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ventaOn Fridays this year, we ask...
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:
Levellers - Zeitgeist
I feel vaguely as if I'm cheating this week, because I didn't buy Zeitgeist in a charity-shop bargain-rummage. I bought it new, shortly after it came out. In a proper record shop, and everything.
It was £3, which at the time lead me to think it must be a poorly-selling album. With hindsight I suspect it was just that tape was dead and they couldn't get rid of them quickly enough.
I was a little underwhelmed by it: I was predisposed to think it was a bad album and (I suspect) my main issue with it was that it wasn't Levelling The Land. Wikipedia tells me that Zeitgeist "reached #1 in the United Kingdom album charts, making it the band's most successful album." which I find vaguely astonishing. It's not an album I've ever felt made much impression, and while songs from Levelling The Land still regularly find their way into Leverllers' setlists today, very few of the songs from this album seem to get played.
This album reminds me of my second year at University, sitting in the little room off the kitchen which was my bedroom in the flat we rented on Iffley Rd. I've barely listened to it since, and actually only found it by chance this weekend when looking for something else. It's actually rather better than I've come to believe in the time since my second year.
The big single from this album was Hope Street, which I never really got on well with. Leave This Town is full-on Levellers raucous violins and yelling, and I'm a big fan of it.
Levellers - Leave This Town [link expired]
I'm afraid I still haven't worked round the turned-up-to-11 sound quality on these tape-mp3s.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
broadmeadow is advising me on how to get rid of hiss, though, so I'll try and sort that out for next week. Who knows, by the end of the year I might even be producing half-decent mp3s.
[Poll #1131230]
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:
Levellers - Zeitgeist
I feel vaguely as if I'm cheating this week, because I didn't buy Zeitgeist in a charity-shop bargain-rummage. I bought it new, shortly after it came out. In a proper record shop, and everything.
It was £3, which at the time lead me to think it must be a poorly-selling album. With hindsight I suspect it was just that tape was dead and they couldn't get rid of them quickly enough.
I was a little underwhelmed by it: I was predisposed to think it was a bad album and (I suspect) my main issue with it was that it wasn't Levelling The Land. Wikipedia tells me that Zeitgeist "reached #1 in the United Kingdom album charts, making it the band's most successful album." which I find vaguely astonishing. It's not an album I've ever felt made much impression, and while songs from Levelling The Land still regularly find their way into Leverllers' setlists today, very few of the songs from this album seem to get played.
This album reminds me of my second year at University, sitting in the little room off the kitchen which was my bedroom in the flat we rented on Iffley Rd. I've barely listened to it since, and actually only found it by chance this weekend when looking for something else. It's actually rather better than I've come to believe in the time since my second year.
The big single from this album was Hope Street, which I never really got on well with. Leave This Town is full-on Levellers raucous violins and yelling, and I'm a big fan of it.
Levellers - Leave This Town [link expired]
I'm afraid I still haven't worked round the turned-up-to-11 sound quality on these tape-mp3s.
broadmeadow is advising me on how to get rid of hiss, though, so I'll try and sort that out for next week. Who knows, by the end of the year I might even be producing half-decent mp3s.[Poll #1131230]
