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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 November 2015 CE
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Edited Nov 29, 2015, 13:53
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 November 2015 CE
Nov 29, 2015, 13:48
Spent a wonderful 7 days hikng around amidst the wild weather of Suffolk (Cheap holiday chalet on Kessingland Beach...wonderfully bleak in winter...beaches are deserted in a VERY M.R Jamesian way).

Anyhows, took about 100 CD's with me and various media devices to play in the car....result....didn't really play anything.

Wind, sea and rain soundtracked my days, with the exception of, and for some reason I can't fathom, I found myself seeking out ...

Thomas Dobly - Golden Age of Wireless
This cornball, one eye on the states, singer songwritery first album really did it for me (well bts of it). Quite liked him as a lad after Windpower came out, but was disappointed by the 1st album not being Windpower MKs 1 to 10. Mind you, B-Side of 'Blinded me With Science track, 'One Of Our Submarines' is still a firm fav' even after all this time. The ridiculous operatic pomposity of 'Cloudburst On Shingle Street' really fitted my sneakey jaunt along the beach to the cold war nuclear testing site on Orford Ness (you can walk along the beach form Aldeburgh to get there, don't need the NT boat from Orford).
Started googling Magnus Pyke (for obvious reasions..."SCIENCE"... whilst away...what a forward thinking and radical dood, he was warning us about the perils of consumer society and making people into automatons way back in 1959 in his book 'Slaves Unaware'.
One Of Our Submarines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWgPTz3FoMU
Airwaves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CL6aJ8YqAM
Cloudburst On Shingle Street - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7HQ1sV11vE

Other serendipitous stuff turned up on shuffle..
On way to Sizewell B---Banshees 'Cities In Dust'
Cities In Dust - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMagNuhLkk

On way back from Dunwhich, Coil's 'The Sea Priestess'
Sea Priestess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyIjyVVjIoc


And finally, on way home from Hol's, Cope live at Phoenix Festival 1993 (what a great gig!, he's on top form, and you can almost feel the joy at the discovery of a new musical direction/muse) You can watch it on U-Twat if you feel like it. Which led onto Peggy and Jehovahkill (Obvs!! butgreat to hear these again, hadn't played them in an ages)
Cope at Phoenix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VC4ns-_eY


Since getting back it's been...

Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Hawklords - R-Evolution
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses/Violator/A Broken Frame
(I'm always amazed at how many DM albums I seem to have 'aquired' over the years...usually down to various charity shop purchaces...mind you, I do have a secret soft spot for them...though wish they'd do less ballady stuff...i drags a bit).

Looking forward to new Backwards vinyl dropping on m doorstep sometime later in the week, and a few extra/unreleased downloads to go along with it (thank you mr Danny Hyde!!).

Gotta say, don't feel like it's Xmas in the cominng weeks at all, though still ridiculously chilled from my hols, and all the tramping about therein.

Have a good week y'all
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