Getting Away With It: The ELECTRONIC Poll

the end of “gangster” >>>>>

You found this!!!

'Tighten Up' fucking rules.

this is the only album i listen to now

my drunk album

Happy 30th to "Getting Away With It" itself.

See that girl
She's over there
I don't need her
she don't care

Happy thirtieth anniversary.

stings cousin can not sing so i like the songs he does not sing on or is not alone on!

Disappointed and Getting Away With It on the original LP release would have made this a bonafide all-time classic. I vividly recall the sound and activity of holding down the rewind button and hearing Tighten Up quickly get back to the beginning so I could hear it again. I was afraid I would break the tape I rewound it so many times. Now the opening stabs are painful to my ears, but I still love the song. I still love this album and have very fond memories of hearing GAWI on the radio for the first time and the excruciatingly long wait to get the album.

They are fortunately on the rerelease.

It's so easy
why won't you leave this?

Thirty-one years young today.

technique - getting away with it - this LP - a streak of imperious form so impressive that one is even able to forgive world in motion

World in Motion needs no forgiving.

That’s a truly baffling number of votes for ‘Gangster’!

it's an open act of defiance!

Gangster rules, as does the rest of this album

bloody hell, i hate this bands name.
makes ilm, google etc impossible to dig around for more info.
anyways, have had the orig cd for years, and never really got into it as it sounds so weak and limp.
then the other day i spotted a version in a local charity shop with a different cover.
got home and did the usual discogs check up.
had no idea re the 1993 remaster, and decided to spend the wallet busting 50p.
yeah, not to get all SHF, but this is a lot better than the original cd version.
it's not just louder, but better definition, seperation and cleaner/crisper.
enjoying it so so much more.
i guess someone realised quite soon after the original release that the cd edition just didn't sound that good, hence the very quick 'remaster'.

Look at me, I always get the blame
But I can't even learn to spell my name

I’d like to read
I’d like to write
But where I live
I learned to fight
So don’t you ever say that we’re the same

otm

https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2023/08/13/electronic-get-the-message-best-of-reissue/

Neil: "Bernard and Johnny Marr were almost outraged by the way we work. The way we work is we have a programmer who does all the typewriter tapping and he does everything himself and we hardly do anything ourselves. We kind of sit there reading piles of magazines telling people what to do or, indeed, sleeping while they're doing it. And Bernard thinks this is terribly funny and shocking. He can't get over the fact that Chris goes to sleep in the studio. When we did 'Patience Of A Saint', it was quite embarrassing trying to write with them. Chris had this chord change and then Johnny Marr put a bass line on it and I wrote a tune. It took about 10 or 15 minutes. And then it was time to go to The Hacienda..."