Lilys
Lilys | |
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| Origin | SpinART, Ché, Primary, Sire Records, Darla, Low Transit Industries, Tiger Style, File 13, Manifesto, Rainbow Quartz, Rocket Girl, Frontier Records |
| Members | Kurt Heasley |
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Lilys are an
D.C in 1988. The only constant member is Kurt Heasley, with the line-up changing regularly. Several of the band's tracks have been used in television advertisements, including the band's biggest hit, "A Nanny In Manhattan", which reached No. 16 in the UK after being used in a Levi's advertisement directed by Roman Coppola.[1]
Heasley collaborations and productions
Heasley has collaborated with other acts such as Nobody, appearing on the band's 2005 single "Fancy", a cover of the Kinks song, He co-wrote the Twitch Hazel contributions to their 1997 split double-7-inch EP Kramer's Beach. He has also produced recordings by other artists including The Asteroid#4 (Apple Street: A Classic Tale Of Love And Hate, King Richard's Collectibles), The Ladybug Transistor, and Mazarin and co-engineered Echo Orbiter's Laughing All The While.
Musical style
The band's
Pitchfork Media going as far as saying "You might say Lilys frontman Kurt Heasley is a world-class thief",[6] but as one journalist put it "I know we're supposed to hate bands that sound too much like other bands, but the difference with the Lilys is that they do it so blatantly and so shamelessly that it's somehow rendered okay."[7]
Rock critic Robert Christgau described the band's sound as "amplified watercolors".[8]
Discography
Albums
- In the Presence of Nothing (1992), Slumberland Records
- SpinART Records
- Eccsame the Photon Band (1994), SpinART Records (reissued in 2015 on Frontier Records)
- Better Can't Make Your Life Better (1996) Che/Primary Records (Reissued in 1998 in Europe on CD with an altered track list that omitted one original song from U.S. album version and added two B-sides)
- The 3 Way (1999) Sire Records
- Zero Population Growth: Bliss Out Volume 15 (1999) Darla Records
- Precollection (2003), Manifesto (reissued in Europe with 3 bonus tracks as The Lilys (2004) on Rainbow Quartz Records)
- Everything Wrong Is Imaginary (2006), Manifesto Records
Singles/EPs
- "February Fourteenth/Threw A Day" (1991), Slumberland Records
- "Tone Bender" (1993) Slumberland Records
- Tone Bender EP (1994), Summershine Records (contains the first two album singles re-released as EP)
- "Returns Every Morning" (1996), Ché Records
- "A Nanny in Manhattan" (1996), Ché Records
- Which Studies the Past? 7" EP (1996), Sub Pop Records
- Services (For the Soon to Be Departed) EP (1997), Primary Records
- "A Nanny in Manhattan" (1998), Ché Records (Reached the UKMusic Charts at No.16)
- Selected EP (2000), File 13 Records
Compilation appearances
- "Any Several Sundays" appears on ...One Last Kiss (CD) (1992), spinART Records
- "Claire Hates Me" appears on Neapolitan Metropolitan (3x 7-inch EP box set) (1992), Simple Machines
- "Excelsior Plainslide" appears on Ten Cent Fix - A Jiffy Boy Records Compilation (1993), Jiffy Boy Records
- "Strange Feelin'" appears on Sing A Song For You: Tribute To Tim Buckley (2000), Manifesto Records
- "Dreams Never End" appears on "Slumberland Records - The First 20 Years" (2009), Slumberland Records
- Lilys/Aspera Ad Astra split EP with Aspera Ad Astra (2000), Tiger Style Records
- "Well Traveled Is Protest" appears on the Lilys/Big Troubles split 7" (2012), Speakertree Records
- "Unheard of Curiosities" appears on the Lodge 49 (Original Soundtrack Series) album (2019), Lakeshore Records
References
- ^ ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 836-837
- ^ Mosurak, Doug (2005) "Still Single, Vol. 3", Dusted, 2005, retrieved 24 December 2009
- ^ "Here's Neko Case With The Weather". www.magnetmagazine.com. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
- ^ Howard, Brian (2003) "A Man Up Archived 2009-12-04 at the Wayback Machine", Philadelphia City Paper, 22–28 May 2003, retrieved 23 December 2009
- Washington Post, February 3, 2006, retrieved 23 December 2009
- Pitchfork Media, April 20, 1999, retrieved 24 December 2009
- ^ Chang, Vickie (2006) "Sounds Just Like Awesome: 90s rockers the Lilys ripped off pretty much every band ever", OC Weekly, July 6, 2006, retrieved 24 December 2009
- ^ Murray, Noel (1999) "Rock Steady: Three bands stay true to rock 'n' roll, with mixed results", Nashville Scene, May 20, 1999, retrieved 23 December 2009
External links
- Lilys at AllMusic
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