and the full length version of flock of seagulls wishing (if i had a photograph of you). an eight minute orgasm of a song.
― david, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I had always pulled myself away from getting the later Talk Talk albums for some reason - thought they'd be too 'far out' but when I did finally purchase "Spirit of Eden" I was blown away by it - and realised how much of a debt Bark Psychosis owed them. And then when I picked up "Laughing stock" and "Mark Hollis" within a day of each other for £4 each I was in heaven.
Which brings me to another point, which may be worth starting another thread for. I picked up "LS" and "MH" at a point in my life when I'd gone effectively blind - congenital cataracts in my eyes got to the point where I could no longer see through them, so I had to stop working, sit in darkened rooms and listen to either music or talking books until I got the cataracts removed. And "LS" and "MH" fitted my circumstances perfectly. It was all I would listen to at the time and now whenever I listen to either I'm back in the darkness of my bedroom feeling very scared about my future, so I don't tend to listen to them as much as "SOE". I suppose 'first listens' of a record can really affect you - I'd say that half my collection is 'first memories'. My first listen to "LS" was walking down to the chip shop in the rain, playing that second song with all the noisy guitars on my walkman and everyone looking at me funny in the shop because I didn't want to stop it.
I only thought about this the other day as I picked up my second copy of Medicine's first LP - the first was destroyed by an irate girlfriend a few years back - and it took me straight back to buying it in '92 and all the emotions surrounding me then which I shan't go into. Sorry I've drifted but I just thought I'd say....
― Rob M, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Yancey, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Phil, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
In a second I'm going to go home where someone left me Rolling Stones records. I have actually never actually listened to a Rolling Stones record. I'm a bit scared I might like it.
― Nitsuh, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
which one?
― jess, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helen fordsdale, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― daria gray, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Now, expressly to torture Ned, I will now disclose that I am saving my vinyl copy of "Loveless" for a rainy day. ;)
― felicity, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link