…..when this was ignored.
Lloyd Cole has been active in the music business for well over 30 years now. His live shows remain a real treat thanks to a deft combination of new material and the songs he’s most famous for from his days when backed by The Commotions.
It is a real shame that his solo career has never taken off in the way that it should have for he’s released a lot of cracking albums, particularly since the turn of the century when he began to increasingly concentrate on just his voice and his guitar rather than worry too much about the production and arrangements which in all truth occasionally marred his initial solo works after he split up the band.
One of his finest compositions dates from the late 90s. It first saw light of a day on a very underrated LP released in 2000:-
mp3 : Lloyd Cole & The Negatives – No More Love Songs
The definitive version however, was released three years later and was the only single taken from the LP Music In A Foreign Language (a record in which Mr Cole did a more than passable cover of a Nick Cave classic).
mp3 : Lloyd Cole – No More Love Songs
mp3 : Lloyd Cole – Claire Fontaine
mp3 : Lloyd Cole – Claire Fontaine (long)
The single is long deleted and hard to get hold of…indeed the b-sides today are actually courtesy of their inclusion on a later box set entitled Cleaning Out The Ashtrays.
Oh and that Nick Cave song I was referring to….
mp3 : Lloyd Cole – People Ain’t No Good
This post is dedicated to Rol Hurst. He’ll know why.
Enjoy
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Thank you. And apologies for taking so long to get round to reading it – I didn’t know I was THAT far behind on my reading. It’s been a helluva year. Thanks for a very pleasurable afternoon, though, JC…
…I’ll even forgive you for spelling my name wrong. 😉
Bloody spellcheck!!!!