Oh! So I got a bee in my bonnet (and a tiger in my tank) for finding Intaferon and Simon F songs online, because all the ones I have are on cassette. Although I do have "Baby Pain" on 12", which is actually credited to Intaferon though it wound up on the Simon F album, blah blah, I guess it's all the same anyway.
Oh man, the Simon F album, by which I mean Gun, because apparently he put out another one that I don't know anything about? I LOVE IT. I only found a couple of reviews of it online and oof, people hate it and hate him. Why? It's a great album! I LOVE IT. I wish I had an actual copy of it instead of the one I taped off my brother. A) Gun and B) Strawberry Switchblade, it's like the greatest tape ever. I couldn't remember what the cover of Gun looked like until I saw that one single solitary generous soul had a really crappy image up online.
Thank you, whoever you were, I went ahead and took the image without thinking to thank you proper. It was like buddy icon size anyway and at least I'm not stealing your bandwidth. So! This got me thinking how I want to scan the tape, because it's just a very potent image in my mind, but all my cassettes are in storage. So I tried searching for a picture of the kind of tape it's on, and I ended up finding one that far surpasses even my wildest dreams.
That even sums up how I feel about the Simon F/Strawberry Switchblade pairing, come to think of it. Although to be specific it's on an XL-II, which is more gold looking, instead of an XL-II-S, which is more bronzey. I saved those for like Robyn Hitchcock and stuff, you know, the things I really wanted to preserve for archival posterity. Little did I know the Simon F album would vanish off the face of the earth. (I did find a sweet Japanese reissue of Strawberry Switchblade, however. The Japanese, they're so wise.)
While I was searching for the Maxell image, I found a whole bunch of other awesome cassette-related stuff that I'll have to get to later, as they're trying to make me work right now. Bleah.
Posted by Kim at March 12, 2004 01:23 PM | Musics | Objectification"Get Out of London" by Intaferon
Posted by: Kim at March 12, 2004 01:24 PM