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Thanks for the explanation, Newvox. It makes sense now.

Alex, 'We Take Mystery' is definitely a highlight. The bass solo is excellent! 'My Shadow In Vain' is excellent also.

I think Val & Emma Chalmers were Numan's best backing vocalists, of all the girls he used.

To complete the Pearl Jam triple play today....now listening to No Code.

Listen out for one of the crew pretending to 'burp' just before the start of 'Call Out The Dogs' too.

Played Midge Ure - 'Rewind' dvd this afternoon, not a bad sound all in all.
Obviously not like hes Ultravox days, but far better than hes acoustic sets.
The 'Sampled Looped......' is an improvment on the 'Rewind' even further IMO.

Yeah, I have Rewind and it is pretty good. Can't complain though as it is the ONLY Midge dvd I have

not long in from work and tonights/this mornings choice is "Mutter" Rammstein

All 4 vocal albums are worth seeking. All ahead of their time. Brian Eno's first 2 are as quirky as can be but there are techniques used in them that would fully come out to the fore on Another Green World. The track On Some Far Away Beach from Here Come The Warm Jets being one of them.

Taking Tiger Mountain ranks as one of his best, and 3 or 4 four tracks aside, there are some very influential tracks. Third Uncle being one of them as mentioned above. The True Wheel being another, selected by Nick Rhodes and John Taylor for their compilation re The Rum Runner. From the School of Bowie one would draw one's attention to The Great Pretender, one of the first synth pop songs.
Another favourite of mine is Burning Airlines.

Finally, we arrive at the title track at the end of the album, a piano led ballad with a soft bed of electronics, the whole concept emulated by John's Ultravox. This paved way to Another Green World his masterpiece and the rest is history as they say!

Chris

After years searching for a Klaus Dinger album missing from my collection, a copy of Die Engel Des Herrn suddenly appeared on ebay. To my surprise it was a "Buy it Now" for 10 euros approx. It has been well looked after.

DEDH is perhaps his best effort since the last La Dusseldorf album, with the exception of La!Neu?'s Year of the Tiger. He does come up with one of his epic tunes,like Rheinita and Dampfriemen, on the title track. Tschus , in similar vein to Geld from Viva, choruses in brilliant fashion.

Always looking out for rarities from the synth era, in comes one which I had completely forgotten about. Before New Order's Substance, Factory had once released a mini LP titled 1981 - 1982. The CD version carries the same tracks, 5 in total with running time of 30 mins, not a mini LP? This time round,the CD version is described as an EP, perhaps more precise in definition.

Ceremony and In a Lonely Place are left out for the more upbeat/danceable tracks Temptation, Hurt,Everything's Gone Green, Procession and Mesh. All in their original form. A nice collection but....yes, we have here one of New Order's best jokes, where is Cries & Whispers or where is Mesh ? Factory couldn't decide which one is which and instead of intelligently including both, left one of them out. All they needed to do is to go to the Everything's Gone Green 12" and there they are. Like on Substance, Mesh is listed but the track playing is Cries & Whispers !!! When will they ever get it right :rolleyes:

Chris

i'm still not sure which one is mesh and which one is cries & whispers...

right now listening to 'the incredible sound of drum'n'bass mixed by goldie'.

Played the recent Midge Ure dvd today - 'Sampled Looped.....'.

And Queen - 'Queen' and 'Queen 2' on the poddy.

You played what I never got a chance to play today.