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02-07-2020, 19:04
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Lady Gaga's new album came out on cassette a couple weeks ago too.
To be honest... I think it's just a way of getting an extra few quid from a technology that must be incredibly cheap to use
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02-07-2020, 19:46
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I'm liking the new single as well, sounds like a celebration of jara's life and a nice counterpoint to the arrival of pinochet's military coup in there'll come a war.
The documentary about jara's life and murder on netflix might be of interest to some - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80191048
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02-07-2020, 20:02
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One thing Vinyl has over the cassette is that the cover art is central and big, you could even put it on a wall if you wish. While I have some nostalgia for tapes, I struggle to think of any reason why anyone would want them today.
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02-07-2020, 20:11
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I don't understand the trend for bringing back cassettes either, must be a gen z thing i suppose. I've never had any nostalgia for what format something comes on but while i can see the appeal of vinyl, cassettes really were absolute shit.
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02-07-2020, 20:25
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This is all sounding rather wonderful to me so far. I've had The Boy From Plantation's tune completely stuck in my head from the first time I heard it. JDB is a professional ear-worm wrangler.
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02-07-2020, 20:30
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I fear that I will never sing the chorus properly as right now all I keep singing is "Victor Lidio Javi Martinez" (football fans will understand).
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02-07-2020, 21:05
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Well it would have to be next week. Can't see it selling out by then. Cassette? Ah, cassettes, cassettes, cassettes...
They are more for nostalgia. Everything is CD for me. Might even be the first thing I ever buy on Google Play despite this being 2016 model! But I like the physical insurance. Whatever resell value will disappear as I just know if I get the cassette and CD, at one point I'll do the high speed dubbing and twin deck paused, so it plays at a faster pace YouTube playback speeds just don't capture? Still haven't listened to the new song! Had a Zoom poetry thing, had to recharge this and wash hair. Loving the store front. Typical! Online and nothing happens and gets dragged out. Log off to do something and it all explodes!!
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02-07-2020, 21:13
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Think I will get this album on blue vinyl and then cd. Though I don't see anything wrong with cassettes. I also think some people still have car radio cassettes, though possibly not the vandal tories James mentions.
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02-07-2020, 22:26
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Has anyone read the review of EIE in Q and if so how many stars did it get?
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02-07-2020, 22:27
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Just realised what The Boy From The Plantation reminds me of - His Last Painting, it's probably just the drum sound and beat. Having said that, it's infinitely better than that song, which I think is complete wank.
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02-07-2020, 22:36
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02-07-2020, 22:37
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02-07-2020, 22:38
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Damn those chord changes in the chorus of Boy From The Plantation, carrying those lyrics like the fucking WIND.
I must ask -- in risk of bringing a bit of negativism into the conversation -- is anyone else getting the question "why don't manics songs sound like this any more?" I like the last manics album, surprisingly, and Futurology I even liked a lot. but this, to me, is actual widescreen melancholia. I must say patric jones' lyrics are both Nicky at his best, and very refreshing at the same time, I'm even a bit... worried about how much I like them with JDB's voice. And the musical touchstones here too -- His Last Painting, as someone said. The chrisp, austere yet emotional acoustic guitars. Then I'd also say Richard Nixon and Everyone Knows No One Cares about the historic-ominous feeling of the last single... These are some of my favourite musical Manics moments, what they evolved into ca 2001-2004. And UNBELIEVABLY UNDERUSED after. I've been feelin' like an orphan longing for that sound again, going by how little James thinks of it himself. I got a little whiff of it with Futurology, but that was the window left open -- this is wind gushing down my throat "I'm flying, Jack!" style. These two songs are 100% a bridge between Lifeblood and Know Your Enemy. Like, if songs like Happy Ending and 4Ever Delayed got the "huge production" treatment, you know. Last edited by Marat Sar; 02-07-2020 at 22:44.
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