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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: Master Ray on June 15, 2025, 07:28:30 PM
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Well, we're all of a similar age and I think this is a band that many might appreciate or remember...
Flashback to the 2000's. I'm seeing NMA at the London Astoria, there's a support band called Bird who many of the crowd seem to quite appreciate. I subsequently find out the singer was Mark Burgess who was in a band called, yes, The Chameleons.
That was when I left it but flash forward to when I had access to Spotify and I remembered The Chameleons and subsequently listened them relentlessly and just fell in love with them. What a great band, SO many wonderful tunes! Reading up on them I find they're somewhat forgotten in some quarters and regarded as 'The Lost Yet Great Manchester Band' by many... heck, Noel Gallagher, Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, Editors, The Slow Readers Club, Flaming Lips and Interpol have directly quoted them as a big influence...
Well, they're back and have a new album coming out in September, the first since 2001. They've just put out a terrific new song called 'Saviors Are A Dangerous Thing' (which I'll post below) and they're touring in November, I must try and make it to one of those dates!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpCUqoV0FY
So, any Chameleons fans out there? ???
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I'm not a specialist in The Chameleons, but there are a few songs I like from them, especially "Soul in isolation" which is an incredibly strong, intense and moving song! There is a band often compared to The Chameleons and that I worship so much that I like them almost as much as NMA, I even created a thread about it: The Sound
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The Sound, well, never heard of them but I'll be sure to check them out.
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The Sound, well, never heard of them but I'll be sure to check them out.
Adrian Borland, the much missed and brilliant singer and guitar player of The Sound, was a friend of Mark Burgess and Burgess even wrote a lovely song about his friend Adrian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVpSaL4hhA&list=RDxEVpSaL4hhA&start_radio=1&ab_channel=REPTILEHOUSE
Master Ray, At least listen to The Sound's masterpiece FROM THE LION'S MOUTH (with unforgettable songs like "Winning", "Silent air" and "New dark age"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoSZTNr48gg&list=PLMxy067kbpQiGUg7nXLOa29Fw9oR6ckU4&ab_channel=TheSound-Topic
and their incredible 1985 Marquee live album IN THE HOTHOUSE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpzCAT4Vhnk&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmTJmxvgcdH-_8K1I7xcCJ2h&index=1&ab_channel=TheSound-Topic
The official thread about The Sound/Adrian Borland:
https://board.newmodelarmy.org/index.php?topic=10095.0