The Wildhearts

A few months ago I was introduced to Ginger by a friend. We were talking music and "Jake" came up, and after listening to it on youtube and being pointed in the Yoni direction (ahem) I made my first Ginger purchase. Needless to say I LOVED it, and the other albums followed.

Now... this is almost the embarrasing part, so I'm just going to spit it out:

"I've never heard a Wildhearts track in my entire life, let alone an album"

After loving Ginger I'd like to hear Wildhearts (obviously). Soooo I'd be grateful for suggestions as to which album I should purchase first and why?

Thanks!

'Earth Vs The Wildhearts'

Simply because it's the greatest album recorded by anybody EVER!!!

sonicshake wrote:'Earth Vs The Wildhearts'

Simply because it's the greatest album recorded by anybody EVER!!!

Seconded. You'll eventually get all WHs albums anyway. And the B-sides, one way or another. Also, do check out SilverGinger5 if you haven't already!

Oh, and congratulations, you've got a great body of work to discover. Welcome to the fold.

P.S.: Nice signature quote!

Welcome, you will never leave...............

If the whole "melodic rock" thing does it for you, no reason not to pick up Earth Vs, PHUQ, Fishing For Luckies, ...Must Be Destroyed and the recent self-titled one. Then get someone to play you a bit of Endless Nameless before you decide if that's for you or not...

Have a nosy at http://www.last.fm/music/The+Wildhearts - anything that has 'full track' next to it you can listen to in full. Plenty on there to get you started, anyway..

'Course, you could just give it a couple of weeks and see what's on 'The Works'?

Buy Endless Nameless

I'd suggest that P.H.U.Q. is the most representative of Wildhearts styles and music. However, earth vs is the creme de la creme.

Enjoy the rollercoaster ride you're about to embark upon. You're very lucky to have all this ahead of you.

being a young fan i found the wildhearts at 7 yr old after buying the "sick of drugs" single because - as a young mind works - "that alien bug thing is kool!" then after hearing the kool alien bug thing i was amazed... but obviously i was too young to know there was more out there than just that one single... i lent out the single, never saw it again then several years later i met some guys (one o thems on this board) who re-introduced me to the wildhearts... but the first thing they showed me was ginger... then later again they showed me the wildhearts and it was "...strike back" so i'd suggest that to be honest... like a very well recorded greatest hits... then do what i did & go mad for them & buy everything they've ever done! (minus a few things but hey... im only 17! theres time!)

i hope my story has touched you all...

the end...!

Keith Richard wrote:Enjoy the rollercoaster ride you're about to embark upon. You're very lucky to have all this ahead of you.

You could get onto eBay, buy a copy of Mondo Akimbo A-Go-Go and start at the very start. Then buy everything in release order.

Give it, say, a week between releases to get used to them - we'll PM you every day and a half to inform you that the WH had split and reformed just to make the experience more realistic.

Just me then?

Ean wrote:

Keith Richard wrote:Enjoy the rollercoaster ride you're about to embark upon. You're very lucky to have all this ahead of you.

You could get onto eBay, buy a copy of Mondo Akimbo A-Go-Go and start at the very start. Then buy everything in release order.

Give it, say, a week between releases to get used to them - we'll PM you every day and a half to inform you that the WH had split and reformed just to make the experience more realistic.

Just me then?

Hahaha. I think that's a great idea!

sonicshake wrote:

Ean wrote:

Keith Richard wrote:Enjoy the rollercoaster ride you're about to embark upon. You're very lucky to have all this ahead of you.

You could get onto eBay, buy a copy of Mondo Akimbo A-Go-Go and start at the very start. Then buy everything in release order.

Give it, say, a week between releases to get used to them - we'll PM you every day and a half to inform you that the WH had split and reformed just to make the experience more realistic.

Just me then?

Hahaha. I think that's a great idea!

Seconded but how we gonna do the bit where they bugger off to New York to live around the time PHUQ came out and Rich accidentally setting the hotelroom on fire with candles?

Sarc wrote:

sonicshake wrote:

Ean wrote:

Keith Richard wrote:Enjoy the rollercoaster ride you're about to embark upon. You're very lucky to have all this ahead of you.

You could get onto eBay, buy a copy of Mondo Akimbo A-Go-Go and start at the very start. Then buy everything in release order.

Give it, say, a week between releases to get used to them - we'll PM you every day and a half to inform you that the WH had split and reformed just to make the experience more realistic.

Just me then?

Hahaha. I think that's a great idea!

Seconded but how we gonna do the bit where they bugger off to New York to live around the time PHUQ came out and Rich accidentally setting the hotelroom on fire with candles?

& are we gonna send the message now about ginger's quireboys incident??

...also speaking o that... anyone sussed out what "unbroken" is about? link to the quireboys maybe?!

zachary_storm wrote:
& are we gonna send the message now about ginger's quireboys incident??

Yep, we'll be round in five minutes to throw you down the stairs with a bottle of JD - just to help you live the dream.

A moment of genius has struck (what again?!).

They could update the Darren's History on WH.com so that there are song links in all the right places.