I'd just like the chance to find out
The Incredible Pop Will Eat Itself were supposed to release an album in 1996. It was recorded and a couple of instrumental teaser tracks were released, but then the band split up, the whole thing was shelved and that was that...until I got a facebook message a couple of months ago telling me that "A Lick of the Old Cassette Box" had been remastered by none other than Clint Mansell himself and was going to finally be released on 26th August 2013. I ordered my copy and this morning I rushed into work, expecting to find a CD-shaped package on my desk. No such luck, and checking the website it seems the release date has now been pushed back to 9th September.

Gah, this is turning out to be the longest 17 years ever.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:10, 39 replies)

The thing is, mate, that bar their cover of the Wilde Knights' 'Beaver Patrol', they're total shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:20, closed)

Also, when you compare it to the Wilde Knights' 1965 version, that too is total shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:30, closed)

Keywords: 'total shit'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:31, closed)

They're no Ned's Atomic Dustbin, I'll give you that.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:43, closed)

Well that's certainly true - although they give 'Jesus Jones' a run for their not-inconsiderable money!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:57, closed)

that bar their cover of the Wilde Knights' 'Beaver Patrol',
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:02, closed)

The only work of Clint Mansell's I've ever heard was on Mass Effect 3, just to give you an idea of how many other people still give a shit and how much staying power Pop Will Eat Itself had.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:24, closed)

He does film scores nowadays.
He did those thrashing violins that were originally on Requiem for a dream but then got hi-jacked by Sky Sports News and a bunch of other shitty adverts. You'd know it if you heard it.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:42, closed)

I don't own a telly, soz.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:48, closed)

You've heard Lux Æterna a million times
You're just too pigshit thick to realise it
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:52, closed)

Yeah!
He's not an infantile fanboy about stuff that was barely mediocre twenty years ago. What an ignorant prick.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:58, closed)

Twenty years ago?
I was 6, so I suppose I could have been infantile then.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:21, closed)

Cuh! What a total wanker!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:22, closed)

I think what we should be most worried about is the state of mind of someone who's spent 17 years waiting for a new recording by PWEI..
..describing it as 'the longest 17 years ever'.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:24, closed)

^this^

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:42, closed)

I bet there's some kind of horrid arrested development based around mother issues..
..that involves humiliating women using 1980's toys and closeted homosexuality.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:44, closed)

Oh right, so they did one song that people maybe remember?
Yeah, just youtubed it, that was proper shit.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:22, closed)

Not even that.
He composed a twee little tune for a whiny film when the money from his rock 'stardom' ran out and some dreary media pricks used it as their default background musak for a couple of years.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:26, closed)

It does sound very templatey.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:28, closed)

I was expecting a cover of Ligeti's choral piece, as heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 18:55, closed)

LIES ON THE INTERNET The LOVELY Woodise.
You were expecting a cover of Barbie Girl, don't even THINK about denying it.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:48, closed)

--It's aw a loaday shite anywey, Sick Boy meekly counters, using one of his classic tactics. If you can't win the fine detail of the argument, then rubbish its context.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:29, closed)

pertinent

(alright alright, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:33, closed)

No, it's just a little cold in here.

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:42, closed)

I liked Auslander. That was about it though.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:55, closed)

Auslander's pretty good, it's probably in my top ten
Their version of Their Law's not bad either www.youtube.com/watch?v=05FKtPJO8IQ
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:36, closed)

That Jah Wob thing was alright too, if room-shaking bass and ambient wibbling is your cup of tea.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:39, closed)

Has brigadier hijacked emvee's account too?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 17:28, closed)

christ that's depressing even by the incredibly high standards of tragedy set by this place

(alright alright, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:29, closed)

I know the kind of thing you like by now
It's a tried and tested formula, in a minute localboy will show up and oh-so-wittily post something like "Will a PWEI CD fit up a ropey bird's fetid mimsy?"
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:41, closed)

You'd probably have to fold it in half first.
CDs are tough bastards though, slamming them in a car door just about does the job.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 19:53, closed)

What are you, like, twelve or something? I can snap a CD in one hand.
Try using the one you wank with, next time.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:29, closed)

Dunno about you, but the motion I use for wanking is nothing whatsoever like the action required to snap something in half.
Perhaps you've felt the need to break many over the years so have built up strength in those muscles.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:35, closed)

What, you expect us to believe that you NEVER Lobster-wank?
Never?
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:47, closed)

Yellow Pages does the job, plus absorbent so more practical.
Also don't want to risk lacerating my old fella on sharp plastic edges.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 21:00, closed)

Once or twice, like when I was trying to copy a CD urgently and it failed 97% of the way through the burn
It's really not that difficult. You squeeze, they fold.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 2 Sep 2013, 20:55, closed)