A #30 hit in the UK singles charts in 1992, the same year that Sugar took the UK by storm, with the album Copper Blue winning out at the end of year poll in the NME.
Having toiled away for years with Husker Du in which record sales didn't come close to matching the critical acclaim that came from all directions, Bob Mould thoroughly deserved the fame and fortune that came his way with his next band. Having said that, it didn't seem to make the notoriously miserable and cantankerous frontman any the happier and less than two years later the band had broken up.
I can't claim to be any sort of expert on the life and work of Bob Mould, but I know a man who is. Take a trip over to Mike at Manic Pop Thrills (just click here) and type in 'Bob Mould' to a wee search engine at the top of his blog. You'll find loads of informative stuff.
Me? Well I do highly recommend this CD single:-
mp3 : Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind
mp3 : Sugar - The Slim (BBC Session)
mp3 : Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind (BBC Session)
mp3 : Sugar - Where Diamonds Are Haloes (BBC Session)
Happy Listening.
6 comments:
If I Can't Change Your Mind was the fourth post in my Clandestine Classics series too.
Yep, it's a good 'un that one. All of Copper Blue is.
For the duration of my friendship with Bob I never known him as notoriously miserable and cantankerous. Quite the contrary. Regardless, nice to see the Sugar posting.
'Copper Blue' remains, for me at least, one of the very best records of the 90s. It deserves to be played very loudly indeed.
Right on about Sugar. I like their FUEL album best, but there's an EP that is unbelievable I'm forgetting the name of, the one with Tilt on it.\\
By the way, I saw the Paul Weller band last Friday performing the new album here in NYC in its entirety, then they came back and did an acoustic set, an electric set, and a few encores. And yes, 4Jam songs were performed: English Rose, Town Called Malice, In the City and Art School, which of course blew up the place. Brilliant show!
The Warden,
of the late, somewhat-lamented blog Warden's World.
_surprisingly_ good?
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