of their albums on a blog and I'm curious. Figured obners might have some insight. Worth it? Which albums? etc.


I would suggest treading lightly. The first Cockney Rebel album (Human Menagerie) was probably their best, in a sub-Bowie/Roxy Music sorta way, and The Best Years of Our Lives had the song "Make Me Smile" on it, which is easily the best Steve Harley song out there. Apart from the title track, Psychomodo is kinda hard to take.

The double live album Face to Face from '77 picks pretty much all of his best songs from those early years (read: pretty much all his best songs ever), and the sound quality is great, but the live version of "Make Me Smile" is either ruined or perfected by an extended audience singalong, depending on your tolerance for such things.
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 Post subject: Re: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
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Radcliffe Wrote:
Kingfish Wrote:
Saw some of their albums on a blog and I'm curious. Figured obners might have some insight. Worth it? Which albums? etc.


I would suggest treading lightly. The first Cockney Rebel album (Human Menagerie) was probably their best, in a sub-Bowie/Roxy Music sorta way, and The Best Years of Our Lives had the song "Make Me Smile" on it, which is easily the best Steve Harley song out there. Apart from the title track, Psychomodo is kinda hard to take.

The double live album Face to Face from '77 picks pretty much all of his best songs from those early years (read: pretty much all his best songs ever), and the sound quality is great, but the live version of "Make Me Smile" is either ruined or perfected by an extended audience singalong, depending on your tolerance for such things.


You might like some of the stuff on this site. http://frisiansotherfavorites.blogspot.com/

Some of it comes straight out of the Radcliffe record collection.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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 Post subject: Re: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
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You might like some of the stuff on this site. http://frisiansotherfavorites.blogspot.com/

Some of it comes straight out of the Radcliffe record collection.


holy shit, what an awesome blog. I have those two Eastwood soundtracks, but they're shitty rips. I've wanted to get a good version of 'I'll Wake You Up when I Get Home' forever and a day.

thanks tanner.

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i endorse Steve Harley - i have a "best of" compilation that is pretty good. Although nothing touches "Make me Smile," but then again not much does.

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DumpJack Wrote:
Kingfish Wrote:

You might like some of the stuff on this site. http://frisiansotherfavorites.blogspot.com/

Some of it comes straight out of the Radcliffe record collection.


holy shit, what an awesome blog. I have those two Eastwood soundtracks, but they're shitty rips. I've wanted to get a good version of 'I'll Wake You Up when I Get Home' forever and a day.

thanks tanner.


I was joking in chatzy last week that I was going to send you the links those Eastwood soundtracks. I would have actually have done it if I realized you were really looking for them. :lol:
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I was joking in chatzy last week that I was going to send you the links those Eastwood soundtracks. I would have actually have done it if I realized you were really looking for them. :lol:


haha, tha'ts awesome. Like I said I had them, but the rips were terrible. I also noticed John Simon's 1971 album on there as well.

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Some friends (one from the UK, one from Australia) were bantering bait about this guy.
Posted this clip and I liked it: sounded like late-70s Nick Lowe and Rockpile.


I wanna investigate.
Did a search and dug up this old thread.
Anybody else have anything that they want to add about this guy and this band?
The earlier stuff sounded really glammy. AllMusic seems to think that The Psychomondo is their best album, but Rads: you disagree?
Would love to see some more discussion. Thanks!

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