Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:02:49 +0100 
      From: Andrew Norman (nja@LEICESTER.AC.UK) 
      Subject: Long Fin Killie (Too Pure part 44)


Actually not quite part 44, as there are a couple of numbers they
haven't used.  Due to Too Pure's usual wonderful distribution, I bought
this twice (one shop had the 7" and said there was no CD, and the only
other shop in town which had it was HMV, which had two CDs).  The Laika
album arrived in some shops about a month after it was released.

Anyway, enough grumbling.  PURE 44, double A-side.  "Hollywood Gem" is
a gentle acoustic guitar song about the corruption of black actors by
Tinseltown or something similar, "The Heads of Dead Surfers" starts off
with throbbing violin and a description of a 40-year-old on the beach
and ends up with Mark E Smith yelping "And the FIRE! in the dead loins"
over and over.  Extra tracks on the CD are "Flaccid Tabloid" (The Fall
meet the Mothers of Invention, horns and guitar thrashing plus a grubby
tale of blackmail and lust), and "Stacked", which starts "Perfect
foreskin, bricklayer's thighs" and continues in the same homoerotic
vein.  Twelve minutes of surreal lyrics, startling music, and after four
or five listens I still haven't worked out what the first three songs
are about, which can only be a good thing.  Rock's not dead.  Can we
have an album from them now, please?

--
Andrew Norman, Leicester, England // nja@le.ac.uk // 25/05/95
On my walkman this morning : The Walker Brothers
So various, so beautiful, so new,


Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:22:36 +0100 
            From: Andrew Norman (nja@LEICESTER.AC.UK) 
            Subject: Re: Long Fin Killie

                    "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" at Sep 16, 95 03:12:31 pm

      "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey"  wrote:
      >
      > Agreed--although it was too bad that person missed LFK. I have the Too
      > Pure/Ame4ican _Houdini_ CD--anybody know anything more about that band?
      > Other releases, personnel, who does what, what they might've done
      > previously, etc.?

      >From memory of an NME interview at the time of their first EP, LFK are
      a bunch of Scots who have been playing together for a few years, the
      singer/multi-instrumentalist is the son of Scottish aristocrats and
      they rehearse in his family castle, but the band look like
      dog-on-a-string travellers.  Discography is simple - apart from the
      album there has been:

      "Buttergut" EP (PURE (CD) 39)
        The Lamberton Lamplighter
        Suki
        Boy Racer
        Butterbelly

      "Heads of Dead Surfers / Hollywood Gem" 7"/CD (PURE (CD) 44)
        Hollywood Gem
        The Heads of Dead Surfers
        Flaccid Tabloid (CD)
        Stacked (CD)

      I think they are one of the best bands to have been on Too Pure - their
      music is basically warped folk-rock, a bit like early Mekons or the
      Pogues.  Lyrics are surreal tales of cross-dressing, lipstick allergy
      and the bloated bodies of radio personalities.  Not really breaking new
      ground musically, but doing new things with a very old formula.

      --
      Andrew Norman, Leicester, England // nja@le.ac.uk // 18/09/95
      On my walkman this morning : Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
      But now I only hear


      Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 23:55:16 -0500 
      From: susan@ACS.BU.EDU 
      Subject: Re: Scott and Mary/Long Fin Killie discog.

"Srilank@AOL.COM" at Dec 8, 95 09:30:21 pm
> ps-someone inquired about a Long Fin Killie discog., and here's what I have
> which may or may not be complete--
>
> Hollywood Gem {cds/7"} (Too Pure 44)
> Houdini {lp} (Too Pure 47)
> Head of Dead Surfers/Flower Carrier (Pruned Version) {7"} pt. 1/3
> Rhino/Homo Erectus {7"} pt. 2/3
> Vanilla/Love Smothers Allergy {7"} pt. 3/3

there's also the lamberton lamplighter ep, which came first and is quite good,
though perhaps not as great as houdini.

and for complete completists, there's a medicine/lfk promo that was being
given away at shows with a few tracks from both. (album versions)

btw, who the hell had the idea for these 7"s? do they really think we're
gullible/pathetic enough to shell out $12 for 3 7"s with one album and one
exclusive track on each? i'm certainly not going to buy into it, much as i
love too pure. (uk)