The Wildhearts

After much talk about it on here, I listened to the album again a couple of times on Wednesday night. All I can say is Im beginning to really really like the album now. Its true what people say: once you get past the feedback and static Endlss is a good album. I for one hope the lads play a couple of tracks from it on there upcoming tour.

So after years of debating: are you a fan of it or against it?

my mate is due to give it me soon so i'm firmly in the like it corner

Love it.

Love it WITH the feedback and static.

Crikey oh blimey! lol.

I know for years people have always talked about this issue, but its mainly from people who either dont like or HATE the album. I for one now love it.

Love it, But would still like to hear a clean version

I like it a lot, some of it is absolutely awesome (same could be said for every ginger album really) and some of it is dross (same again).

I was 18 when this album came out and I had tickets to see the band on the EN tour - sadly they broke up a couple of months before I saw them. Was gutted, thought I'd never see them (have actaully seen them several times since thank christ). My point is, however, that I've never seen a single EN song live. I heard Nurse Max and Urge from the 40th bday link that has been bandied about over the last few days and Urge in particular sounded fucking fantastic. FUCKING fantastic. I would love it if they played anything off that album. But Urge, Anthem or Why You Lie (yeah, like that'll happen) would be great for me.

I have tickets for Rock City. See you fuckers there.

Endless Nameless was the best WH album for me.
Hope they play some songs from there!!!!!!!!

It took me a while to get into it, but once I did, I love it.

An amazing album - Pissjoy is my favourite track but every tune is excellent.

The irony was it was played live before it was released so no-one knew the songs. I saw this in Glasgow Garage and they played way too many new songs for the crowd's liking that night and got boo-ed for the lack of encore and missing out the staples (not my opinion, I hassen to add). There must have been a lot of internal shit going down with the band at that time.

I'd love to hear the tunes off it again - in fact the bizarre thing is that gig is on my 'if I could go back time' list !!

First time i've posted on this site, just thought i'd say that endless nameless is a work of genius, best wildhearts album out there

Endless, Nameless has to be one of the greatest rock records of the 1990s.

Often people will talk about 'dark' albums such as the Holy Bible or In Utero as being gloomy masterpieces or classic albums, but Endless, Nameless is kicks all of them squarely in the bollocks, before gobbing on them and sayin "cer-mon, fancy some more ya pussy?"

The album's theme about heroin abuse does not make for easy listening. If the film Requiem For a Dream, with its hard-hiiting peek into the world of junkies, made you wince - them Endless, Nameless will have you shitting yourself.

The opener of Junkenstein sets the tone nicely. The way it cons the listener into turning up the volume, before sneaking up on you like an asbo teen wielding a knife and demanding cash for drugs, is malicious, unforgiving and a work of genius.
Then there's the "coming up" tracks of Nurse and Anthem, before the schitzophonic mind-fuck "comedown" of Urge.
Pissjoy is stupidly addictive, and although Soundog Babylon and Now Is the Colour were recorded a decade ago, they are more relevant today than anything today's pissweak crop of "rock poets" could write. Heroin sounds so smacked up it makes Pete Doherty sound vaguely coherent, while Why You Lie is full of anger, fire and confusion. Then there's Thunderfuck, with its trip-hop style beats, which sound like Massive Attack and Goldie caught in the middle of a thunderstorm.

To it's critics it is levied as unlistenable and too noisey. But that was precisely the point of the album - it was supposed to be fucked up and nasty, like the circumstances the album was made in. Saying Endless, Nameless is a cacophony is like complaining about a french film for being "too foreign sounding".

If only the drugs czars in the goverment could produce anti-drug abuse campaigns as hard hitting as Endless, Nameless then the whole country would be cleaner than an OCD sufferer's house.

vanrad wrote:An amazing album - Pissjoy is my favourite track but every tune is excellent.

The irony was it was played live before it was released so no-one knew the songs. I saw this in Glasgow Garage and they played way too many new songs for the crowd's liking that night and got boo-ed for the lack of encore and missing out the staples (not my opinion, I hassen to add). There must have been a lot of internal shit going down with the band at that time.

I'd love to hear the tunes off it again - in fact the bizarre thing is that gig is on my 'if I could go back time' list !!

Was that the Glasgow Garage gig in about June or July 1997, with Groop Dogdrill supporting?

That was my first time seeing either Ginger or The Wildhearts live, after discovering them in early 1996. It started with the lights down during the Anthem drums, and the whole gig exploding into life at the start of the riff.

I seem to remember that the distortion levels and volume were absolutely nuts. I brought along a friend who was mildly into them, and his reaction was basically 'What the fuck was that gig all about?'

I remember roadies supporting the speaker stacks 'cos they were teetering around from the sheer noise howling out of them. Urge, Nurse Maximum, Lovebank, Pump It Up, Headfuck and I Wanna Go were also played, from what I remember. The Anthem single had been released, but the Urge single and Endless Nameless hadn't appeared yet, I think.

Yeah, I went to the Shepherds Bush gig June 97 and that was my first WH gig also after discvering them in around 95...

Inasane was one word... It was a nasty gig, a really violent atmosphere in the crowd... Apparently Ginger played the entire tour with broken ribs after he jumped a security guard in Sweden. That would explain the short sets. The noise was unheard of... I couldn't hear high frequencies for about three days afterwards. They played Lovebank and the entire crew were out on the stage joining in... There was also a guy who kept trying to jump on the stage and he got Danny's sick bucket chucked all over him... It all added to the atmosphere... Sorta...

Ben Wright wrote:Endless, Nameless has to be one of the greatest rock records of the 1990s.

I agree with everything you just said.

You can post on my behalf from now on.