Saw them live 37 years ago, when they supported Marillion. Many of the audience hated them. I was an instant fan. Sleep well, Tim. Heaven born and ever bright...
@@17rrace They also had Peter Hammill in their support slot on one tour. They seemed to go out of their way to challenge their audience whilst giving exposure to underrated acts. Respect to Marillion.
Tim Smith is one of the most influential British musicians alive today. Radiohead, Blur, Napalm Death, Faith No More, Biffy Clyro and countless others have cited Tim and his band, Cardiacs, as a profound inspiration. He’s also in trouble. A cardiac arrest suffered in 2008 left him with severe brain damage and a condition called dystonia. Mentally he’s as sharp as ever. His ability to move and speak, however, is minimal. Funding shortfalls and bureaucracy have seen his rehabilitation grind to a halt, along with his ability to make music. Tim's condition is complex and poorly understood. He has responded positively to treatment when his income has afforded it. A tribute record, fundraising gigs, reissues of his music and conventions attended by devoted fans have helped. But he is now entering his tenth year of inadequate care. ‘The only way I can try and let you know how I feel at the moment,’ Smith says, ‘is, imagine if you were wearing a skintight bodysuit made of fishnet all around you with electrical pulses going all the...time. This is what my body feels like unless I fall asleep’. He has resisted publicity up until now, but we, his friends and family, now agree with him that the time has come to go public, with a story of a man's unique creative world and the severe problems of neuro- rehabilitation. A charity called the Raphael Hospital Group, run by Dr. Gerhardt Florschutz, has bought the facility Tim lives in and is able to provide him and his fellow patients with the input necessary to make progress. This, of course, comes at a price and while he waits to hear about the possibility of funding, vital time is being wasted. We want to raise £40,000 so that he can finally afford the care he has needed since the beginning of his illness. If we raise more, it will allow him secure funding for a longer period. Tim's friends and family just want him to be allowed to try to get better. Everyone in his condition deserves that opportunity. Being given the right treatment could allow him to complete musical projects of great beauty that still burn brightly within him. ‘People who could genuinely be described as geniuses are few and far between,’ says Steven Wilson, who recently hit number 1 in the UK album chart. ‘But I think Tim is up there, I really do.’ If he could recover enough to use a mouse he could make music again; if he can find his voice he will be able to boss us about in the studio; it feels as though he is finally being given a chance to come back to us. Donate for Tim at: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/timsmith
I don’t think anybody will see this. Not one person. But, I gotta say this My dad was best friends with Tim Smith, and the entire band. He went to all of their concerts, and stood backstage after the show while Tim put an arm around his neck and vomited into the sink, that was a funny memory! Us as a family still meet up and talk to some of the band today, I just wish I got to see Tim Smith once again, I used to spend days on end with him, what an absolute legend.
Haha your Dad was a lucky man, not only for all the musical stuff he got to witness, but by most accounts Timmy was an absolutely lovely fellow, so your Dad was in safe hands.
@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS it really was! He has access to some things cardiacs related which no human on earth does, and it was amazing hearing from Tim and talking to him before he sadly passed
Tim was and is a truly special person. My pops and I got a chance to meet him back in 2017 and the experience will stick with me for the rest of my life. The passion that man carried is infectious and I still get goosebumps thinking about the fire I saw in his eyes that day. It's so wonderful that you got to share so much time with Tim and Cardiacs, and I think me and everyone else in the comments would relish hearing you and your dad's stories!! 💜💜 Big love from across the pond.
This is about where I'm standing now. _What_ am I watching and listening to? I'll continue listening, but this took me aback. I don't know where to think, or what to go. Bizzare.
RIP Tim Smith. :( I've spent weeks reading about his most recent condition on these comment threads, and it's sad that 2020 would take such a beloved figure.
I have a copy of Napalm Death's "From Enslavement To Obliteration" on vinyl, and the inside picture of the band, Shane Embury is wearing a Cardiacs shirt. That's how I ended up here.
As a lifelong primus Mr bungle fan as well as ween. I am happy to have found this band after loving the discovery of xtc shriekback and devo. I don't think there has ever been a band like this.
I love the fact that they're all so cute. Like a gang of naughty and subversive gerbils staying up late hatching plans to bring down the gerbil government while you're asleep.
Невероятная музыка с уникальным подходом. Психоделическая музыка, которая способна не только пробудить такие чувства, которых ни разу не испытывал в жизни, но и научить слушать музыку сквозь строки. Тим, мне, как музыканту и обожателю психоделической музыки - тебя мало. Я хвастаюсь группой CARDIACS везде, где только можно! Спасибо за опыт! Спасибо за уроки! Спасибо за настоящую музыку! Увидемся, Тим.
I heard about this band today in 2020, and I'm playing this song on repeat whole day. I'm blown away, the melodies, the rhythm, those 2 solos. Also odd even, my god I can't believe it
4:04 - 4:13 Listening to the way it randomly breaks, you wouldn't think that it could finish in any natural way. And then it does, and your completely blown away.
One of the most original and brilliant British bands ever. Up there with The Beatles and The Stranglers, although these guys are ten thousand times more accomplished technically...
@@kayholmes7920 Like a blend of Gentle Giant, XTC, Gong and Zappa...and with that Holdsworth-esque guitar solo seemingly randomly thrown in just to prove he was up there with the greats...truly astonishing
@@smallscalefutures Wow... really astute response! I love XTC, Gong, Alan Holdsworth, etc and totally agree that there appears to be a common thread between all those artists and The Cardiacs. However... I've always thought that there is a ton of Zappa influence in that particular guitar solo. Thanks for your response.
@@kayholmes7920 Actually, having gone to the Holdsworth track that I thought it resembled it turns out it was a Zappa tune I had in my head so I stand corrected!
+Showbizelephant I've noticed the ghosts of lot of nursery rhymes haunting their songs. The main phrase of the song shares its rhythm with tiddly winky woo.
@@garcla5950 "Mary's house is upside down, she's burnt the walls to make them brown. But left to her devices foiled by bluntness, she would take pleasure in finding something pointier." - Cardiacs' Burn Your House Brown. I gotta wonder how much Tim went into the realm of dark nursery rhymes, like this one: "Old man long legs didn't say his prayers. Pick him up, and _throw him down the stairs._" Or, how's this one? "Last night, the kitchen boiler burst; and father cursed and cursed. But Mother, with a kinder feeling, _scraped the housemaid off the ceiling."_ Damn, Britain, you didn't fuck around with these.
This is not necessarily my favorite song, but I think this is the best piece of music ever written. Cardiacs managed to encapsulate everything music had ever done to that point in 5 mins 23 seconds, without taking themselves too seriously. Just mindblowing.
I saw these guys a lot in the early 80's. They had a more raw intensity live (I wondered how they fitted or stayed on small stages like Hammersmith Clarendon when so active!). One hell of a band, such a shame they've called it a day I wish him all the best too.
Wowser, can't believe I was a John Peel listener and have only just discovered this slice of audio visual genius courtesy of the Motive Unknown newsletter. It's got me thinking where the hell are these type of acts now? OK so there are some interesting artists, but if you compare them to this bolt out of the sonic blue and put it into 1984 chronological context not a lot really compares...
This is great! I don't think I've ever heard this band before. First impression is that they sound like a cross between DeVo and Gentle Giant, two of my favorite bands! :-)
Absolute insanity....having discovered them this year, I am now on my 5th album - just can't stop playing their songs! Am I unwell? Tim - thank you; recover ASAP.
I think you're OK. As a lifelong primus Mr bungle fan as well as ween. I am happy to have found this band after loving the discovery of xtc shriekback and devo. I don't think there has ever been a band like this.
There’s a band called Octopus who had one album From A to B which had a unique sound, I thought, until hearing this…..obviously a very influential band….only came here after Justin Hawkins recommended them.
How the hell to they all keep in sync with all those constant rhythm changes - I can't imagine how many takes it took to get just the bit from @4:02 to @4:13 that perfect
A stitch in time saves nine in time To stay alive 'cause we are so divine In my mind I can't stop dying I wish there was no stopping me now In the hope I'm to grow old I've been told to keep my head down to the ground It's like standing in the playground Looking at the ground trying not to notice All the kids around The will to be kind is mine but That's the way we all go The people subsiding are always advising that That's the way we all go Calling is craving is letting the rain in It peers at me and is it understanding? Ha! Holding me with all its derelict charm Rushing round me and slipping but never falling Down! "Give me something I don't need" My friend cried till his face bled really really red It stays here all my life, it fears towards me A stitch in time saves nine in time but That's the way we all go The higher the chances the higher the climb, but That's the way we all go Is everybody happy? My hope day is forever coming closer My hopes and fears are uncommon and it's he Who asks for me now So I'll stay here until it's saving my life Sing la la la la la la la Outside!
You've made my day mate! I was 15 when I first heard Cardiacs & for me they were messy gods. Hate them if you will but that's the way we all go. Is this the life - YES!!!!
I hate that I'm just now hearing about this band. I've only heard a handful of songs by them but I can tell they are one of the greatest bands to ever write music.
The first time i ever got sleep paralysis i was falling asleep watching this video when i realized i couldn't move at all and started hearing loud bangs and seeing flashes of light, and then i tried to shout for help and realized i couldnt talk, i had no idea what was happening, words really cant describe what it's like to have this playing in the background when you legitimately think you're about to die
I can't love the music but I certainly can appreciate the depth of creativity to deliberately be so artfully demented - it's like DEVO meets Jethro Tull on crack.. or on something!!
Tims like Beefheart, he made them all live in a horrible house and the locked them in cold cellar and beat them if they didn't learn his epic songs quickly.
@@Scotty_Russell_Music The other member of Beefheart still wrote most of the music though. The rest of Cardiacs actually locked Tim in a kennel and forced him to teach his songs to them, pouring boiling water on him if they played a wrong note.
There's something about finding Cardiacs for the first time that binds all of their fans together; like we've just been admitted into this secret club, and now we're all in it together. No other band that I've come across has such a powerful 'soul' that attracts and repels in less-than-equal measures. Once you're 'in' though? The world changes and the absurdity of it all can be seen, leaving only one reasonable response: Laugh. Tim's work will go on as long as there are ears to hear it, and we will continue embracing the absurdity; facing life with dignity and bravery just like Tim did, and encouraging others to seek the revelation that was Cardiacs and Tim Smith.
![Cardiacs - RES Music Video [w/ The Seaside 2015 Reissue Audio] [720]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/t-9eN5J7hcg/mqdefault.jpg)
More ideas in one track than some bands can muster in their whole lifetime. Superb.
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a few good ideas are better than a clusterfuck of awful ones...
@@neellabar7160 butthurt
How do you even write something like this....amazing
@@neellabar7160 Sure, Neel, sure.
You might have thought there were thousands of people just like you all over Tim, but you were one in a million.
It's a great loss for music, Tim was an absolute genius
I hate to be that guy, but if he were one in a million there would be approximately 7,500 people just like him out there
@@davidb7609 There's such a thing as poetic license, 'one in a billion' just doesn't have the same ring to it lol
@@synchromystici5m One in a googolplex.
Far too optimistic kid
Saw them live 37 years ago, when they supported Marillion. Many of the audience hated them. I was an instant fan. Sleep well, Tim. Heaven born and ever bright...
Saw them support Marillion too😊
@@17rrace They also had Peter Hammill in their support slot on one tour. They seemed to go out of their way to challenge their audience whilst giving exposure to underrated acts. Respect to Marillion.
Tim Smith is one of the most influential British musicians alive today. Radiohead, Blur, Napalm Death, Faith No More, Biffy Clyro and countless others have cited Tim and his band, Cardiacs, as a profound inspiration.
He’s also in trouble.
A cardiac arrest suffered in 2008 left him with severe brain damage and a condition called dystonia. Mentally he’s as sharp as ever. His ability to move and speak, however, is minimal. Funding shortfalls and bureaucracy have seen his rehabilitation grind to a halt, along with his ability to make music.
Tim's condition is complex and poorly understood. He has responded positively to treatment when his income has afforded it. A tribute record, fundraising gigs, reissues of his music and conventions attended by devoted fans have helped. But he is now entering his tenth year of inadequate care. ‘The only way I can try and let you know how I feel at the moment,’ Smith says, ‘is, imagine if you were wearing a skintight bodysuit made of fishnet all around you with electrical pulses going all the...time. This is what my body feels like unless I fall asleep’.
He has resisted publicity up until now, but we, his friends and family, now agree with him that the time has come to go public, with a story of a man's unique creative world and the severe problems of neuro- rehabilitation.
A charity called the Raphael Hospital Group, run by Dr. Gerhardt Florschutz, has bought the facility Tim lives in and is able to provide him and his fellow patients with the input necessary to make progress. This, of course, comes at a price and while he waits to hear about the possibility of funding, vital time is being wasted. We want to raise £40,000 so that he can finally afford the care he has needed since the beginning of his illness. If we raise more, it will allow him secure funding for a longer period.
Tim's friends and family just want him to be allowed to try to get better. Everyone in his condition deserves that opportunity. Being given the right treatment could allow him to complete musical projects of great beauty that still burn brightly within him. ‘People who could genuinely be described as geniuses are few and far between,’ says Steven Wilson, who recently hit number 1 in the UK album chart. ‘But I think Tim is up there, I really do.’
If he could recover enough to use a mouse he could make music again; if he can find his voice he will be able to boss us about in the studio; it feels as though he is finally being given a chance to come back to us.
Donate for Tim at: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/timsmith
RIP
:(
Rest in peace :(
RIP
Cardiacs didn't sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started a band.
I don’t think anybody will see this. Not one person. But, I gotta say this
My dad was best friends with Tim Smith, and the entire band. He went to all of their concerts, and stood backstage after the show while Tim put an arm around his neck and vomited into the sink, that was a funny memory! Us as a family still meet up and talk to some of the band today, I just wish I got to see Tim Smith once again, I used to spend days on end with him, what an absolute legend.
holy shit awesome
👌
Haha your Dad was a lucky man, not only for all the musical stuff he got to witness, but by most accounts Timmy was an absolutely lovely fellow, so your Dad was in safe hands.
@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS it really was! He has access to some things cardiacs related which no human on earth does, and it was amazing hearing from Tim and talking to him before he sadly passed
Tim was and is a truly special person. My pops and I got a chance to meet him back in 2017 and the experience will stick with me for the rest of my life. The passion that man carried is infectious and I still get goosebumps thinking about the fire I saw in his eyes that day. It's so wonderful that you got to share so much time with Tim and Cardiacs, and I think me and everyone else in the comments would relish hearing you and your dad's stories!! 💜💜 Big love from across the pond.
Tim Smith just insisting in interviews that they were just making pop music is brilliant really.
this is literally pop music
The instrumental break is a masterpiece.
That fucking guitar solo kills it. I mean the song is amazing , but the counterpoint that the solo provides truly makes it memorable.
agreed 100 percents !
I really need a good 5 minutes of that solo.
it's fuckin tasty isn't it, the whole track is 100% nails but that bit is particularly flavoursome , the phrasing! oooft!
nice tribute ......
It also perfectly emulates Zappa's guitar style in a really uncanny way
this new season of tim and eric is looking great
"Jim!" - as we used to shout in '84. "He will be punished for that ", replied Tim. Phenomenal band, always a great show.
I think this is harmless, but what's going to happen when I go to sleep and my brain trys to processes it and I go to work like a normal person?
Go and visit a phsycologist, it’s common but not normal
This is about where I'm standing now. _What_ am I watching and listening to? I'll continue listening, but this took me aback. I don't know where to think, or what to go. Bizzare.
That's a frequently asked question. Don't worry. With repeated listenings, the desire to "go to work" will be fading from your experience set.
All that glitters is Maresnest
Stop being normal.🥴
That's the first 20-minute suite I've heard that's 5 minutes long. Amazing.
I feel that description also applies to Gentle Giant, definitely worth checking out if you haven't
One of the most amazing instrumental breaks I've ever heard.
OMG 8)
Few hours ago I wasn't even aware that the band exists. And now this.... KO.
It has to be believed to be seen.
Cardiacs: the musical version of my spine
1:10 Tim confirmed as traprapper
*generic eminem afraid to dis comment **#46389*
Genius. How have I only just discovered the Cardiacs? I wish that I could replay my life and listen to this song when it first came out.
I can't be the only one who watched 4:04-4:13 repeatedly until I could sync my head-nods to those in the video...
Need a 10 hour loop video
guilty
That was harder than I expected
To this day Cardiacs remain one of the key reminders of why i haven't given up yet!
Hey, hope you're still holding on 4 years later!
RIP Tim Smith. :(
I've spent weeks reading about his most recent condition on these comment threads, and it's sad that 2020 would take such a beloved figure.
Love that keyboard guy, he's so cute
I have a copy of Napalm Death's "From Enslavement To Obliteration" on vinyl, and the inside picture of the band, Shane Embury is wearing a Cardiacs shirt. That's how I ended up here.
For me it was someone wearing one on the inner sleeve of IQ's 'Are You Sitting Comfortably' LP.. their fans truly are all over the map
As a lifelong primus Mr bungle fan as well as ween. I am happy to have found this band after loving the discovery of xtc shriekback and devo. I don't think there has ever been a band like this.
Reminds me of The Residents also
@BungleGrindClown I'll check it out people recommending them you might like 12 foot ninja a lot of mike patton styles
@BungleGrindClown fishbone too
Welp, now I know where Mike Patton got the Mr. Bungle sound from.
I love the fact that they're all so cute. Like a gang of naughty and subversive gerbils staying up late hatching plans to bring down the gerbil government while you're asleep.
I know this comment is old as fuck now but I spat out my coffee
That’s what Tim wanted you to think.
Keep them away from Richard Gere.
But yeah Cardiacs were 💯 cartoon in this era. So fun
The best description of this Cardiacs line up I've ever read
Is why u love them
This guitar solo is so fucking great. RIP Tim!
if madness took bath salts
Hahaha!
thanjs
Devo + Oingo Boingo + The Residents
throw in some Split Enz
that’s it!
Невероятная музыка с уникальным подходом.
Психоделическая музыка, которая способна не только пробудить такие чувства, которых ни разу не испытывал в жизни, но и научить слушать музыку сквозь строки.
Тим, мне, как музыканту и обожателю психоделической музыки - тебя мало.
Я хвастаюсь группой CARDIACS везде, где только можно!
Спасибо за опыт!
Спасибо за уроки!
Спасибо за настоящую музыку!
Увидемся, Тим.
I can’t think of anything better than this really.
Zappa maybe
How the hell did I miss these guys???? Great stuff!
+Steve Pica Best band in the world.IMHO.
I heard about this band today in 2020, and I'm playing this song on repeat whole day. I'm blown away, the melodies, the rhythm, those 2 solos. Also odd even, my god I can't believe it
tarred and feathered, but you have probably found that song by now , amongst many others ..jibber and twitch! :D
Ok, I admit, this is the most amazing song and video I've ever seen in my whole life.
Rest in Peace, Tim. Thank you for the years of unmatched creativity and inspiration.
I'm seeing, watching, hearing legends that I missed out on.
It's almost unbelievable how pure the art of the Cardiacs is. It gives one hope.
Tim’s solo is a great moment in contemporary music.
Ain't that the truth, ^oo^
Jesus christ 2020 really outdid itself with this one; rest well Tim, one of the most talented musicians to ever live.
It's like standing in the playground looking at the ground trying not to notice all the kids around .. greatest song lyric ever
I had a friend that played Cardiacs at parties so people would leave
😂👍🏻🤣
Pere Ubu works great too
The self titled Mr. Bungle album is really good at that, as is Trout Mask Replica and The Shaggs' Philosophy of the World
Just dropping back to confirm - yes indeed that's the best guitar solo in prog,
Still is.
@@csgrinds IIs it still?
@@beshepman7963 Yes I confirmed only about one week ago after a load of pints.
@@csgrindsstill?
@Silence_95 heh yes for sure and I've been doing the rounds!
4:04 - 4:13
Listening to the way it randomly breaks, you wouldn't think that it could finish in any natural way. And then it does, and your completely blown away.
Uno de los mejores descubrimientos musicales que he tenido...
Sin duda, viejo. Disfrútalo.
I can only imagine how difficult this would be to play live on stage, but I can also imagine how awesome it would be to be in the audience.
One of the most original and brilliant British bands ever. Up there with The Beatles and The Stranglers, although these guys are ten thousand times more accomplished technically...
So happy to have seen them. RIP Tim.
Gotta love William Drakes expression
RIP Tim, Cardiacs the best kept secret in Music.
Packing that much sarcasm into a band can't be healthy.
Try devo.
safetycntrl is the musical incarnation of irony
It's difficult for me to call this sarcasm; it's something else entirely. It's like a performative misguided sincerity.
Well it wasnt.....
'That's the way we all go' 😕
RIP Tim x
Utterly outstanding...
Never heard of this band until today, i found it in a Wikipedia surfing, this is amazing! Sad to hear that the man is having serious health problems.
The drummer is absolutely on fire.
This is just unbelievably brilliant. The music is fantastic and the video... I'm speechless!
PS... musically as advanced as Gentle Giant!
@@kayholmes7920 Like a blend of Gentle Giant, XTC, Gong and Zappa...and with that Holdsworth-esque guitar solo seemingly randomly thrown in just to prove he was up there with the greats...truly astonishing
@@smallscalefutures Wow... really astute response! I love XTC, Gong, Alan Holdsworth, etc and totally agree that there appears to be a common thread between all those artists and The Cardiacs. However... I've always thought that there is a ton of Zappa influence in that particular guitar solo. Thanks for your response.
@@kayholmes7920 Actually, having gone to the Holdsworth track that I thought it resembled it turns out it was a Zappa tune I had in my head so I stand corrected!
@@smallscalefutures Haha... it's all wonderful stuff!
R.I.P TIM, Thanks the joy you gave us.
The melody of the chorus (the "That's the way we all go" part) sounds a lot like a slowed down version of the pop goes the weasel song.
+Showbizelephant I've noticed the ghosts of lot of nursery rhymes haunting their songs. The main phrase of the song shares its rhythm with tiddly winky woo.
@@garcla5950 "Mary's house is upside down, she's burnt the walls to make them brown. But left to her devices foiled by bluntness, she would take pleasure in finding something pointier." - Cardiacs' Burn Your House Brown.
I gotta wonder how much Tim went into the realm of dark nursery rhymes, like this one:
"Old man long legs didn't say his prayers.
Pick him up, and _throw him down the stairs._"
Or, how's this one?
"Last night, the kitchen boiler burst; and father cursed and cursed.
But Mother, with a kinder feeling, _scraped the housemaid off the ceiling."_
Damn, Britain, you didn't fuck around with these.
this never gets old
omg. why, god, why have i never heard this band before today?
I'm going to play this at work to clear out unwanted customers
It won't work with me.... I'd move my belongings in and start living there.
I have watched this about 20 times over the last four months and it gets better every time.
Love you so muchTim!!! ( and Jim )
This is not necessarily my favorite song, but I think this is the best piece of music ever written. Cardiacs managed to encapsulate everything music had ever done to that point in 5 mins 23 seconds, without taking themselves too seriously. Just mindblowing.
I saw these guys a lot in the early 80's. They had a more raw intensity live (I wondered how they fitted or stayed on small stages like Hammersmith Clarendon when so active!). One hell of a band, such a shame they've called it a day I wish him all the best too.
Wowser, can't believe I was a John Peel listener and have only just discovered this slice of audio visual genius courtesy of the Motive Unknown newsletter. It's got me thinking where the hell are these type of acts now? OK so there are some interesting artists, but if you compare them to this bolt out of the sonic blue and put it into 1984 chronological context not a lot really compares...
what have i just watched? fucking loved it.
This is great! I don't think I've ever heard this band before. First impression is that they sound like a cross between DeVo and Gentle Giant, two of my favorite bands! :-)
Raving mad! and Brilliant!
The guitar solo section is very Zappaesque, which is great.
RIP Tim Smith - Love you always, from one of the fishes in the pond! Miss you so much, dude.
RIP Tim. A great loss for music and so sad. I never got to see Cardiacs live
Well, they have finally filmed one of my dreams that i cant explain
RIP Tim Smith legendary career
Absolutely fantastic. Always thought a little bit of Andre Popp influence with the instrumentation. What a band.
Absolute insanity....having discovered them this year, I am now on my 5th album - just can't stop playing their songs! Am I unwell?
Tim - thank you; recover ASAP.
His last years were made better by the wonderful community
I think you're OK. As a lifelong primus Mr bungle fan as well as ween. I am happy to have found this band after loving the discovery of xtc shriekback and devo. I don't think there has ever been a band like this.
There’s a band called Octopus who had one album From A to B which had a unique sound, I thought, until hearing this…..obviously a very influential band….only came here after Justin Hawkins recommended them.
How the hell to they all keep in sync with all those constant rhythm changes - I can't imagine how many takes it took to get just the bit from @4:02 to @4:13 that perfect
mcbpete musicians reading music... They are incredible tho
Such a brilliant and criminally underrated band.
RIP Tim Smith
A stitch in time saves nine in time
To stay alive 'cause we are so divine
In my mind I can't stop dying
I wish there was no stopping me now
In the hope I'm to grow old
I've been told to keep my head down to the ground
It's like standing in the playground
Looking at the ground trying not to notice
All the kids around
The will to be kind is mine but
That's the way we all go
The people subsiding are always advising that
That's the way we all go
Calling is craving is letting the rain in
It peers at me and is it understanding?
Ha!
Holding me with all its derelict charm
Rushing round me and slipping but never falling
Down!
"Give me something I don't need"
My friend cried till his face bled really really red
It stays here all my life, it fears towards me
A stitch in time saves nine in time but
That's the way we all go
The higher the chances the higher the climb, but
That's the way we all go
Is everybody happy?
My hope day is forever coming closer
My hopes and fears are uncommon and it's he
Who asks for me now
So I'll stay here until it's saving my life
Sing la la la la la la la
Outside!
Thank you for posting this, I am a Cardiacs newbie busily devouring everything Cardiacs I can find....
love you tim......
You've made my day mate! I was 15 when I first heard Cardiacs & for me they were messy gods. Hate them if you will but that's the way we all go. Is this the life - YES!!!!
Early Devo videos were surreal and disturbing. But compared to this, they were like New Age relaxation tapes. Profoundly weird.
I hate that I'm just now hearing about this band. I've only heard a handful of songs by them but I can tell they are one of the greatest bands to ever write music.
The first time i ever got sleep paralysis i was falling asleep watching this video when i realized i couldn't move at all and started hearing loud bangs and seeing flashes of light, and then i tried to shout for help and realized i couldnt talk, i had no idea what was happening, words really cant describe what it's like to have this playing in the background when you legitimately think you're about to die
My goodness, that sounds scary/funny. At what point in the video did this happen?
hell yeah
Adding this band on my playlist right next to the residents
It's like someone poured Madness and King Crimson into a blender, with a dusting of Van Der Graaf Generator for extra flavour...I love it.
I can't love the music but I certainly can appreciate the depth of creativity to deliberately be so artfully demented - it's like DEVO meets Jethro Tull on crack.. or on something!!
if there ever was a true vein of English Surrealism , this is it : utterly magnificent .
They are great. We were honoured to play with them !
Genuis
I wish I knew about this decades ago. This is Devo level genius. It's beautiful and free and very skilled.
amazing. tim smith will be remembered as a legend, not just anyone can compose music like this. takes quite a unique and eccentric mind, brilliant!
Devo meets Van Der Graaf Generator and Split Enz.
R.I.P Tim, his genius will remembered by fans across the nation 🕊
I can't believe how good this song is. How did they get 6 people to learn this?
hello, squirrel
Pure. Talent.
Tims like Beefheart, he made them all live in a horrible house and the locked them in cold cellar and beat them if they didn't learn his epic songs quickly.
@@Scotty_Russell_Music The other member of Beefheart still wrote most of the music though. The rest of Cardiacs actually locked Tim in a kennel and forced him to teach his songs to them, pouring boiling water on him if they played a wrong note.
nothing worthwhile is ever easy...
Thanks Justin.
I remember first seeing The Cardiacs at The Marquee in Wardour Street. One of the greatest gigs of all time.
There's something about finding Cardiacs for the first time that binds all of their fans together; like we've just been admitted into this secret club, and now we're all in it together. No other band that I've come across has such a powerful 'soul' that attracts and repels in less-than-equal measures.
Once you're 'in' though? The world changes and the absurdity of it all can be seen, leaving only one reasonable response: Laugh.
Tim's work will go on as long as there are ears to hear it, and we will continue embracing the absurdity; facing life with dignity and bravery just like Tim did, and encouraging others to seek the revelation that was Cardiacs and Tim Smith.
Watching this in the middle of the night. I love this stuff
Reminds me of DEVO!
It was my very first reaction. DEVO in an alternate universe.
This is like Devo on steroids
!!!!!
More like LSD, but hey ...
@Nostalgic Storm Waver anyone who implies the Cardiacs don't have talent is both tonedeaf and foolish.
And I _love_ Devo too.
I was referencing Madness on acid, in their video Tarred and Feathered. These guys are mind blowing for sure