CARDIACS Inside Tracks 1999 (complete)

[@disfibulator]

It saddens me that I only found this band last week. It saddens me they are not more widely known. It saddens me that such brilliance could fall on deaf ears. It saddens me that Tim is in bad shape. But it heartens me that music that matters finds its way to listeners like me. It inspires me that I can still find things I can love and that invigorate me. I just hope Tim and the others can know that what they have done matters

[@shayneoneill1506]

disfibulator don't give up hope hombre. Tim might never return to live performance , but there's no reason to believe he won't return to composing , now that his rehabilitation has picked up pace , particularly w/ assistive technologies to help him drive a DAW or whatever. His minds in good shape, he's just lost control of his body

[@BlueCrayon77]

@@shayneoneill1506 Where can I find the latest updates on Tim's condition? Has there been a new update on the website.. I guess I should go and look! haha

[@PEGGLORE]

He died, that's the update. but least he isn't in any pain anymore. And more will hopefully now discover the music.

[@jobzagudn]

He showed what was possible! kapow!!

[@SilverfoxJB]

I have only discovered them this year and I always considered myself to have a good musical ear and ability to find something different. And here I am at 63 just discovering them.

[@antielectro]

RIP dear Tim. Your music is so great....thank you forever

[@kramcool]

WTF?¿ I'm 61 years old and a musician, a drummer. And i'm just now hearing about this band? And most of the original band is gone, is that right? And this came out of the psychedelic freak show prog band called Gong?!?! My mind is spinning right now. In a very good way! I got here because I followed a couple links from a news story. I guess you could say I went down the rabbit hole. And found something more than rabbit poop. Damn I'm fired up!!!!

[@pogsquatch]

Me too and I'm older than you !

[@newsles2]

They didn't come from Gong but were almost certianly influenced by them even if it isn't always sonically obvious. Current Gong frontman Kavus Torabi was in Cardiacs, replacing Jon Poole there on lead guitar for the final lineup before band leader Tim Smith had a heart attack and developed Dystonia.

[@dimitrigodhead1969]

I adore Tim's singing on signs, it's such a beautiful piece of art rock

[@rogermckenzie1020]

The only band that made my jaw drop when I saw them in 82. See you on the other side Tim.

[@HangingWood]

My new favourite band

[@laurenceellis8311]

Zappa, Hevy Devy, Devo, Blur, is there nothing Cardiacs can't compete with... The mad thing is, this is the first week of discovering their brand of music theater, and frankly, I'm blown away by it...

[@harrymapex]

If you haven't already found out - you're in for a treat!

[@davechrystal]

I can NOT believe I didn't hear about this AMAZING band until 2020. DECADES I missed out on. Thankfully there are hundreds of Tim's songs to listen to over and over. And I hear something new EVERYTIME I listen to each song.

[@petersokol1603]

This is not…..theatre….it’s a band playing out standing in place….that’s all they needed to be brilliant….Genesis with Peter Gabriel was theatre.

[@DaveRiceMusic]

Watch Tim break a string around 9:40 and then play through anyway. BEAST.

[@IrritantCrockett]

They are ALL beasts

[@Quinceps]

About time he broke that shit 🎉 What a performance!

[@OlafProt]

We shall never the like of this again 😞

[@regmtait100]

Remember this vividly at the time as a massive Cardiacs fan - I still am. I taped it onto VHS. RIP Kevin Greening.

[@Crestietom]

Oh Tim man you’re an angel i swear

[@Lobsterboy300]

Every time i watch a new video i never want it to end. Their stage presence is immaculate. Live out your dreams! You never know when life could be taken from you.

[@gg-pe9tb]

Stunning.

[@rbrodie74]

Worth it alone for Jim in shorts.

[@georgesdimopoulos1486]

RIP Tim

[@CADMunkieUK]

Yeah fuck

[@dw4music]

years and years ahead of their time ... Tim .. your brilliant XXXX

[@harrymapex]

Christ alive.....WHAT a performance!

[@lndustrialpain121]

Wowwwww. Fantastic.👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊

[@paultrussy]

The sequence in the 9th minute is offworld brilliant.

[@timrob62]

Cardiacs--Not *The* Cardiacs. "Don't use your goddamned definite articles!"

[@sydneykamer3434]

i think it's kinda like a Ramones or a Deftones thing

[@bustedfender]

Yes. Buzzcocks.

[@macmuggo5459]

And talking heads too

[@doris444244]

fuckin' a, you know it.

[@tostare]

You know what, I thought "Wow, Cardiacs on tv, brilliant!". Then I thought "I bet someone corrects the presenter for saying 'The'."

[@CrankyRayy]

8:27 Jon Poole banging his head on a cymbal

[@pyramidserum]

lol

[@martymcfly6012]

Two words.....fkn great!!!!!!

[@jugophone]

nice to see the performance in context - thanks for sharing!

[@dogbiscuit1649]

Genius.

[@f15H8ul8]

i sure am dissapointed that i did not discover these guys until in my 50's in 2019. they sure would have made the 80's more bearable. plus, i would have been a fuckin hero to all my hardcore punk/ weirdo music friends :D. anyway , i love 'em now (RIP TIM). one good thing is that its all new to me!

[@sixflyingwhales1907]

10:34 sounds like the horsey sound from Eat It Up Worms Hero.

[@dougzilla]

That was very cool. Brilliant.

[@discharge29]

absolute musical brilliance - thank god vampires like simon cowell wasn't around for this

[@IrritantCrockett]

THIS ISNT COMMERCIAL ENOUGH YOU FUCKS

[@kdt85]

Imagine the suprise on his face

[@discharge29]

@@kdt85 He'd have said - ''not for me - how could i possibly make easy, quick $$$$$ off this - it's a no from me - it's not about real talent''.....that of course based on if he was honest !!!

[@donnyrover1]

I think it was kevin greening, morning show, who did the Hampshire farmer relating bazaar rural tales, which always ended with his dog ,gripper, going beserk.

[@TheArpomni2]

phil osophical eric the gardener

[@ArgumentShow]

best GB band

[@dw4music]

AWESOME

[@benchuco]

El secreto mejor guardado de los Britanicos....

[@andymcrobify]

Genious. Tim was a true genious and I feel like I know this wonderful secret because Cardiacs are no where near as well known as they should be. Its a shame but alas, it makes me feel special somehow!

[@atomiumonamour9710]

Fact is, if you start listening to the Cardiacs, you can't listen to anything else than the Cardiacs for at least a week.

[@SpuddySpud]

I started about 3 years ago. For the first two I could barely listen to anything else. The excitement, and speed, and humour, and heart-breaking gorgeous melodies, and the feeling that you're cracking a puzzle... How can you listen to anything else?

[@ThePerradox]

​@@SpuddySpudAs much as al of those things you said about Cardiacs are true it might be the last one that's the pivotal for me. I feel like I'm cracking a puzzle, or opening levels of a complex puzzle box. You should have seen the expression on my face when I a two months or so back discovered a piece of Hymn at the end of the Seaside version of Nurses.

[@FatDave2112]

I feel like the audience was not at all prepared for this.

[@Quinceps]

As usual with Cardiacs.

[@robotgoose225]

Fucking love Cardiacs. 💘

[@Paddywack0]

Glorious

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Cardiacs are too good.

[@jarrahdrum]

Awesome 👍🏻

[@tindrum]

all that and a broken string!

[@bandcouver]

Prepared to be frightened again? I don't think so!

[@jamesbutler6253]

Cardiacs, not The Cardiacs. Presumably the programme spoke to the band and looked at a CD. 🤔

[@alienechomill]

Stunning stuff! But where is the keyboard player? I hear keyboards...

[@vincentsheehan3193]

As a 4 piece they played with the keyboard parts on a backing track

[@MiscellaneousDebris]

They decided not to replace Bill Drake when he left in the early '90s so backing tracks were in place of keyboards.

[@shayneoneill1506]

Im not completely convinced about the solo in firey gun hand. Not saying its bad, I'm just so used to the album one (hey I'm an aussie, I only know cardiacs from recordings:( ) it just jutted in my ear a bit. Otherwise stunningly good performance

[@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog]

The solo on the album sounds like it's cut up from loads of different takes, so a little tricky to recreate live ;)

[@mrpositronia]

It was indeed spliced into a random order.

[@DirtyBoySingToGod]

Yea, have to cut Mr. Poole some slack on this one. This was a jumble of edits on the album. He's done amazingly well to at least try and recreate it live, to be fair :)

[@citrusboy]

Plus it looks like he had broken a string by that point in the performance.

[@DrGodinho]

he had a broken D string

[@paultrussy]

🐾 🌼 C A R D I A C S 🌼 🐾

[@Paddywack0]

Nice

[@wolfgang4468]

One person was not pleased with the video quality, no other reason thinkable for a dislike.

[@milesmason1343]

Or that there was only 2 tracks.....

[@avantprog6902]

Oh my God, Tim Smith is the British Frank Zappa!

[@TheUltraman109]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@13low49]

Its nearly 20 years ago - what happened? FUCK! The y should be teached at school nowadays!

[@resurrected21]

Anyone know if he’s using a backing track for the chorus on Signs (the high part) or effects pedal, etc. Also, is that Poole on guitar?

[@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog]

Yeah, lots of backing tracks during this period; I don't think I've seen the Cardiacs use anything other than 'normal' guitar sounds live But that's certainly the only time you can use the term "normal" in reference to the Cardiacs

[@фыржыр-ф2р]

your guestion is ok

[@daviderskine966]

There's no one in the pond...

[@10brucelees]

Exhilarating

[@tassamusiikkia]

...where is the synth coming from? 🤔 doesn't seem like they're playing to a click/backing track

[@LoganPosthumous]

It is a backing, after keyboardist Bill D Drake 'left' he's been providing keyboard parts to the band still and his parts are just played as a backing from there on. Thinking about it I'm not sure the parts are fully played by Bill - several people in the band over time can play keys - so it could have been any of them recording it.

[@tassamusiikkia]

@@LoganPosthumous well damn, that's good to know - thanks a whole bunch! 😁

[@john8451]

Tim Smith recorded most of the keyboard backing tracks after Bill Drake left.

[@todosmentira336]

Where is the keyboard player hiding?

[@janotse]

He is in the box!

[@misterdavid5400]

Sounds very Pixie-esque

[@unknown6390]

More like the Pixies sound like Cardiacs

[@meursault7030]

Cardiacs fomed 1977 Pixies formed 1986

[@soxmilligex7671]

Happy days.....If you would like to reach me PO box post oh no email NO..............just write happy days.

[@sugarfree7298]

Pixies with keyboards !

[@Onemanjim]

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[@nobodyspecial5318]

Black Francis was influenced by them

[@fernandobungle9669]

@@Onemanjim the video is dead :(

[@Onemanjim]

@@fernandobungle9669 here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2HYmKGQm617eac

[@meursault7030]

Idiot

[@grahamharrison3730]

Jesus fucking christ!

[@meursault7030]

Glorious