Sinister: Oaarrr, the cost of an album them days...

[Alan Burns]

What's everyone else being charged for FYHC? I've just returned from 
downtown where it cost me £9.79 for the CD in Coda. That was kind of the 
cheapest place I could find; Avalanche, where my loyalties normally lie 'cos 
of a good bloke I know who works there, are doing it for £9.99, so it's only 
because of severe financial difficulties that I need to scrimp and save just 
now whenever possible. Well, to be honest, I just spent the 20p difference 
on a packet of Polo Fruits. But anyway, Avalanche don't open until the back 
of 11 anyway. And like I said, it's my sad musical trainspotter nature that 
demands I buy all the new albums I'm after on their first day of release, 
and as soon as possible; then thereafter there's a kind of extra special 
attachment to them, y'know, 'cos of all the older music that I normally 
listen to, whenever I buy a brand new album it's like I was there at the 
time it was around at. There's probably a far better way to explain that, 
maybe one that actually makes grammatical sense to start with, but you know 
what I mean. In the past, albums I've bought on first day of release include 
Monster & New Adventures by REM, What's The Story Morning Glory, The Great 
Escape by Blur, A Thousand Leaves by Sonic Youth, OK Computer by Radiohead, 
and (whisper it) Blue Is The Colour, at the height of my Beautiful South 
phase....and there is a special feeling about them all now, and I can 
remember what I was doing at the time too.
Anyway, that was fairly long-winded. Right now, I've had the good fortune to 
find a free computer in our college computer lab which has a CD player 
attached to it, so this is my first listen through the album as I type this. 
Obviously, I can't take it in properly this time, so what I'm listening for 
this first time through is mostly the musical arrangements, which sound 
really nice; Isobel's voice, beautiful as ever; and whatever lyrics I pick 
up. So far, Stuart singing a line like "it was the best sex she ever had" 
sounds hilariously risible and ill-suited to his wee voice, but no doubt 
it'll make better sense once I can get a handle on what the song's actually 
about. And I haven't heard too many vocal harmonies like what I just heard 
in "Don't Leave The Light On Baby" from B&S before; that was lovely. No 
doubt it'll all turn out to be a good grower.
Anyway, I should go and do some studying towards my Media Studies exam, 
which is at the "we'll shove you artsy fartsy wasters in wherever there's 
space" time of half past five this evening. And thereafter bask in my 
personal life finally settling down again, thank goodness, after a lot of 
stuff being sorted out the other night. Phew.
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