Sundays are refreshing on a fine tuesday night. https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18880#msg-18880 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:28:58 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,19010#msg-19010 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,19010#msg-19010
The Sundays ... strictly top shelf (the debut especially).

Just a great little band. Unfairly lumped in with the Cocteau Twins and trounced commercially by the vastly inferior (and endlessly annoying) Cranberries. Harriet Wheeler's Uber-Babeness was just so much icing on the cake ("...syrup on the Sunday?"). Someone above took issue with her singing, but I always really loved her voice. On the girlish side ... but that was what made her so appealing.

I always used to fantasize about shopping for groceries with her. It's the same way with Keira Knightley.

The debut is really the only essential item in the oeuvre. "Joy" and "My Finest Hour" are favorites, but there isn't really a bad song on the record. The second effort was really good, but it's complexion is slightly marred by that misguided, cutesy-poo Stones cover (which ended up being mistakenly attributed to Mazzy Star by countless file-sharing knuckleheads everywhere). I never actually bought that second one, as several friends owned it and I got to hear it a lot at the time. The third title is around somewhere, but I spend so much time with the beloved debut that it ends up getting neglected. I see "Blind" used all the time. Do me a favor and verbally rough me up if I don't own a copy this time next week.

Whatever happened to David and Harriet anyway? Not a peep on my instrument panel for ages and ages. I know I could go looking, but what fun is that? Probably best that they only made a few CDs and called it a day (assuming I'm not out to lunch on their activity). Three basically flawless titles and history! Not too shabby. I'm prepared to give 'em a miss on the whole "Wild Horses" thing. Not their finest hour ... and there are legions of more heinous hideous-cover-versions to make you want to throw up.

You know, I wonder if the Stones cover was the band's idea? It reeks of record-label meddling. I can easily think of a dozen tunes that would have made more sense for them to tack onto the end of "Blind." Hell! I can think of several Stones tunes that would have been a better fit!

It's a testament to the band's lasting quality that all I can bitch and moan about is a damned cover version which, while flawlessly tailored, still sounds a tad awkward. It could have been worse ... they could have taken a stab at "Undercover Of The Night," or "Emotional Rescue." Hah!

At any rate ...
Top shelf stuff, man. Top shelf!]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:28:39 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,19009#msg-19009 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,19009#msg-19009 hellfried Trouser Press Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:06:49 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18986#msg-18986 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18986#msg-18986 jothoma Trouser Press Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:05:22 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18957#msg-18957 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18957#msg-18957 Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. "I Kicked a Boy" is truly odd; pairing it with "I Kissed a Girl" (Jill Sobule, not Katy Perry) seems like an instinctual snotty-brat-cover version idea.]]> zwirnm Trouser Press Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:43:45 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18913#msg-18913 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18913#msg-18913
When the Cranberries' "Linger" came out, I thought it was the Sundays and thought, "My god, her singing got even worse."]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:37:41 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18896#msg-18896 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18896#msg-18896 STEVE Trouser Press Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:17:44 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18894#msg-18894 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18894#msg-18894


Post Edited (02-03-09 22:23)]]> Kateire Trouser Press Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:16:06 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18892#msg-18892 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18892#msg-18892 Reading, Writing and Arithmetic I'm surprised by what a weird album it actually is. "Here's Where the Story Ends" is the only song that's really a conventional pop song - everything else on it is really odd, repetitive, strangely structured art rock.

The other two albums are pretty good, but are more conventional. Does anyone know if Harriet Wheeler has done anything else in the last 14 years or so since the last Sundays album came out?]]> breno Trouser Press Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:12:16 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18886#msg-18886 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18886#msg-18886 so impressionable.]]> STEVE Trouser Press Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:40:17 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18885#msg-18885 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18885#msg-18885 Can't Be Sure 12" when it came out. Don't know why I didn't grab the full-length. A few friends had it, so I probably heard it enough. But, to this day, those 12" tracks plus Wild Horses are the only songs I remember.

Why weren't they more popular? What did the Cranberrries have that they didn't have? [not that I'm equating the two]

It is not a fine Tuesday night in eastern Canada, and I don't think the Sundays would make it any better, sadly.

I am gonna take a walk later, and listen to The Verve Records Story 1941-1991. Maybe something on there will warm me up.

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Post Edited (02-15-10 20:10)]]> Nephew Ned Trouser Press Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:17:35 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18880#msg-18880 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,18880,18880#msg-18880 kiera Trouser Press Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:13:46 -0600