dear all.
i realise that i have gone quiet of late.
i have my reasons, and unlike other blogs out there where the minutiae of life are revealed, they will stay my reasons.
subsequently, in recent times, the ireallylovemusic hq playlist has reverted back to one of my comfort zones.
i think a quick scan of the current playlist will explain more :
– heroes
– lodger
– low
– scary monsters
– 1. outside
– earthling
– heathen
– reality
– hours ..
– black tie white noise
etc etc
yes, the david bowie catalogue is providing me with the all important musical back bone of late.
i can’t really recall the exact moment i came to realise that i was in possession of every studio album by the man (well, all but never let me down, but it’s only a matter of time befiore i succumb given that its been a while since any new product meaning us fans get desperate), but the story started back in ’79 when a friend played me lodger.
i’ll admit i wasn’t initially taken with it, but something about its weird mutant funk and off the wall instrumentation meant that my interest was piqued to such a degree that when the pocket money allowed i would pick up cheap rca cassette reissues and slowly but surely ended up a fan of david bowie.
i am not a hardcore collector as that would be impossible, and so beyond the now out of print sound and vision editions of his catalogue with extra tracks that i always have within easy reach, i have little that can be classed as “rare”.
however, there is little nugget in the archive that i thought ok to drop on the wire to keep things ticking over until i get my arse back into gear.
ok, it’s not a officially a david bowie track as the whole men-with-suits-do-grunge was billed as tin machine, but i think it was clear to all, that this was definitely a project for david bowie to reconnect with his musical muse having wandered way off course with his bleached mullet and glass spiders.
the 2 studio albums released by tin machine may not have flown off the shelves en masse, and nor did many critics fall under their spell, but i think history has been kinder than many would have thought.
mainly due to the appearance of some quality songs such as baby universal, you belong in rock-n-roll, and the rather lovely amlapura, appearing here in its “indonesian version” as found on a 4 track sampler that i once found languishing in an unloved promo bin.
oh the memories of such pleasures…
mp3 : tin machine – amlapura (indonesian version)
more detail : here