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Every Conversation: the Story of the June Brides and Phil Wilson

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Audio CD (10 Oct 2005)
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Cherry Red
ASIN: B000BAVXCI
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,652 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. In The Rain
2. Every Conversation
3. Instrumental
4. I Fall
5. Sunday To Saturday
6. Sick Tired And Drunk
7. Disneyland
8. Comfort
9. Heard You Whisper
10. Enemies
See all 22 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. In The Rain
2. I Fall
3. On The Rocks
4. No Place Called Home
5. Just The Same
6. Cold
7. One Day
8. We Belong
9. Waiting For A Change
10. This Town
See all 19 tracks on this disc

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June Brides were from South London and had considerable success in the Independent Charts in the mid 1980's.

The band was built around lyricist, guitarist and vocalist Phil Wilson. They were unusual at the time as although they operated in the independent sector they had a brass section.

• Their album, "There Are Eight Million Stories" was No 1 for four weeks in the Independent Chart in September 1985 and stayed in that chart for a total of 38 weeks.

• This is a double album which contains all the June Brides tracks ever recorded, including the BBC Radio I sessions with John Peel and Janice Long, plus the solo work from Phil Wilson which followed the break up of the band.

• This definitive double album 41 track package includes very detailed sleeve-notes (6,000 words), rare pictures and complete discography.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Joy Will Find You Out, 24 May 2006

By	A. J. Wood "Andy Wood" (Dundee, Scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's weird seeing your first crush, nay, love two decades on, looking all chic and fresh. The June Brides were the first band I truly fell for in my late teens, after years of falling out of love with music. My first crushes, Madness, Altered Images, Adam & The Ants and The Specials had all disapeared or were well past their primes and the tail end of New Romantic and fake soul pop weren't doing it for me.

The first four songs I heard were broadcast on John Peel, the only session they recorded for the show, and I thought they were fantastic, all aching vocals and melodies, guitars, bass and drums beautifully augmented by a viola and trumpet, and I rushed out to buy everything I could by the band. In truth, that didn't add up to much - a mini album and a couple of singles. Two more singles would follow and then that was it. Yet this small but perfectly formed canon would sustain me through many years when other, lesser bands, fell out of favour. Guitarist and vocalist (and main songwriter) Phil Wilson had the briefest of solo careers on Creation, producing two excellent, country tinged singles then retired, battered and bruised by his experiences in a cut throat music industry.

Everything the band recorded/released is contained on these two cd's, from the debut single 'In The Rain' with its post-punk, slightly austere sound, to the final single 'This Town' which is just gorgeous, a tale of defiance and regret set to a swooning, lushly arranged tune. The Phil Wilson material is as strong, although it wasn't particularly well-received at the time (country influences, this is the indie punk wars you traitor) and there are two songs on this I'd never heard, 'Better Days' and 'The Written Word' which were recorded with Primal Scream's Andrew Innes and released as a limited edition 7" on Bob Stanley's (he of Saint Etienne fame) Caff Corporation. They make a fitting epitaph for a fine career, if not in terms of sales or longevity, then in the high standards of performance and songwriting highlighted on this double album.

The packaging is beautifully designed with extensive sleevenotes and this is fantastic package and as good a document of one of the best bands of the 1980s in a period when indie was short for independent - an aesthetic spirit and politics - rather than a generic term for slightly leftfield guitar bands with nothing to say for themselves. Slightly awkward, angular and committed The June Brides have stood up to the passing of time and sound as fantastic as they ever did.

They were Morrissey's favourite band of 1985, they were mine for many years after, and they could be yours as well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Precious Music, 5 Aug 2008

By	Linesider (UK) - See all my reviews

I got this album on the strength of the review on here and because of the 'Still Unravished' tribute, for which one of my favourite bands had contributed a song, thus bringing the band to my attention. And what a band! The songs, both those of the June Brides and Phil Wilson, are intelligent, musically interesting and genuine. If that's not enough, they possess amazing foot stomping tunes. As has been mentioned, the set comes with extensive sleeve notes which is just as well, because if you search the net you will find depressingly little about the band. That's a crying shame, but it does make you feel slightly smug for discovering them.

This is proper, original indie music in all its glory, augmented by beautiful viola and trumpet. It's the sound of a tight band playing together in a room: no autotune here. Considering this is every song of both JB and PW, you'd expect some duffers, but there aren't any! That said, standouts have to be 'In The Rain', 'Every Conversation', 'The Instrumental', 'No Place Like Home' and 'Waiting For A Change' (gorgeous country lilt and rockabilly, with sublime lyrics to boot). If you're into the modern 'indie scene', check this album out - it destroys the vast majority of it (whatever indie now is). Check it out if you appreciate fine music and want to feel smug that the June Brides and Phil Wilson are on your ipod and hardly anybody elses; this is precious music that deserves to be heard.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Album, 31 May 2006

By	Keith B. Douglas "RT" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have nothing more to add to the about reveiw. I just think it deserves more that one start ( an accident maybe on the part of the reviewer )

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