I Will Follow

With the great storms that beckon to the Atlantic and to the rains that fall endless on the Pacific, so like the moth to a flame, must it be that I am moved again to strike that certain chord that makes me who I am....a certified music enthusiast and musical landscape daydreamer.

It's time to clean the webs from my command post and take to the helm and turn the dial to bleed so that my heart can errupt from the vibrations those beautiful sounds make as they emerge from the stereo. With my fist in the air declaring GodSpeed, it's time once more to dialogue about that which I love so dearly. Once more, you come calling, and I know it's time to bring the life back into this scene.

May your experiences with music remind you of an early U2 song being performed in Dublin and may your memories remind you of a Stone Roses concert in Manchester....So be those days of music waxings...

I am coming back.

WIth a fist in the air and a bead of sweat just breaking at the nape of my neck. Legs jumping and rocking out in my living room, the good times are due to return! Time to celebrate like loosing your virginity! I need to get back to business...

Whether you read or not, I've just had it up to here with all this waffling about nothing that says anything to me about why I love music so much! I'm running to the hills and waving my flag folks, come with me if you want to have it off!

coming back into age

im coming back, but only a bit different....
(Stay tuned)

FUSION (edit to post)

b l o g . g o i n g . b y e - b y e.
{BUT FIRST I AM GOING TO LEAVE WITH ONE LAST ENTRY,
THAT I JUST STUMBLED ACROSS.
SO AFTER I UPLOAD THEM I WILL POST THEM AND THAT WILL
ROUND OUT THIS BLOG TO ITS
100 POSTS! THEN I'M DONE HERE!}


I am going to link in a newer blog, but there will be no more entries from this point on...

Its absurd to have several blogs, so Im just going to condense them into one.

CO-HESION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME!

I just dont have enough to really blog on this site...I have some interesting vinyl here and there but no method to rip it so what i can contribute by mp3 is really not that interesting.

I haven't been moved to really do much of this....


I have been more interested in other things...But will link to those sites that are doing a FINE FINE job....

more info to come!
:)

Of What This Could Mean

In the interim I am going to post the video I finally found for a song that embodies a good chunk of me at 15. Horribly sentimental. Incredibly nostaglic. Utterly romantic. Beyond aloof. Completely lost.

This song meant so much to me that I recorded it off the radio and played it over and over again on my maxell 90 minute tape, burning out the rewind mechanism.

Until I figure out what I am doing with this blog, I want to keep my wonder lust of memories and music intact. To all who remember this time period of many bands like this, I salute you!

re:

Ultravox. XTC. U2. Simple Minds. These are names of bands that I immediately think of at the reference of this man, Steve Lillywhite. I see it immediately on the flip side of the "Boy" sleeve, and when I think of those catchy early XTC songs and check the production credit. Oh! Of course! Steve Lillywhite is someone I think of when I think of the better new wave and no wave acts of the 80s UK scene.

Basically, when I think Island Records, this is the guy that is almost as synonymous with that label as U2 and Ultravox are. Another thing I start to wonder, does U2 just go from "THE" producer to "THE" producer? What production whores! haa haa. Focusing back to Mr Lillywhite, I think of a certain treble pan sound in the atmospherics of the production qualities. Which is something that I have a lack of preference for, being a bass gal, but he makes treble work for the aesthetic of a rough and live no super over produced sound. There is a raw and refreshing spin to the way those records were produced, that at this point makes them sound dated because of it, but at the time if I was a band of that era I would want a certain level of wide eyed quality to it, which I think he is brilliant at.

Now I dont know too much about the specifics of production, where the drops and gains of + and - in the 60k and such are concerned, but I can be explained these things by those who are production proficient. What I do know and can hear is quality and why things are done the way they are. I think you have to have a good understanding of the music that is being put in front of you and who the band is, in order to be a good producer. One half of what makes a good producer is production qualities that bring the full portrait of an artist to light. I don't think hip hop producers should produce punk, its anti-climactic and just put WRONG!

That said, I look at the list of artists and albums Lillywhite produced, and it all makes sense: Siouxsie and The Banshees-The Scream, Simple Minds-Sparkle in the Rain, Psychedelic Furs-s/t, and Talk Talk Talk, Big Country- The Crossing, Wondertown and Marshall Crenshaw-Field Day just to name the few. There is an overriding similarity that these albums all have and they are some of the ones that are the standouts when people talk albums, The Banshees "Scream" for one!

Thank you Steve!

For more info on Steve Lillywhite GO HERE.
For Steve Lillywhite on producing albums, READ THIS.

Oh the crossovers continue, as Mark Ellis, aka Flood, is another producer that has produced for bands that Steve Lillywhite, Martin Hannett, John Fryer and Daniel Miller have. The first being that initial notable release by post Joy Division, New Order on their album Movement, which although is credited to M. Hannett, Flood also contributed to. Flood to me, is pretty much the electronic producer of the larger bands to get popular in the later 80s, and give them that slicked over huge sound. The most notable effort being Depeche Mode's Violator album.

However he pretty much was also responsible for a whole bunch of post punk and indie acts as well, such as Gary Numan, PJ Harvey, The Charlatans, Soft Cell, Psychic TV, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Pop Will Eat Itself. One of the secondary largest credits he has is Nine Inch Nails' huge album breakthrough, The Downward Spiral.

My notice of Flood came when I got Violator, being a huge DM fan for years, and noting more-so the name Daniel Miller (Mr Mute), and then noting this new and strange name. Then I noticed it upon my Curve album and others. I think of Flood as the guy who makes things sound really studio produced without an inch of flaw, and by that I feel his production skills are really pristine. I think this is great for some bands, while at other times, there is a lack of a certain resonance of warmth because the clarity is that great, making the album feel cold and impersonal. However, I think with some bands, this works! I think for what he does though, he does it well. He has worked with Martin Hannett, and Steve Lillywhite collectively with New Order (M.H.) and U2(S.L.)

It is clear to see that pretty much my musical tastes rotate around these 5 men, with each of them producing albums that are near and dear to me. I will be thankful for that huge sound that happened between Music for The Masses and Violator.

Thanks!


For More Info on Flood, go here.
For an interview with Flood from March 29th 2006, read this.