The Album Review Club - Week #142 - (page 1874) - Strange Times - The Chameleons

[RobMCFC]

Inspiral Carpets

Life (probably)

Inspiral carpets - Life

No, but it's not far from Oldham, where I used to do hospital radio.

 

[BlueHammer85]

The Chameleons - Strange Times

 

[LGWIO]

Inspiral Carpets

Life (probably)

Bloody PC froze and you beat me to it

 

[LGWIO]

Hmmmm close by.... Wet Wet Wet - Popped in Souled Out

 

[journolud]

Bloody PC froze and you beat me to it

We were both wrong though

 

[RobMCFC]

The Chameleons - Strange Times

Wow, that is impressive.

FWIW, the town is Middleton. The comedian I was referring to is Steve Coogan - I was in the same class as his brother at primary school.

 

[RobMCFC]

Here's @shackattack 's write-up:-

The Chameleons- Strange Times

The last album they did as a band ( though someone might correct me on that)
It was either going to be this or Script From A Bridge - this won mainly for Swamp Thing which is probably worth a thread all of its own. As a lad growing up in 80s Liverpool I always preferred the Manchester music scene. The Chameleons were undeniably ahead of their time and the graphics could grasp you as much as the lyrics and musicianship. Possibly slightly heavier than some of their earlier stuff - the drums, guitar reverb for a post punk kid what is there not to like

 

[Coatigan]

Gonna be the kinks or the who isnt it.

 

[RobMCFC]

Gonna be the kinks or the who isnt it.

What?! You've got me down as a bloody cockney!!!!?

 

[Coatigan]

Wow, that is impressive.

FWIW, the town is Middleton. The comedian I was referring to is Steve Coogan - I was in the same class as his brother at primary school.

If noel gallagher said it, hammer will know it.

I went down the london/slough route, where kidd lived and scholes seemingly played at youth level.