The WAYGTDWYL Appreciation Society

[Dave Smith]

Perhaps it just the cover I dislike so much!

[moses (2)]

WAYGTDWYL is a bath album -- brilliant to relax to

Fools like us is a super song
-- I love the lyric

Its always fools like us
Always burned
On the dying embers
Of a love thats turned


On the album some songs are weaker but there are no duds -- the thing with this album is to give it time ...

I had a dinner party about two weeks ago to show off my new asian culinary skills after a cookery course and put this album on durining the meal -- everyoone at the table thought it was an amamzing album and were very suprised they never heard it before

[moses (2)]

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WAYGTDWYL is a bath album -- brilliant to relax to

Fools like us is a super song
-- I love the lyric

Its always fools like us
Always burned
On the dying embers
Of a love thats turned


On the album some songs are weaker but there are no duds -- the thing with this album is to give it time ...

I had a dinner party about two weeks ago to show off my new asian culinary skills after a cookery course and put this album on durining the meal -- everyoone at the table thought it was an amamzing album and were very suprised they never heard it before


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I have no idea what I did to that last post ?????

[moondance]

[s]You probably used the strikeout key instead of the italic or something[/s]

[Red]

[s]You probably used the strikeout key instead of the italic or something[/s]

[s]I would say that was a good guess, Moonies! [/s]

[Mr. Brian]

[s]You probably used the strikeout key instead of the italic or something[/s]

Fixed that.

[Mr. Brian]

This thread is 10 years old and the recording of the album was 19 years ago.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of its release. Crazy.
I don't suppose we'll be getting a re-issue with bonus tracks, will we?
It was interesting to scroll through the thread and wonder what happened to some of the folks here.

I still love this album. Great singer-songwriter songs from a mature Ian but I understand why Will hates it.

[Voodoo Billy]

This thread is 10 years old and the recording of the album was 19 years ago.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of its release. Crazy.
I don't suppose we'll be getting a re-issue with bonus tracks, will we?
It was interesting to scroll through the thread and wonder what happened to some of the folks here.

I still love this album. Great singer-songwriter songs from a mature Ian but I understand why Will hates it.

I still love it too, doesn't really sound like a Bunnymen album but I still like listening to it, mainly in the car.

[Dr Cheese]

It's a pleasant enough album, a bit MOR for my tastes maybe, but it's definitely not a Bunnymen album despite what it says on the cover.

[TenNewPence]

This thread is 10 years old and the recording of the album was 19 years ago.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of its release. Crazy.
I don't suppose we'll be getting a re-issue with bonus tracks, will we?
It was interesting to scroll through the thread and wonder what happened to some of the folks here.

I still love this album. Great singer-songwriter songs from a mature Ian but I understand why Will hates it.

Still love it. History Chimes one of my faves. Didn't Mac write this earlier with Johnny Marr ?

Sad they lost the momentum of Evergreen.

Lets hope we can all come back in ten years to review it again

[black francis]

I'm gonna give it a proper listen this weekend. My recollections are this is the beginning of Mac as a lazy songwriter. Some great lyrics, some lame lyrics and half great songs. Beautiful verses and cheeseball choruses and the like. Perfect example being "Rust". The verses of especially the final are beautiful and stirring. The chorus kills it every time.

[Voodoo Billy]

This thread is 10 years old and the recording of the album was 19 years ago.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of its release. Crazy.
I don't suppose we'll be getting a re-issue with bonus tracks, will we?
It was interesting to scroll through the thread and wonder what happened to some of the folks here.

I still love this album. Great singer-songwriter songs from a mature Ian but I understand why Will hates it.

Still love it. History Chimes one of my faves. Didn't Mac write this earlier with Johnny Marr ?

Sad they lost the momentum of Evergreen.

Lets hope we can all come back in ten years to review it again

Ah, the Lost Transit Tapes?

[Mr. Brian]

No that was some of the Electrafixion stuff. I Googled it again and came up with this short blurb from Marr:

http://www.johnnymarrplaysguitar.com/a- ... trafixion/

[fat cherry]

Two things, I'm sure he cracked a gag some time or other along the lines of, 'well obviously they'd get pinched in liverpool', or something, and the episode don't get a mention in his book. But then most of it supports the thesis that he is some way up his own arse. Even so, mac must be smarting a bit, lyrics......, a problem? Surely not.

[Mr. Brian]

I guess there was some Marr and Mac stuff on WAYGTDWYL too according to Les in 2006:

http://www.incendiarymag.com/interviews ... son_part_2

On the last album (What Are You Going to do With Your Life?), I had custody of my kids, and was going through the divorce when I got asked to do the band thing. It was dodgy you see so... I felt torn 'cos I had got my kids and I'd worked at that, and to all of a sudden to just go away and leave me kids... it was hard. My mum had MS and my dad had died in '94, so my mum was in a wheelchair, and when we got asked to go to a studio to record, I said "Hadn't we better come up with some songs first?" y'know, and I got told "No, we always do our best stuff in the studio on the spot". And I thought, "That's wrong". And then Mac had had these songs from years ago, y'know the Johnny Marr experience, and they were all pulled out of the hat. Then I got a phone call the very first day of recording saying that my mum had had a stroke, which turned out to be cancer, so I just went. A couple of days later the doctor said she only had 6 months to live, so I wanted to spend the last days with my mum. So with that, and finding out that these songs already existed, I wouldn't have had any chance of getting any money from it. Before, the songs used to come from different places, maybe the drums or a guitar or bass line, then we used to whip it into a typical Bunnymen sounding song, put the lyrics on and see how it was, and change it if it needed then. But we'd never written it all around one songwriter before. And it was without consent, if you know what I mean, so that's what really threw me.


Some of the lyrics are recycled from his solo stuff, two Mysterio b-sides that come to mind...

Rust & Fools Like Us came from elements of Ribbons and Chains.
Lost on You is based on Birdy.

Doesn't bother me since the ones on this album are superior to the originals. It reminds me that some b-sides should probably just be kept in the vault.