Bring It On by Gomez.
It was a Mercury Prize winner, back in 1998, and that is one reason I bought it, plus the fact that the track "Whippin' Piccadilly" got a fair amount of airplay at the time and I liked the song.
I liked Gomez so much at the time that I bought their follow up album Liquid Skin too.
Then, in around 2000, I went off them. I just stopped playing their albums and kind of forgot about them completely.
Anyway, I was refilling the car stereo CD changer cassette on Sunday and my gaze fell on Bring it on and, on impulse loaded it up.
I have been listening to it in the car since Sunday, playing it three times so far and guess what?
Yep, I really like it.
So, who else has had similar happy revisitings?
Or, for that matter, unhappy ones? I have one of those too. I bought the first Muse album when it came out and didn't like it much. I tried it again last year and still didn't like it. That one went for 50p in a car boot sale.
I am keeping the Gomez though and will have to give Liquid Skin a spin or two as well.
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Yeah, I'm pretty much with you on Gomez, Carole. Definite case of Law Of Diminishing Returns after loving the debut, but they haven't yet rehabilitated themselves with me. I'll give something a go again later.
Thanks.
I ran across a Gomez song half a year ago somehow and, not having been paying attention to Mercurys at the time, had no clue who they were. I was impressed enough to get a couple albums and I wondered why they weren't better know. Now I guess I know why.
Unhappy revisitings: when the Strokes' 'Is this it' was hailed as album of the decade by lots of critics & websites/blogs I dug it out from deep in my crates and checked it again: a couple of OK-ish songs, still don't like the (slightly distorted?) vocals, best thing about it: it is mercifully short, just over half an hour....
One of those knock out a great tune every once in a while bands. Accomplished, well-produced, bland & coffee table for the most part. Spilled a tune from them a while back & got away with it. Coldplayish if you will.
...somehow I like Coldplay's 'The Scientist'... (especially the Aimee Mann cover version!)
"Get Myself Arrested" was ace!
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