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Martin, I totally agree with your analysis. I was about to post my thoughts before I'd read your last comments. I thought exactly the same when I first heard 'Metanym' - a good close to the CO collection as well.
I would further like to add that what is of interest to me is if some of the ideas that were coming up around the time of the original CO stuff - that up til now only survived on the bootlet from the Shrewsbury gig in 87 - are explored on MLC. There were some very different directions on some of those tracks, even a Japanese/theme from David Lloyd George (was it called Chia Mi?)/Forbidden Colours type piece. When it was posted that John has been working on some of the instrumentals for a while, I did hope that this is the case. However, what is great about his continuous output is that you'll hope a certain thread emerges on an album, then it doesn't appear and then you'll hear it 'repurposed' into someting else. In a word 'Magnificent'. Quiet Man narrative played to 'My Lost City' in Leeds this year anyone?
Role on the 23rd Feb.
Cheers

Birdsong, could this quote from Camus (which I spotted inside the booklet to Scott 4, earlier today ) sum up what’s going on:

“A man’s work is nothing but his slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

As John continues to successfully realize the different avenues of his creativity the fundamental 'image/message' of his work over these last 30 years will possibly emerge as a revealing statement to whatever unconscious motivation has generated this lifelong output.

Excellent. Sounds about right to me

Thanks

The both tracks are brilliant!

Looking forward listening to the hole CD....!

I don't think you'll get much sound out of the CD's hole.

There's always one, isn't there?

Why yes, they have to have one or you wouldn't be able to play them

Ah, think there is more chance to listen to the whole than the hole of the CD...

I thought perhaps you were outing yourself as a Courtney Love fan and meant "Live Through This" -- easily the best Hole CD, just not sure what it had to do with John Foxx!