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Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

Gary Numan: Telekon

Depeche Mode, live from 1980. I can't help thinking "Speak and Spell" should have been a much better album. For a start include "Dreaming of Me", "Ice Machine", "Shout", the instrumental of "Any Second Now". Then include "Television Set", "Addiction", "Tomorrow's Dance" and "Reason Man". Then lose "What's Your Name" (the worst DM track ever IMO), "Any Second Now (voices)" and possibly "Boys Say Go" and even "Just Can't Get Enough". But hey, that's all history - I should really move on!

Kraftwerk: Electric Cafe

I haven't played this album for a few years & was surprised to hear how fresh it still sounds, which is quite rare of an album that was released in 1986.

It's Kraftwerk at their most symphonic.

Garry, I've sent you a message.

My fave is 'Eat To The Beat' - I can't comment on 'Plastic Letters' because I've never owned a copy, but I thought 'Parallel Lines' was rather tame & lightwieght in places - particularly 'Sunday Girl' which is really drippy.

On 'ETTB' I love Clem Burke's drumming on the whole album. Union City Blue, Victor, Dreaming, Accidents Never Happen, are superb, but stand-out track is Atomic. It has a special place in my heart because the 12" was bought for me by my then girlfriend Rebecca, who was the first girl I fell in love with. She was blonde too. The music & especially the lyrics "make it magnificent."

Will check my inbox at home tonight.

Garry

I'm currently listening to the free copy of 'Oxygene' - Not sure what I think of all this free album business (even if by buying the paper, I have bought into it) - it doesn't detract or cheapen the music at all, but it is a bit odd – giving away albums as if they were plastic astronauts in the bottom of a cereal packet.

Is the album still a work of art or a product or both? How would you feel if ‘Cathedral Oceans’ came free with your Super Soaraway Sun? Or am I just behaving like a snob?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm….

Cack! I forgot to buy the damned paper....
(Too busy installing a tumbledryer in a tiny cupboard with a door opening smaller than the machine. Above the washing machine. And I did it, too. Single-handedly. RAH!)

Hang on.. Cathedral Oceans in the Sun? Jolly Spiffing Idea, what?! (the Sun is cheap)

Actually, it'd fit with the customer profile of something more upmarket.

The Jam : Live Jam

was quite disappointed by it