High Llamas - "Nomads"

[MrGravito]

ironie,beaume au coeur,bonne humeur,bonesprit,j'en passe et des meilleurs!les high llamas,quoi!merci à Sir Bernie Lenoir de me les avoir fait découvrir en 1998!

[Mattteus]

hmm, a lot of their songs seem to be about performing arts, The Click and The Fizz, Giddy & Gay, Rotary Hop, Theatreland, The Holly Hills, Edge of the Sun, Showstop Hip Hop

[swagLilBallin11]

AWSESOME

[ThisreallyIsBullshit]

tyler the creator

[STOOPIDDITTIES]

Jon Fell is my teacher.

[PeasGraveny]

Wow.The Thrills must've been taking notes.

[corkscrewfoley]

@PeasGraveny That's exactly what I was thinking!

[vortexion]

Sean's Irish, and America doesn't suck. A lot of good music comes out of England, except for that Radiohead dung.

[puurplefreak9]

not a surprise that they're from london

its like all the awesomest bands come from there

and america sucks and it really does

[needledropdamagedone]

SEAN O'HAGAN is the most gifted composer of our era !

[hejafish]

**ATTENTION** High Llamas tour this May (2011) in the UK!!! See the website for details: (thehighllamas doht com) :¬)

[angelcreations]

THE BRIAN WILSON ESSENCE EVERYWHERE

[botronicmusic]

I'd like for all the guitar virtuosos out there to challenge Sean O'Hagan's banjo part on this song! I mean how brilliant is this!

[bonatello1]

i love this unambiguous homage towards late 60s early 70s beach boys sound

[jestiferjestifer]

Beach Boys maybe?

[bankbank]

kakabulim!!

[flachi32]

They are playing Moseley folk festival in Sept. I'm there!!

[genesisrock43]

@flachi32 weren't they great! 

[feverfilms1]

man, i wish id written this........

[usagisama100]

オヘイガン先生、メガホンで歌ってるよ！

[markuzzx]

ah que deliciosa cancion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[goalmachinegoater]

They're playing live soon:

07/11/09 The Luminaire London

09/11/09 The Glee Club Birmingham

07/12/09 Band On The Wall Manchester

[other6people]

thats half across the world for me. And was 5 months ago. Ill still go

[ElvisesLovechild]

Fucking Great stuff Those llamas.Thank God for those wakked out English.

[MaximeeK]

Fantastic song!

[bostonchip2006]

Hi Bdolf & Flatslab3000:Yeah Ipswich some good times in GB. All the things to see. My kind of place. Great public transport. CHEERS

Mr. Chip's

[rg129]

ummmmm??? what the crap is this crap????

[embran]

vocal is a copy form the kinks and music is a copy form pet sound/smile - in this track piano is like form "i'm in great shape" and bajo like from cabinessence

[lexingtonsband]

the i'm in great shape song was not available in 1996. therefore i don't see the similarities.

[braybeatles]

it was widely bootlegged and the high llamas, being Brian Wilson fanatics would certainly have copies of it. still a great song though

[luciendelapeste]

Nothing wrong with that. Brian Wilson has name checked Sean O´Hagan many times.

[NikrotiN]

is this tha theme of eureka?!...

[bostonchip2006]

Great video like the late 1960's folk songs by Lovin Spoonful and so on but still refreshing and contemporary for the 21st century listeners. I am a new fan!!!

[kuntzakente]

the video doesnt do much for me but the record is one of the best in the last 100 years.

[BdolfVanNille]

So unique... the best thing since The Smiths!!!!

[mechanicaljoint]

Wow. I never knew these guys even made videos. In Canada they never played them. Definitely one of my favs in '96. Thanks for the post.

[n2cora]

never heard of them before.

charmed. :)

[Ippydon]

I remember seeing this on the Chart Show, not knowing who the hell they were, but knowing I had to get the single. I managed it, twas in the lower echelons of hmv ipswich, but I found it. Still in the top five for me, ticks every box

[bostonchip2006]

Ipswich!!! I grew up on Mildenhall and Lakenheath in the late seventies and early eighties use to take the tube from Shippea Hill in Ely to Cambridge. Cheers. I like High Llamas also I now live in the USA in Columbia South Carolina but I still celebrate Boxing Day since I left GB

Mr. Chips

[flatslab3000]

i first heard of ipswich cus of that famous football match in the seventies

[obnebur]

..hey, RobinCarmody this also *was* 1996 for me in Buenos Aires(thanks to Ale Fiori who introduced them to me)

[PowlettJones45]

December 4, 2007. That's when I "discovered" these guys. Recommendation from an English friend who loves "Pet Sounds" like me. I was clapping my hands seconds after the song started. Sorry I wasn't there in '96 but I'm "there" now.

[Chucker84]

I discovered these guys on launchcast radio 3 years ago. I would never have heard of them otherwise - simply sublime

[Zovko66]

1996 - I discovered these roving Llamas. None of my friends understood it. 10 years later i am soooo proud of being among the first who understood their genius (among my "so-called musical expert friends"). God bless the Llamas. If she exists...

[2u24u4eva]

these guys r just toe tapping ace-n-finger clickin brill,guess i like em"AAAAALLLLLLLLOOOOOOOTTTTTTT­T

[eburn]

this is one of my all time favorite

[RobinCarmody]

This *was* 1996 for me.

[harrybhappy]

what a pleasure to see some media on these guys,I mixed monitors for them in houston,Tx on the hawaii tour with stereolab, and they are to date one of best and nicest bands I've had the pleasure of working with,I hope they make it here again soon.

[Bennylux]

Like the love theme to a lost 60s romantic comedy in an alternate universe.

[hawaiinomad]

A belter.

[brandy73]

oh boy! how long i was waitin' for High Llama shit! thanx so much, man! can't wait till the new record is out!

[dalecartman]

I was in a rather small record shop in London,

when this track was played over the whole shop.

I stood there for an hour listening to most of

the album then bought it.

Pet Sounds being my all time No 1 album, Hawaii is as close. Thanks for this, Vortexion.

[smiley66goodvibes67]

sounds like the beach boys! good song

[lilyz81]

yeah, thats their influence ^_^