It’s been a beautiful day today and just for a change the sun really has been out warming the place up. Nicely timed the postman dropped off a CD that I’d been mulling over for a bit, eventually crumbling, I now confess to getting Empire Of The Sun:
Walking On A Dream.
It all started a few weeks back when I half registered what seemed like a cheesy looking CD cover on display at a store counter, and what I though were two guys looking vaguely like stand-in’s for the big haired Tiger-tamer duo Siegfried and Roy, and a fantasy city in the background behind them that could easily be the Las Vegas hotels, why, there’s even a tiger running across water, (sounds familiar).
Intrigued, I went online and became instantly hooked on the videos, falling in love with the look. There’s a fab’ illustrated booklet with the CD, which carries through the style/concept of Empire Of The Sun, both guys looking like actors in a Baz Luhrmann film, or escapees from Channel Five’s ridiculous teen glam fantasy ‘The Tribe’ (a low budget TV show where hair and make-up became a post Armageddon statement for the only survivors, the under 20’s
).
I bought this CD for some great songs that are on the first part of it, and two thirds of the album is consistently good and enjoyable, but the last two or three tracks sadly seem to completely lose the plot.
So head held up high, I’m going to state that listening to EOTS just makes me feel like I’m sixteen again, and the world is a place where we should all go out dressed like 70’s Bowie everyday, no matter what the weather…
