Cardiacs - Tarred And Feathered - HQ

From the Cardiac's 1991 album 'Songs For Ships And Irons'

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Cardiacs
• Tarred And Feathered
• Big Ship
• Songs For Ships And Irons
• On Land and in the Sea
• BBC
• avant-garde
• experimental
• progressive
• rock
• prog
• Tim Smith
• William Drake

[suexian]

Clearly the best music video ever.

[StMikey]

Tim Smith (gtr, vox)- Jester of all he surveys;

Jim Smith (bass)- the most miserable Englishman since Richard Bucket;

Sarah Smith (sax)- needs to feed her 83 cats when she gets home;

William Drake (keys)- "I THINK I'M A RABBIT!"

Dominic Luckman (drums)- Lurch;

Tim Quy (perc)- Glad Tim Smith can't reach him.

[AMBSBC]

Sarah Smith looks so lovely in this video. As for Tim and the rest of the band - just brilliant. Love the sigh at the end. I'm sure I saw this on 'The Tube' (Channel 4) when it came out - then lost track of it. Thanks for posting. Not being a full Cardiacs fan it didn't know Tim's not been well the last few years - I wish him all the best.

[greasymac]

classsic music by a great band

[ElleRoni]

YES

YES

[Lewelltam]

It's good, but isn't it basically just Gong for the next generaton?

[Edwardcore00]

AHHHHHH QUE PUTERIA. SEVERO TEMA!!!!!!!!!!!! Y EL VIDEO ES UNA CHIMBA!!!

[cyme5]

@turricaned It took me years to 'get it' simply because I don't really care for Is This The Life? (husband played that for years in the car, along with All Spectacular , and Stoneage Dinosaurs- both of which I now appreciate)....It took just a single listen to Dirty Boy to get me hooked...then I sorta just went backwards (and then of course forwards for Guns)..but you are right, the weirder stuff does take a while, but once you do your ears will buzz with delight.

[turricaned]

@pennstat Oh, they have one of the most slavishly devoted cult followings of any band ever. I always saw "Is This The Life?" as a sort of "gateway song" to the band - the weirder stuff takes a while to get, but once you get it you tend to be hooked forever. :)

[pennstat]

@turricaned Just going by what's said in the caption that it was released in 1991. As much as I appreciate that they decided to "break" the mold, I still find songs like "Is This The Life?" to be their most solid. Maybe if they released more songs like that in addition to their offbeat stock they would have fared better, at least enough to have a cult following in the US.

[turricaned]

@pennstat Hate to break it to you, but this song and video originally came out in 1986 - they were practically nowhere to be found in the US, most labels found them too weird. I suspect they'd have been pigeonholed as a "novelty act" if they'd been successful that way - which I'm sure would have led to them breaking up.