I never understood it really...

[Setareh Juventina]

"Giant Steps" is a good album, a few songs on it fantastic. But for me, "Wake Up", "C'mon Kids" and "Kingsize" are better. Yet it's always "Giant Steps" in every review etc.

I feel different.

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[Kris]

[Setareh Juventina]

Confusing though.

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[Bodenheim Snr]

Did you discover Giant Steps in '93 or later? As it happenned, at the time, the impact seemed immense... for the Do Badlys. Of course there was a hype surrounding the award & it stuck.
Actually my hope was the record would be like Lazarus x 3or4 but of course it wasn't & I wasn't really disappointed.
All the albums are great for different reasons. Even or perhaps especially EFA.
Actually it's difficult to be objective about the albums & who would want to be?

[Dubya - T]

I got into it in '93 and yeah, it's all about timing.

I liked EAF, but had actually missed hearing Lazarus for one reason or another. I was expecting something in a similar vein, although SunflyII had shown me that the Boos had more in them than the standard Indie "shoegazer" band.
I bought Giant Steps and it sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before. It was an astounding album and given what had gone before it, completely different.

In hindsight there are patchy bits and the Boos did better it on later albums, but taken in context with the time, there's very little to touch it.
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[Setareh Juventina]

Heard it long after apart from a few songs.

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[discoRdance]

I, too, prefer C'Mon Kids, Kingsize and Wake Up! but, again, I heard Giant Steps later on and certainly after those three.

Anyway, tried about five music shops in Dublin yesterday for Find The Way Out (HMV and Virgin included)... not one copy to be seen anywhere. I finally ask in HMV in the city centre and the guy says they got 3 copies in, but they're gone, and he lifted Giant Steps off the shelf and told me that that's all I really need.

I dryly said I have all the albums already, and said "thanks anyway".
hmph.

[Guest]

I heard Cmon kids, then everythings alright forever, then Giant Steps, then Wake Up, then Kingsize. I loved them all especially Cmon Kids and Giant Steps, I'd say its my favourite its just really enthusiastic and exciting. Wake Up is my least favourite half of its good, but comapred to the other albums its not even close.

My favourite Brave Captain is the 1st fingertip saint sessions.

[lomezz]

giant steps is the best, everything's alright forever is my favourite.

[Bodenheim Snr]

The thing is I want all the albums to be perfect & of course none of them are but I can't really think of another band who have inspired that kind of unreasonable desire. Or at least not for this long.
Best collection of songs: Kingsize. On the other hand, inclined to be maudlin.
Funniest & most original: C'mon Kids. But... also most noticably uneven; track order does individual songs no favours.
Best concept album: Wake Up! Except Martin wanted it to be a collection of pop-songs. Actually this one grows on you over a decade or so.
Treasure-trove of memory: Everything's Alright... Youth is a wonderful thing but wasted on the young (apparently)
Noisy, unlikely but nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable prologue to what should have been a longer & more fruitful career: Ichibod. Noisy. I like noise; other people don't.
Leaves you gasping for compilations of more of the wonderful b-sides: Learning to Walk. But the later b sides were even better.
Mind-boggling Tour de force: you guess. My only gripe is that it should have finished with the full version of Lazarus, intro and everything.

[gillworm]

[Setareh Juventina]

Woohoo Gilly...then you know you're not alone

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