From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V5 #138 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Wednesday, October 22 2003 Volume 05 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Scotland's 100 best rock and pop albums [MinervAthene@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:27:18 EDT From: MinervAthene@aol.com Subject: OV: Scotland's 100 best rock and pop albums A few brief mentions of Del Amitri, but this list is starting to gather tumbleweeds ;) http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1021&id=1145232003 (and a few surrounding pages - links down right hand side) Scotland's 100 best rock and pop albums {extract} ...Cole may have retired to the manicured golf courses of the American midwest, but his albums with the Commotions are a high-tide mark of a brand of jangly pop that was nurtured on the Postcard label by Alan Horne, and which led - through Orange Juice and Aztec Camera - to a club of freaks which includes the Pastels, Teenage Fanclub, Travis and Belle and Sebastian. Temporarily out of favour, but an important stop on this branch line, are Del Amitri, who made the mistake of a) becoming popular and b) growing beards. {entry in the top 100 albums:} 48 CHANGE EVERYTHING DEL AMITRI Del Amitri were part of a new generation of Glasgow groups including the Bluebells and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Centred on the talents of vocalist/songwriter Justin Currie, their early, naive image gradually developed into something more substantial, partly through an unpresupposing attitude to success. The arrival of guitarist Mick Slaven provided the final push towards rock and Del Amitri's third album, Change Everything, confirmed this transformation. The craftedness of the band's songwriting and the sense of irony apparent in Currie's lyrics underpin The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere and Be My Downfall. His Eeyore-styled pessimism is encapsulated on Always The Last To Know, which remains, for many, Del Amitri's finest moment. {one mention in the 'pop years' decades thingy} 1985 Del Amitri release the album Waking Hours, featuring the hit singles Kiss This Thing Goodbye and Nothing Ever Happens. ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V5 #138 **********************************