slowdive: classic or dud?

Once again I find myself stressing the words JOY DIVISION.

Good. You can work from there.

Some people say soul is the basis for a good taste in music, but I say it's Joy Division.

I'm guessing the traditional 60s/70s derived Beatles fodder.

If I'm right, I like Ned even more than I thought I did.

I'd love to compile those first 3 EPs on a CD

Having done this, I can assure you it's worthy. Blue Day is an incomplete compilation of these tracks.

Waaah no one reads my posts waaaah

No love for the "5EP" here? That's like the perfect mid-point between "Pygmalion" and "Souvlaki". I think I'll have to compile all the EPs together at some point, should make for a stunning collection.

Someone really cool and nice once sent my way an mp3 of Slowdive's "Souvlaki Space Station" and it just about sent me into orbit. I still continue to swoon over this track. It is very dreamy, very atmospheric, very wonderfully perfect for chilling out and letting the day melt away. The same goes for another song off the Souvlaki album, "Some Velvet Morning", which just so happens to be the song I'm listening to now.

*sighs happily* I've been looking to segue away from pure fangirlishness, you know, and actually listening to the whole of the Souvlaki album just might do the job.

*laughs* I think you might be confusing me with someone who has a broad knowledge of music, hon. I've only heard That Big Hit by Nancy Sinatra and have yet to check out anything by Lee Hazlewood, but I do have to say that earlier on I decided to do an ILE search and found out that it was a cover. Eh. I love Duran's "Watching The Detectives" and I know for damn sure it's a cover, so there's nothing wrong with counting covers here.

Eh. Methinks I should Google before mentioning Other Musical Artists, then. Because I sure as heck don't want to retreat back into that land of fangirl exclusivity (read: only listening to one musical artist for a huge block of time).

"I'll warn you straight off - today's post is dedicated to shoegazer
giants Slowdive. If you're not interested, scroll down. Waaaay down.
Why the love-in? Well, the Reading, England-based band will be the
recipients of a double-disc anthology entitled Catch The Breeze on
Sanctuary Records, out September 27 in the UK. I say "recipients of"
because no one from the band had any hand in putting this together [-Ed says Rachel had a bit of input]. Content-wise, it's a decent enough
collection of stuff from their three albums and some EPs (Full
tracklisting here) and considering how hard the non-album material and
Pygmalion are to find, it's filling a real gap in record store shelves."

I really like the Rachel Goswell album, but then I like that sort of thing; brings me be back to the stuff I was into from 12-15 or so. It's really quite pretty, even fragile. Search 'Deelay' and 'Plucked', sort a start. I can see the argument that it's eminently forgettable, though... a shame.

they are already doing another mojave 3 album, allegedly.

the halstead album, though... how does 'Driving with Bert' not completely slay you? The chorus of 'Hi-lo and In Between' as well? hm.

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