The Day the Music Became Very Ill
I forgot, until today’s house-cleaning efforts reminded me, that I was going to publish a list of all the vinyl records that I had to throw out because of the Great Mold Invasion. Here is the list. I can’t believe I fitted all that into one plastic file crate; if the mold hadn’t got them maybe warping from compression would have. Most of these are hopefully still available in some form or other, at least the ones I have bolded which are losses I particularly regret. (Opinions on the dreadfulness of my musical tastes of previous decades will be ignored.)
Update, much later: some of the bands on my list are so obscure I was sure no one would remember who they were. Sleep of Reason was a local Miami band; later Oscar Herrera would join Black Tape For a Blue Girl, which went on to somewhat more fame (of the indie-goth variety). It looks like Sleep of Reason’s work is still available. $1.98? Of course, there’s a $4.00 shipping/handling fee, which brings the cost up to the average retail store clearance bin price. I think I can afford that. Click.
November 6th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
Deja vu discarded unlamented? Surely not.
Captain Fantastic etc., great album.
List indicates you’d have to be a world authority on Simply Red.
Mould attack, you say? The trials of life in the tropics.
I spent time in Papua New Guinea, used to find the climate very hard on leather (shoes etc). Left alone for a month in a wardrobe they’d turn blue/green and brittle, before crumbling to dust.
No such problem here though, almost desert weather.
Cheers,
Olrence.
November 6th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
“List indicates you’d have to be a world authority on Simply Red.”
I’m not sure why you’d say that. There were no Simply Red albums listed, and I don’t have any of their stuff in my records that remain. I know who they are, but I wasn’t — and still am not — into them.
November 7th, 2005 at 12:19 am
O’ course I meant Simple Minds, of which I am evidently one.
Sorry, sunlight on screen (*and between ears).
Shall try harder to pay attention to what’s right in front of me.
Sheepishly,
Olrence.
November 7th, 2005 at 12:26 am
There will be a quiz!
November 8th, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Sleep of Reason, eh? I remember seeing one of their singles (perhaps their only single) in the Peaches on US 1, near a Cichlids album. For many years, I had a live tape of another local outfit, The Front. Disappeared about 5 moves ago.
November 9th, 2005 at 11:21 am
Peaches… the Front… good lord, that takes me back. I used to have a bunch of Peaches crates. (Remember those? They were a status symbol!)