Does anyone have a copy of the Miss Black America demo on CD that I could have a copy of? I lost mine a few years ago and really want to hear it again! It's the one with Miss Black America, Strobe, Don't Speak My Mind and Leopardprint Lives on.
If anyone could help me out, I'd be really grateful, I'll cover postage costs etc.
Thankyou!
xxx
yes!
i also have two cassettes somewhere.
i'll have to look hard through my room to find it...
:-D
Thankyou!
i'm guessing you have
your Peel sessions?
i've got a few of them if you don't.
I've got
just about everything (well, my girlfriend has) except for that first demo and the Adrenaline Junkie... EP now. I'm thinking of doing some kind of b-sides and rarities album, just a thousand or so copies, 'cause some of the b-sides were really good and we foolishly left them off the first album... Plus, the first three singles are totally sold out. BUT it'd be mainly an excuse to have fun doing the artwork. :-)
GREAT
idea !
B-Sides/Rarities album would be ACE
You can get the Adrenaline Junkie EP off Ebay for a measly 99p if that helps?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MISS-BLACK-AMERICA-Adrenaline-Junkie-EP-INDIE-ROCK_W0QQitemZ140052606239QQihZ004QQcategoryZ1572QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I might invest in that!
I reckon the tracklisting'd be:
Miss Black America (demo, edit)
Strobe (demo)
Don't Speak My Mind (demo)
Leopardprint Lives
Human Punk (EP version)
Scream For Me (EP version)
Pub Rock Coma
Scarface
5x5
I Am Not A Virgin
Look, Ma! Top Of The World!
Dogma
All I Want Is Out
Beautiful Velocity (unreleased version from the 'Terminal' sessions)
Love Buzz (live)
The Sandman
Summer Of Love Pt. 1
It's Alright
Miss Black America (full demo version)
The White Noise Inc.
Might be too much to fit on 1 cd though...
Oh yes!
Brilliant.
Oh, and
You should include The Whiite Noise inc. session track. I already have it, but y'know, it's pretty fantastic.
are there
any recording of smile! your on fire in existence. i used to quite enjoy that song surely i did
'Smile, You're On Fire'
was only ever recorded as a session - we did it for Peel and XFM. It'd be nice to do a BBC/XFM sessions album, but it takes a bit of sorting out with legal bollocks and I think you have to pay something like £500 per song to use BBC tracks... which we don't have! But maybe one day.
Beautiful Velocity =
rather smashing!
Scream For Me = not so smashing
:)
I agree
Scream is probably my least favourite MBA track.
Montana or Beautiful Velocity is my fave. Or Talk Hard. Or Don't Speak My Mind. Too many to choose from.
"Might be too much to fit on 1 cd though..."
do it as a mass-duplicated CDR and it would probably all fit, you could fit 80mins on it then.
I'd want
to make it good-looking, though - a REALLY MASSIVE booklet with all the single covers in, and all the lyrics and credits and 'ting.
god
that cost so much on ebay back in the day.
I do
have the AJ ep, also some old mp3s I tracked down yeeeears ago which may be from the demo, I haven't heard them anywhere else and they sound pretty studio-y to me.
A ha!
That phrase, I believe, is 'SORTED'.
I *think* I have a CD of the demos
However, if I have it, it will be back home on the Isle of Man and I ain't goin back til mid-December.
Can you wait that long, Seymour?
Have you tried sending an e-mail to Steve Lamacq?
I seem to recall hearing him play the title track on there, so it's possible he's got a copy.
I could be wrong about this.
"There" being "Radio 1"
I'm not making myself clear today.
I don't think
Lamacq ever had a copy of that first demo - we only gave them away/sold them at gigs. There's no hurry though, if anyone can do me a copy anytime that'd be ace.
Thanks again, everyone.
seymour
due your band pretty much soundtracking my adolescence i have pretty much everything you have released/recorded, including that demo and peel sessions with the old smile song, and some wierd song about spunk, aswell as some random bootleg.
hopefully that doesn't appear so witheringly SAD as it currently reads to me.
i liked dogma though.
That tracklisting looks like the sex
tommotommot
I would quite like the peel sessions. If Seymour doesn't mind them being distributed in an underground internet stylee?
im sure he wouldn't mind
they're on a minidisc somehwhere, i'll have a root around.
Request seconded
(if that's ok)
Hey, my name's Blair too.
SCORE.
i posted these ages ago
and amazingly they're still on my old webspace which should now have died, so you can still get em:
http://jamiesrunoutgroove.blogspot.com/2006/09/mp3-miss-black-america-peel-sessions.html
http://jamiesrunoutgroove.blogspot.com/2006/09/mp3-miss-black-america-lamacq-session.html
Yep.
They're really good.
hmm
those sessions are actually really good. funny, always knew the name, but never heard them. i like, and i'm a well grumpy cnt.
they are
brilliant. forgotten how good the old days of MBA were. crazy that i think i heard smile about twice and yet it had stuck in my head perfectly.
can you put MY FACE
on the sleeve of the rarities album?
I suppose
he hopes to sell some, so maybe not...
MBA rule
Um... that's all I had to say.
The CD case
will actually be in the shape of Colin's face. You'll have to squeeze his cheeks and tickle his chin to open the case, and then a tiny little scale model of Jonny Steele will pop up and wank on your hand.
Scarcface
and Pub rock Coma were listened to a lot, and probably sold me on the band more than their (pretty ace) A side.
I'd purchase a copy
seemour
after hearing those peel seshes, you can have my CD copy of your demo (i get to keep the tape copy i also bought though! ha!). i'm living in new cross, so pop by n pick it up sumtime.
"those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained".
i'll keep
the adrenaline junkie EP though.