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21st May 2021, 9:09 am | #21 | |
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23rd May 2021, 12:06 am | #22 |
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Thanks Malcolm I will check that out. That Delia Doc seems great to me but the usual purist suspects always turn out to criticise. The first 10minutes isn't nearly enough to catch on really. Dylan material is all over the schedules as well. Hear today's "Dinner with Bob" [Radio 4] and order a Shrimp Curry. [Ian Curtis from "Love Actually]" A perfect and very funny portrait of us obsessive men of a certain age They booed Dylan because he went "electric" [not folk] and now Delia isn't technical enough
Dave W Half the people can be part right all of the time Some of the people can be all right part of the time But all the people can't be all right all the time I think Abraham Lincoln said that. Bob Dylan Last edited by dave walsh; 23rd May 2021 at 12:28 am. |
27th May 2021, 5:20 am | #23 |
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In the late 1960s John Peel used to play tracks from an LP called "White Noise". This was on Island records and featured the work of Delia Derbyshire and David Vorhaus. Original copies of this can be expensive, but it's also available on a CD. I had the record when I was a teenager (a long time ago).
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27th May 2021, 6:10 am | #24 |
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The LP was titled "An Electric Storm" by the White Noise.
I've still got my original copy. One whole side is a car-crash set to grim music, which is a bit of an acquired taste. The track "Here come the fleas" has the most amazing 3-second burst of high speed music concrete in it. The whole LP is worth it just for that! Vorhaus did a couple more LPs as The White Noise, I don't think Delia was involved in them. Do I have to up my security? It's sitting next to an original "In the Court of the Crimson King" You could say that "An electric storm" was a lot of tape in serial form, while the King Crimson was a lot of tape in parallel form (Mellotron) David
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27th May 2021, 7:43 am | #25 |
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I have this album, it's certainly an odd one. I play it when I get down. Luckily that's not too often. Can't quite suss it out, is it supposed to make you feel down, it has an eerie theme all the way through. One track is full of echo's, the word hell is in the title. Most disconcerting, headphones should be avoided.
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27th May 2021, 9:01 am | #26 |
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Cassette copy in player, hot day, windows down, stuck in stop-go traffic, you can really disconcert people around you.... you certainly get funny looks.
It's not the sort of music you'd expect from the creator of Dr Who's upbeat driving march. For some reason, my ipod on random play can always tell when someone is in earshot and either this crops up or else the rude ones from a CD of Monty Python songs. David
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27th May 2021, 9:57 am | #27 | |
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27th May 2021, 11:25 am | #28 |
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WOULD YOU MIND BEIN' QUIET IN DERE? is the line I quote most often from An Electric Storm. I've got a copy of the LP and it is a fascinating listen. It fits in somewhere between Brian Eno and Alan Vega/Suicide, and still sounds fresh. I think the part that dates it most is the vocalists' accents - they sound quite '60s!
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27th May 2021, 4:33 pm | #29 | |
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28th May 2021, 12:41 am | #30 |
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An Electric Storm was my introduction to Delia Derbyshire. At that time I didnt know she did Dr Who.
I still have my original LP in perfect condition. As stated, the flip side is a bit of an acquired taste. I have understood it to be a motorcycle crash rather than car crash, but that's bye the bye. A Black Mass in Hell is even more "bizarre". Joe Joe |