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I've been having some excellent luck record-hunting lately. Too excellent for my wallet but I do it anyway. This record is positively fantastic. It's really vibrant and full of life and energy. It also features a set of very young Pointer Sisters doing backing vocals on a couple of songs. I'm not sure it's eadily available in any form but vinyl so I'm going to need to rip it to something more durable (FLAC comes to mind). Software recommendations are gratefully accepted. Actually, I have a whole stack of old records that I'd like to preserve digitally and that I suspect are hard to find otherwise (like a 1966 re-release of Rare Blues of the Twenties, Vol.2). If I can manage to rip it I'll post a sample.
While making dinner last night I was listening to the first cd of a 4 disc Pink Floyd retrospective called Total Eclipse. I got it many years ago and it attempts to use unreleased (live, studio, etc) versions of as much of
the music as possible as well as hitting a lot of the really obscure stuff. The first cd is the earliest stuff, startin around 1965. There's a song on it calld Point me at the Sky that is described as follows at the above link:
Point Me At The Sky (Waters) Their fifth single, released on December 17th, 1968 was produced by Norman Smith. It failed so badly in the charts that the Floyd did not release another single until "Another Brick In The Wall - Part II" in 1979. The promotional film for "Point Me At The Sky" features the Floyd flying in a yellow biplane, and photos from this promo film appear on the double compilation album "A Nice Pair". As he did with "Apples and Oranges", Roger Waters defended the song, blaming its failure on the poor production.
There's a line in the song that goes "and if I survive till 2005..." I'd never really noticed it before as 2005 approached and was left behind but Syd Barrett's death last week made it really stand out. The song is done by Roger Waters but I still found it very poignant.
Shine on, Syd.
