Cardiacs, eh?

Saskia wrote: Why is everybody always recommending the same albums? Yes, "A Little Man...", "On Land and on the Sea" and "Sing to God" are excellent CDs, but my personal favorite may well be "Songs for Ships and Irons". This one also has its fair share of Cardiacs live classics like "Big Ship", "Tarred and Feathered" and "Loosefish Scapegrace" plus it has some of their most progressive tracks namely "Stoneage Dinosaurs", "Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love" and especially the onderful instrumental "All His Geese are Swans" .BTW Did anyone notice the yet unreleased track "Will Bleed Amen" on Youtube? The version of "Hope Day" is excellent too. If people say the Cardiacs aren't prog, that song is a good introduction.

That's another of my favourites too, saskia! It's really just terribly hard to pick a single reccomendation for a newcomer, They all have their merits!

It's looking highly likely that the new album will emerge sometime this year, and rumours abound of BBC sessions and perhaps even a few extra dates on top of their annual Astoria gig! I can scarcely contain my excitement, let me tells ya!

Why is everybody always recommending the same albums? Yes, "A Little Man...", "On Land and on the Sea" and "Sing to God" are excellent CDs, but my personal favorite may well be "Songs for Ships and Irons". This one also has its fair share of Cardiacs live classics like "Big Ship", "Tarred and Feathered" and "Loosefish Scapegrace" plus it has some of their most progressive tracks namely "Stoneage Dinosaurs", "Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love" and especially the onderful instrumental "All His Geese are Swans" .

BTW Did anyone notice the yet unreleased track "Will Bleed Amen" on Youtube? The version of "Hope Day" is excellent too. If people say the Cardiacs aren't prog, that song is a good introduction.


Edited by Saskia - May 11 2007 at 14:25

No dates as of yet but sometime this year, apparently.

Aww c'mon chaps! This thread doesn't deserve to die yet!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIB_9YvJAFo

^^^ It's them, no doubt. Long live The Cardiacs.

Anyone got some links to some Mp3s, I'd really like to listen.

When I first heard the Cardiacs I couldn't (under)stand them. The music was all over the place and I couldn't follow it. And that xylophone/glockenspiel/whatever - as irritating as the worst of Frank Zappa. The way they looked didn't help much either!

When I heard Is This the Life my opinion changed slightly. It's a great song, more linear than other stuff I'd heard.

Then I heard Van der Graaf Generator. Parts of A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers sounded exactly the same to me as the Cardiacs. Weird!

A while later I heard Bellyeye on Mark Radcliffe's radio show and was absolutely stunned! I bought the CD single and loved the title track but wasn't too keen on the other tracks.

Then a couple of years ago I spotted the Sing To God CD really cheap and thought I'd take a chance. I'm glad I did, it's a superb album!

AMAZING BAND!!!!

they're a pretty cool band, but yeah, their albums are really tough to find

cuncuna wrote: Ghandi 2 wrote: I'll have to check them out. Any recommendations? The "Sing to God" double album. But mark my words: they sound like a punk and a prog band mixed in a really high speed blender.

Mmm... Pronk smoothie...