Empire Pool

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:09:01PM +0000, pete howe typed out:
> Thats true..i have heard worse.. Anyone heard the dreadful pile of cr*p 
> that is "text of festival"??.a double album of  blurred noise that comes 
> and goes with the wind..(wind direction, that is).
> Bootleg or not..these were released "officially", by some rip-off obscure 
> record label.. and theyre probably the worst 2 cds of ANY band ive got in 
> cd/vinyl collection.

	I reckon the sound on _Text of Festival_ to be better than on 
_Yuri Gagarin_, myself, or at least, for the kind of noise that was 
actually happening it probably does less damage. The problem with _Yuri 
Gagarin_ is that what you can hear of it sounds like it was a really 
good gig, but the instruments all blot each other out, half the words 
are indistinct and it's all *over there somewhere*. ToF is just muddy, 
you can hear all the instruments and the few words are intelligible, and 
there's less going on to lose anyway. I resent teh fiver I paid for 
_Yuri_ much more than whatever I paid for ToF (though I did at least get 
that on double vinyl with the Aid Daze style cover, so it has some 
slight artefactual value too). Yours,
					Jon

ObCD-R: Mother of All Bands - _Insect Brain_ (Trev seems to have been 
right about this burrowing into the head, I am still playing it every 
few weeks)
-- 
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	    (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk