Originally posted by MikeF:
[b]core memory please perform some diagnostic tests on your RAM, reboot, and relisten to The Golden Section[/b]
Eeeeeeeee, yes I’ve also had my email saying its been despatched, I wonder how many more of us like me are going to retune their frequencies to the complete sounds of GS sometime this week for the first time in oh, a very, very, long time.
With all the other CD’s turning up in the post together its going to be hard to decide what to listen to first, its too easy for me to go with the Garden, so I think that out of the ‘3’ I’m going to go with GS first, give it my all…
Originally posted by Lele:
the lyrics started to turn into schoolboy exercise-book scribbles
Originally posted by Birdsong:
The lyrics on TGS are superb - as always
Its interesting that there’s been a wide gap of opinion expressed about the lyrics, for me I’m somewhere in the middle about this.
I love the lyrics on quite a few songs, such as: Ghosts On Water, Sitting At The Edge Of The World, Your Dress, and even the singles around the period: Woman On A Stairway, Dance With Me. But I’m progressively less convinced on a couple of the other tracks, and I’m pretty sure that if other people also have mixed feelings then they are likely to say just the opposite about the few tracks I’ve mentioned!
Originally posted by Alex S:
On TGS, John really sang. It sounds like he put heart and soul into those vocals
I would have to agree with you despite my ‘tiny’ lack of interest about certain things inherent in GS, but even at the time it felt to me that vocally he really was ‘going for it’. There’s an excited rush of enthusiasm that comes flooding out from John, even on the tracks I’m not at all keen on!
Originally posted by Alex S:
The title of the album is a very interesting one. I always felt frustrated that this was not expanded on by means of a title track
It’s a great title, and its possible to feel that you can read something of this in a few tracks, the idea of a hidden perfection and balance being present in life, the contentment of reaching the end in Twilights Last Gleaming, or the wonder in just Sitting At The Edge Of The World. On the other hand, I think I recall reading at the time that it’s how John was feeling in his private life, and it just fitted his state of mind.
Originally posted by Birdsong:
When you think of the amazing single covers he put together for [b]Your Dress and Endlessly it seems this cover photo was a real opportunity missed[/b]
If only we had his collaged art on the cover. Was he under some kind of external pressure to get his face on the front, to appear less mysterious to any new ‘80’s pop audience getting on board? Having chanced upon the vinyl in the charity shop recently, (my original is safely in a box in the wardrobe!), I was looking at the inner sleeve and there is a great B/W pic of him, I just wish that one had been used, with a golden tint of course, instead of the slick one.
