this won't be released until next week, but it arrived yesterday already :)
5CD's of wonderful Ida. It's not my favourite album of theirs, but it's got some good music on it, and many alternate takes some of which I might prefer to the album versions.

Only listened to the first 3CDs so far. Saving the best for last. Low features on one track, Don't Drop The Baby which was on their boxset as well

The Beta Band: I haven't heard that name in...well, since last week when they announced their reunion, but before that a long time ago. I remember back in the day *everyone I knew who was strung out on brown loved them.

*They're gone now which is sad n'that, however on the plus side they will never have to suffer the indignation of ever hearing Black Cuntry. Every cloud...

I never got the fuss about the beta band, they had one half decent song.

On The Wires of Our Nerves has maybe the greatest album art of all time, but I could never really get in to the music. Their next album is an all time favourite for me. The one after that was a real let down.

I like that the Numero group have turned their attention 90s underground rock although I find some of the choices they make in the process baffling.

I was never a fan either but after The Beta Band were mentioned I had a listen yesterday and just kept thinking heroin innit. Combine with going to their Glastonbury performance and the junkie's general penchant for anything Glasto/bongo/funko, you have a potent cocktail for admiration.

I've mentioned them, but if I'm honest haven't listened to them in so long, and I don't really feel like it right now. From what I remember from the records I used to have, some EPs, the music sounded like studenty, indie spliff psychedelia. Gomez, that sort of shit. Rubbish. White boys smoking joints and pretending they had a connection with the 'Mexican lifestyle'. I suppose the popularity of Beck in the UK at the time may have encouraged this sort of band. I would have never thought they could be popular with hardened junkies. Those people probably listen to trance from back in the day. Or Charlie XCX, if they are younger.

I like a lot of 'On The Wires of Our Nerves', but for me the 'Little Black Rocks in the Sun' is the best thing they have done. I like some tracks on the second album but by then I didn't care much. I'll youtube it one of these days.