We were on 🔥
Have a listen and see what you think!
It also seems especially apposite this weekend: life goes on and on, life is transition … Indeed!!
A bit 1980s perhaps & overshadowed by their hits off the subsequent album, but Mr Mister’s I Wear the Face is a hidden gem- Partners in Crime reminds one of my favourite songs ever:
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The only decent Christmas song there has ever been! Evocations of childhood, both literal and metaphorical… and here’s hoping, for today… m.youtube.com/watch?v=FhzN...
It’s good… a seminal moment for me certainly, but nope! Rage in Eden every time…
So what does he think is the best, out of curiosity?!
That’s a veritable dream team, Jem, as far as I’m concerned, to which you heartily belong! 🤘🏻
Haha I’m seeing more clearly my true influences coming out, though it’s not really a surprise. And pur-lease Tangerine Dream and Conny Plank every time if we’re going to go to Germany!
We need to use this properly next time!
He was quite a trooper last weekend! He looked comfy too on my Novation SL Mk3 🤘🏻
Ah but I’ll just tell him how bloody marvellous The Golden Section is and he’ll be happy as Larry, whoever the fuck Larry actually is!
Nah, it’s good album, but nowhere near as good as Systems of Romance, which needed to be made so that Rage in Eden could be.
Besides, you know how Black Opal likes a good sequencer line? Now you know what inspired them 😝
Today’s album evokes my first ever concert, Gaumont Ipswich 10/10/81, Midge Ure’s birthday as it happens! Their finest album by far, loved it at the time, have never wavered from that love. So pleased with its reappraisal, cos of Steven Wilson’s recent remix. Wondrous! m.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cC...
Today I played an album for the first time in ca 30 years, having bought it just after getting my first CD player. Was underwhelmed by it at the time, but I think now it’s arguably their most intriguing & interesting album of all. My tastes may have matured, it seems! m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Zg...
Haha 3 LPs only from the UK
Been quite a week since getting back from writing & demoing new songs for Black Opal with @tristibee.bsky.social & @154wire.bsky.social & Gary Seymour. Perhaps indicative of my mood, playing this album tonight; Carnage Visors = their prog moment? Discuss! m.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDu...
He did a sterling job!
This gem turned up today! I’ve been saving up to buy it and now it’s here!
‘Though paradise is lost, we will pay the price, but we will not count the cost’: may be controversial to post this (not least if my band mates see this!) but it sums up how I feel today about my experience of adoption… and it’s also the best song this band ever made m.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMT...
Oooh I just realised that my own band meets the criteria #Black Opal
#BandsWithBlackInTheirName
#WonkyMusic
#LookingForwardTo BandPractice
Black Opal - Smoke and Mirrors
… and we rock like it’s 2024!
Literally made my first post here while playing this very album!!
Finally sorting out my profile here with this fine album playing - great keyboard sounds in here!
