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Poptones compilation out in May
Posted: 27 Apr '05, 12:59
Poptones Records is geared up to release 'And the Cassette Played POPTONES' through Vertigo/Mercury on May 16th. The compilation album features tracks from Special Needs, The Paddingtons, Thee Unstrung, The Others, The Glitterati, Echelon, The Boxer Rebellion, Pure Reason Revolution, Soho Dolls, Killcity, and Mission Control.
Poptones creator, Alan McGee, is quite pleased with the outcome of this pastiche of musicalness: 'It's remembering why we put out records and where we come from. This is the first Poptones compilation we have done. We are 4 years old. Just about to go to school in human terms. The music we have signed recently excites me a lot. I always sign what I am into musically I always have done. A joy and maybe a flaw but that's the way Poptones Records works. Poptones work with artists we like and admire rather than fit the media's idea of popular culture. Sometimes you doubt whether people even care then you hear The Paddingtons or The Others and you realise none of that matters. All you want out of it is that this music exists.'
The album's release is also accompanied by a club tour featuring some of the tracklist's players:
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12 Paris The Others, The Paddingtons, DJ Alan McGee
14 Glasgow The Others, Boxer Rebellion, Kain, DJ Alan McGee
18 London Death Disco, Notting Hill Arts Club -- Launch Party DJ Alan McGee + Special Guests
20 London Queen is Dead, Borderline -- DJ Alan McGee + Special Guests
31 Berlin The Others, The Paddingtons, DJ Alan McGee
The label will also present many of these same groups in the upcoming Smirnoff Experience to be held in at The Arches in Glasgow, Saturday, May 14th. The show is scheduled to go from 10:00 p.m. till 4:00 a.m. If you want to go, check out the website for details.
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Poptones compilation out in May
Truely, a terrible, terrible record label.-
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What a marketing strategy: Here are the worst bands currently playing the toilet circuit in London.
Are we supposed to buy it so we know what to avoid?
What right has this pathetic, horrible little Mecury subsidury got, to align themselves with PiL?
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I have this compilation here.
It isn't good.
Although there are some flashes of goodness here and there.
They all sound like an NME wet dream.
Indie-schmindie bollocks for the most part, with a dash of post punk.
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Poptones compilation out in May
erm McGee's first post-Creation night was called Radio4 and then it became Death Disco - I think the next one is called Swan Lake! -
Poptones compilation out in May
I think it's important to point out that THE BOXER REBELLION and ECHELON are not in the same category as all the other shite that lives on Poptones. It really ain't fair to taint two very gifted bands with the horrid brush befouled by shite like The Others.
Pure Reason are signed to Sony now. -
Poptones compilation out in May
My God they've got some awful bands -
Poptones compilation out in May
This man gave us Oasis (when they were good), The Boo Radleys, Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Three Colours Red and various other things.
What went wrong? -
Poptones compilation out in May
Echelon's first single was actually ok and Pure Reason Revolution aren't too offensive - Arnold and the Hives used to be on there as well - when it was a real inide label maaaan-
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its arguable that Dick Green in part gave us those bands (excluding Oasis, who were given to us via Sony) McGee hated the Radleys anyway!-
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dick green's label witchita is fucking great.
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Poptones compilation out in May
I heard that McGee signed Oasis in the middle of a massive three year heroin binge, and knew very little about it. Needless to say he took all the credit. If it weren't for the Hives Poptones would have folded long ago. Imagine a world without Poptones? It seems like a Utopian fantasy... Dom would still be pushing dodgy ad space at Cornhill and living out those rockstar fantasies at the weekends like the rest of us. Ah well.-
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Beachbuggy were on Poptones. They were good.-
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they were ok weren't they - you have to admit they seem to have lost their 'cred' (the label) since the Mercury thing -
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they were ok weren't they - you have to admit they seem to have lost their 'cred' (the label) since the Mercury thing-
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Errr. What Mercury thing? I have their Poptones album, and saw them live (they rocked), but I never heard of them again... was it not good?-
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I think the "Mercury thing" is about Poptones, not Beachbuggy. Out of interest, Beachbuggy have just got back together and are gonna be giggin soon. I don't think they are on Poptones anymore 'cos McGee is stoopid, frankly. Both Beachbuggy albums (as produced by Steve Albini) on Poptones are ace! they are also on a compilation put out by my label. See www.theespc.com, which has a link to the Beachbuggy site in the Bands section.-
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Thanks for the info. Good luck with the release.
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It was cocaine and has been well documented over the years. The book My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize by David Cavanagh is a fantastic history of Creation Record. Every period is ridiculously detailed. Needless to say McGee fell out with Cavanagh and hates it.
Slumberparty, Beachbuggy, French Kicks, The Hives, The Byrds, Oranger, Montgolfier Brothers, Sing Sing, January etc...all good (or at least interesting) releases. The label aesthetic and low prices were excellent. Don't really know much about the latest crop of releases though.
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The cassette playyyed...CRAPTONES! -
Poptones compilation out in May
They signed a whole load of 'london's burning' type bands at the same time, and that is where the loss of cred came from. Mercury handed out album deals to the bands that it wanted from this batch of hopefuls, and then put it all out through the poptonbes label, thus killing its cred, as the albums were fucking rubbish NME hyped crap.
The only good thing about this label now, is that I get Poptones the song in my head whenever I hear anything about Poptones the crappy, sellout label. Which is a very good thing, as it's replaced that annoying armadillo song.
Didn't Wichita sign Bolloc Pantry btw? -
Poptones compilation out in May
Gah, I hate the Cruddingtons, and Special Needs, and T'others, and just about everyone else on that label. -
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hahaha those bands are all rank, oh except the boxer rebellion they're average -
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What no Ping Pong Bitches? -
Poptones compilation out in May
To think he dropped Sing-Sing to sign this bands !
And he even dared to release Cosmic Rough Riders records... -
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bourgoise scum!
vive la revolutioooooooooon!
mcgee is new maaaarx! -
Poptones compilation out in May
echelon are wicked, isaw them not long ago. them and the boxer rebellion are the best bands on the lable. the rest of it is complete shit. -
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Alan McGee- what a tasteless wanker
everything I've ever heard on poptones* is a sub teenage flanclub boring byrds ripoff blandery or some other retro shit
Failing that, it's 'different' in a way that makes a young man think of removing his own ears with a spoon. Worst label........EVER
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Not in the b-unique "I'm sucking NME's cock" so my bands get to the top" category though!! I think their A&R man has some very sore lips and perhaps a funny walk.
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