The Shriekback album “Big Night Music”…I used to have this on vinyl, but I have no idea where my records are anymore. I fear they are lost to time through many moves.
Anyway, I was looking for this CD, because I really love it, but it seems it is out of print. The best I coud find was someone auctioning off one for $50!!! which seemed a bit steep.
So I figured I’d come here and see if anyone maybe had this disc lying around and they don’t listen to it anymore and might be willing to sell it to me? Or know where I can find a copy?
Now there’s a coincidence: I picked up a mint vinyl copy in the $2.00 bin of the record store the other day, and ripped it to drive - that completes my Shriekback catalogue. Heh. I also have in the archives the 12" of “Running On The Rocks”, which has the splendidly titled “Bludgeoned {By The Chairleg Of The Truth}”.
I think I still have the original vinyl stored somewhere maybe. Hope you find a good digital copy someplace, and let us know where you find it. I can’t believe original CDs are going for so much. I just checked on ebay and sure enough it goes for $50. It also linked me to half.com where it going for $50 with a list price of $99,999.00! Ha!
Hey, I just ripped this last week from my CD. I still have a vinyl copy buried in my collection as well. Hmmm…I wonder if the 12" Fish Below the Ice is worth anything…
Ahhh, I couldn’t sell them, even if I knew what the heck to do with them now…
btw, I recently bought a copy of a long out of print and rare LP (Dollie De Luxe-Which Witch) from a vendor I found in Musicstack.com. It might be worth a look.
Anyone remember Manhunter? There were a few Shriekback songs on the soundtrack, including This Big Hush (which was used during the sex scene with Tom Noonan and the blind girl.) It was a very effective use of the song.
It makes you weep that guitar hacks like U2 can sell trillions, while genuine one-offs like Shriekback are probably selling real estate now. Of all the 80’s British bands, they’ve probably aged the best - they never sounded 80’s, bar the odd synth or drum machine* - but were always hardest to categorise, and were probably hard to market: they weren’t synth-pop, or punk, or dance, or Goth, or shoegazers, and wrote cheerily murky songs about reptiles and deep sea fishes rather than railing pompously against Margaret Thatcher, apartheid or nuclear war.
*OK, Go Bang! sucked: an ill-advised and desparate-sounding attempt to cash in on the Manchester dance scene.
