The Sound wrote:
Joy Through Amplification sounds very BBD influenced in my view. I can imagine Andy, Charlie and Simon tackling the album. In fact if I close my eyes I can imagine they performing it with BN.
Yes, very "band" that album but then we think of how Bill showed the band the parts, whether the band is Be-Bop Deluxe or Red Noise, so the band was very much Bill Nelson solo, in a way, too .
Kid Flip And The Golden Spacemen of course has a band in the title and brings about the questions of "What would a band sound like performing this?" Then an answer like, "Oh, Bill's the band, the band is Bill."
The Sound wrote:
I'm pleased that BN is 'proud' of Golden Melodies of Tomorrow. It is a personal favourite of mine I enjoy listening to since it was released all those years ago. It is, in my view, a very accessible recording and it's cheap from SOS. Enjoy it.
Christian
Agreed .
Going to have to listen to that one today .
It's one of those where one of the tracks brought me to the others . In this case
Once I Had A Time Machine was the doorway to the other tracks .
Then that song has this tangent, an equally enjoyable tangent, mind, but a very different mood . It's a mood of cool Jazz, scenery gliding past .
The two-songs-in-one thing I like .
Stereolab did that so very, very well as well, did they not ? Yes, they did .
Another one of Bill's that does that two-songs-in-one is
Phantom Sedan (Theme From Tail-Fin City) from
After The Satellite Sings, an all-time favourite .
The listener is brought from a wistful dreaming sort of mood to a celebratory get-up-and-dance, a mood that is similar, stylistically, to African Highlife and with only a ringing guitar note as a clear glass hallway between the two rooms .
Does this mean that the wistful and dreamy part was also celebratory and the celebratory "Highlife" part is also wistful and dreamy ?
I'll admit there have been times when I only wanted to hear the first part and there have been times where I've only wanted to hear the second part with both
Once I Had A Time Machine and
Phantom Sedan and listened accordingly but usually I just enjoy the ride, as is .