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The inclusion of the live video audio pretty well sold the Retro box set.
John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band defense squad activated.
Did anyone ever get this tattoo
Bringing Kim Jensen's situation into this is kind of a gross stretch imo, but it's a great read.
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"Moving the River" is second only to "Perfect Way" which we know is your #1.
I get why they binned the poppy fourth record that's spread across A-Z & Not To - medium::tedium - but that material would have landed well in late '81/early '82 and allowed for an evolution alongside New Order vs. the ambulance-chasing optics of The A List period. Their 2000s run was great.
That grey/maroon IRS label is comfort food.
God the title track on this is an all-time kraut/psych drone jam. Couldn't get with the successive lineups apart from a few cuts. Looks like they did an extensive Bandcamp remastering campaign during the pandemic that I missed!
The Easier Than Living EP preceding this had a brighter sound, but maybe they thought it was too "Louisville"/Albini and wanted a change for the LP. I was pretty bummed on the drum mix. Both were done by Bob Weston in the same room at Kingston Street. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI16...
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As Tears for Fears once sang, "you can change." Confirmation/affirmation bias is psychological fentanyl on its own; add in the writing-your-own-ticket aspect of pulling +/- six figures, there's no reason to look in the mirror - unless it saves or adds subs. I'm so lucky I never made a dime...
"Get the Message" remains maybe my favorite song of the "dance pop" era; b-side "Free Will" was stellar as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-aq...
For sure, Live at the BBC vies for best Beatles comp straight-up. It's their Hatful of Hollow.
The series itself excelled at "sticking to the story" of the group, avoiding squabbly rabbit holes. Disney+ remix is a narrative dumbing-down. The CD compilations were really thin - Vol. 2 is easily the best of them. 1 is cloying and 3 is so depressing. Once the new box is half off I'll pick it up.
A major eye-opener for me in 1992:
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Shortly after college I came across 5/6 of the 1996 Beggars CD reissues at a suburban Strawberries that was closing, marked down to $6.99/ea. Odd that I never completed the set, will look into that presently...
After Nova won in '16, applications the next year were up 21%. Acceptance rate went from 48% to 28%. Mental. villanovan.com/29035/news/h...
It honestly looks like an outtake from Trainspotting.
Sure 80s players were bought vs. recruited and that's another convo, but admissions are so influenced by the experience of having a competitive team to root for during undergrad. Educate me with a reply - is it not obvious this is becoming a forest-for-the-trees problem? Thinking U of M, Bama...
As the kids headed off to college I came to understand the gravity of major programs on admissions...as a liberal arts kid I had no idea how big a deal this all was. And it seems like everyone is hell bent via xfer portal, NIL and straight $$$ on making it impossible to sustain even a 4-year run.
AS THOON AS POTHIBLE?!?!?
Fontana period could be the heaviest "chunk" in the discog; those LPs have a similar gravity to the Levitate/TMS/Unutterable triptych. All-up, having read the books that didn't exist when I was a younger listener-fan, the 90s is arguably their richest vein (and darkest blood).
"Thanks for finding your seats everyone. It's a unique pleasure to introduce my friend Sean, The Only Man to Write Two Whole-Ass Books About the 1989 Action Thriller Road House Starring Patrick Swayze. *Don Rickles hand to cheek gesture* I published the funny one!"
Chilton loved their version of "Thirteen" - doesn't try to do too much. Definitely the edition to have.
The scene where they meet - "Iiiii-iii managed to get outta there" - is more theater than film. Its absurd falsity derives from the need to convey the "tell" to an audience for whom this might be *the first movie they've ever seen*. That's in all dialog and performances and isn't discussed enough.
The "Tarantino-ing" of aged blockbusters is a diminishment of their monumental value. It was evident across all lines in 1988 that Die Hard was a Jaws-level total package: a film that requires zero context to satisfy the broadest audience, reify the form, and chasten its critics.