The Loft - Ghost Trains & Country Lanes: Studio, Stage & Sessions 1984-2015 (2021)
The Loft - Ghost Trains & Country Lanes: Studio, Stage & Sessions 1984-2015 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:37:35 | 623 Mb
Genre: Indie, Alternative, Jangle Pop, British / Label: Cherry Red Records
FLAC tracks | 01:37:35 | 623 Mb
Genre: Indie, Alternative, Jangle Pop, British / Label: Cherry Red Records
Among the first crop of Creation Records bands in the mid-1980s, THE LOFT seemed the most likely to break through. Following the success of The Smiths, guitar-based independent pop was in vogue, Alan McGee’s Creation label was turning heads – its bands blending 60s psychedelia, the melodic end of punk and a new sound which would soon be immortalised on NME’s C86 cassette. And in this London quartet, Creation had their answer to bands like Television, The Only Ones or early Modern Lovers, offering taut, off-kilter songs with an irresistibly deadpan cool.
Sadly, after just two singles, 1984’s downbeat debut ‘Why Does The Rain’ and the punchier sequel, ‘Up The Hill And Down The Slope’ – an indie hit which the band performed live on TV show The Oxford Road Show, The Loft dissolved, with various members founding new bands The Weather Prophets, The Caretaker Race and The Wishing Stones. They left behind seven studio tracks, a BBC Radio 1 session for Janice Long and one track from a Creation LP documenting the scene’s roots in small club The Living Room.
Track List:
CD1
1. Why Does The Rain (3:36)
2. Like (2:34)
3. Winter (3:04)
4. Up The Hill And Down The Slope (4:16)
5. Your Door Shines Like Gold (3:11)
6. Lonely Street (3:03)
7. Time (2:51)
8. On A Tuesday (Live, BBC Radio 1, Janice Long Session, 9 December 1984) (3:03)
9. Skeleton Staircase (Live, BBC Radio 1, Janice Long Session, 9 December 1984) (2:34)
10. The Canal And The Big Red Town (Live, BBC Radio 1, Janice Long Session, 9 December 1984) (2:52)
11. Lonely Street (Live, BBC Radio 1, Janice Long Session, 9 December 1984) (3:01)
12. Model Village (3:39)
13. Rickety Frame (3:26)
14. Beware (3:23)
15. Mad Old Woman Mad Old Man (2:28)
16. Ride (3:12)
CD2
1. On A Tuesday (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:14)
2. Your Door Shines Like Gold (From Alive In The Living Room) (3:46)
3. Time (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (2:40)
4. Colours I See (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:00)
5. Emily (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:34)
6. The Nothing Box (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:36)
7. The Canal And The Big Red Town (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (2:46)
8. Why Does Rain (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:59)
9. Up The Hill And Down The Slope (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:56)
10. Day's End (Live, The Living Room, 8 June 1984) (3:03)
11. Why Does Rain (Live, BBC Radio 6 Music, Gideon Coe Session, 24 September 2015) (3:30)
12. I Can't Keep My Mind Off You (Live, BBC Radio 6 Music, Gideon Coe Session, 24 September 2015) (3:14)
13. Up The Hill And Down The Slope (Live, BBC Radio 6 Music, Gideon Coe Session, 24 September 2015) (3:29)
14. Your Door Shines Like Gold (Live, BBC Radio 6 Music, Gideon Coe Session, 24 September 2015) (3:48)
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Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
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