Totally agree. Those two songs ( paradise place and eve white/ eve black) sound so good. Would love to see more but who knows where that footage is now.
I'm pretty sure this was a Granada or Yorkshire TV production, not BBC. Directed by Stuart Orme, who did a lot of work for Granada (as well as JD's Love Will Tear Us Apart film/video).
I do love the Rock Goes To College gig, mainly for the complete silence that greets the opening bass notes of Nightshift. Never heard that again!
Arrived this afternoon and I must say it is a very pretty shade of blue. Didn't realise it's a 40th anniversary edition of 1000 though, and the cover is infinitely improved on the last one that came out - so why couldn't they get it right the first time? Baffling.
I just re-listened to The Scream... fxxk me what a corker. A wolf in sheep's clothing (the sheep being the crapola artwork quality). I think this and the 2012 analogue Bowie Ziggy vinyl are the best non original LPs I've ever heard. Oh and The Beatles mono 2014s. Anyone still pondering...BUY IT!
I'm now wondering.... how likely is it that all subsequent albums will be having a 40th anniversary limited pressing? I played this on Friday and it sounds excellent, but what I love most of all is the colour, that sets off the typeface perfectly. So, if this is a "thing", what might we expect? Join Hands is a shoo-in for white vinyl, Kaleidoscope screams for a multi-coloured splatter.... Juju's been done.. but what of Dreamhouse? I've got some wallpaper, printed with a fine, slightly metallic leaf pattern which is either a vibrant green or copper, depending on which side of the room you are standing. Whatever they used to get that effect, would be astounding pressed into vinyl. Just a thought.
I just got The Scream blue vinyl, and I can tell you the sleeve is 1000x better looking than the black vinyl edition. Very nice shade of blue too! I did see the reissues of Dreamhouse and Tinderbox in a store the other day and I thought they were atrocious looking. Dreamhouse is very dark and all subtle detail is now BLACK, while the solid colors on Tinderbox were all streaky. I saw no reason to buy either of them.
I don't know, I have both an original UK Polydor Dreamhouse and the reissue, and I don't find the difference to be anywhere near as extreme as you do. It's mostly that the black background on the reissue that frames Siouxsie's mirror image is blacker so that you can't make out the wisps of hair protruding from the top of her head. While it's not 100% perfect, I really don't think it's that bad at all, and nowhere near as egregious as what they did to The Scream and Juju. Here they are for comparison, with the reissue on the left (note that I've kept the shrink-wrap on the reissue, which made it look a bit hazier by comparison in the photo):
Looking at your photos, it also reminded me that I didn't like the digital grainy look that you can see on Budgie's cheek at the transition between dark and light. They just seemed to do too much contrast on the whole sleeve. I just know they can do better, the updated Scream sleeve proves that. BTW, I didn't think JuJu looked that bad, at least on my gold vinyl edition.
No, it was BBC 2. See the start of this one. Futurama 80 (Futurama 2) The Queens Hall Leeds 13th & 14th September 1980 (Part 3 of 4)
Yeah, there is a bit of graininess in the facial colors, mostly noticeable on the shadow on Budgie, but I still think that overall the Dreamhouse reissue really isn't bad. But Juju, to me, looks pretty strange. As I know I've mentioned like a broken record earlier in this thread, the reissue has this blurry, glare-y quality that you can see on the shredded pieces of sheet music. Here's a photo of them side by side, with the reissue on the left and a US PVC first pressing on the right (I don't have a UK Polydor for this one): The sheet music on the PVC pressing is quite clear, but on the reissue it looks like someone smudged vaseline over it.
Ironically, it looks like the Juju reissue could use more contrast. I will pull out my UK original and compare it to my gold reissue when I get home. I'm curious now.
It's true, Juju's cover got bollocksed by someone. But then, most of the time it's sandwiched between other LPs in my collection, and the reissue sounds incredible, so....
The Rapture 2018 on double vinyl out on friday 14 December in the uk along with Kaleidoscope, Hyaena, & Peepshow Side a: # O Baby # Tearing Apart # Stargazer # Fall From Grace Side b: # Not Forgotten # Sick Child # The Lonely One # Falling Down Side c: # The Rapture Side d: # Forever # The Double Life # Love out Me The running order of tracks is the same except 'The Rapture' is extracted and placed on its own on side 3. Siouxsie and The Banshees: The Rapture. On vinyl. Recordstore.co.uk - Recordstore Day, every day. CDs, Vinyl, Merchandise, Signed Exclusives, Exclusive Vinyl Releases
Severin posted a few days ago that EverAfter is now back to being more than just a video collection. He said LP, CD, DVD and Blu-ray. Not a big box but individual releases. No release window mentioned but I guess it means the vinyl reissues of Once and Twice are now scrapped, which would make sense. But then after all the years this release has been hyped in one format or another, I will believe it when I see it.
Please Remind me what that comp was supposed to be again. Was it all the 7" single A-sides? As much as I love Once and Twice albums, neither one strictly adhered to the correct versions (or even songs!).
Totally! I never understood why Once Upon a Time omits "Mittageisen," since it was a double A-side with "Love in a Void," nor do I understand why it includes "Mirage," which was not a single.
Can't say for sure. Severin was originally asking people years ago if they wanted it to be all the single versions. You of course had the dopes who said they wanted the full version of Dazzle even though the single mix had never been on CD before. Then there were others like myself that wanted it to be all the original single versions chronologically, and hopefully including The File live 7" from 1983. We never got confirmation of what the final decision was because the project has changed shape more than The Thing. It was originally going to be a 2CD+DVD set, and has only mutated back and forth from there.
