A great debut for sure, but I think the second album (butterfly cover art) is superior. Their third album, babe rainbow, is a subtle masterpiece. Songs: crush me, high in your face, feel and the girl with the loneliest eyes are absolutely majestic.
I totally agree, Babe Rainbow is one the best indie albums ever made. After the intro song it is a pure flow of beautiful feelings which don't want to end and doesn't lacks a second.
The House of Love was a fantastic band. Thanks for this in-depth review. Funnily enough, I discovered The Stone Roses almost the exact same way you first heard the House of Love. Keep it up and cheers.
I discovered house of love a few months ago and I couldn't believe I never heard of this band. How cana the world not know about this amazing band. Every song is a hit. What the bloody fu@ is wrong with the world. This is such an underrated band. I'm in love with their song Love in a car. It just trances me. The first song i heard was Christine. Your song descriptions are perfect. I totally agree. Great job.
@@2020Sound I ran into them when I was searching for the soundtrack to the movie Christine and ended up with their song. Salome makes you feel like youre in a rush into memory lane while living the present. Do you play guitar? I learned to play along with guitar while playing them as a backing track. There is no WASTE on this album. your bloody fucking right. There is this addictive melancholy to every song. I looked up their albums on itunes and I couldnt find their first eponymous album. its not an easy album to access. Thats even worse. hahah.
The Hill!!! My joint favourite song of all-time, by anyone. So happy to see someone shine a light on this perfect pearl, and to highlight Andrea Heukamp's contribution. And the mighty HoL, and their immortal debut long-player (however short the long-player is lol). I've now watched three of your vlogs and have been blown away by all of them. Your factual accuracy, depth of research, the palpable passion you convey each episode with and the accurary of your sonic radar are all superb. Subscribed, and am relishing the other instalments to come. Thank you, Keeley PS Lovely to see My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story cited! The finest and most riveting book on "The Biz" I've ever read.
Nobody's disputing that the Creation LP is probably their finest combined body of work, but I think their later albums feature material that is at least as good and sometimes better. "Babe Rainbow" took a long time to grow on me, as I followed Bickers over to Levitation and stayed with them, pretty much ignoring Guy's stuff. This was a mistake as the latter has probably stood the test of time longer than the intense genius of Levitation. Also, the Fontana box set that came out late last year is well worth buying - even if just for the previously unreleased stuff, for those who already have the original albums. As for me? The year I should have seen them and would have seen them was the year I was off in France as part of my degree. When I came back it was all over - did get to see Levitation umpteen times though. Personal favourite HOL track is "Yer Eyes".
Fantastic review! Gave me shivers down the spine as you reminded me how colossal they really were - particularly Christine and Destroy The Heart - truly transcendent songs.
An excellent debut by a brilliant band though I prefer The early singles collection dubbed The German album as it was initially distributed in Germany only. Plus it features founding member Andrea Heukamp who sadly left the band before the debut was recorded. I love the cover of the album, it's one of my all time favourites with Andrea Heukamp looking like a young Cybill Shepherd! Didn't care much for the band's output for Fontana apart from "Safe" and "The Girl with the Loneliest Eyes". The band lost the je ne sais quoi that they had at Creation.
Absolutely superb. This is one of my favourite albums of all time and you have captured while it is so special so perfectly well. You really understand why it is so brilliant. I adore this album so much. Keep up the great work - love the The La’s one too - almost the sister album to this one.
I've got few stories about both THoL and TSR, from my days on ze road int'80s, and I've always been of the mind that TSR owe THoL a pint e.g. I watched TSR rehearse in The International, end of 87, and the difference pre and post-THoL, in their look, sound, equipment, hair.... 100% bang on with the 'sell out' though - and having got drunk with him in the Leadmill about two years later, Terry knew it. Now, Levitation......... saw them many times - there's a band whose potential was incredible, and squandered. Played some shows with Dark Star at the end of the 90s and Bic told me it was lots of highs, and a few lows, but when those lows arrived..... ooof. You're totally correct on 'timing' - 92 I was frontman with 'The On', which was basically Britpop 18 months before it broke, demoing for Island, RCA, EMI, but the big labels couldn't see past their noses and were 'off guitar bands' at that point. It took Nude and Food to make them get their serious chequebooks out again, but we'd split by that point.
Excellent stories! Food & Nude, they were Blur and Suede's labels respectively weren't they? Were you guys Manchester based (just guessing that if you saw TSR rehearsing at the International)? Funnily enough, although I used numbers instead of letters, I based the name of this channel on the name of Dark Star's debut album!
@@2020Sound Nope, Mexborough, but my girlfriend went to Manch Uni in 87; we arrived on Oxford Road just as they announced The Smiths split! A couple of weeks later I was watching the Happy Mondays in the Solem Bar... all change. It was tough to get noticed being from Mecky, but I have Phil 'Porky' Jupitus (when he was A&R at Go Discs) to thank, who noticed 'The Way's interview with the Morning Star 86, and put Peter Jenner on to us. No labels were interested in signing us, due to being 'right lefties' (we kinda inherited The Redskins' mantle for a couple of years), till Tracie Young joined in at the end of 88. Good thing about the Go Discs thing, I got to watch The Las soundcheck in the International (Porky again)... ten years later I was supporting CAST at Keele, having just dismissed The La's first manager for being useless. We had a few giggles that night. J.Power is a great bloke. And a shame Dark Star didn't make a few more records. That was a great gig tho, at the Leadmill, Ultrasound headlining (we were bottom of da bill).
Hi Terry great to hear you tell those tales, you might remember me and my bands from our college days and after? I remember The On playing the leadmill, I still have your yellow demo tape somewhere!...so true about both bands, I stage invaded Levitation at a Uni gig down south and ended up back stage with the band and getting to hear what would become there last single with Terry Bickers in the band. There was a great vibe but I remember Lawrence being particularly pissed off with all the groupies they had suddenly gained after a ln amazing gig. The night ended with me telling him he was a prima-donna and that he wasn't THAT good as we were leaving...the rest of the band had been great and Terry and Dave put me on the guest list for the next show in Portsmouth. Me and a friend attempt to follow that tour but only made 3 of the gigs before the perils of hitch hiking across the UK finally did our heads in. Saw the THOL at the Leadmill but sadly never got to see then with Terry, I found them just after he'd left. Great bands, great days. Food records almost signed my band too in the early 90's but we had to many members and music was changing fast. Hope your still rocking 👍
@@egokillerband Yep... I'm cursed, with songs, but constant failure has been the best spur and learning tool. I've got a little studio in Mexborough, recording under the name 'Dada Baba'... about nine songs almost done. Have to say they might be the best thing I've written too. I have a great band, with phenomenal 21-yr old Rotherham drummer, Jimbob Cardie, his dad Simon on bass (who has been with me since 89) and Phil Gardiner on piano (with me since 96). We can't wait to get it out there, but only when it's right. One thing that should hopefully happen this year - just before the pandemic a German label, Firestation Records in Berlin, contacted me to ask about putting The Way's demo's out on vinyl and CD in EU and Japan. That'll be the first record I've had released hehe. Hopefully, if things sell well, they'll follow up with The On, Electrascope/Flashman and The Special Guest Stars. How about yourself? Are you still doing yer thang?
@@telsutton Sounds like a plan hope it works out for you👍 ...we can't stop being creative so what ever happens ..happens. As it happens ..my old band from early 90s The 3mds are getting together for an improvised session and song writing blast next month in a decent studio all being well. So maybe new material this year, also still have the egokiller 52 charity singles and album still available on bandcamp, hoping to add some new EK stuff to that this year. There is still a double album in the can to finnish from 6 years ago! Spent 3 years writing a book that came out last May, missed music so expect various tunage soon lol 👍
They were brilliant band but nobody could match the magic of The Roses. Guy Chadwick said in an interview that he used to travel to watch their shows to try and put his finger on what made them so great. You are right that they should have been much bigger. Liked your review of The LA's too... definitely subscribing to your channel.
I like your details and background stuff ! I was aware of The House of Love thanks to bbc radio 1 sessions and The Chameleons thanks to a cassette given to me by a speed freak called Kenny whom was from Liverpool in 1988 & Slowdive thanks to You Tube many years after. These bands & probably many many more had songs of real quality and thank the gods the Internet has given them the attention they deserve . Thanks for this ❤️👍from nr Bournemouth
I still have the VHS in my garage. Your commentary is something I always thought about through the years but could never put a finger on it. One of the first songs I ever wrote was based on the chord progression and structure to Christine. Christine is still a song I still listen to. This is also my humble opinion but Beatles and the Stones is one of the greatest songs ever written. An incredibly underated song from one of the most underrated bands.
I love the debut album, but equally dig the Fontana Butterfly record. I don’t know why I love you and Shine On have stayed with me just as long as Destroy the heart, she said. You are dead though…Destroy the heart is the greatest. Thanks for the vid. Loved it.
Yeah, there's tons of great stuff from that Fontana period too. Feel, Never, In A Room, Cruel... a HoL "best of" comp easily stands toe-to-toe with pretty much anybody's!
I’ve watched a few of your videos now and just subscribed to the channel. I have been very impressed by the consistently excellent presentation and thoughtful analysis. I think it’s brilliant you’re shining a light on some of the more overlooked albums on the Creation label. I’m sure you have already identified the artists you’re going to profile, but I can’t help but feel excited at the prospect of any or all of the following making an appearance: Felt, Momus, The Loft, The Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals and Swervedriver. Keep up the great work and I’m already looking forward to what’s next 👍🏻
Thanks very much, Christian! I launched the channel six months ago with a four part series on Creation albums (this one, Sugar's 'Copper Blue', Ride's 'Going Blank Again' and Teenage Fanclub's 'Grand Prix' - if you haven't checked the others out already and would like to). So I've purposely not done any other Creation acts for the time being, but I'll definitely be returning to them at some point as it's probably my favourite label. Thanks for the subscription and I hope there's a few other groups/albums I cover that take your interest too!
hi, just stumbled upon this video and I have to say you did a great job reviewing this, and the reasons they were never big as they should have been. I can't decide which of their first 3 albums I like most, they are all fantastic and its such a crime they are largely forgotten about or ignored. Keep up the great content.
Thanks so much Ross, glad you enjoyed it! It amazes me that a band this good still manages to "fall through the cracks" of rock history. If you like other Creation Records acts, there are retrospectives on Ride's 'Going Blank Again' and Sugar's 'Copper Blue' on the channel that you might enjoy too. Next one I'm planning is a look at 'Grand Prix' by Teenage Fanclub.
Loved this and love House of Love. Been playing a lot of them recently, they are hypnotic. Destroy The Heart is just amazing (I wrote this whilst listening to your video and prior to you mentioning the song but you summed this song up perfectly), the chorus in Hope beautiful and then the Girl With The Loneliest Eyes on Babe Rainbow is sublime. So may great songs and very few fillers. Very, very talented band that are definitely underrated.
Had the same moment regards Christine! Heard a few bars and was in lobe. Went out to grab a “cassette”. Still have it! Also love “Marble” and “the Beatles and the Stones”. Thanks again for your cool pods.
When I heard the box set of this album ...was first time I heard the band....I was like this is a sound I have been waiting for my whole life....how did they pass me by? This album and Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout are two albums to sell your house for. Soooooooooo good. If anybody had taste this video would have one hundred thousand views. I subscribed.
The house of love were always good. They ar so underrated and this album is got to be one of there best. One of the best albums of 1988. The house of love album house of love is really just a perfect album. Fantastic songs like Christine road and love in a car. They were my most favourite songs on that album. Yes there criminally underrated. Every song on this album is great and there all beautiful. I have this album on a paper cd that was released in 2007. If you have a record or cd collection you really need to buy this. I highly recommend this album and band. First song I hurd was Christie and I immediately fell in love with this album. Please if anyone is reading this. You really should listen to every song.
Hay and looking at this and the other videos about great music you've put up. I'll subscribe to your channel. So good news to you. Fantastic job on your stuff. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
PS the bbc session recordings of Love In A Car & Blind are my favourites because the former is heavier , trippier & longer and the version of Blind is miles more stripped down . It’s percussion at the end is identical to that of a pushbikes’ rear wheel being slowly rotated to a stop and out of all the weird & wonderful music I ever knew , that moment of basicness is unrivalled. Plus the lead guitar during Real Animal & (is it called )Safe from that session is way more unleashed & colourful than the album version. 😁🐢
Please talk about felt i mean if u want tho hehehe and thank you for the video I'm glad someone talking abt house of love! is really sad seeing them not become big tho...
You could see them doing Record Store tours back then too.You just go into the shop and they'd be doing a four or five song set.Same as Radiohead would do. It was very Lou Reed to me.I wish they hadn't done so many drugs.
Really pleased to have introduced you to them! They've made some fantastic music. It's all worth checking out, but that debut album in particular is very special.
Thanks, I'll check it out! They're one of those bands who I've heard more about than actually heard. I remember one of their songs on a compilation a mate at school lent me (other bands on there included *very* early Blur and OCS, and I think The Real People too). But when I think of them, the first thing that comes to mind is a story I read of Liam Gallagher signing a fan's autograph and referring to himself as the "son of the stage". When Noel came to sign it, he supposedly put something like "the owner of the son of the stage" 😄
My wife and I were listening to this album in the car the other day. Songs that obsessively repeat a girl’s name are pretty lame, with Christine being one of the exceptions. The lyrics conjure up images of a man dealing with grief, and haunted by her memories The line “such a sense of loss/ and the baby cried” might be hinting at a young father facing single parenthood. It’s powerful. I guess there is a place for “pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue” but House of Love are a smarter pop band creating something spectral and far more compelling. Btw, Buddy Holly is great, too. Peggy Sue isn’t the worst female name as a song. For me that might be “Carrie” by Europe.
Hmm. I thinks perhaps the reason they are regarded as fading away is because the second album took too long while they collapsed due to internal conflict, over-indulgence and bad production. After all, post HOL bands like Ride were successful enough with a similar sound. Baggy didn't exactly kill contemporary bands like The Sundays. Maybe they were the John The Baptists of the Late-1980s. As ambitious as the Stone Roses but without the ziegeist (plus some dodgy lyrics). Lacked the cache of MBV, but just as influential on Shoegazing (yet on a Major Label). The second album did sell well, going Top 10. It was too late and for Dave (now-how-can-I-fuck-up-this-band) Bates, sold too little. He wanted an Indie Tears for Fears!
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Probably my favourite album of all time, summer of 88 was such a good time for music. 33 years on still as good as ever.
A great debut for sure, but I think the second album (butterfly cover art) is superior. Their third album, babe rainbow, is a subtle masterpiece. Songs: crush me, high in your face, feel and the girl with the loneliest eyes are absolutely majestic.
I totally agree, Babe Rainbow is one the best indie albums ever made. After the intro song it is a pure flow of beautiful feelings which don't want to end and doesn't lacks a second.
Babe Rainbow is flawless. One of the most under rated albums ever.
The House of Love was a fantastic band. Thanks for this in-depth review. Funnily enough, I discovered The Stone Roses almost the exact same way you first heard the House of Love. Keep it up and cheers.
Thanks Herr, much appreciated!
I discovered house of love a few months ago and I couldn't believe I never heard of this band. How cana the world not know about this amazing band. Every song is a hit. What the bloody fu@ is wrong with the world. This is such an underrated band. I'm in love with their song Love in a car. It just trances me. The first song i heard was Christine. Your song descriptions are perfect. I totally agree. Great job.
Thanks Karl, glad you enjoyed the vid and glad you've discovered them!
@@2020Sound I ran into them when I was searching for the soundtrack to the movie Christine and ended up with their song. Salome makes you feel like youre in a rush into memory lane while living the present. Do you play guitar? I learned to play along with guitar while playing them as a backing track. There is no WASTE on this album. your bloody fucking right. There is this addictive melancholy to every song. I looked up their albums on itunes and I couldnt find their first eponymous album. its not an easy album to access. Thats even worse. hahah.
To me the house of love are one of the greatest bands ever.and always will be
The Hill!!! My joint favourite song of all-time, by anyone. So happy to see someone shine a light on this perfect pearl, and to highlight Andrea Heukamp's contribution. And the mighty HoL, and their immortal debut long-player (however short the long-player is lol). I've now watched three of your vlogs and have been blown away by all of them. Your factual accuracy, depth of research, the palpable passion you convey each episode with and the accurary of your sonic radar are all superb. Subscribed, and am relishing the other instalments to come. Thank you, Keeley PS Lovely to see My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story cited! The finest and most riveting book on "The Biz" I've ever read.
Thanks very much Keeley! Glad you've enjoyed what you've seen so far and yep, 'The Hill' is a fantastic tune!
Nobody's disputing that the Creation LP is probably their finest combined body of work, but I think their later albums feature material that is at least as good and sometimes better. "Babe Rainbow" took a long time to grow on me, as I followed Bickers over to Levitation and stayed with them, pretty much ignoring Guy's stuff. This was a mistake as the latter has probably stood the test of time longer than the intense genius of Levitation.
Also, the Fontana box set that came out late last year is well worth buying - even if just for the previously unreleased stuff, for those who already have the original albums.
As for me? The year I should have seen them and would have seen them was the year I was off in France as part of my degree. When I came back it was all over - did get to see Levitation umpteen times though.
Personal favourite HOL track is "Yer Eyes".
Fantastic review! Gave me shivers down the spine as you reminded me how colossal they really were - particularly Christine and Destroy The Heart - truly transcendent songs.
Thanks! And yeah, they're incredible tracks aren't they?
An excellent debut by a brilliant band though I prefer The early singles collection dubbed The German album as it was initially distributed in Germany only. Plus it features founding member Andrea Heukamp who sadly left the band before the debut was recorded. I love the cover of the album, it's one of my all time favourites with Andrea Heukamp looking like a young Cybill Shepherd!
Didn't care much for the band's output for Fontana apart from "Safe" and "The Girl with the Loneliest Eyes". The band lost the je ne sais quoi that they had at Creation.
I can't count how many hours I spent listening to this record back in 1988, and how many times I have listened to it since then
I loved this band from the moment I heard their first song Christine. Their subsequent albums only improved. Excellent band.
Absolutely superb. This is one of my favourite albums of all time and you have captured while it is so special so perfectly well. You really understand why it is so brilliant. I adore this album so much. Keep up the great work - love the The La’s one too - almost the sister album to this one.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed them and I really appreciate you taking the time to say so 🙂
Incredible band, saw them again last year and Guy still has the same drive he had from the start. Shine on 🦋
I've got few stories about both THoL and TSR, from my days on ze road int'80s, and I've always been of the mind that TSR owe THoL a pint e.g. I watched TSR rehearse in The International, end of 87, and the difference pre and post-THoL, in their look, sound, equipment, hair.... 100% bang on with the 'sell out' though - and having got drunk with him in the Leadmill about two years later, Terry knew it. Now, Levitation......... saw them many times - there's a band whose potential was incredible, and squandered. Played some shows with Dark Star at the end of the 90s and Bic told me it was lots of highs, and a few lows, but when those lows arrived..... ooof. You're totally correct on 'timing' - 92 I was frontman with 'The On', which was basically Britpop 18 months before it broke, demoing for Island, RCA, EMI, but the big labels couldn't see past their noses and were 'off guitar bands' at that point. It took Nude and Food to make them get their serious chequebooks out again, but we'd split by that point.
Excellent stories! Food & Nude, they were Blur and Suede's labels respectively weren't they? Were you guys Manchester based (just guessing that if you saw TSR rehearsing at the International)?
Funnily enough, although I used numbers instead of letters, I based the name of this channel on the name of Dark Star's debut album!
@@2020Sound Nope, Mexborough, but my girlfriend went to Manch Uni in 87; we arrived on Oxford Road just as they announced The Smiths split! A couple of weeks later I was watching the Happy Mondays in the Solem Bar... all change.
It was tough to get noticed being from Mecky, but I have Phil 'Porky' Jupitus (when he was A&R at Go Discs) to thank, who noticed 'The Way's interview with the Morning Star 86, and put Peter Jenner on to us. No labels were interested in signing us, due to being 'right lefties' (we kinda inherited The Redskins' mantle for a couple of years), till Tracie Young joined in at the end of 88. Good thing about the Go Discs thing, I got to watch The Las soundcheck in the International (Porky again)... ten years later I was supporting CAST at Keele, having just dismissed The La's first manager for being useless. We had a few giggles that night. J.Power is a great bloke.
And a shame Dark Star didn't make a few more records. That was a great gig tho, at the Leadmill, Ultrasound headlining (we were bottom of da bill).
Hi Terry great to hear you tell those tales, you might remember me and my bands from our college days and after? I remember The On playing the leadmill, I still have your yellow demo tape somewhere!...so true about both bands, I stage invaded Levitation at a Uni gig down south and ended up back stage with the band and getting to hear what would become there last single with Terry Bickers in the band. There was a great vibe but I remember Lawrence being particularly pissed off with all the groupies they had suddenly gained after a ln amazing gig. The night ended with me telling him he was a prima-donna and that he wasn't THAT good as we were leaving...the rest of the band had been great and Terry and Dave put me on the guest list for the next show in Portsmouth. Me and a friend attempt to follow that tour but only made 3 of the gigs before the perils of hitch hiking across the UK finally did our heads in. Saw the THOL at the Leadmill but sadly never got to see then with Terry, I found them just after he'd left. Great bands, great days. Food records almost signed my band too in the early 90's but we had to many members and music was changing fast. Hope your still rocking 👍
@@egokillerband Yep... I'm cursed, with songs, but constant failure has been the best spur and learning tool. I've got a little studio in Mexborough, recording under the name 'Dada Baba'... about nine songs almost done. Have to say they might be the best thing I've written too. I have a great band, with phenomenal 21-yr old Rotherham drummer, Jimbob Cardie, his dad Simon on bass (who has been with me since 89) and Phil Gardiner on piano (with me since 96). We can't wait to get it out there, but only when it's right.
One thing that should hopefully happen this year - just before the pandemic a German label, Firestation Records in Berlin, contacted me to ask about putting The Way's demo's out on vinyl and CD in EU and Japan. That'll be the first record I've had released hehe. Hopefully, if things sell well, they'll follow up with The On, Electrascope/Flashman and The Special Guest Stars.
How about yourself? Are you still doing yer thang?
@@telsutton Sounds like a plan hope it works out for you👍 ...we can't stop being creative so what ever happens
..happens. As it happens ..my old band from early 90s The 3mds are getting together for an improvised session and song writing blast next month in a decent studio all being well. So maybe new material this year, also still have the egokiller 52 charity singles and album still available on bandcamp, hoping to add some new EK stuff to that this year. There is still a double album in the can to finnish from 6 years ago! Spent 3 years writing a book that came out last May, missed music so expect various tunage soon lol 👍
They were brilliant band but nobody could match the magic of The Roses. Guy Chadwick said in an interview that he used to travel to watch their shows to try and put his finger on what made them so great. You are right that they should have been much bigger. Liked your review of The LA's too... definitely subscribing to your channel.
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed them both and hopefully there'll be a few more that take your interest 👍
I like your details and background stuff ! I was aware of The House of Love thanks to bbc radio 1 sessions and The Chameleons thanks to a cassette given to me by a speed freak called Kenny whom was from Liverpool in 1988 & Slowdive thanks to You Tube many years after. These bands & probably many many more had songs of real quality and thank the gods the Internet has given them the attention they deserve . Thanks for this ❤️👍from nr Bournemouth
I still have the VHS in my garage. Your commentary is something I always thought about through the years but could never put a finger on it. One of the first songs I ever wrote was based on the chord progression and structure to Christine. Christine is still a song I still listen to. This is also my humble opinion but Beatles and the Stones is one of the greatest songs ever written. An incredibly underated song from one of the most underrated bands.
I love the debut album, but equally dig the Fontana Butterfly record. I don’t know why I love you and Shine On have stayed with me just as long as Destroy the heart, she said. You are dead though…Destroy the heart is the greatest. Thanks for the vid. Loved it.
Yeah, there's tons of great stuff from that Fontana period too. Feel, Never, In A Room, Cruel... a HoL "best of" comp easily stands toe-to-toe with pretty much anybody's!
I’ve watched a few of your videos now and just subscribed to the channel. I have been very impressed by the consistently excellent presentation and thoughtful analysis.
I think it’s brilliant you’re shining a light on some of the more overlooked albums on the Creation label. I’m sure you have already identified the artists you’re going to profile, but I can’t help but feel excited at the prospect of any or all of the following making an appearance: Felt, Momus, The Loft, The Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals and Swervedriver.
Keep up the great work and I’m already looking forward to what’s next 👍🏻
Thanks very much, Christian! I launched the channel six months ago with a four part series on Creation albums (this one, Sugar's 'Copper Blue', Ride's 'Going Blank Again' and Teenage Fanclub's 'Grand Prix' - if you haven't checked the others out already and would like to). So I've purposely not done any other Creation acts for the time being, but I'll definitely be returning to them at some point as it's probably my favourite label. Thanks for the subscription and I hope there's a few other groups/albums I cover that take your interest too!
@@2020Sound You’re more than welcome and I look forward to seeing what’s next. I’ll be watching your Throwing Muses vid shortly - brilliant band!
hi, just stumbled upon this video and I have to say you did a great job reviewing this, and the reasons they were never big as they should have been. I can't decide which of their first 3 albums I like most, they are all fantastic and its such a crime they are largely forgotten about or ignored. Keep up the great content.
Thanks so much Ross, glad you enjoyed it! It amazes me that a band this good still manages to "fall through the cracks" of rock history. If you like other Creation Records acts, there are retrospectives on Ride's 'Going Blank Again' and Sugar's 'Copper Blue' on the channel that you might enjoy too. Next one I'm planning is a look at 'Grand Prix' by Teenage Fanclub.
Loved this and love House of Love. Been playing a lot of them recently, they are hypnotic. Destroy The Heart is just amazing (I wrote this whilst listening to your video and prior to you mentioning the song but you summed this song up perfectly), the chorus in Hope beautiful and then the Girl With The Loneliest Eyes on Babe Rainbow is sublime. So may great songs and very few fillers. Very, very talented band that are definitely underrated.
Had the same moment regards Christine! Heard a few bars and was in lobe. Went out to grab a “cassette”. Still have it! Also love “Marble” and “the Beatles and the Stones”. Thanks again for your cool pods.
One of the best albums ever.
When I heard the box set of this album ...was first time I heard the band....I was like this is a sound I have been waiting for my whole life....how did they pass me by? This album and Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout are two albums to sell your house for. Soooooooooo good. If anybody had taste this video would have one hundred thousand views. I subscribed.
Ha, that's a great description! Thanks for subscribing!
Superb album. ONly took 5 days to record. A true classic
Amazing how quickly they turned around an album this good, isn't it? Speaks volumes about the quality of the songs and everybody involved.
Your reviews are fantastic. Thank you for investing the time and passion
Awww thanks for taking the time to post that! Glad you've enjoyed them.
@@2020Sound the sugar review was wicked....chameleons now. Pressing a lot of buttons...great stuff
Great channel, 3 video about one of my fav unknown bands....made me reconnect with this classic album
Thanks Paul!
The house of love were always good. They ar so underrated and this album is got to be one of there best. One of the best albums of 1988. The house of love album house of love is really just a perfect album. Fantastic songs like Christine road and love in a car. They were my most favourite songs on that album. Yes there criminally underrated. Every song on this album is great and there all beautiful. I have this album on a paper cd that was released in 2007. If you have a record or cd collection you really need to buy this. I highly recommend this album and band. First song I hurd was Christie and I immediately fell in love with this album. Please if anyone is reading this. You really should listen to every song.
Hay and looking at this and the other videos about great music you've put up. I'll subscribe to your channel. So good news to you. Fantastic job on your stuff. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks! Hope you enjoy some more of the videos 🙂
@@2020Sound I know I will when your taste is this good
Brilliant debut album saw them on tour in Swansea
PS the bbc session recordings of Love In A Car & Blind are my favourites because the former is heavier , trippier & longer and the version of Blind is miles more stripped down . It’s percussion at the end is identical to that of a pushbikes’ rear wheel being slowly rotated to a stop and out of all the weird & wonderful music I ever knew , that moment of basicness is unrivalled. Plus the lead guitar during Real Animal & (is it called )Safe from that session is way more unleashed & colourful than the album version. 😁🐢
Please talk about felt i mean if u want tho hehehe and thank you for the video I'm glad someone talking abt house of love! is really sad seeing them not become big tho...
You could see them doing Record Store tours back then too.You just go into the shop and they'd be doing a four or five song set.Same as Radiohead would do.
It was very Lou Reed to me.I wish they hadn't done so many drugs.
Another great review of another great band.
Thanks Rob!
Stand out track on this album and my favorite House of Love song is Love in a car. Their follow up album is overall better I think.
I had never heard of these blokes until this video but they're damn good.
Really pleased to have introduced you to them! They've made some fantastic music. It's all worth checking out, but that debut album in particular is very special.
Most underrated bands of the 80s. The House of Love and The Chameleons.
If you want a suggestion of underrated bands how about World of Twist and their debut album Quality Street
Thanks, I'll check it out! They're one of those bands who I've heard more about than actually heard. I remember one of their songs on a compilation a mate at school lent me (other bands on there included *very* early Blur and OCS, and I think The Real People too). But when I think of them, the first thing that comes to mind is a story I read of Liam Gallagher signing a fan's autograph and referring to himself as the "son of the stage". When Noel came to sign it, he supposedly put something like "the owner of the son of the stage" 😄
Top assessment.
Nice analysis
Thanks Dave!
Love it🎉
hannah from butterfly and I wanna be adored have very similar fade-in intros
That they do! As a result, I always like it when an album builds up the anticipation at the start with a bit of something atmospheric.
My wife and I were listening to this album in the car the other day. Songs that obsessively repeat a girl’s name are pretty lame, with Christine being one of the exceptions. The lyrics conjure up images of a man dealing with grief, and haunted by her memories The line “such a sense of loss/ and the baby cried” might be hinting at a young father facing single parenthood. It’s powerful. I guess there is a place for “pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue” but House of Love are a smarter pop band creating something spectral and far more compelling. Btw, Buddy Holly is great, too. Peggy Sue isn’t the worst female name as a song. For me that might be “Carrie” by Europe.
It wasn't actually their debut but it does absolutely sh-t on stuff like The Stone Roses. They were fantastic for about 2 or 3 years.
Yes. The best commentary.. five years too late. Five years too early..
Just got overtaken by the acid house dance scene
First off, I dont want to start an album with lyrics " the future's cold and lonely " . hello. great band though.
Hmm. I thinks perhaps the reason they are regarded as fading away is because the second album took too long while they collapsed due to internal conflict, over-indulgence and bad production. After all, post HOL bands like Ride were successful enough with a similar sound. Baggy didn't exactly kill contemporary bands like The Sundays.
Maybe they were the John The Baptists of the Late-1980s. As ambitious as the Stone Roses but without the ziegeist (plus some dodgy lyrics). Lacked the cache of MBV, but just as influential on Shoegazing (yet on a Major Label).
The second album did sell well, going Top 10. It was too late and for Dave (now-how-can-I-fuck-up-this-band) Bates, sold too little. He wanted an Indie Tears for Fears!
No..the greatest 'lost' band of the 1980s is either The Sound or The Chameleons.
HOL didn't get great until Simon Mawby joined the band. IMO.