Howard Devoto

norman normal · Post by **norman normal** » 15 Jun 2007, 08:47

Reissue:

http://www.keymailorder.co.uk/cgi-bin/k ... to0607.htm

Post by **theraven1979** » 15 Jun 2007, 10:56

Cool - fuckin ace album as well.

Jim

Post by **Alias** » 15 Jun 2007, 11:55

Still got that on vinyl somewhere...

norman normal · Post by **norman normal** » 15 Jun 2007, 13:04

I've never bought it, but remember that "Rainy season" was on the radio. Now it's time to spend some cash on it.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » 15 Jun 2007, 16:40

Fantastic - haven't been able to play my vinyl album for years, so I'll be getting this.

Post by **theraven1979** » 30 Dec 2007, 12:19

Bizarre to hear Rainy Season played on Dragons Den the other day

Jim

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » 30 Dec 2007, 12:59

What do you reckon to the stuff he did as "Luxuria"? I think the first album was excellent. :)

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » 30 Dec 2007, 21:06

I really liked the Luxuria stuff. Particularly the second album where the lyrics are superb! For example:

"under the roofs and the gutters up above / even the sparrows are burning up with human love"

"once upon a time / once upon a turbine / flying the world / dying of girls"

and from the "Beast Box Is Dreaming" track (where the lyrics throughout are excellent:

"The replica at Disneyland
in the big exhibition hall
it's correct to the last nut and bolt
it's nothing like it at all.
if a pregnant woman touches it
the child will be shy
and if you glimpse it once
you eventually die."

Apart from "Secondhand Daylight", I think the "Beast Box" album is Devoto's finest work.

Also, I finally got "Jerky Versions of the Dream" on CD for Christmas, so will be giving that a spin for the first time in around ten years shortly.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » 01 Jan 2008, 04:00

As the day stops dead, at the place where we're lost;
I will drug you and fuck you, on the permafrost.