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| From | "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald@attbi.com> |
| Subject | Re: Idle Wilds |
| Date | Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:18:19 -0800 |
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DUMB, GIFTED AND BEAUTIFUL was one of the records that re-introduced me to
power pop in 1997, after several years in which I wandered in other genres
and was even starting to lose interest in pop music in general, like most
other guys my age. It's possible I never would have heard about D,G & B if
"You're All Forgiven" had not appeared on Rhino's POPTOPIA 90's comp --which
is THE record that woke me up to great new stuff and eventually led me right
here to Audities, thanks to the "Recommended Reading" list in the liner
notes. (They touted NotLame Records and several fanzines, including the
print precursor to this list.)
The Idle Wilds put out an odds-and-sods on Kool Kat in 2000, but nothing
since. Does anyone know if those folks are still making music? If so, they'd
probably cause some market confusion because of the current Idlewild, so
perhaps the band's leader should put out the record under his own name:
David Gray.
Uhh... or maybe not. ;-)
Drew
np: The Frank & Walters - GRAND PARADE
> "Dumb, Gifted and Beautiful" is one of my fave "lost" records of the '90s.
> IMO, this one could have been a smash, given the right promotion, but I
> think the label (Ardent) was going belly up at the time. It rocks pretty
> hard (top moments are "You're All Forgiven" and "Surrounded"), but
> never at the expense of melody. The title track---a sarcastic-yet-pretty
> ballad---is one of my fave tunes of the '90s.
>
> John B.
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