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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Gimme a Tim.../Japan |
| Date | Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:39:12 -0400 |
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At 01:11 AM 8/4/2004 -0400, Jaimie Vernon wrote:
>>I still consider Tim Horton to be hockey's premier cultural touchstone.
>>Screw the Leafs, gimme an apple fritter and a large coffee to go.
>
>What, no Stan Mikita's?!? :-)
Okay, has *everyone* just re-watched WAYNE'S WORLD or something? This is
the third reference to Stan Mikita's someone I know has made since Charity
and I got the movie from Netflix a couple weeks ago.
During this ongoing debate tonight, I've been rather obsessively listening
to two new Newbury Comics purchases, recent UK reissues of Japan's two
classic albums, GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS and TIN DRUM. Nothing at all to
do with the Beatles -- more like what would have happened if Eno had
launched a revolution and taken over complete creative control of Roxy
Music -- but I can't remember when I last listened to these albums (several
years, at least) and, as always, I'm just incredibly struck by their sheer
perfection. These albums are really the pinnacle of the artsier end of UK
post-punk, and yet they actually had some songs that worked as singles too,
like "Still Life In Mobile Homes" and "The Art of Parties." Highly
recommended, if you've never heard them, and at least at Newbury Comics,
nice-priced: $11.88 for the single-disc GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS (with
three bonus tracks from the "Taking Islands In Africa" single, still my
favorite thing this band ever did) and $16.99 for the two-disc TIN DRUM,
which includes the UK-only THE ART OF PARTIES EP as a bonus disc and is
beautifully packaged in a nice little cardboard box.
S
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