Clan Of Xymox - Clan Of Xymox
Ripped from a compact disc album released on 4AD Records (CAD 503 CD) in 1985 to high quality lossless flac audio.1 A Day
2 No Words
3 Stumble And Fall
4 Cry In The Wind
5 Stranger
6 Equal Ways
7 7th Time
8 No Human Can Drown
9 Stranger (Re-mix)
10 A Day (Re-mix)
Link goes awol in two weeks....
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Another CD rip of 192s heading for the bin. You save me SO much effort.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if the BBC Radio 1 'Saturday Live' session ever turned up on disc anywhere? Always like that version of Stranger by my self-taped cassette of that was lost many years before I managed to start digitising those I had left.
- Penguinflight
I have the Peel Session version of Stranger (lossy) and the Subsequent Pleasures CD which has a demo version from memory. I have never come across the Saturday Live session unfortunately.
DeleteYeah, not surprised. SATURDAY LIVE, whilst quite prominently timed, was a weekend show and other kids my age back then had lives. I had John Peel on the weekday evenings and the more interesting radio shows (i.e. half a dozen listeners and two of them were someone’s pet tortoises) on the weekends - when everyone else was out absorbing Vitamin D and getting interesting lower-body rashes.
ReplyDeleteBBC Radio One or not it was effectively relatively obscure, especially as it's time slot was late afternoon/early evening when people were eating or heading out or watching Dr Who. Some of the tracks from Saturday Live Sessions have turned up on legacy releases by what are now considered major artists. But not that many, and some have been bootlegs. I suspect a lot of the session content for the show, not to mention the show itself, suffered from the culture that still existed in the BBC Archive Department even then. Unless specific instructions were given to not touch it, it subsequently got taped over, thrown away or destroyed.
That's actually a terrible shame as, having caught most of the shows, there was some excellent material showing up on there at the time, that luminescent period of 1983 - 1986.
At times when I was digitising my tapes several years ago, I'd fine one or other that I remembered specifically, was missing or worse, physically degraded and unplayable. This was a source of personal disappointment, having dragged the damn things around for twenty plus years at that point and holding expectations of goodies to rediscover and once more enjoy. Was particularly miffed to find only one track from Andy White's session back when he was still calling himself The Ghost Of Electricity, as to my knowledge, the others weren't ever recorded anywhere else on vinyl.
I'm sure we all have stories and instances like this. Perhaps some things are meant to be only experienced at the time. I know a fellow who does one man shows/alternative stand-up; they're very funny, and critically acclaimed. He won't have them video recorded and doesn't revisit them when he's performed a run of them. You either catch them or you don't; a metaphor for life...
- Penguinflight
This 4ad saga is incredible. many thanks once more. I posess a dutch CD containing Subsequent Pleasures plus something called "Clan of Xymox demos" released at Pseudonym records by 1994. Found it amazingly at a rather standard record shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina.¿ is it rare stuff ? if so I may try to find a way to send you a rip of the demos (not easy since I live in Patagonia but I may try). Big kudos form glacier land.
ReplyDeleteSubsequent Pleasures was Xymox's first self released EP back in 1983. There have been a few cd reissues over the years with the demos as extra tracks. I have a copy of this version....
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thanks for enlightening me about this very dear record. I'll recoil back into obscurity and sheep shagging. No one can "outmeister" you. Hope you can come someday and enjoy the music in this landscape. You'll get all the good wine you can take as my thanks for your work.
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