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hirezCatalogue, catalogue, catalogue. Probably not what most people would call an exciting weekend, but it's certainly been a voyage of discovery and opportunity for the sort of curious insight that people seem to expect from JH-R.
It would be churlish not to mention an evening of wit and wossname that descended into rancid drunkenness and ribaldry in honour of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naughtypixie and juliann braving the seemingly inescapable M25 force-field in their Mythic Taxi ("West of Swindon at this time of night? Yer 'avin a right larf, etc.") and setting up a base camp in the Downstairs Room Filled With Things. (As opposed to one of the Upstairs ditto.) Y'all didn't make me miss London at all. Not even slightly. Honest.
So anyway. Records. There's either another 50-odd to grind through, or 50-odd + Another Huge Box. Hopefully the latter, because I'm short at least one Astralasia 12" (Hashishin) and some New Order. On the up-side, I've discovered a set of things I never got around to playing - 'A gilded eternity' by Loop, for instance - cracking stuff that's not seen a gramophone in the (at least) ten years since I bought it; some fine records that haven't had an outing since I moved from Stable Cottage (1993, I think) such as the Orbital Peel Session, 'Chrome' by Catherine Wheel and Sugar's 'Beaster', and an amount of material that shows a certain lack of quality control... 'Just Buggin' by Whistle? What was I thinking?
It occurs to me that the contents of a record-pile will give away a lot about the personality of the owner. Thus it should come as no surprise that mine is as rambling and full of odd corners, welcome surprises and hidden depths as (say) Snowshill Manor...
It would be churlish not to mention an evening of wit and wossname that descended into rancid drunkenness and ribaldry in honour of
naughtypixie and juliann braving the seemingly inescapable M25 force-field in their Mythic Taxi ("West of Swindon at this time of night? Yer 'avin a right larf, etc.") and setting up a base camp in the Downstairs Room Filled With Things. (As opposed to one of the Upstairs ditto.) Y'all didn't make me miss London at all. Not even slightly. Honest.So anyway. Records. There's either another 50-odd to grind through, or 50-odd + Another Huge Box. Hopefully the latter, because I'm short at least one Astralasia 12" (Hashishin) and some New Order. On the up-side, I've discovered a set of things I never got around to playing - 'A gilded eternity' by Loop, for instance - cracking stuff that's not seen a gramophone in the (at least) ten years since I bought it; some fine records that haven't had an outing since I moved from Stable Cottage (1993, I think) such as the Orbital Peel Session, 'Chrome' by Catherine Wheel and Sugar's 'Beaster', and an amount of material that shows a certain lack of quality control... 'Just Buggin' by Whistle? What was I thinking?
It occurs to me that the contents of a record-pile will give away a lot about the personality of the owner. Thus it should come as no surprise that mine is as rambling and full of odd corners, welcome surprises and hidden depths as (say) Snowshill Manor...
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Loop ++ (as they say)
Date: 2003-07-28 05:54 am (UTC)Have you heard their version of "Cinnamon Girl"?
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Date: 2003-07-28 05:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 06:10 am (UTC)Great stuff. Funnily enough after that they turned into a bloody awful club band with no memorable tunes.
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:14 am (UTC)This is the house with the rooms full of samurai armour and bicycles and wigs, yes? I heard a rumour that there is a room that the public are not allowed into, as it contains various black magic artefacts from the 1920s... Will have to infiltrate the National Trust, and blow the whistle on their secret membership of the Golden Dawn...
In other news: sorting rekkids is like packing books - it takes hours, not because of the difficulty of the task, but because of the instantly-available nostalgia buzzes....
Sorry, waffle....
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:15 am (UTC)Sul-E-Stomp is another cracker. Just bloody mad - it starts off all yodey-bodey-fiddly-ho and then lurches into serious Beltram territory. Or indeed the other way up, depending on the side you play. I'd love to see what happened when someone bunged that on the decks...
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:34 am (UTC)Re: Loop ++ (as they say)
Date: 2003-07-28 06:35 am (UTC)Loop and I have a complicated history: Collision was on one of the Indie Top Twenty compilations, and I thought it a fine thing so purchased the 12". Then I moved to London to have no money for a year, so didn't have any spare cash and listened to Mad Techno on KISS-FM instead. By the time I has some money again, they'd split and drug-fucked drone rock was Last Year's Thing, so I never remembered to pick up any more of their output. (And I was Mad And Unemployable for nine months.)
I would also like various Spacemen, MBV, Trans-Am and Hawkwind records to be taken into consideration...
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 06:40 am (UTC)The samurai room is Bloody Scary. I should probably go again.
Now I have to work out how to get it from Excel97 -> HTML. (that's not repulsive M$-markup) A Simple Matter of Perl, I should think.
Re: Loop ++ (as they say)
Date: 2003-07-28 06:41 am (UTC)I can do you a tape of this and any other pre-Gilded Eternity gaps in your collection if you like? I'm still working on vinyl -> mp3 and some day I might even be able to do a CD...
Spacemen 3: I've got the Revolution 12" and Playing With Fire. Great stuff. Never got into MBV and I have no idea why. I just never heard much.
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:48 am (UTC)Pearl? It is the smelly hippy lunix way! Real men import to Word and hit "Save as HTML", because they have no fear of danger! :-)
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:52 am (UTC)Re: Loop ++ (as they say)
Date: 2003-07-28 06:55 am (UTC)That would be Very Splendid, but I... No, soddit - go right ahead. It'll be an ideal excuse to wire up the cassette machine.
The only MBV I really care for is Loveless. I played the thing to death at the time (because I was, but that's a story for a pub) ... It... Sounds like nothing on earth.
Well, actually it sounds like drone-rock made by very stoned indie-dance kids, so it's clearly a Fine Thing.
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Date: 2003-07-28 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 07:20 am (UTC)Very good live, in a oh-my-god-i'm-surrounded-by-stoned-people-again kinda way.
Beaster
Date: 2003-07-28 09:53 am (UTC)Should you have the desire, I could burn you copies of Sugar. Take your pick; "Copper Blue", "Beaster", "File Under Easy Listening" or "Besides."
As far as the New Order ... don't we all have stacks of Joy Division an New Order vinyl in boxes somewhere? I know I do.
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Date: 2003-07-28 11:09 am (UTC)And you're right, the Samurai room is extremely scary & worth a revisit. Sunday afternoon outing after party at Andi&Mels?
Re: Beaster
Date: 2003-07-28 11:51 am (UTC)One day I'll get around to playing the far side.
Copies of the last two - purely for evaluation purposes of course - would be splendid.
JD/NO - Yes. I sometimes forget (briefly) just how important that band was. (Is? Not sure.)
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Date: 2003-07-28 11:58 am (UTC)Outing to Snowshill? Yes. That would seem to be A Plan. Excellent!
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Date: 2003-07-28 12:59 pm (UTC)Right, I'll bring the picnic blanket, you bring the ginger beer.
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Date: 2003-07-28 02:57 pm (UTC)Loop - yes a few of the earlier ones, and on two compilation videos (I also seem to recall one of my friends from back 'ome saying he went to school with one of them).
Spacemen 3 - did lights, got bootleg...
It's really about time I got a new record player.
Re: Loop ++ (as they say)
Date: 2003-07-28 09:37 pm (UTC)that is all i wanted to say.
[np Loop- Black Sun]
fucking fantastico++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Date: 2003-07-28 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-29 12:14 am (UTC)