Anyone like delamitri?

Smallfaces1 · Post by **Smallfaces1** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:42 pm

just wondered if there was anyone here apart from me that loves delamitri?

cosmos · Post by **cosmos** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:45 pm

Everything I've heard by them sounds cool...their "Best of" is on my to-get list.

whtesde · Post by **whtesde** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:20 pm

Love Del Amitri. One of those bands that never really got noticed in the States except for the Roll To Me single, which isn't really representative of them. Oh, Del Amitri.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:37 pm

Love 'em. Especially their very first self-titled LP. That's one of my top 20 favorite records. They don't play any of those songs anymore, I was sad to discover. I saw them live a few years back, touring with Change Everything (which I like pretty well). They played tons from their second album (which I love). But not a song from the first record. I realize it's very different from the 2nd album on, and that their sound is totally removed. But those songs are great, especially Hammering Heart and Crows in the Wheatfield.

My favorite songs besides that first album are This Side of the Morning, You're Gone, The Last To Know, Surface of the Moon, and Nothing Ever Happens.

cosmos · Post by **cosmos** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:38 pm

Kiss This Thing Goodbye was pretty big too in the States....

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:06 pm

Smallfaces1 wrote:just wondered if there was anyone here apart from me that loves delamitri?

I thought he was excellent in "Trading Places".

Smallfaces1 · Post by **Smallfaces1** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:11 am

didn't get that last joke! sorry. erm. my favs are: Here and now, hammering heart (i read a review somewhere that this is in the style of EC! well i dunno about that but the song does rock!),long way down, before the evening steals the afternoon,spare pair of laces,grimace not a smile,queen of false alarms.

Smallfaces1 · Post by **Smallfaces1** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:14 am

didn't get that last joke! sorry. erm. my favs are: Here and now, hammering heart (i read a review somewhere that this is in the style of EC! well i dunno about that but the song does rock!),long way down, before the evening steals the afternoon,spare pair of laces,grimace not a smile,queen of false alarms.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:02 am

Yeah,

great Scots band...Cry to be found, Spit in the rain, Move away Jimmy Blue and Be my downfall are brilliant songs!

'Hatful of rain' would be a perfect introduction to anyone who's not head them, they're quite similar to Crowded House in their songs I'd say, with a bit of country thrown in.

Haven't got the last album they did though.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:37 am

Hatful of Rain is another great one. Be My Downfall is great. I still find that the first album is my perpetual favorite. Keepers, Sticks and Stones Girl, Heard Through a Wall, and Breaking Bread are all classics.

There was a period of time when every band I heard from that was a Scots band became my new favorite band. It went something like:

Big Country
The Proclaimers
Del Amitri
Gun (short-lived, but I liked 'em)
Teenage Fanclub
Soup Dragons (see above, under 'Gun')

and I don't know who else right off the top of my head. You must have something in the water in Scotland that makes for better songwriting.

Smallfaces,

the Trading Places joke was a reference to American actor Don Amece. It was a pun.

Anyone know the significance of del Amitri's name?

girl out of time · Post by **girl out of time** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:32 am

i used to have 2 of their records, but then i got tired of their music and traded them....the reason why i first got into their music was beacuase of that song "the last to know".....

Uncomplicated · Post by **Uncomplicated** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 8:44 am

I don't own any of their cd's but I did see them a few years ago at an outdoor gig. They were great!

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