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The Charlatans
| NAME: |
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The Charlatans |
| ORIGINAL MEMBERS: |
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Tim Burgess, Rob Collins,
John Brookes, Martin Blunt and Mark Collins |
| HIGHEST CHART SINGLE: |
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One To Another, Number
Three |
| ESSENTIAL TUNE: |
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The Only One I Know |
| ESSENTIAL ALBUM: |
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Tough one that! We'll
go for The Charlatans - The Charlatans - BUY
NOW! |
| FASCINATING FACT: |
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The band love Revels
chocolates and their early t-shirts depicted the slogan
- Searching For The Orange One |
| BAGGY RATING: |
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They're still standing |
SOME WRITING ON THE BAND:
The Charlatans first
record was called Indian Rope. It was released on Dead
Dead Good records and it was ace! Here was a young band,
with a pin-up front man who had discovered a groove and
arrived on the scene at precisely the right time - just
as record labels were going mad for Manchester.
The fact that they're still relevant today
shows they had far more substance than many gave them
credit for in those heady days.
The success of Indian Rope landed The
Charlatans a deal with Beggars Banquet and their first
release 'The Only One I Know' went Top Ten. It's a great
pop song that is a stable floor filler at many indie discos.
Their debut album - Some Friendly - enjoyed
similar success and went all the way to the top of the
charts. One of the tracks on the album, Sproston Green,
is a stomper that forms part of the band's encore till
this day.
The fall of Madchester was an inevitably
difficult time for the band and their second album, Between
10th and 11th received bad reviews in some quarters but
their fans and, as importantly, their label remained loyal.
It's a good job they weren't on a major
as they would probably have been dropped and we wouldn't
have had the chance to enjoy the band's subsequent releases.
Up To Our Hips, The Charlatans and Telling
Stories (during the recording of which the band's hugely
influential keyboard player, Rob Collins, sadly died).
All three are evidence of a band developing, keen to try
new sounds and delivering great singles such as Just When
You're Thinking It Over and the awesome One To Another.
The band's last release on Beggars was
a greatest hits compilation and they were snapped up by
WEA.
Nowadays, lead singer, Tim Burgess resides
in LA. But the move hasn't quelled the band's creative
juices and they've released two albums on their new label
- the Dylan-esque Us and Us Only and the Mayfield-esque
Wonderland which was released in 2001. Both are worthy
editions to any collection.
Back in the days of Madchester -
the Roses were deemed as the talented ones and the Mondays
were the hedonistic ones. The Charlatans were labelled
'also rans'. The fact they're still around, still relevant
and still making great records shows they were and are
Dead Dead Good.
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