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Post by unfinisheddrawings on May 18, 2019 14:55:35 GMT
I’m listening to Silent Cry on a train at the moment, I love this album so much - it’s not amongst their best, but it has such a feeling to it! It really reminds me of a time in my life, I was living with my best mate / bandmate and it was an absolute fucking dive. I remember somehow managing to get hold of Fires a few months before the album was released. I remember We Are The People being played on the radio for the first time and my housemate coming in and screaming so I couldn’t hear it properly and locking myself in the bathroom with my laptop so I could listen to it. I remember the album leaking a month or two before release and coming home and listening to it completely unexpectedly. I remember seeing Who’s The Enemy live. ❤️
Most importantly that’s the tour my band supported them on after winning a competition. We were fucking awful, our singer broke a string and Grant had to replace the string at the side of the stage while we were on. I remember looking over at him doing it while playing to the biggest audience we’d ever had and taking a mental note of how surrueal it was. We’d recruited 4 new members about a month before, they all quit the day after we played with Feeder, but it was the most amazing day of my life and something I’ll remember until the day I die.
I was working in Woolworths at the time, I remember how excited I was when we got shortlisted in the competition and subsequently won, I remember the album coming out and me hearing Yeah Yeah and Every Minute for the first time on the CD player in work whilst serving pick n mix and beaming with joy. Listening to this album brings back so many memories and really epitomises that time in my life. Beyond any of this, it reminds me of super noodle sandwiches and monopoly, stuff that is not related to Feeder at all, but was all part of a really significant time in my life.
(Yes, I have had a few vodkas and listening to this made me sentimental. Sue me.)
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Post by Niai on May 18, 2019 20:35:34 GMT
Great story. I think I actually remember you posting about that after it happened, it was a memorable post. The album means a lot to me as well, it came out probably at the peak of my Feeder obsession where I was also having a few emotional and relationship issues and so I took what is probably Feeder's most melodramatic album and ran with it. It totally dominated what I was listening to for about 3 months or so, and I racked up an absurd amount of plays. After I calmed down, straightened and grew up a bit I can look on it a bit more rationally and I'm not as obsessed with it or the band as I once was, but it remains a favourite. It's also a crying shame that it's been shunned by Grant since the related tour ended (greatly appreciated the few plays of the title track on the Best of Tour though) because musically it's got some real belters on there. The related era of the band has been well discussed on here, but as we assume it's not Grant's favourite period of the band's history due to the breakup with Mark Richardson, collapse of mainstream support, and perhaps also the Echo Label folding too. So I and others here have always assumed that's why it never gets played live. Yeah, will always be one of my most important Feeder records!
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Post by Bixer on May 19, 2019 17:06:21 GMT
Vividly remember putting on some headphones and listening to it from start to finish for the first time in a caravan while on holiday in Cornwall back in 2008.
I love Silent Cry, I honestly find it baffling how reluctant Feeder are to play anything from it live. Even some of the singles from the album haven’t been played in about 9 years now. I remember reading a recent-ish interview with the band and Grant claimed he was fond of the album too, so who knows what the reasoning behind that decision is.
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Post by tom713 on May 19, 2019 19:54:09 GMT
I think they got it wrong releasing We are the people as the first single and that kind of ended feeder as a big band but I still think that album had great songs. Went to see them at Concorde 2 in Brighton on that tour and it was one of the best gigs I've been too. Was buzzing after!
I'd love it if they played Fires again live 'cos that is epic and probably my favourite of that album but I guess it's unlikely.
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Post by Telepathic, social addicts on May 20, 2019 21:16:48 GMT
I agree about we are the people, it didn’t fit right as the first single. I’ve got a US promo copy of the album kicking around somewhere and it states that “fires” is the first single, not sure why this changed?!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 7:50:32 GMT
Does anyone know if there's any truth behind the story that Who's The Enemy was put forward to be the theme song for Bond film Quantum of Solice?
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Post by siderman on May 21, 2019 21:47:43 GMT
Does anyone know if there's any truth behind the story that Who's The Enemy was put forward to be the theme song for Bond film Quantum of Solice? Yup it’s true, there was an interview on some sort of orange phone network website (I think) where he said he knew someone in the music tv production and decided he’d throw it to them but got rejected, let’s be honest, I’m personally glad it didn’t get chosen as it was and still (in my opinion) one of the worst ever bond films. Going back to silent cry, when I met grant at one of his vip 2914 solo shows, I had him sign one of my silent cry set lists from 2008 (which unfortunately my parents chucked away!) but he said he was impressed with this set list, furthermore it was one of his favourite albums at the time (up to 2014) after I said to him that silent cry was one of my favourites (and still is). Grant firmly believes this album should’ve been released instead of pushing the Senses as he strongly believed it would’ve been a more commercial success, he is nowadays on speaking terms with mark so don’t think that’s why he doesn’t play silent cry songs, but it beats me why he doesn’t but he admits the singing is tougher for him to replicate nowadays, personally I can’t fault the album, first single we are the people wasn’t wise but all those tunes were just so equal. When I first listened to the album before it was released, I was completely addicted and rinsed It, sonorous would’ve been an epic single, along with who’s the enemy and fires, I love ‘miss you’ For me, reminiscing on this album reminds me of when I turned 20, nights out, girls I liked etc etc, lessons I learnt etc etc this is just recently
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Post by Tommy on Jun 17, 2019 13:38:05 GMT
Can we also show some appreciation for the B-Sides in this era.
Calling out for days, Somewhere to call your own, Seven Sleepers, Snowblind. Absolutely incredible.
This was around the time I was able to see them for the first time. I discovered Morning Parade on this tour who played a pretty big part in my teenage years.
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Post by gladas on Jun 18, 2019 19:50:06 GMT
I caught Morning Parade supporting them too! They were great, but seemed to just disappear?
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Jun 19, 2019 16:44:36 GMT
This is what I thought at one of the preview gigs, when only We Are The People had been released: "YWTS for only the 2nd time and a nice return for MPD. New songs sound good, apart from Tracing Line which sounded too long and boring, also some bits seem loud for the sake of it."
I still don't like Tracing Line [sic]! Silent Cry is probably one of my two least favourite Feeder albums with hindsight, but at the time it felt like a return to form, and Mark felt like a proper member of the band (not that that matters any more, but it felt important at the time). There had been some boring gigs pre-Silent Cry, particularly in the bigger venues, so I'd started to feel a little disillusioned with Feeder.
I vividly remember the free gig in London in June, the week after Silent Cry had been released. It was an afternoon gig, and British Sea Power played an awesome free gig at the Natural History Museum in the evening - so I got to see my two favourite bands at two separate gigs on the same day - both for free! I was only in London to see Yndi Halda the night before, so it turned into a rather epic weekend. The Feeder gig was fantastic too and saw the welcome return of Buck Rogers, which hadn't been played for a couple of tours. Then Feeder played locally for the first time since I'd become a fan, and that was a fantastic gig too.
Silent Cry is one of Feeder's best songs, and there are 4 or so other crackers, so although Silent Cry as a whole doesn't click with me for some reason, I remember the era fondly.
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Post by Stu on Jun 19, 2019 22:06:41 GMT
Silent Cry was decent. 8:18 is an absolute cracker. I think the biggest letdown about it was that it didn't really constitute an era at all. Two singles with scant extra material. This was the final nail in the coffin of the single release model that we were all used to. I suppose that was inevitable, but I guess it didn't help with Echo being on the way out.
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Post by Tommy on Jun 20, 2019 10:32:36 GMT
I caught Morning Parade supporting them too! They were great, but seemed to just disappear? They broke up in 2014 - Steve Sparrow is promising to release new music this year though. If you delve into his old stuff, it's absolutely magnificent. Search 'Anotherstory - Easy Now' on YouTube for ref, one of my favourite 5 minutes of music ever. I caught MP @ The Lexington in August 2014 which, I believe, turned out to be their last ever gig. EDIT: It was hard to find, so I'll link it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhr-P4nFpJw
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