This is a real bit nostalgia for me. Without getting in to my whole musical evolution, this was one of the most influential records from when I first began almost exclusively listening to punk/hardcore/post-punk. One of those records I’d been kicking myself for getting rid of. Found this sealed for like $10 and snappped it up. Gonna do a blog post at some point.
I know I’m not blowing anyone’s mind with these records but holy shit! This 2011 pressing! I had a copy of Quadrophenia I got about a year ago, and it was a fine copy. Somebody had played it a lot. But this pressing showed up at Next Chapter Records in Putney #Vermont, and it is near mint. It sounds so good. A perfect version of this tremendous record.
Got this for a good price recently. I was certainly an Adrian Belew fan in the 80s. Not obsessive, not enough to listen to a Zappa album. But I had a couple of his solo records, that first King Crimson reboot record, saw him in concert on the Lone Rhinoceros tour and with Talking Heads. This record has a Bowie collab, a redo of a Crimson song. All in all, A-.
I think it was @Robotron who was saying that the other day that this was their favorite Bowie album. I saw it was still in print so I ordered it as an early birthday present.
I can’t say I like it more than Low but not a bad cut on this.
This is from my Mastodon boyfriend @Robotron. My copy of this looked clean but had so much surface noise it wasn’t much fun to listen to. I tried to relplace it via Discogs and it didn’t go well. So Robotron hooked me up. Sounds great. Side 1 is a perfect album side of rock ‘n’ roll music.