Hard News: You've got to listen to the music
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3410,
The fab new UK stamps in all their glory.
Good choices, except for The Division Bell, which is close to the least iconic of all official PF album covers (and far from the greatest of Storm Thorgerson's work.)
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Yeah I thought that too. If you were going to choose a Pink Floyd cover there are much, much better ones. And I guess they didn't have the, ah, bollocks to put this on a stamp.
And I'd have rather had Heroes for a Bowie
No Roger Dean.....*
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3410,
And I'd have rather had Heroes for a Bowie
Agreed (or maybe Diamond Dogs.)
Interesting that they say...
Some albums could not be included for operational reasons (for instance, designs that were too dark)
... yet saw fit to include Ziggy.
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(for instance, designs that were too dark)
This would work then
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We must tax Google to save the ailing music industry say the French.
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No Roger Dean.....*
*thankfullywhat a Jolly Rogering...
Mr G are you looking to get
Avatarred and Feathered?
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Those stamps are gorgeous though, yeah, I can't see Ziggy condensing to stamp size nearly as well as pretty much any of the rest of Bowie's cover art - I'd probably plumb for Aladdin Sane.
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condensing to stamp size
I liked the look of the London Calling postcard.
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Heh, what may be the warmest, most comforting and blissful record I own was recorded on cassette in a Chicago bedroom.
Awww yeah. You just made me crank up 'Can You Feel It' in the iTunes. What music.
Well, since we're getting all Chicago on it...
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Well, since we're getting all Chicago on it...
They've got the year wrong though..it was 84 or 85. And poor Jamie Principal loses his credit?
Avatarred and Feathered?
Firstly, lovely to see you back here..any chance you could stroll over to Joe's and persuade him to emulate?
I worry about the rehabilitation of Roger Dean, post Cameron, since Avatar could only exist in a post Relayer universe. There are bigger things that should concern me, but this weighs....
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They've got the year wrong though..it was 84 or 85. And poor Jamie Principal loses his credit?
copyright 1987 to Trax Records, according to the inlay I'm looking at.
The youtube version was just the first decent one I could find
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copyright 1987 to Trax Records, according to the inlay I'm looking at.
That was the Trax release, as dodgy as just about everything else Marshall Sherman did..Roy Davis Jr. told me that he and Dj Pierre used to take home-demos in to work when they were stacking shelves in the Trax warehouse, only to find it pressed up a few days later, without them being asked. One of those was Acid Tracks. He was also notorious for using the cheapest recycled vinyl, so that you'd get bits of old labels poking out of the vinyl from time to time. My original copy of that record, bought in '87, has just that.
The original pressing of Your Love was on Persona in '86, but it existed as a reel for at least a year before that and was getting Knuckles club play.
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That was the Trax release, as dodgy as just about everything else Marshall Sherman did
Trainspotter alert: there were two early versions, both with Jamie Principle on vocals, the first credited to Jamie Principle, the second to Frankie Knuckles, who produced it.
So am I right in thinking that the 1987 Trax release was actually a different production? The Wikipedia article on the song isn't helpful with dates.
Rich, gotta say: nice to find that it's not just me and Simon here who love this music.
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So am I right in thinking that the 1987 Trax release was actually a different production?
That's my understanding but I think that it's all very gray. The song was a work in progress for some years, and like lots of the Chicago stuff was handed to DJs like Knuckles and Hardy on reel, with regular updates, so there are likely many versions. I have a copy on DJ International too, which is credited to Frankie & Jamie but sounds rather different, and a version on a European house comp from around 87 credited to someone altogether different, Jesse Saunders if memory is correct, which sounds the same as the Persona 12".
Chi-House dealings were at best always murky. Trax still exists, albeit in and out of court fairly regularly. There is a history of sorts here, albeit a few law suits back
And of course it was Larry Sherman, not Marshall..duhh
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Rich, gotta say: nice to find that it's not just me and Simon here who love this music.
Oi!
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I worry about the rehabilitation of Roger Dean, post Cameron, since Avatar could only exist in a post Relayer universe. There are bigger things that should concern me, but this weighs....
Lucky we are Hip to this Gnosis
otherwise we'd get Vertigo
Feathered Blue Meanies and
Budgie smugglers unite
Yes, We do all live in a
Yellow Submarine!
and are left in its Wake, man...
(a 21st Century Buoy Zone Adventure)ergo Avatar's vistas are atavistic
or in Cameron-speak:
after Ice-Bergers syndrome
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You're sailing very close to the edge there, Alien Lizard.
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Having watched the truly awful PIL reunion footage on the nets, it occurred to me that Metal Box, which is shurely amongst the most iconic (and impractical) UK album sleeves ever is missing from that stamp issue (kill the Coldplay, add the PIL).
And that bought me to this (or at least provided me with an excuse to post it):
You're sailing very close to the edge there, Alien Lizard.
Indeed, down by the river (which is as near as it gets to me admitting I ever owned a Yes album).
Budgie
The most obscure musical reference point ever on PAS?
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3410,
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The most obscure musical reference point ever on PAS?
Unlikely to be intended as a reference to Oz politics, but in the spirit of The Lizard's penchant for multiplicity of meanings:
Feathered Blue Meanies and
Budgie smugglers unite -
I think we may be in the presence of amanfrommars, late of El Reg.
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Rich, gotta say: nice to find that it's not just me and Simon here who love this music.
Well, the problem with music is it's like history: they've already made so damn much of it and they keep making more. It was a lot easier to keep up when I was a one-genre pony.
So the sum total of my knowledge of '80's Chicago house comes from about three tracks and watching a UK Channel 4 series called 'Pump up the volume: a history of house'.
Which, thanks to the wonders of the internet, appears to be available here.
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in the spirit of
Heh.. another welcome returnee
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Speaking of Chicago... King Arthur of the Round Tables and some band from the UK ;-)
Glad to see Power, Corruption & Lies on the stamps. Might have gone with Closer, but still, something by Peter Saville had to be there.
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@Rich. I should point you in the direction this site too, no longer updated but archived and a mountain of information.
@recordari
NO in NYC, 1981. Completely fucking wonderful (there are a bunch more songs on YouTube from the same gig if you've not seen them).
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