Saturday, September 24, 2005

Catalyst

I've been meaning to make this post for some time now and as it happens it sort of ties in very nicely to bring what would essentially be three posts into one. To start with I mentioned Father Bell had sent a package just after we got back from our holidays. I was going to post about it but never got around to it. Anyway in the package were 3 compilation CDs, one of recently purchased new stuff, one of recently purchased old stuff and one of Led Zeppelin covers. All of which were fab and groovy because Father Bell has impeccable taste and always has had. While we were in London with Reidski, we caught up with Father Bell and partner and had a great time reminiscing and drinking a lot of wine. We discussed music for what seemed like ever in a charming place and generally relived our youth. Also in the package though was a coaster, which was a tile of an album cover. I thought that it might be interesting to have classic album sleeves randomly interspersed throughout one's tiled kitchen, kind of neat as Americans are prone to say. What's the album I hear you ask? It's the one pictured below. It's the one that draws this piece together. I have it in vinyl and I had a downloaded version, however I was in Fopp the other day and saw it for a fiver so I had to have it. I played it when Reidski was round last week, before I fell asleep. It still sounds really fresh and vital and bloody great, a guitar lovers treat. As a kid I loved it so much and I still do. This is the thing, I probably wouldn't describe it as the best album ever, but in the course of the conversation with Reidski I realised that it is actually the most important album I own! How come then? It's the most important album I own because it was the album that sparked the formation of my own, definitely guitar based musical taste. Prior to this I wasn't particularly into music in any big way. I sort of liked pop music, because it was always around, my big brother had everything the Beatles had ever recorded almost and loads and loads of singles, but they were his. Father Bell was the primary influence musically when I first went to secondary school and he had Argus and played it when we went over to his place. It much more grown up than the kind of stuff like Slade that me and most of my mates thought was good up to this point. So this was the start of a lengthy relationship with music and that's why in the course of my incredibly busy weekend of packing everything I have into a little black box (more of this later) that I took the symbolic step of putting it on first, even before Surrealistic Pillow.

So what's your most important album ever and why dear readers?



A really neat Kitchen Tile

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