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Rob Brookman
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Username: Rob_b

Post Number: 1187
Registered: 08-2006
Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 06:45 pm:   

Here's a nice little appreciation on the Guardian's blog.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/0 8/the_chills_ready_for_a_comebac.html
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Allen Belz
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Username: Abpositive

Post Number: 1107
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 08:39 pm:   

Thanks muchly, Mr. B. That sure beats another critic blog I ran across recently and didn't even finish...the basic thrust of the article was that post-Submarine Bells Martin had betrayed his talent and his fans with substandard work, and he (the writer) took this opinion very, very personally. T'was almost embarrassing, like reading someone's private notebooks that they'd accidentally put online.
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Post Number: 1332
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 05:09 pm:   

Thanks for the link, that's a nice piece. I'm a longtime fan of Submarine Bells and Brave New Words.

You know, after all these years, I still don't think l've ever heard Kaleidoscope World.
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Rob Brookman
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Post Number: 1188
Registered: 08-2006
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 05:23 pm:   

I owned it at one point and, inexplicably, must have sold it. I remember it wasn't quite as tuneful as "Brave Words," but I still can't imagine myself putting it up for adoption. The folly of youth...
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Username: Jeff_whiteaker

Post Number: 1333
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 08:34 pm:   

Rob, I hear ya. I have a growing list of albums that I sold when I was younger and now wish that I hadn't. This happened a lot in college and directly afterward, when money was scarce and I was dirt poor. What's even more frustrating is when I try to re-purchase one of said albums, only to find that it's since become out-of-print and fetches astronomical sums of money on-line (and way more money than the paltry $2 I was likely paid for it at the record store years ago).
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Allen Belz
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Username: Abpositive

Post Number: 1108
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 08:51 pm:   

Given that its chronology begins at the very beginning, Kaleidoscope World takes a little time to reach Brave Words-level tunefulness, but not really that much time. Big fans like myself probably prize it more than the average, and it does get a little patchy around the middle (The Lost EP, mostly) but still, compared to many others of its type it's pretty consistent.
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Randy Adams
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Username: Randy_adams

Post Number: 1699
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 09:34 pm:   

Love the Chulls. Just love 'em.

Jeff, I will send KW tracks.
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spence
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Username: Spence

Post Number: 2547
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 09:40 am:   

The Chills always used to go well on the dancfloors of Indie clubs in '86-'89, esp Pink Frost, Rolling Moon and Heavenly pop hit. I always thought they were the musical sister of Blue Orchids.

Jeff, I have Kaleidoscope World on vinyl if you want it, I have no use for it and I know you be a vinyl head!
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spence
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Username: Spence

Post Number: 2548
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 09:40 am:   

I think it was on Creation.
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Andreas Severins
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Username: Andreas_severins

Post Number: 21
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 09:58 am:   

I own the chills pink frost 7" from the very beginning, from the date it was released.
There used to be a little record shop and also lable in Hagen/germany nearby where I used to live.
In the very early 80s they imported stuff from oz and nz before anybody else did. That's why I still have a lot of vinyl from that time.
They also had there own pressings of tv personalities and times records (Pastel lable).......
I loved these guys Martin Nagel and his colleague (I forgot his name - sorry, guy :-))

If the chills would reunite it would be great.
Remind the belldivers - june july album. You can see the chills influence everywhere.
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Michael Bachman
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Username: Michael_bachman

Post Number: 1227
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 10:48 am:   

Does anyone have a Chills scoop for us on when "Brave Words" will get a deluxe reissue on cd? "Kaleidoscope World" got the deluxe reissue treatment last year, did anyone pick up a copy?
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Allen Belz
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Username: Abpositive

Post Number: 1110
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 02:04 pm:   

Unless it got a remastering job I don't think it was a deluxe reissue, just a reissue (which is great news in itself, of course)...the original was a 9-song EP, but the expanded 18-track CD version has been around for a long time.
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Randy Adams
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Username: Randy_adams

Post Number: 1701
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 02:56 pm:   

Martin Phillipps has said he would like "Brave Words" to be remixed. I hope it happens some day. Andreas, the Chills are still functioning, just on a low level. Their website is www.softbomb.com.
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Rob Brookman
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Username: Rob_b

Post Number: 1190
Registered: 08-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 03:05 pm:   

I actually found some tracks from their "latest," "Stand By," and they sounded pretty good. Kinda punky. I hope they do a full-length sometime before my hearing goes...
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Allen Belz
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Username: Abpositive

Post Number: 1111
Registered: 09-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 03:17 pm:   

Stand By does grow on one, certainly - as to future albums it might be a race between your hearing and Martin's voice - on Stand By it it definitely sounds like his range has decreased.
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Rob Brookman
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Username: Rob_b

Post Number: 1198
Registered: 08-2006
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 09:16 am:   

Been on a bit of a Chills kicks lately. I don't know when it was recorded, but the live version of "Night of Chill Blue" on the band's MySpace page is tremendous. As haunting as the original but... bigger, more forceful.

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