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White Lodge
- Jul 10, 2022
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I was always very fond of the Wild at Heart soundtrack. It's eclectic, to say the least, but at 17, it was one of the few albums I owned. I came from a big classical music and jazz household and - aside from some ABBA and The Beatles - didn't have a lot of access to anything else. Wild at Heart was one of the first albums I actually owned, receiving it for Christmas on cassette in the early 1990s.
It was the first time I heard Im Abendrot from Four Last Songs and it's coloured my perception of other recordings I've heard since. The Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert Von Karajan recording I have have along with the other three songs is way faster.
Powermad's Slaughterhouse makes the album and impossible one to play with dinner. A fun track, almost a parody of speedmetal.
Kool Kat Walk is soooo Angelo and David. I loved how reminiscent of Twin Peaks it was.
I'm not going to drag through every track, but it's perhaps more enjoyable to listen to for me than the film after all these years. It's about a feeling: partly it's my late teens, partly it's the memory of those open landscapes. I live on an archipelago that's aggresively urbanised. More of my country is open landscape than urban and yet a grey, urban pall has settled everywhere. There's something uniquely American about road movies and it captured my imagination then and still does now. Even Mylène Farmer refers to the 'spleen' of a road movie in her song California (the French using 'spleen' in a slightly different way from English speakers.)
I've had an interesting and annoying problem with many of my CDs for some years. Back in the 2000s, stuck for space in a tiny apartment, I put my CDs in soft wallets and got rid of the cases. Each 'page' had space for four CDs. I would put the CD on the left and the front inlay on the right. The back inlay went into a folder with the DVD and Blu-ray inlays. Unfortunately, along the way, that folder, disastrously, got lost in one of my moves. So, a decade on, I've been trying to rebuild my collection. My solution has been to buy cheap secondhand copies. On the Blu-rays, I've put a tray inside to allow a second disc, so I have both copies, or - as happened with the 2006 Miami Vice - chucked the knackered secondhand disc and put my own in the case.
Now I've turned to the CDs. I always put CDs in new cases and with these, I buy two disc cases, generally putting the secondhand disc at the back. Some of the replacements have been interesting. I had no idea so many people would issue and reissue a CD in the same country.
Wild at Heart is one I bought in 2007. It was released by Spectrum Music. The CD was a dull, plain black and the cover looked like a bad scan, with the text out of focus. In the bundle of secondhand CDs that arrived today, I discovered I'd received an older Polydor release. The cover shows more of the cover art, making the Spectrum one look zoomed. The text is much sharper. The CD itself is colourful with a pink 'splat' and the writing within it. The whole thing speaks 'quality' in the way the later Spectrum one doesn't. Even the inlay is different, with the Spectrum one looking more like a budget CD release. For once, I've put my personal CD in the back of the replacement case and the Polydor front inlay in the case in preference to the Spectrum one.
I have an iPod, but I love physical media. Seeing the nicer Wild at Heart disc on the shelf is one that particularly makes me feel like my old collection is being restored. (And if anyone's interested, the other CDs I received today were John Barry Themeology, When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors, and Basic Instinct.
It was the first time I heard Im Abendrot from Four Last Songs and it's coloured my perception of other recordings I've heard since. The Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert Von Karajan recording I have have along with the other three songs is way faster.
Powermad's Slaughterhouse makes the album and impossible one to play with dinner. A fun track, almost a parody of speedmetal.
Kool Kat Walk is soooo Angelo and David. I loved how reminiscent of Twin Peaks it was.
I'm not going to drag through every track, but it's perhaps more enjoyable to listen to for me than the film after all these years. It's about a feeling: partly it's my late teens, partly it's the memory of those open landscapes. I live on an archipelago that's aggresively urbanised. More of my country is open landscape than urban and yet a grey, urban pall has settled everywhere. There's something uniquely American about road movies and it captured my imagination then and still does now. Even Mylène Farmer refers to the 'spleen' of a road movie in her song California (the French using 'spleen' in a slightly different way from English speakers.)
I've had an interesting and annoying problem with many of my CDs for some years. Back in the 2000s, stuck for space in a tiny apartment, I put my CDs in soft wallets and got rid of the cases. Each 'page' had space for four CDs. I would put the CD on the left and the front inlay on the right. The back inlay went into a folder with the DVD and Blu-ray inlays. Unfortunately, along the way, that folder, disastrously, got lost in one of my moves. So, a decade on, I've been trying to rebuild my collection. My solution has been to buy cheap secondhand copies. On the Blu-rays, I've put a tray inside to allow a second disc, so I have both copies, or - as happened with the 2006 Miami Vice - chucked the knackered secondhand disc and put my own in the case.
Now I've turned to the CDs. I always put CDs in new cases and with these, I buy two disc cases, generally putting the secondhand disc at the back. Some of the replacements have been interesting. I had no idea so many people would issue and reissue a CD in the same country.
Wild at Heart is one I bought in 2007. It was released by Spectrum Music. The CD was a dull, plain black and the cover looked like a bad scan, with the text out of focus. In the bundle of secondhand CDs that arrived today, I discovered I'd received an older Polydor release. The cover shows more of the cover art, making the Spectrum one look zoomed. The text is much sharper. The CD itself is colourful with a pink 'splat' and the writing within it. The whole thing speaks 'quality' in the way the later Spectrum one doesn't. Even the inlay is different, with the Spectrum one looking more like a budget CD release. For once, I've put my personal CD in the back of the replacement case and the Polydor front inlay in the case in preference to the Spectrum one.
I have an iPod, but I love physical media. Seeing the nicer Wild at Heart disc on the shelf is one that particularly makes me feel like my old collection is being restored. (And if anyone's interested, the other CDs I received today were John Barry Themeology, When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors, and Basic Instinct.
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It's strange that I'm turning 49 in a couple of weeks and this is stuff from over 30 years ago! It's like my Dad reminiscing about 1950s music when I was child in the 1980s. Shocking to think how long ago it all was and yet it seems like yesterday!
