Purchased at Big Primitive Sound System at the Apart Coffee Reims January 8, 2011
Ref: CRE LP 069 - Published by Creation in England in 1990
Support: 33 rpm 30cm
20 tracks
This is called closing the loop, or cut back without making it burst the big bubble of chewing gum that has swelled up. For
Felt few months after his separation, he was to put an end to his career with this first compilation of years Creation. For my part, fall on this disc after more than Twenty years in the same place where I "found" my copy of another compilation Creation, Sunset of Jasmine Minks, it also gave the impression of a closed chapter. While this is a long time that I am no longer an active member of Primitive Radio , it made me feel funny to fall on hard that I often get airplay, and even more to know that is to help ensure its financial survival that the association has resolved to sell them. I have long protested against
legend, created by Lawrence when the band split, which would he had the project starting out ten albums and ten singles of Felt before stopping. The first objection is that this statement knowingly fails Index, the first disc of Felt, recorded by Lawrence himself. I was wrong on this point, since I myself had overlooked the fact that this statement, found in very large on the face of the cover of this Bubblegum perfume, is subject to the restriction "" during the eighties. The account is good, so even if the idea of major project conducted from beginning to end is obviously a self-made legend, who has appealed to journalists. If I think
bio slipped into this copy of the disc sent to radio, the French journalists were not likely to take over this caption: Virgin France, which distributed Creation at the time, merely copied its letter-head one-page bio and half in English by Creation. Except that this bio does not date from 1990 but from 1988, when the output The Pictorial Jackson Review , the previous album appeared at Creation and distributed by Virgin. There is of course not once said that it is a posthumous compilation!
Lawrence has treated the pouch. For the first time, but not the last (see Tearing up the album chart or a picture spread in the press in 2010 ), he uses his body to give us information (here, a choice of four titles on the album). On the back, he plays well in writing, even in very large, "look the installment to the list of titles . And indeed, we find little in the coup, the list of twenty titles of the album on the thin edge of the pocket! I find the CD sleeve even more successful: as there is less room there is a close-up photography, with text that is truncated, and especially there a color on the pink and green that I like (For vinyl, red-green contrast is only used for disk labels).
is partly because I turned the page too Felt that I have not bought this disc to its output. The other reason is that, unlike Gold Mine Trash , compiling for the period equivalent Cherry Red, which contained two unreleased demos, it has only previously published titles, and I had already nineteen twenty (I lacked that Book of Swords , the single from the album without Lawrence Train Above the City ).
Casually, and despite the lack of budget to save, a tragedy for Lawrence, Felt was very prolific at Creation. In just three years, from 1986 to 1988, they released four singles and EPs plus or minus five albums more or less minis and more or less instrumental. I find the mix of twenty titles available and very well balanced for my taste. Quite logically, the priority seems to have been given the titles released albums out, which account for half the battery total. At the faces are all there ( Ballad Of The Band , Space blues, The final resting of Ark) , but also the best B-sides, as I did not mean to hurt you , Be still Beach Boys, the only recovery available on disk by Felt (They came to play other on stage. In Reims, in particular, they resumed Hyacinth House The Doors and undermine Outdoor of Wire) There's no such thing as victory . There are also strategically placed at the beginning and the end of the first face, the two B-sides of the maxi Rain of Crystal turns , I Will Die With My Head in Flames and Sandman's on the rise again . The more I hear these two songs very short and very fast and I like them! In addition, two of the three titles extracts Forever Breathes The Lonely Word are the faces of A max, which is therefore the only disks in Felt Creation to be fully repeated here.
instrumental side, the assay is good too. There are five, rather short, spread deftly across the disc. My favorites are Ferdinand Magellan , piano, and travel to enlightenment , extract Let the snakes crinkle Their Heads to Death .
One thing that remains mysterious is the title of the compilation. "Bubblegum perfume " does not seem to be extracted from the lyrics of a song Felt and I can not associate a smell of bubblegum, whatever the group. For cons, the fragrance and the colors are pink and green as a foretaste of Denim , the new project in which Lawrence had already plunged at the time of publication of this compilation.
There have been other compilations released since Felt. My advice would be to avoid Stains were decade, yet the only disk that covers the entire course of Felt, but only fifteen songs, which is not enough. It seems more sensible to combine Goldmine trash and Bubblegum perfume or two volumes of Absolute classic masterpieces . The problem is that if Cherry Red has reissued in 2003 and keeps the entire catalog available album Felt , compilations Catalog Creation, Bubblegum perfume and Absolute classic masterpieces II, are currently not available .
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