Tim came to see the band I was playing in, thought the (house) engineer was doing a very poor job, walked into the sound booth claiming he was our engineer who had arrived late and did the sound for the rest of the gig. A lovely man.
That is such a Tim thing to do. He was our live sound engineer for two years (The Peoples Friend) and recorded and mixed four of our songs. Because he was made of gold, if love, of the essence of sea creatures yet to be named.
the joke of it all was, the night I found out Tim died, my fiancé decided to leave me, and I wasn’t sure which to be sadder about. What a life we’ve got.
This is like someone telling you there’s treasure buried at the bottom of your garden and you go digging in the hope of finding a bar of chocolate but instead you discover a door to another world full of gardens with even more buried treasure... and chocolate! Thanks man for sharing something truly amazing.
@@thehotyounggrandpas8207 his words were actually "you fucking bastard, how did you do that? How did you go all on there and know it wasn't gonna come out all "merrrrrgggghhh"?
I was recently trying to work, no music would satisfy and then I put the Cardiacs on. The memories came flooding back, their gigs where just incredible - the two day event playing their old material was a treasure! Watching this video I nearly had tears in my eyes, its just so sad. Why does the world crap on talent and rolls turds in glitter?!?
They can't taste the excrement for a long while, if ever. It's a thick coating of glitter. BTW, isn't "Glitter" a way of saying "Porn?" Go listen to XTC's "Funk Pop a Roll" if you want a despairing song about the sad state of the music industry. Tim would have known it, I expect. He loved XTC.
I cannot express in words how gratful I am that you brought Cardiacs into my life about a month ago! Never would have found them without your channel. Life changing stuff. Your other videos are cool as well :)
@@ArasheNorto You mean the same Pixies that have a huge following, have appeared on many TV shows with millions of viewers and has had their music be the soundtrack of many great films over the last 20 years? Yeah... the pixies are great, but I don't think they can be described as little-known in any way, as you're suggesting..
I decided to look up Cardiacs here on TH-cam and I landed on their "Sing to God" album. It's amazing work. It's rare that someone suggests a band / composer and I get *excited* within the first few minutes. Thank you.
I saw Cardiacs as support to Chumbawamba at The Arches in Glasgow in '95. Both of these groups that night were fantastic and the audience were fully appreciative of both. One of the best gigs ever.
I never knew this band. They're a bit before my time, and even more obscure in the US than in the UK. But a few days ago I noticed many of the musicians I follow on social media were paying their respects to a fellow called Tim Smith who had passed away. They all described Cardiacs as underappreciated geniuses. I'm already a follower and appreciator of Tantacrul, but I never saw this video. I'm so glad folks take the time to document the history of my heroes' heroes so folks like me can learn about them. RIP Tim Smith.
how is it possible for a band to be so ahead of their time that Tarred and Feathered video would've been a hit in early or mid 2010's, it has that strange and surreal aesthetic a lot of people like today.
@@101Volts I think more than that this was just the sound that Tim Smith liked, I remember overhearing him say "you know those chord changes that make your tummy feel funny? Those are the ones I like to use" when he was talking to someone after a gig
I've ended up here after Gaz Williams' recent interview with Kavus Torabi sent me down a delightful Cardiacs rabbit hole. Like many of us who were about in the 80s & 90s, I am disappointed to have missed or ignored them first time around and now to learn of Tim Smith's situation. Having been listening to their works de novo, it was strikingly obvious how Blur's music sits in this 'influenced' context, which is explicitly acknowledged here. Better to have come late, than never at all. Thank you Tim and Cardiacs.
this music sounds like every melodic and harmonic gimmick of late 2000s indie rock bands brilliantly composed together and then thrown in a blender. love it
So glad i saw them play probably hundreds of times in the late eighties, early 90s, Even played in a band that played a few cardiacs covers, thanks cardiacs
I'm completely self-taught on everything so I don't know a whole lot about theory. Analysis like this definitely interests me though, especially when it's about music as special as Tim's. I hope he gets the help he needs.
Take a Jazz course. Even as a non Jazz musician or much of a fan, it opened up SO many new ideas knowing how all those chords and scales work. Seriously, its like getting super powers.
Coming back to this video after a few years I'm absolutely heartbroken to learn of Tims passing. When I first saw this vid, I was disappointed to find their stuff wasn't available on spotify, at least not in my region. That has since changed and I have gone on an absolute binge of their music, as well as pointing them out to my dad, who's big into prog. The step to go order some physical copies and merch was a natural one. I genuinely can't remember when last I got so into a new musical discovery. Thanks, Tantacrul, for bringing them to my attention. Consider me a thoroughly recruited fan.
OMG I listened to Dirty Boy years ago and I couldn't find the title or the name of the band. I can't thank you enough for that. This track is pure magic.
My hair stood on end the first time I heard/saw the breakdown/solo on R.E.S...can remember exactly where I was. On of my favourite moments in all of prog.
also useful to mention how much tim loves whole tone scales. examples: "to go off and things", the rising bassline in the middle of "big ship", the chorus of "dog like sparky"
They've reached me in a way and to a level that I don't think I've experienced with other music. "The Seaside" has absolutely knocked me sideways, it's an incredible clarion call.
Was introduced to Cardiacs via That Pedal Show, just a couple of months ago. Such an amazing legacy Tim Smith left behind. It really deserves more recognition. For me it scratches the same sort of maximalistic itch that Meshuggah does, despite their apparant differances. Call it "high information music", to put it in opposition to what Rick Beato calls modern radio music ("low information music"). It's just SO good.
Great Video I have followed Tim and boys since Whole world window and seen them over 20 times. Nothing but nothing compares to them live. Its all lovely in the pond
Greatest band I never got to see (had tickets for the year of the "incident"). I love them now like a lover who's gone yet you still wake up occasionally feeling them next to you and the scent of them in the air. Their music has helped me through some of the darkest periods of my life and I'm forever glad to witness other people coming to love them as I do.
I was missing Tim Smith today and fumbling around in TH-cam, and happened across this video. I wasn't expecting a great music lesson as well! Fantastic. Subscribed! (RIP, Tim Smith)
So I came to this channel randomly from Adam Neely. Astounded I've never heard this band before, I'm a massive fan of both Napalm Death *and* Van Der Graaf Generator, and until now there's been nothing that sounds like both of those bands and the same time. Superb.
I've only recently found out about Cardiacs , and Im totally hooked , no one writes or composses like this , it's totally unique !! Critics are always what Frank Zappa said about people , minds are like parachutes , they only work if they're open !!! ANd very few critics are trully open . I think if Frank had heard these guys he would've insisted on producing them !!!
This video is fantastic - but what really blew me away is that this is the first time I’ve ever seen/heard somebody analyse their music; and in such a knowledgable way. Thanks
I bought Heaven Born and Ever Bright in 93 when I read that Mr Bungle (who's first album had just finished blowing my brain open) listed them as an influence. I was smitten immediately and bought everything I could find in a pre internet world when you had to go to record stores with a list of things you were looking for.
I can't thank you enough for making this. I'd never heard of Cardiacs until running across your video in my TH-cam recs, and six months later they're my favorite band of all time, and I haven't wanted to anything else since...and that's really saying something, as I've been a voracious music consumer since the mid-'80s.
Wow, thank you for making this video. Gave me that classic over whelming sense of joy and tear filled eyes that only cardiacs can create. What a wonderful band and what a special thing for us all to be a part of.
Thanks to the youtube algorithm doing something good once in a while, I have only RECENTLY discovered Cardiacs as of last Monday. It has been quite the adventure listening to absolutely everything I can!
Glad to find a new pocket of Cardiacs fandom. The Everso Closely Guarded Line still sticks with me after years and years as something truly, truly special
I'm one of those obsessed fans you mentioned. You are right about influencing other bands. I used to live in a house share with Ginger from the Wildhearts and he introduced them to me when we went to see them in Hammersmith in the late eighties. They did a few gigs with them later and you can definately see the change of time signatures in the Wildhearts music. So sad to hear of Tim's death...
The video was lovely, Cardiacs are very interesting, but can we talk about healthcare systems that force people to set up donation drives to pay for someone's care?
When I joined Blyth Power, we were due to appear on The Tube. We all had to sign up to the musicians union. About 2 weeks before our TV debut, chanel 4 and the Union were locked in some dispute. Consequently, we didn't get to go on The Tube. Cardiacs weren't in the Union, and so they got to play. Not sure if they literally took our place, but it felt like it. An awful lot of Blyth Power fans are Cardiacs fans too. We played with them a couple of times. I was, and still am a huge fan.
A really excellent video - entertaining, educational, interesting, and constructed with care, attention and love. TH-cam needs more content of this quality.
followed them and loved them since the mid 80s. got everything they ever released. definately the most original band ever. live shows were rivaled only by the likes of gwar and demented are go and kiss in my opinion. Jim bought me a pint in 99". cheers jim !!!.
I saw them on that Marillion tour in 1984 and fell in love. Still love Cardiacs all these years later and can't believe Timmy was taken from us so soon.
Back in the day i was at the birds nest pub/venue, my play was about to be performed there the next week. A band was playing at the time Napalm death, a local unheard of band. Behind me I heard a voice talking and i recognised it, from a cassette id bought from a concert from a new band at that time, again unheard of, cardiacs. it was tim smith. we chatted for a while about where the band were going and about my play. he asked me to keep listening, i asked him watch my play. ill never know if he ever turned up but 35 years later theyre still my favourite band and rightly so. they say the beatles were the biggest influence of the rock era, cardiacs were the root of all you hear nowadays, ask radiohead... thanks for the upload mate, appreciated
As a Marillion fan who saw Cardiacs in 1984, I was sad so many of the audience "didnt get it". I loved Cardiacs the moment they walked on stage and I am so glad their music is such a large part of my life.
Marillion's UK fans are a bunch of fucking cheese dicks..the only support band I've ever heard them liking is Gazpacho. Gazpacho sounds like Marillion. (Hal and Michael excluded)
You can almost understand why people where perplexed by the cardiacs. They where too punky and wild for the snobby prog crowd, and could play their instruments far too well to be appreciated by the punk crowd, and the mainstream pop audience was doomed only to ever know "Is this life?". Its really weird, I know people with great music taste that recoil in horror at the cardiacs, and I know others that have become instant mad fans the second they heard it. And I'll be damned if I know whats the magic secret as to why some like it and some don't. Other than perhaps "Dont come into this with preconceptions"
Thanks. I don’t think I,ve seen their music analysed so expertly. They were incredible musicians. I saw them a couple of times in the 80,s and at the 1992 Reading Festival. Brilliant live band which I sadly don’t think will ever play again. All the best Tim.
Found Cardiacs due to blur’s dropping of their name. I absolutely adore The Seaside. Love watching my co-workers’ reactions when they come by and Cardiacs are on
I'm glad I found out about this band this year. I can't believe of all the music from that era and style, in all my music nerd-ism, I hadn't heard of this group!
He was my neighbour and unfortunately wasn't around much as well known. Nice to see the videos had mostly been filmed in the surrounding areas. RIP Tim. NIce video Tantarcul.
I was introduced to Cardiacs just two weeks ago by a work colleague. I was skeptical, I'm more of a Dream Theater-style prog fan, but I've found so much to love in their catalogue!
Thanks for making this video! Long overdue. I always wanted to make a video with every appearance of the cardiacs cadence, but it’s great to find them on your own and melt a bit each time.
Thank you for sharing this band - I may have head of their name but for whatever reason have never listened to them. Now that I have, I'm saddened that I've missed out for so long. Same problem with Gentle Giant from a few years back. Well, as they say... better late than never! Cheers!
I always come back to Cardiacs and stumbled upon this video. It really struck a chord with me. I loved this band so much. It made the strange ok without a rockstar attitude and glam and all that frivolous bullshit. Just weirdos doing weird and beautiful music.I can tell you were a fan. RIP Tim.
Since 1985 I've been a fan I was given a tape From the word play I was totally hooked Been to so many gig's of cardiacs All signed my records Love u timmy xxxx
I saw them live in London in '88. The only gig where the ticket was barely together by the end because it was so sweat-soaked. Never a concert with more jumping, manic fans, and Tim was an absolute maestro in how he controlled us all. Never has there been a band like Cardiacs, and there never will be again.
that's LITERALLY what happened to me, except i was in college. My tutor asked me if i'd heard of cardiacs, i said no, he put RES on the projector, the class left.... i stayed... and i fell in love
Woah Dirty Boy is wild. There's enough familiarity to make you feel like you have an idea of where it might be going. but then the next chord hits you totally out of the blue and sends the song careening down a totally unseen turn, then again and again for almost 9 minutes, constantly catching you by surprise. It's like a musical Mr. Toads Wild Ride. Crazy.
Thanks for this from one of those strange guys who love to search and find lots of treasures in unpopular music. There are so much great music that deserves a lot more fans than it gets, but seems, Cardiacs is one of the greatest discoveries. Prog rock fans are mostly friendly guys like me who listen to all kinds of music, don't blame the music for this :)
when yr a cardiacs fan it's like your a lone leper as you first shout can't u hear what I hear and your friends say there shit it makes u a question yr friendship lol.i say forget what they look like and play then over it takes a while .loved them and can still remain a constant buzz since 15 now 46 absolute fuckin magical.thankyou Tim and co.
RIP Tim Smith. You will be forever missed.
I only found out a few days ago that Tim passed away 7 months ago. Made me feel, really sad, saddest that I ever had.
Tim came to see the band I was playing in, thought the (house) engineer was doing a very poor job, walked into the sound booth claiming he was our engineer who had arrived late and did the sound for the rest of the gig. A lovely man.
I can actually believe that!
That is such a Tim thing to do. He was our live sound engineer for two years (The Peoples Friend) and recorded and mixed four of our songs. Because he was made of gold, if love, of the essence of sea creatures yet to be named.
You lucky so and so.
@@ramshackleevents you are blessed.
Do you have any of these recordings online? I'm obsessed with tracking down everything he has produced
the joke of it all was, the night I found out Tim died, my fiancé decided to leave me, and I wasn’t sure which to be sadder about. What a life we’ve got.
Sorry to hear that and I hope you’re doing better.
True love comes and goes, but Tim's genius will live forever.
@Hany M.Gamal I hope we didn't get the bad ending
Oh jesus, thats a brutal double blow :(
You sure weren't in love. With your fiancé, I mean.
This is like someone telling you there’s treasure buried at the bottom of your garden and you go digging in the hope of finding a bar of chocolate but instead you discover a door to another world full of gardens with even more buried treasure... and chocolate! Thanks man for sharing something truly amazing.
Yes it's like Alice falling down the rabbit hole and then........WOW :-)
That was a very Timmy analogy.
Tim Smith.
There are no words big enough to describe the love.
He changed everything.
Tim smith and cardiacs were as groundbreaking and original as kraftwerk were in their day. Rest in peace Tim, you beautiful, madcap genius.
They both are genius. Kraftwerk as Apollo and Cardiacs as Dionisius!
Tim Smith came to one of my gigs - when I'd finished he followed me outside, kissed me on the ear and called me a bastard
Wow! You bastard!
If that had happened to me I'd be so smug that random people would walk up to me in the street and punch me in the face.
Beautiful story. Really sums up Tim's lovable rascal personality.
I would never wash my ear again.....great story bro!
@@thehotyounggrandpas8207 his words were actually "you fucking bastard, how did you do that? How did you go all on there and know it wasn't gonna come out all "merrrrrgggghhh"?
So sad to see such a legend pass away. R.I.P. Timmy.
I was recently trying to work, no music would satisfy and then I put the Cardiacs on. The memories came flooding back, their gigs where just incredible - the two day event playing their old material was a treasure! Watching this video I nearly had tears in my eyes, its just so sad. Why does the world crap on talent and rolls turds in glitter?!?
They can't taste the excrement for a long while, if ever. It's a thick coating of glitter. BTW, isn't "Glitter" a way of saying "Porn?" Go listen to XTC's "Funk Pop a Roll" if you want a despairing song about the sad state of the music industry. Tim would have known it, I expect. He loved XTC.
Thank you for this, it's fab! Love Sarah (Tim's gelfriend) xx
All the best to Tim! Thanks Tantacurl, I can't wait to listen through the whole discography and buy some LP's!
woe didnt SARAH leave TIM years ago???? pardon me if wrong
@@kevcatnip7589 That's another Sarah. His ex-wife's first name is the same as his current girlfriend's.
@@kevcatnip7589 She's also his "Gelfriend" (whatever that is) not Girlfriend
I cannot express in words how gratful I am that you brought Cardiacs into my life about a month ago! Never would have found them without your channel. Life changing stuff. Your other videos are cool as well :)
I'm delighted to be the person who introduced you. It's genuinely crazy that they aren't better known.
@@Tantacrul same with Pixies (sadly :( )
@@ArasheNorto You mean the same Pixies that have a huge following, have appeared on many TV shows with millions of viewers and has had their music be the soundtrack of many great films over the last 20 years?
Yeah... the pixies are great, but I don't think they can be described as little-known in any way, as you're suggesting..
I decided to look up Cardiacs here on TH-cam and I landed on their "Sing to God" album. It's amazing work. It's rare that someone suggests a band / composer and I get *excited* within the first few minutes. Thank you.
If you haven't listened to On Land And In The Sea, do it now. I think it's their peak.
RIP Tim. I found you late but loved you still. The world is a much smaller place without you xx
My uncle Bill worked for them for years, credited on their records as Tea Boy Bill Hiles. Used to go and see them a lot live.
Cool he was the ordinary shop lady right?
rest in peace Tim Quy, we’ve lost two Tims too many ❀
:(
Cardiacs are in a league all of their own and Tim Smith is a genius. Dirty Boy is beyond just music, it’s a code for life. Great vid, thank you.
I'm really sorry to say that Tim Smith died a few hours ago. R.I.P.
The Cardiacs remind me of the early Mothers of Invention. Musical genius interspaced with mockery and madcap antics. Wonderful!
I saw Cardiacs as support to Chumbawamba at The Arches in Glasgow in '95. Both of these groups that night were fantastic and the audience were fully appreciative of both. One of the best gigs ever.
I never knew this band. They're a bit before my time, and even more obscure in the US than in the UK. But a few days ago I noticed many of the musicians I follow on social media were paying their respects to a fellow called Tim Smith who had passed away. They all described Cardiacs as underappreciated geniuses. I'm already a follower and appreciator of Tantacrul, but I never saw this video. I'm so glad folks take the time to document the history of my heroes' heroes so folks like me can learn about them. RIP Tim Smith.
I discovered Cardiacs a week ago and it feels very much like when The Fall clicked with me. This band are their own genre.
Cardiacs are the most underrated band in existence.
On behalf of fans worldwide, thank you thank you thank you so much for making this video!
how is it possible for a band to be so ahead of their time
that Tarred and Feathered video would've been a hit in early or mid 2010's, it has that strange and surreal aesthetic a lot of people like today.
I know! Even the humour of the band is quite ahead of its time, it fits in very nicely with mid to late 2010 internet humour.
I get the feeling that Cardiacs _really_ didn't want to play something conventional and of their own time period.
@@101Volts I think more than that this was just the sound that Tim Smith liked, I remember overhearing him say "you know those chord changes that make your tummy feel funny? Those are the ones I like to use" when he was talking to someone after a gig
Dirty Boy looks like it's never ending, a strange and beautiful ever expanding piece of wizardry. Sing to God is a sheer masterpiece
I've ended up here after Gaz Williams' recent interview with Kavus Torabi sent me down a delightful Cardiacs rabbit hole. Like many of us who were about in the 80s & 90s, I am disappointed to have missed or ignored them first time around and now to learn of Tim Smith's situation. Having been listening to their works de novo, it was strikingly obvious how Blur's music sits in this 'influenced' context, which is explicitly acknowledged here. Better to have come late, than never at all. Thank you Tim and Cardiacs.
this music sounds like every melodic and harmonic gimmick of late 2000s indie rock bands brilliantly composed together and then thrown in a blender. love it
So glad i saw them play probably hundreds of times in the late eighties, early 90s, Even played in a band that played a few cardiacs covers, thanks cardiacs
RIP, Tim.
Even on this tough day, this video is wonderful. Thank you.
I'm completely self-taught on everything so I don't know a whole lot about theory. Analysis like this definitely interests me though, especially when it's about music as special as Tim's. I hope he gets the help he needs.
Take a Jazz course. Even as a non Jazz musician or much of a fan, it opened up SO many new ideas knowing how all those chords and scales work. Seriously, its like getting super powers.
Coming back to this video after a few years I'm absolutely heartbroken to learn of Tims passing.
When I first saw this vid, I was disappointed to find their stuff wasn't available on spotify, at least not in my region. That has since changed and I have gone on an absolute binge of their music, as well as pointing them out to my dad, who's big into prog. The step to go order some physical copies and merch was a natural one.
I genuinely can't remember when last I got so into a new musical discovery.
Thanks, Tantacrul, for bringing them to my attention. Consider me a thoroughly recruited fan.
I'm fascinated by their chord structures. Dirty Boy is pretty epic
OMG I listened to Dirty Boy years ago and I couldn't find the title or the name of the band. I can't thank you enough for that. This track is pure magic.
My hair stood on end the first time I heard/saw the breakdown/solo on R.E.S...can remember exactly where I was. On of my favourite moments in all of prog.
also useful to mention how much tim loves whole tone scales. examples: "to go off and things", the rising bassline in the middle of "big ship", the chorus of "dog like sparky"
They've reached me in a way and to a level that I don't think I've experienced with other music.
"The Seaside" has absolutely knocked me sideways, it's an incredible clarion call.
Same with their live gigs. No other bands' gigs I've been to have ever even come close.
Was introduced to Cardiacs via That Pedal Show, just a couple of months ago. Such an amazing legacy Tim Smith left behind. It really deserves more recognition. For me it scratches the same sort of maximalistic itch that Meshuggah does, despite their apparant differances. Call it "high information music", to put it in opposition to what Rick Beato calls modern radio music ("low information music"). It's just SO good.
Great Video I have followed Tim and boys since Whole world window and seen them over 20 times. Nothing but nothing compares to them live. Its all lovely in the pond
3:28 the style is a cry for help- god i love these guys
This but unironically. If you take a deeper look at the lyrics...
ever since I discovered Fiery Gun Hand my life hasn't been the same. it's awesome seeing a relatively known channel cover Cardiacs.
Rest in peace, Tim. Heaven born and ever bright.
Greatest band I never got to see (had tickets for the year of the "incident"). I love them now like a lover who's gone yet you still wake up occasionally feeling them next to you and the scent of them in the air.
Their music has helped me through some of the darkest periods of my life and I'm forever glad to witness other people coming to love them as I do.
Cardiacs is the classical music of the future.
@Bruno Jimmy He's not, pretty brilliant composition really.
You have to be more descriptive Bruno.
@Bruno Jimmy Good bait chap but I'm not falling for it.
löl
@Bruno Jimmy Radiohead are good but dig a bit deeper, this a lot more like classical music
Holy fuckballs, this has to be the greatest channel I stumbled upon in years
I don't know if I should thank you or curse you for having gotten me so deep in this rabbit hole. I can't unhear this… and I love it
Shared again under the saddest of circumstances. Thanks for sharing your insight and obvious passion for this musical one-off.
I was missing Tim Smith today and fumbling around in TH-cam, and happened across this video. I wasn't expecting a great music lesson as well! Fantastic. Subscribed! (RIP, Tim Smith)
So I came to this channel randomly from Adam Neely.
Astounded I've never heard this band before, I'm a massive fan of both Napalm Death *and* Van Der Graaf Generator, and until now there's been nothing that sounds like both of those bands and the same time. Superb.
I love them too! I saw them live three times and have all their albums. Their music will live with me forever.
I've only recently found out about Cardiacs , and Im totally hooked , no one writes or composses like this , it's totally unique !! Critics are always what Frank Zappa said about people , minds are like parachutes , they only work if they're open !!! ANd very few critics are trully open . I think if Frank had heard these guys he would've insisted on producing them !!!
"harmonic agility"
This video is fantastic - but what really blew me away is that this is the first time I’ve ever seen/heard somebody analyse their music; and in such a knowledgable way. Thanks
This was lovely to watch in the face of such sad news today. Thanks for making it.
I bought Heaven Born and Ever Bright in 93 when I read that Mr Bungle (who's first album had just finished blowing my brain open) listed them as an influence. I was smitten immediately and bought everything I could find in a pre internet world when you had to go to record stores with a list of things you were looking for.
I can't thank you enough for making this. I'd never heard of Cardiacs until running across your video in my TH-cam recs, and six months later they're my favorite band of all time, and I haven't wanted to anything else since...and that's really saying something, as I've been a voracious music consumer since the mid-'80s.
Wow, thank you for making this video. Gave me that classic over whelming sense of joy and tear filled eyes that only cardiacs can create. What a wonderful band and what a special thing for us all to be a part of.
Thanks to the youtube algorithm doing something good once in a while, I have only RECENTLY discovered Cardiacs as of last Monday. It has been quite the adventure listening to absolutely everything I can!
Rest in peace, tim ♡
Glad to find a new pocket of Cardiacs fandom. The Everso Closely Guarded Line still sticks with me after years and years as something truly, truly special
Thanks for taking me on this musical journey. I’ve been looking to expand my listening and these guys are a happy little wormhole to get sucked into.
This is utterly brilliant.
Thank you.
RIP Tim Smith - may your legacy carry on in our hearts
This is great. Finding fellow Cardiacs enthusiasts is always a joy.
I'm one of those obsessed fans you mentioned. You are right about influencing other bands. I used to live in a house share with Ginger from the Wildhearts and he introduced them to me when we went to see them in Hammersmith in the late eighties. They did a few gigs with them later and you can definately see the change of time signatures in the Wildhearts music. So sad to hear of Tim's death...
The video was lovely, Cardiacs are very interesting, but can we talk about healthcare systems that force people to set up donation drives to pay for someone's care?
No.
@@aaronjsolomon I have to admit, this got a laugh out of me
I saw them a number of times, just epic experiences, no other band like them at all - and I've seen a lot on 35 years!
Thank you for making this. Even though I've loved Cardiacs for nearly 30 years, this film gives me goosebumps ♥♥♥
When I joined Blyth Power, we were due to appear on The Tube.
We all had to sign up to the musicians union.
About 2 weeks before our TV debut, chanel 4 and the Union were locked in some dispute.
Consequently, we didn't get to go on The Tube.
Cardiacs weren't in the Union, and so they got to play.
Not sure if they literally took our place, but it felt like it.
An awful lot of Blyth Power fans are Cardiacs fans too.
We played with them a couple of times.
I was, and still am a huge fan.
A really excellent video - entertaining, educational, interesting, and constructed with care, attention and love. TH-cam needs more content of this quality.
Saw them in HUDERSFIELD YEARS AGO ,, LIKE ENTERING ANOTHER WORLD
A magnificent introduction to the band. I doff my hat to you, sir.
followed them and loved them since the mid 80s. got everything they ever released. definately the most original band ever. live shows were rivaled only by the likes of gwar and demented are go and kiss in my opinion. Jim bought me a pint in 99". cheers jim !!!.
Bless TIM QUY ,,,struggling with illness ,,,,xxxx
I saw them on that Marillion tour in 1984 and fell in love. Still love Cardiacs all these years later and can't believe Timmy was taken from us so soon.
You've sold me. I've watched the video of the Mare's Nest gig but can scarcely believe it. It's astonishing. I'm very happy to explore more.
The very very top. They are the best underrated band ever. RIP Tim.
Fantastic video and THANK YOU for explaining some of the musical theory behind what makes Cardiacs so amazing and unique.
You have earned your place in the pond.
Back in the day i was at the birds nest pub/venue, my play was about to be performed there the next week. A band was playing at the time Napalm death, a local unheard of band. Behind me I heard a voice talking and i recognised it, from a cassette id bought from a concert from a new band at that time, again unheard of, cardiacs. it was tim smith. we chatted for a while about where the band were going and about my play. he asked me to keep listening, i asked him watch my play. ill never know if he ever turned up but 35 years later theyre still my favourite band and rightly so. they say the beatles were the biggest influence of the rock era, cardiacs were the root of all you hear nowadays, ask radiohead... thanks for the upload mate, appreciated
I would take being hated by Marilliion fans as a compliment!
Marillion fan here. Cardiacs are the best.
As a Marillion fan who saw Cardiacs in 1984, I was sad so many of the audience "didnt get it". I loved Cardiacs the moment they walked on stage and I am so glad their music is such a large part of my life.
As a Henry Cow fan that just got to know about the band's existence and I totally love it.
Marillion's UK fans are a bunch of fucking cheese dicks..the only support band I've ever heard them liking is Gazpacho. Gazpacho sounds like Marillion. (Hal and Michael excluded)
You can almost understand why people where perplexed by the cardiacs. They where too punky and wild for the snobby prog crowd, and could play their instruments far too well to be appreciated by the punk crowd, and the mainstream pop audience was doomed only to ever know "Is this life?". Its really weird, I know people with great music taste that recoil in horror at the cardiacs, and I know others that have become instant mad fans the second they heard it. And I'll be damned if I know whats the magic secret as to why some like it and some don't. Other than perhaps "Dont come into this with preconceptions"
Thanks. I don’t think I,ve seen their music analysed so expertly. They were incredible musicians. I saw them a couple of times in the 80,s and at the 1992 Reading Festival. Brilliant live band which I sadly don’t think will ever play again.
All the best Tim.
Found Cardiacs due to blur’s dropping of their name. I absolutely adore The Seaside. Love watching my co-workers’ reactions when they come by and Cardiacs are on
I'm glad I found out about this band this year. I can't believe of all the music from that era and style, in all my music nerd-ism, I hadn't heard of this group!
He was my neighbour and unfortunately wasn't around much as well known. Nice to see the videos had mostly been filmed in the surrounding areas. RIP Tim. NIce video Tantarcul.
I was introduced to Cardiacs just two weeks ago by a work colleague. I was skeptical, I'm more of a Dream Theater-style prog fan, but I've found so much to love in their catalogue!
I am Fascinated by them! Thank you so much for bringing them to my attention.
RIP Tim Smith :(
Thanks for making this video! Long overdue. I always wanted to make a video with every appearance of the cardiacs cadence, but it’s great to find them on your own and melt a bit each time.
Cardiacs are too good for this world.
Thank you for sharing this band - I may have head of their name but for whatever reason have never listened to them. Now that I have, I'm saddened that I've missed out for so long. Same problem with Gentle Giant from a few years back. Well, as they say... better late than never! Cheers!
Thanks a lot for opening the door to this band for me.
I always come back to Cardiacs and stumbled upon this video. It really struck a chord with me. I loved this band so much. It made the strange ok without a rockstar attitude and glam and all that frivolous bullshit. Just weirdos doing weird and beautiful music.I can tell you were a fan. RIP Tim.
Since 1985 I've been a fan
I was given a tape
From the word play I was totally hooked
Been to so many gig's of cardiacs
All signed my records
Love u timmy xxxx
I saw them live in London in '88. The only gig where the ticket was barely together by the end because it was so sweat-soaked. Never a concert with more jumping, manic fans, and Tim was an absolute maestro in how he controlled us all. Never has there been a band like Cardiacs, and there never will be again.
I want to thank you a thousand times for introducing me to this utterly phandabbulous band!
that's LITERALLY what happened to me, except i was in college. My tutor asked me if i'd heard of cardiacs, i said no, he put RES on the projector, the class left.... i stayed... and i fell in love
they are just too good, rest in peace tim smith
Woah Dirty Boy is wild. There's enough familiarity to make you feel like you have an idea of where it might be going. but then the next chord hits you totally out of the blue and sends the song careening down a totally unseen turn, then again and again for almost 9 minutes, constantly catching you by surprise.
It's like a musical Mr. Toads Wild Ride. Crazy.
Brilliant piece of short intro to my favourite band of 30 years.
Very sad news today, RIP Tim
Really beautifully done. Really well done! The world's best band.
Thanks for this from one of those strange guys who love to search and find lots of treasures in unpopular music. There are so much great music that deserves a lot more fans than it gets, but seems, Cardiacs is one of the greatest discoveries. Prog rock fans are mostly friendly guys like me who listen to all kinds of music, don't blame the music for this :)
when yr a cardiacs fan it's like your a lone leper as you first shout can't u hear what I hear and your friends say there shit it makes u a question yr friendship lol.i say forget what they look like and play then over it takes a while .loved them and can still remain a constant buzz since 15 now 46 absolute fuckin magical.thankyou Tim and co.