Half a percent

I'd really like to find a copy of PWEI covering "Everything That Rises Must Converge."

I've heard it once, and I know where a single copy resides, but it's nowhere I can get, and wasn't for sale, and I wouldn't steal from a radio station, no matter how much I might covet their records.

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Would MP3 do, or is this vinyl-lust?

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Oh, MP3 would definitely do. I've just never seen it in any other format, and it seemed unlikely that anyone would have encoded their vinyl...

That said, my actual answer is "Yes, please." 8)

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Ok, bother me at hirez (at) bratcave (dot) org and I'll put it on the encoding pile.

(Yes, I am slowly working through the bits of record collection that will never see the light of MP3 by other (CD) means.)

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reddragdiva

When I get the 120GB music bucket I have my eye on, I will be giving you a yell. Yes indeed.

(I still want one of these. Oh yessss.)

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Right then. Contents of both EPs cracked & trained. Email for p/w details.

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zotz

In theory it's on "Now for a feast", but not on my copy. Maybe it's a CD-only thing.

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zotz

You could try Amazon. They may have a copy.

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ciphergoth.livejournal.com

Not on my CD copy either.

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zotz

A different discog says that it's on the Love Missile 1-11 12". I'll have a look when I get back. Assuming I can find it.

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It says "everything that rises, new version" on the Love Missile F1-11 Designer Grebo Megamix Version (12").

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I've only ever seen that single on vinyl...

I've checked CD releases, but they didn't seem to have it.

If it's on CD in the UK, CURSE YOU! Yet another way in which British music releases are VASTLY SUPERIOR to those in the US!

Alas, for I live in a benighted third-world country.

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I got it when it first came out...it's got a black and white cover, and also has a version of Orgone Accumulator on the B-side and 2 versions of F1-11 on the A-side. And no I'm not selling it :) I have no idea whether it ever got onto a CD though.

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... And a storming version of 'Like an angel'. (I'm not selling mine, either)

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That's not on the one I've got - is that on the original release? (which I don't have, black & red cover IIRC?)...and was that a cover version of a song by the same name by The Mighty Lemon Drops or something completely different?

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http://pweination.org/product/discog/bf.html appears to show that you are correct.

I'd better hit the PWEIpile this evening and check the authoritative vinyl.

Yes, it was a cover. (given the PWEI 12" was called 'the covers EP'...) Another fine 80s record that doesn't get played anymore.

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zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com

Another fine 80s record that doesn't get played anymore.

Indeed, why is there room for the likes of bloody Sinitta and AHa at 80s nights but not for any good music from the 80s?

</preaching to the converted>

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I wouldn't know. Or rather, I would.

I'd guess that the numbers of 'cheese or death' people and Hardcore Peelites are about the same. Both are outnumbered by the set of people who go along to School Disco and its analogs who just want 'a bit of a giggle'. So what you get at an 80s night is about six hours of '80s greatest hits' compilations bolted together, because that'll keep most people happy. If the DJs stray into serious cheese territory, nobody really notices because no bugger can remember what the hell charted anyway.

However, if things become a little more Peel-friendly, people start moaning about it being 'just another bloody goth night'. Which is the fault of goffnites in general for leaning on the Usual Suspects of 80s floorfillers. For instance, I understand that Ian Carter's April set @ Laughtons didn't best please the cheeselets because it was solid alternachart (ie, bands you'd see on ToTP and the NME) stuff.

Personally, I can't think of a DJ who's more likely to keep me on the floor well past the point of collapse than young Ian. But that's probably because we both hold 'Male Stripper' and 'Transmission' in equally high regard.

Anyway. I look forward to the upcoming alterna-80s night here in Bristol in a couple of weeks. Sounds like it's going to be mostly t-shirt indie, but that's no bad thing at all.

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zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com

I understand why it happens in normal 80s nights, but it's when it happens at the likes of Laughtons and Assimilation I don't get. Mind you, I think most modern 'goths' aren't really in it for the music and the ones that are don't seem to be into any kind of music that resembles what I knew as goth anyway.

The only kind of cheese I like is the sort that melts nicely on toast.

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Me either. (Just viewed what Assimilation setlists are available. Christ.)

Our views correspond strongly in this regard.

The thing is that all of this '80s shite is still shite' makes me go entirely non-linear. I'll never be able to listen to the awful racket that 'goths' think is appropriate for an 80s night, and while some of the people who DJ such things are friends, I still want to jump up and down on their CDs in a frenzy of righteous hatred.

So I'd better leave it there before I start throwing things.

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I look forward to the upcoming alterna-80s night here in Bristol in a couple of weeks

yuz, who knows, maybe it will cause a revolt. or it will if i have anything to do with it ;)

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Ooo... Going to bring along some odd records and demand Ant plays them? I may join you in that endeavour, then there'll be two people for a surly crowd to pitch bottles at.

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I'd be lying if I said I hadn't already suggested it to him (on both counts)...

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You're just trying to get me into trouble.

Oh, and it's a '68 or '69 440 Dodge Challenger.

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You're just trying to get me into trouble.

Qui, moi? I'm innocent.

Oh, and it's a '68 or '69 440 Dodge Challenger.

A classic.

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of course, in case of doubt, one could always contact the expert at http://www.pwei.net/ ;)

the song of same name by TMLD appears to have been written by them i.e. by TMLD

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...I played it. Once. Then I left the school and the station and was sad.

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zotz

I am reliably informed that turntables are still available in the US, despite recent legislation.

And yes, it seems to be (in two different version) on both of the Love Missile F1-11 12"s. I only have what sounds like the same one as JHR.

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While I may be able to acquire a turntable with some ease (or fix one of the two or three broken ones in the basement), a copy of that single, vinyl or otherwise, has eluded me.

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