Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to Danielle,
I feel like I'm back on the Elvis Costello discussion list, suddenly...
I'm still trying to work out what some of those letter groupings meant. TAWTWMRS was obvious to even the most casual observer, but HIAWYHYH still keeps me awake at night.
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
There's comfort in knowing that the song that you really like is next up, when you love all the songs on the album.
One of the reasons EMI issued those two boxes of the US Beatles albums on CD a few years back was because American were really unhappy with the fact that the UK albums (the real ones, not the butchered US cut'n'paste jobs) had replaced their much loved versions when they went to compact disc in 1987.
A whole generation thought that Rubber Soul began with I've Just Seen A Face and there was an album in the Fab's canon called Beatles '65.
Large parts of which were drowned in horrendous reverb by some hack called Dave Dexter at Capitol.
It always struck me as odd that most Americans - who bough the Beatles stuff in the millions - had not heard much of the catalogue as it was recorded, or the real albums. Ever.
It's one of the reasons I don't like greatest hits albums
To be fair though, there are a great number of acts who are far better suited to hits albums and should perhaps only be heard that way.
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To be honest, forty years of frenzied record buying means I think I have many/most of the the old albums I may need in this lifetime (and I don't need an extra five CDs of leftover bits of DSOTM), but I will miss the end of perfectly compiled, beautifully packaged, and intelligently annotated compilations in a physical format as they become less and less viable to do.
I've discovered so much stuff that way over the past decade or so, and - being the sort of sucker these are often targeted at - I tend to buy these even when I own almost every track on them just for the package and the words.
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to 3410,
Be honest; you think it's the only real PF album. ;)
Isn't it?
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to Sacha,
before recorded music business models changed mid last century.
later than that - early 70s really. Blame Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles and David Geffen in no particular order.
Isn't there a thread about all this somewhere?
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Hard News: Heads up for music, in reply to recordari,
At the risk of being banished, ever tried playing a Pink Floyd album out of order?
You will have the opportunity of playing Dark Side Of The Moon in one seven hour session shortly.
I do think that the very best PF album, Piper At The Gates of Dawn, works perfectly in any order as long as it finishes with
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Kracklite,
The Moscow Declaration of 1943 was the basis of the Nuremberg trials. By war's end, I think both the UK and the US had moved on from anything but open trial. Stalin, of course, was unable to conceive of a determination that wasn't centred around a show trial and his advocates were furious at the not-guilties and the sentences that didn't include a rope.
Then there is this - just to cloud matters.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Kracklite,
During WWII, capturing Hitler would have been an ideal outcome, but far less practical in reality than assassination
Plenty of pretty heinous Nazis were captured and put on trial.
That said, I can't imagine a Soviet squad entering the bunker and not firing on sight - although I guess that's not the point either.
My understanding though is that there was agreement, reluctant on the part of Churchill and Stalin, to put all Nazis on trial if caught alive - Hitler included.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Roger,
I quite enjoyed Boris Johnson's contribution
From that:
Though a New York jury would certainly have sent him down, they don't have the death penalty there – and so his place of incarceration would have become a shrine
If OBL was to have been tried in the US, I'd argue it would have been under several Federal statutes - piracy, kidnapping, terror, conspiracy are just the tip - and the Federal Government does have the death penalty, and uses it.
NY State would have to wait its turn.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Kracklite,
That was incredible, thank you.