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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

978.0. "Frazier Chorus" by MOVIES::WHITE () Tue Feb 18 1992 14:07

Does anyone know if there was a Frazier Chorus album before Sue? 

I heard a rumbling that they did some stuff for 4AD, before signing to Virgin.


Yeah OK, the music's a bit wimpy pop, but Tim Freeman writes some
excellent lyrics - Soooo bitter/sweet:

	I just saw your friend, and he asked me
	when your birthday was and I told him lies.
	He seemed so happy when he walked away
	and I smiled for you and his big surprise.



	
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978.1I had my head in the"clouds"hearing it ;^))JGODCL::KWIKKELThe dance music library 1969-20..Wed Feb 19 1992 08:397
    Oooh yes!
    Last spring('91)a 12" Charisma records USA promo copy came in with
    onit a beautiful song named "Clouds".6 different mixes of a jazzdance
    type sound.It is my only one I have of Frazier Chorus.A re-release is
    still well possible with this one this coming spring.
    
    Jan.
978.2Go higher to heaven...MOVIES::WHITEWed Feb 19 1992 17:0219
Jan

Glad you like it. I think it's cloud8 you've got; from the LP "Ray". 
(If you plan to buy this, see if you can get the ltd. edtn. CD - it's got an
extra CD (called "the baby album") with remixes of LP tracks (including Cloud8))
This is assuming, of course, it's available in the US.

There were 3 other singles from Ray (apart from Cloud8):

	Nothing (Remixes VERY housey)
	
	Walking On Air (Unfortunatly, the one-and-only naff Frazier track)
	
	Heaven (And it seems your eternal reward, is to hang around heaven
		eternally bored)



Jer.
978.3JGODCL::KWIKKELThe dance music library 1969-20..Thu Feb 20 1992 09:399
    Re-1
    
    Yup,yr right..."Cloud8"is the title.(was'nt at my best mood yesterday)
    ;^) At home I dug the 12" up and played it....%^) hhhhmmmmmm so good!
    
    Tho I never seen the limited edition CD in the bins here.
    Anything new to be released from them soon?
    
    Jan(aka Tony Bird....as for the '90's Tony B) ;)
978.4SCOAYR::SROBERTSONThu Feb 20 1992 09:526
    any more info on the band like where do they come from ect,they
    supported the Cocteau Twins a few years ago but I missed them and have
    often wondered what they are like.
    
    
    					stuart
978.5Everything you always wanted to know about Frazier Chorus....nearlyMOVIES::WHITEFri Feb 21 1992 14:0039
You missed out there, me old mucka! When I saw the Cocteaus, Dif Juz were
the support: I think they WERE the CTs w/out Lizzie. Heyyyy..... wait a 
minute....Cocteau Twins are on 4AD, right?

OK. Here's what I know about Frazier Chorus: 

	Not much. Except that they're brilliant.

They're English, (but try not to hold that against them!) with two albums that
I know about: "Sue" (released '88) and "Ray" (released '90), both on Virgin
records.

Their style is kinda hard to pin down - the Beloved? Black? Very synthy, anyway.
But the reason you listen to them is for Tim Freemans lyrics: I haven't heard
better. Observant, wry, sinister, dreamy, mundane.....you really do have to
listen to them to appreciate the range.

Sue had two singles lifted (methinks):

	Dream Kitchen....It's just that there was I - pretending I was tied
			 to the kitchen sink - and I thought: "This stuff's
			 so kind to my hands, I'm never going to change to a
			 different brand"

	Sloppy Heart	The only song I know to use the word "squishy". CD
			single has a version of Anarchy In the UK on it!
		 	VERY different.

Ray was a lot more "comercial" in its musical sound (Paul Okenfold mixes and
stuff)


Next album due? Haven't a clue, but if it's anything like the last two, it'll
be a STONKER!


Jer.

p.s. Sorry for being really stupid Jan, but who's Tony Bird?
978.6NEWOA::DALLISONSplatterpunx on acid...Sun Feb 23 1992 18:503
    
    Didn't they do that thing with Paul MaCartney a few years back - woth
    the frogs ?
978.7JGODCL::KWIKKELThe dance music library 1969-20..Mon Feb 24 1992 09:4228
    RE.5
    
    Jer...
    
    Who Tony Bird iszzzz ;) ?????
    
    ME! hahahahaha,stupid huh? yup....me.
    My DJ name,and has been for the last 20 years.
    I got this name for tax purposes back in 1972 when they took me on
    as a DJ for a pirate radio station named Radio Northsee Int. And"they"
    were Alen West,Andy Archer,Tony Prince. Most of the time I did the
    RNI drive-in-show on land in Holland,Belgium and sometimes Germany.
    August '74 the fun ended due to governmental interference so I tried
    solliciting at legal national radio stations, but the black mark I got
    working for a pirate station did not help me make that step-over.
    My dutch colleagues who worked for the dutch side of RNI all had succes.
    Have had a load of bad luck(well, I had my fair share)not becoming a radio
    man.There's still a little grief within me not to have had the help in
    a succesfull hop-over to other stations so I had to take the job DEC
    gave me 15 years ago.I gues that this schidzoid situation is not doing
    me good.
    
    Sorry for letting myself go. ;)
    
    Jan.