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What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
In the Box this week we have the fantastic Disgraceful, recorded by Dubstar in the mid 90s.
This is actually one of my tape purchases about which I'm prepared to hold up my head and say it's a damn good album. Melancholy, female-voiced pop which has actually stood the test of time pretty well. If you remember Not So Manic Now hanging around in the charts and airwaves for ever then that's actually a reasonably representative sample, although it is one of those songs I grew to hate through over-exposure.
The album has a wonderful, consistent feel to it throughout, and would make a fine addition to any record shelf. Go on, you can buy it secondhand on Amazon for 90p and add a slice of gentle, electronic dance-pop to your life.
The Day I See You Again is an album track; it's not one of the most cheerful songs on the album. I'm a big fan of it, though:
Dubstar - The Day I See You Again [link expired]
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[Disclaimer: I'm only just working out this tape-to-mp3 lark, and I've got the recording levels all wrong and this mp3 seems very quiet. It's also a bit mono, possibly because the right channel of my amp seems a bit stuffed at present. Yes, I could have just posted the nice shiny mp3 I have from the CD I subsequently bought, but I feel that wouldn't be in the spirit of the thing.]
Late addition: Wikipedia would have me believe that there may be a new album in the offing. I'd be curious to hear that.
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
In the Box this week we have the fantastic Disgraceful, recorded by Dubstar in the mid 90s.
This is actually one of my tape purchases about which I'm prepared to hold up my head and say it's a damn good album. Melancholy, female-voiced pop which has actually stood the test of time pretty well. If you remember Not So Manic Now hanging around in the charts and airwaves for ever then that's actually a reasonably representative sample, although it is one of those songs I grew to hate through over-exposure.
The album has a wonderful, consistent feel to it throughout, and would make a fine addition to any record shelf. Go on, you can buy it secondhand on Amazon for 90p and add a slice of gentle, electronic dance-pop to your life.
The Day I See You Again is an album track; it's not one of the most cheerful songs on the album. I'm a big fan of it, though:
Dubstar - The Day I See You Again [link expired]
[Poll #1115578]
[Disclaimer: I'm only just working out this tape-to-mp3 lark, and I've got the recording levels all wrong and this mp3 seems very quiet. It's also a bit mono, possibly because the right channel of my amp seems a bit stuffed at present. Yes, I could have just posted the nice shiny mp3 I have from the CD I subsequently bought, but I feel that wouldn't be in the spirit of the thing.]
Late addition: Wikipedia would have me believe that there may be a new album in the offing. I'd be curious to hear that.
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Date: 2008-01-07 12:17 pm (UTC)1 I originally wrote that as "EMI felt it to be obscene", but that conjures up quite the wrong image...