Wednesday, 3 August 2011

The Fudge Revival

No less an authority than Gold-Bears, architects of full-throttled punk-pop 2011-style, are calling for a Fudge retrospective. Their point is well made. Girl Wish is so good a song it was released twice, first on flexi then on proper vinyl:

The Super Fly single gives us the background on Fudge and their previous band, Engine No9, whose one single, Sleep, is a pop classic.
















My five pounds says Big Troubles have a copy of Sleep in their collection.

I count 8 Fudge songs over three singles and two Engine No9 songs. Maybe there were some compilation tracks. Whatever, there's a great retrospective to be issued right there.
Posted by Ben at 09:47

5 comments:

  1. Eric30 September 2011 at 19:33

    Knew a couple of these guys from college. There's also an album (Ferocious Rhythm of Precise Laziness), a song on "Neopolitan Metropolitan", and some pre-fudge:

    http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2009/02/splitting-difference-7-twitch-hazel-pre.html

    Will anyone read this...?

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  2. Ben30 September 2011 at 20:49

    Well, this is embarrassing. I'd completely forgotten about the Fudge album and I own it. I know, I'm a loser.

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  3. GalaxyGirlRadio24 January 2012 at 15:51

    I stumbled into your blog when I was googling the album art for "The Ferocious Rhythm of Precise Laziness." I met someone a few weeks ago, and Fudge came up in our conversation. Nice to see that other folks are still talking about them, too! I always enjoyed "Wayside" and had completely forgotten about "Girl Wish"! They put out another album ("Southside Speedway") after T.F.R.o.P.L. Maybe in 1994-95. It was a noisier than the earlier albums.

    Someone posted a video here (can't remember what song it is. Know it's not "tree fort stash"): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38uzb_fudge-tree-fort-stash_music

    Here's "Tree Fort Stash": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utUMajR1rqg&feature=related

    And another track here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoq7vF00ekA

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  4. Ben24 January 2012 at 16:03

    Thanks for the tip about Southside Speedway. I see Amazon has a copy for 1p. I think I can stretch to that. Cheers!

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  5. Anonymous25 August 2014 at 14:47

    Nice to see this. I played drums in the band. We had a lot of fun for a while there...

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