Comments on: Milestones # 1: Milltown Brothers – Slinky

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Introduce Your Record Shop #4: The Biggest of the Lot « Song, by Toad — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:06:07 +0000

[...] might remember the review I did here for Slinky by the Milltown Brothers. Well, that’s where my story of using the internet as an independent [...]

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Milestones # 3: James - Laid « Song, by Toad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:25:36 +0000

[...] Milestones # 1: Milltown Brothers – Slinky [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:29:10 +0000

Good Christ. Turn my back for five minutes…

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:05:45 +0000

Maybe…

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:01:52 +0000

Dylan, did you just get pwn4d by TWoTH?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:50:15 +0000

Hang on, we know that Cast were no more than The La’s 2 – The Sequel, and both acts were as putrid and rotten as each other.

Why are the Milltown Brothers being mentioned in the same breath as either of them?..

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:18:12 +0000

Woman, aint there some dusting & some washing of smalls to be done?

By: The Woman of The House

The Woman of The House — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:39:32 +0000

There’s a certain trajectory involved in all this, and it goes something like this:

The La’s – Milltown Brothers – Cast

Do I really need to say any more than that?

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:52:44 +0000

By the way, Smile, an 8-track EP that Ride released in 1990 around the same time as Nowhere, is also truly excellent.

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:49:54 +0000

I would’ve thought a trip to Utah would give you loads of opportunities to say cunt, DC. You must have shown admirable restraint. And Ben, I understand your outrage that Dylan might have the temerity to consider Inspiral Carpets and Milltown Bros in the same league with those inspired lads who gave us Nowhere, one of the truly great records of the early “shoegaze” era. I make no claim that Ride was better than (or even as good as) the Weddoes; they weren’t. But on that one album they certainly surpassed anything that Inspiral Carpets had done, and while these three tracks from Milltown Bros. are quite good, I just can’t speak to them authoritatively because I haven’t heard the whole album. I’d be really surprised, though, if it’s as good as Nowhere.