Madder Rose were from New York and recorded melodic alternative music during the 1990s. Their most well-known song was probably "Swim", being their second single in 1993. They have been compared to the Velvet Underground, Lush and Juliana Hatfield.
These songs, which are live, features another track that made the Festive 50, that being "Car Song". Madder Rose split up in 1999.
Car Song
Lights Go Down
Margaret
They also did a cover version of Sonic Youth's "Star Power", which, it has to be said, is an improvement on the otherwise fabulous Kim Gordon's vocals!
Star Power
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This is a blog to hear many classic indie songs (usually first heard by me on the John Peel radio show) which passed by largely unknown. Some of the tracks have less than perfect sound quality as I transferred them from my old cassettes to the PC. I'll include any information I know about the bands and the songs. I will put some music on here again but it may not be that often. I intend to give you stuff that you can't get anywhere any more.
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Most of the songs here are more than 10 years old and didn't sell many copies when they were released. If you have an issue about whether they should be allowed to be downloaded, think about the fact that no money is being made from them here, they are linked to because I think they shouldn't have got lost in time and that people may be hearing them for the first time here.
However, if the song is being released in some way and you are currently earning revenue from this particular version then email me with proof and I'll remove it.
If you can't give me a good reason why they should be removed (and I'm talking ethically and morally here) then please just let them be.
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10 comments:
Brilliant, thanks for those. Madder Rose were an awesome band, and should have been much more widely known. Their Panic On album is one of my absolute favourites.
You're welcome John. I agree, they were a fantastic band.
Yes, really loved Madder Rose. Even when they went a bit noodly later on! Great blog, by the way, OT. I've linked to you from mine (Too Much Apple Pie).
Thank you Kippers. However, looking at your blog, I don't think it's revelant enough to mine to put a link here. I hope you don't mind.
Thanks for the tracks, great to hear some live 'Madder Rose', if you want a better quality version of "Starpower" see www.myspace.com/madderrose and use something like http://www.file2hd.com as a tool to download...I've got a group on Facebook for 'Madder Rose', not much but it has some info on them
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4601282419
Haven't heard Madder Rose doing Star Power since the Panic On tour hit Bristol many moons ago. Cheers.
Wow, thanks for this. I had no idea they even did a cover of Star Power. The first two Madder Rose albums were great, shame they are pretty much forgotten about by most these days.
Oh, thanks a million for posting this. I adored Madder Rose, and that "Car Song" is excellent... I just found your blog and am loving it...
Thanks again ! :-)
XO
It's glad that Madder Rose still gets some recognition nowadays.
Car Song is an absolute gem! They shouldn't be forgotten.
I can't thank you enough for posting these. I saw Madder Rose perform Starpower at Glastonbury in 1994 and I've been searching for their version ever since!
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