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Re: (TV) Only Ones - Remains



When I bought Remains - 87/88 ?? - I seem to remember that it was made up of
tracks from an unrecorded 4th album. The copyright date is 84 and its
published by Vengeance Music (which was the same as the 3rd album). It
doesn't say much else.

Regards

jeremy
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Inglis <sam@sospubs.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) Only Ones


> Do you know anything more about this album? I'd always assumed that apart
from
> 'Silent Night' it was mostly their early demos, because a lot of the
tracks
> feature people who weren't in the standard lineup (notably one of the guys
> from Squeeze), and also because it sounds much more derivative of Dylan,
Reed
> etc. than their 'proper' records.
> For the truly sad Only Ones completist (such as me) there is now a CD
reissue
> of the 'legendary lost album' by England's Glory, Perrett's pre-Only Ones
act.
> (Unlike most aspiring musicians, Perrett was very well off thanks to his
> drug-dealing activities, so he decided to break into the business by
hiring a
> band and studio and recording an album himself. That's class.) Sadly, it's
not
> really very good -- most of the songs sound like they could be off a
> third-rate Lou Reed album, and the playing is quite flaky.
> It's the existence of this album that makes me thing most of 'Remains'
must be
> early material -- 'Remains' sounds like a sort of intermediate stage
between
> England's Glory and the mature Only Ones.
> Sam
>
> >
> > On the subject of the Only Ones, there's a great rarities album to look
out
> > for (long-deleted, though, I'm sure). With the unfortunate title of
> > 'Remains', it contains material from what would have been another studio
> > album had the band stayed together, together with unreleased material
from
> > other sessions. Some of it is magnificent and all of it is good.
> >
> > Tim
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