Lloyd Cole
the negatives
© 2001 Lloyd Cole
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A driving british pop rock sound with an inherent melancholy. A solid collection of beatifully written pop songs.
tracks
- 1 Past Imperfect
- 2 Impossible Girl
- 3 No More Love Songs
- 4 What's Wrong With This Picture?
- 5 Man On the Verge
- 6 Negative Attitude
- 7 Vin Ordineire
- 8 Too Much E
- 9 Tried to Rock
- 10 That Boy
- 11 I'm Gone
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albums you will love
- DAVID WILCOX: Airstream
- THESE UNITED STATES: A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden
- LEVINHURST: House By The Sea
- THE WHITEST KIDS U' KNOW: The Whitest Kids U' Know
- DAVID WILCOX: Vista
- DAVID WILCOX/ NANCE PETTIT: Out Beyond Ideas
- LE CONCORDE: Universe And Villa
- YAZBEK: Tape Recorder [Collected Works]
- STEPHEN LYNCH: The Craig Machine
- FANCEY: Fancey
- THE SAMPLES: Very Best Of The Samples
- SPRITES: Starling, Spiders, Tiger and Sprites
- SEE VENUS: Hard Times For Dreamers
- MARMALADE: Beutiful Soup LP
- GRAHAM SMITH: Final Battle
- MACEO PARKER: Made By Maceo
- DAVID WILCOX: Into The Mystery
- DANIEL MACKENZIE: A Complete Unknown
- STEPHEN LYNCH: Superhero
- JOSEPH BRENNA: Inventing Time
- DAVID WILCOX: Live Songs & Stories
- TIM FINN: Feeding The Gods
- EVERYTHING: People Are Moving
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Lloyd Cole emerged from Glasgow in 1984 fully formed as the poet laureate of sensitive, serious cynics, awed by both the grandeur of great romance and great books, with "perfect skin", pristinely glimmering melodies, and oh yes, that catch-in-your-heart voice.
Sixteen years later, with three new albums coming this year - his first since 1995's acclaimed "Love Story" - this may well be the time that Lloyd is welcomed into the continuing tradition of the elder statesmen singer/songwriters. The kind like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Richard Thompson, whose work continues to both surprise, yet deepen, with time.
Only on the first of these three records, Lloyd Cole / The Negatives (March Records), Lloyd is not the lone acoustic singer/songwriter, but rather backed by a full rock band - including Jill Sobule and former Dambuilders bassist Dave Derby - for the first time since the Commotions split in 1988.
And it all came about almost by accident. In 1996, Lloyd's previous record company, Mercury, effectively rejected the follow-up to "Love Story," deciding instead to release a career-spanning retrospective ("The Collection"), for which they also wanted two new songs - both of which, of course, had to be sure hits. Frustrated and looking for inspiration, Lloyd said no.
"I decided to give up with the idea of writing songs to order. Then I wondered, what would be the antithesis of this brand of work? How about - form a band and play in a bar. We could play there, nobody would know it was us, and we could just have some fun. All of a sudden we had a band, we were having fun, and I was writing songs again because I was excited to be in a band."
"What made it fun was that it had nothing to do with my quote, unquote career," Lloyd says. "It was just playing some rock music."
Download "What's Wrong With This Picture" off Lloyd Cole/The Negatives and check out Lloyd's extensive new website - lloydcole.com - a Flash site that he programmed and designed himself.