rendezvous wrote:
. . . you have heard EVERYTHING I love in such a short space of time, and without the media access we brits had too.....
Man, to have that innocent access again, that instant electric blood rush...relating to something that feels like it was made just for you.
Man, to have that innocent access again, that instant electric blood rush...relating to something that feels like it was made just for you.
I wanted to expand a little bit on this very interesting comment. It was a crazygreat way to experience those first listens via YouTube, since I was taking each song individually, having no idea what I was doing and no sense at all of discography or timeline. It became a four-hour session, just taking whatever popped up in that sidebar and listening with a topnotch headset, so yeah, electric blood rush is right. My first listen of Beauty Queen was on the headphones and I literally gasped at the end when BOOM I was dumped off the cliff into total silence.
(Which I loved. So audacious of them. I actually thought the headset had cut out.) To say nothing of all the visual theatricality, the vocal adventures - holy harmonicas, Batman! In those four initial hours I covered quite a few of the covers, some of the Peel sessions, zigged over to Avalon, zagged back to Musikladen '74, beamed forward to The Right Stuff and Limbo, back to Bitter's End and sideways to If it Takes All Night, and so on. I continued in this manner for a few weeks before I ever looked at discography or history, only because I didn't want to interrupt the sense of total immersion.
And so, I never heard any of it in album form, it was all willynilly grab-and-go, whatever showed up in the list was what I jumped into. I was having so much fun with this method that when the sidebar did present me with full album lists I avoided them and moved on to the next standalone song.
Since then I have, naturally, listened to all eight original RM LPs as one would normally, and, I guess, about 70% of the BF records. But I'll never forget those first few weeks of random ecstasy.
Sinead O'Connor and This Mortal Coil have also covered it beautifully.
