Nah, nothing new I’m afraid, but I’m sure some here will be interested to know that his first album has just been reissued, after God knows how long in the wilderness, with a second disc of b-sides and remixes.
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Kid Dynamite says
Rather enjoyably, the extended version of Bittersweet on the second disc is nine seconds shorter than the original.
Tiggerlion says
Disc Two includes the superlative Lewis III
garyt says
It really is something isn’t it? To think he would hide that away on a ‘b’ side!
MC Escher says
I am so one of those few people. New Lewis Taylor? *drools*
Bamber says
Loved his early stuff. There’s a great cover version he did of Japan’s Ghosts on Spotify. A great talent. I’ll look out for this reissue. Thanks!
H.P. Saucecraft says
Big fan of his work. especially the “Lost” album and the startling cover of Trout Mask Replica. i don’t think anybody saw that coming.
Tiggerlion says
Interesting. I wasn’t bowled over by the ‘Lost’ album. In fact, I rarely am impressed by lost albums. Even Smile struck me as a mess when it was finally cobbled together (although the material on the Good Vibrations box set was unbelievable and I was grateful for Surf’s Up but all those snippets and interludes were enough to drive me round the bend). I was frankly disappointed by Prince’s Black Album, bar a few numbers. It was a prediction of the Noughties for his variable quality. Crystal Ball contains a lot of naff material (Trust on disc four is brilliant but that was a fresh new album tagged on to a bag of archive trawling). Lewis’s Lost Album is, maybe, his third best after the first two. The Rolling Stones have been adding discs of unreleased recordings to their reissue programme. I think there is value in disc two of Some Girls but not much else, a smattering on Exile and an alternate Bitch on Sticky. (Historical live concerts are a different matter.)
Generally speaking, the unreleased tracks sitting in the vault are there for good reason. I’ll accept occasional tracks of great quality but not whole albums. Unless The Afterword proves otherwise.
I’m off now to listen to Lost Lewis.
MC Escher says
Not at all sure about that. ‘Lost’ is fabulous, just different to the nu-soul sound of the first records. I like it just fine because it shows the breadth of the man’s talent, to go from perfectly executing one style to doing the same in another wildly different one.
I’m just now listening to ‘Let’s Hope That Nobody Finds Us’ and thinking that it could easily fit on ‘Pet Sounds’. I can’t find it on Youtube of course, given LT’s wilful self-absenting from the internet.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Yer, you tell ‘im, Mauritz.
I’m the only fan of Trout Mask Replica Reborn, then?
And how about that nice little ep he made as Sheriff Jack, Let’s Be Nonchalant? What do you think of that, Tig, you great cardigan-begirt poltroon?
H.P. Saucecraft says
Here’s the Sheriff Jack ep for your delectation. Long out of print and likely to remain so.
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/5GUXbKNr/file.html
Tiggerlion says
I had you down as an Edgar Broughton man.
Being a hippity-hoppity kind of guy, I prefer his work with Gnarls Barkley. The rubber band bass that defines Crazy is his!
MC Escher says
Once I again I am in your debt. If I’m ever down your way I will clean your bathroom for you.
H.P. Saucecraft says
That seems a bit of an over-reaction to posting a Gnarls Barkley clip …
Tiggerlion says
It is a wonderful record.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Can I get the sheet music, Tig?
Tiggerlion says
How would I know? The only sheet music emporium I’ve been in is Woolworths and they closed down long ago.
H.P. Saucecraft says
You’ve always been a fan of sheet music, though.
Tiggerlion says
Yes. That 10cc album is a peach.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Life is a peach.
Tiggerlion says
You are what you eat. Eat A Peach.
mrxsg says
I discovered him through the article in Word Magazine. His first album is probably my favorite album of all time.
duco01 says
Hmmm. I bought the first Lewis Taylor album following a rave review in (I think) Q magazine. I haven’t listened to it for decades. After all this Afterword talk about what a genius Taylor is/was, I feel I should dig the album out of the attic and give it another play. The only track I can remember from it is “Bittersweet”.
Didn’t Lewis Taylor have something to do with the Edgar Broughton Band, or am I just imagining that?
H.P. Saucecraft says
Has anyone else heard the Trout Mask Replica remake he did? FFS? Anybody? I know I didn’t dream it – I’m listening to it now. Maybe I’m dreaming that I’m listening to it …
*FX: HARP GLISSANDO, SCREEN SHIMMERS MYSTICALLY”
Tiggerlion says
YES!!!
He does make it almost listenable.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Phew. That’s a relief. But I just bet you didn’t have the Sheriff Jack. Or even know about it. So nyer.
Tiggerlion says
I knew of Sherriff Jack, but, like Edgar Broughton, I’d never bothered.
H.P. Saucecraft says
See? That’s the trouble with your generation right there. Could. not. be. bothered.
Tiggerlion says
I love the fact you view me as belonging to a different generation.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Older.