Sorry mate, it was wrong of me to make the Aphex Twin comment. I've only heard a couple of his songs and they were a bit of an assault on the senses. I'll have a listen to some other stuff of his. As for the other bit, I like all music and I reckon 75% of the vinyl up in my loft consists of 80's dance/electronic music.
Off Topic The Greatest Intro of All Time
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Sorry mate, it was wrong of me to make the Aphex Twin comment. I've only heard a couple of his songs and they were a bit of an assault on the senses. I'll have a listen to some other stuff of his. As for the other bit, I like all music and I reckon 75% of the vinyl up in my loft consists of 80's dance/electronic music.
****......I better find mine out then.
An eclectic mix of early Skrewdriver, Eek-a-Mouse and Sham 69 stuff is wrapped up in my loft that’s pribably ruined by now.
I left my vinyl double album of 1969: Velvet Underground Live on a windowsill over 40 years ago, a few hours in the sun and it was warped like a boomerang. A seriously stupid thing to do, it’s a brilliant album, the versions of the songs are totally different to the studio songs (and better I think) and it was recorded on very primitive equipment, a house 4 track and some songs from acetates. On the original record this gives it charm and character, but as all subsequent versions - new vinyl, CD and streams/ downloads are just re recordings from the original vinyl as the tapes have been lost, they sound crap by comparison, like they’ve been recorded on a handed held cassette.
So many digitally remastered CDs that have been 'cleaned up' to remove impurities from original recordings have lost their 'edge'. The old equipment they were recorded on had much better frequency range and I've bought some 'Best Of' CDs over the years and was really pissed off with some of the 'new versions'. Anyone who still has original vinyl records from that era should treasure them, they really are irreplaceable...
When I got all mine down last year after twenty years I was relieved to see only a couple warped. It seemed if they were packed tightly together they seemed OK. The ones warped were just loose.
Hopefully that's the case with mine. They're all packed tightly in boxes up there. I'll try with a degree of trepidation to get up there and see if they're damaged over the weekend at some point.
Except my wife’s vinyl original of Supertramp’s Breakfast in America, which I have been quietly wishing harm to for some time.
'Give a Little Bit' has a nice intro, all though that song may not be on Breakfast in America.
I quite liked early Supertramp, but the songs on this really get on my tits for some reason.
I know Morrisey is a proper miserable bastard but :
The Smiths - This Charming Man
When I hear the intro always seems to brighten my mood.
The Smiths - This Charming Man
When I hear the intro always seems to brighten my mood.
I like The Smiths but I can't listen to them without getting the impression that Morrissey is really unhappy and that Johnny Marr is playing a happy sounding jangly guitar in an effort to try and cheer him up a bit.
This Morrisey song has a good punchy intro and the lyrics are fairly amusing ...
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I used to love the Smiths and Morrisey, Johnny Marr is a genius, and I always assumed that Morrisey’s lyrics were ironic/tongue in cheek and rather funny. But I think I was wrong about that, he really does seem very self absorbed and self important.
A Smiths intro for the Gods is How Soon is Now.
Quite incredibly Johnny Marr was inspired by this 1975 song for the guitar intro for How Soon is Now ...
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Both versions got fantastic intros in their own ways.
Prefer the Communards for dancing and party, Melvin And the Blue Notes for listening and as one of my driving tracks.
Prefer the Communards for dancing and party, Melvin And the Blue Notes for listening and as one of my driving tracks.
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