Quote from BBC Radio 6 interview:

Guy also revealed, exclusively to 6 Music, that the band are planning a b-sides album:

"Which in itself we are classing as a fifth album because we are so proud of the material on there. With the exception of one song that shall remain nameless of the 65 songs that we have released so far, we are very proud of them all. "

"The b-sides album Dead In the Boot will come out later."

So, not necessarily a B side then!

Where is Dead in the Boot anyway?

nice. i'd like a b-side album.



back to topic. i love COT.

I'm still struggling with this one I'm afraid. I find parts of it too unsettling to truly enjoy - that sudden shout on Snooks (Progress Report) just seems totally unecessary; I find it really hard to warm to Ribcage; Buttons And Zips, Just A Job and Crawling With Idiot I find hard to warm to...what can I say? Discovering the band through The Seldom Seen Kid, I can't find much here that elevates me like that album did.

But, Fugitive Motel and Fallen Angel I love as much as anything else I've heard. I just can't see me ever getting to the point where I'll love this album.

I've nothing against albums that capture a dark or sombre mood. Hats by The Blue Nile is great at capturing a downbeat atmosphere and Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely is like an invitation to a funeral. I guess though, especially with the latter album, the difference is that there's an identifiable melody to the tunes. I don't really find much that is melodic on Cast Of Thousands.

Love this record. Great vid - how cool can one look strutting round with a fag hanging out of his mouth - in slow motion too. Does it for me!

nellie wrote:

Sarah wrote: Enjoy enojoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF8vE3a8OXo its amazing how easily distracted I am, just had a little look at this video and ended up watching Elbow vids for an hour-bliss.

As Cast of Thousands is my first Elbow album, it's probably the one I will always be fondest of.

I remember buying it. I bought it at the same time as I bought Snow Patrol's Final Straw; both albums released in the US at roughly the same time, and I was in the Best Buy in Cary, North Carolina. I wanted the latter -- I'd heard "Spitting Games" on the soundtrack to EA's MVP Baseball and thought it sounded great -- and I'd heard some interesting things about the former, Elbow, in MOJO.

Cast of Thousands was the wildest thing I'd heard in forever. Yeah, Snow Patrol was okay (and I eventually came to despise Snow Patrol for their rampant self-pasticherie, but that was well in the future), but Elbow was something else. "Fugitive Motel" was magical. "Not a Job" was fantastic. I adored "Grace Under Pressure." I made all of my friends listen to this album. I made my boss listen to the album. (His reaction? "Allyn, you listen to really depressing music.")

I love it. I read in Q this spring that they consider it "the difficult second album." Sometimes the best art comes out of darkness and despair and difficulty. To this listener, Cast of Thousands is magic.

I love the bit where Garvey is under the mixing desk and scares the bits and bobs off of Pete!