HW: New album

[Jon Jarrett]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, colm mcwilliams wrote:

> i knew spirit of the age was going to be on the cd but silver machine? When
> did that happen?

        Some terrible fear that people won't buy it if there's nothing
they recognise on it perhaps? I am slightly less likely to in fact,
though still fairly close to 90% (though on the other hand I don't yet
have Canterbury or Spaced Out and I was at both gigs... There just hasn't
been money). I want new stuff, not retread live stuff, even really good
retread live stuff. I kep hoping for something some other band couldn't or
wouldn't have done, not just from HW but from any band I'm a fan
of. Otherwise you could just follow the tribute acts. Anyway...

> > I know there are lots of folks out there who won't get to see HW on the
> > latest tour & who might be curious about the track listing for Take Me To
> > Your Leader as quoted in the tour programme. So, here it is:
> >
> > Spirit Of The Age

        Y'see, I don't think that needs to be there either. If it's going
to be the single, they can get that out first and then use the b-sides tio
hook people into buying the album. Make the exclsuive track the A-side for
once, rather than hide quality material away as B-sides and as a result
have to clog the album with filler. Or is this just so that the fans do
buy both discs whereas otherwise they might not? They still have a way to
go to match Steven Wilson's marketing skills but perhaps someone is
getting the idea...

> > Take Me To Your Leader
> > Digital Nation
> > Out Here We Are
> > Sunray
> > String Theory
> > The Reality Of Poverty
> > Cyber Space
> > Letter To Robert
> > Silver Machine
> >
> > Presumably, Angela Android will still make an appearance on the SotA
> single.

        Well, let's hope so.

> >  Also worth pointing out that the album cover is great. Guests are: Arthur
> > Brown, Lene Lovich, Matthew Wright & Lemmy.

        That last name there completely slipped me by. My guess is
therefore that the `Silver Machine' is that from the Wembley Arena and
that therefore it will be nudging that one that kicks around on the pirate
best-ofs and the _Choose Your Masques_ versions as the worst on record,
Lemster not withstanding. It wasn't great and the sound was awful. But I
bet that's how come Lemmy and `Silver Machine' have suddenly appeared in
the planning.

> > But by my reckoning, there's a whole bunch of tracks that the band
> > supposedly recorded that haven't made the final track listing. These would
> > be:
> >
> >  Land Of Dreams
> > Sparkles & Slide
> > Population Overload

        That at least was on _Distant Horizons_ so I for one hope it has
been let drop.

> > Techno Land
> > The Molecular Family
> > Asylum Island
> > One World Future
> > Trip

        And forgive me, but that just sounds pretty bad. On a par with
`Fantasy' from _In Your Area_. So we can hope that taste was responsible
for some of these excisions maybe.

> > Of course, some of these may have been retitled & *are* featured on the
> > album, but I suspect most are not. Can anyone in the Hawk camp shed some
> > light on these tracks & if/when/where they might appear?

        On Dave's next solo album I'd expect. Call me a cynic. Yours,
                                                                      Jon

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