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MarkyJacobs wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:20am
Think I forgot Lose This Skin.
I understand anyone who doesn't like "Lose This Skin" as Tymon's vocals are an aquired taste. However I really like this track a lot. I wonder if it would have more takers as an instrumental?
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Think i only ever listened to it once but isn't there a backwards track on the Stone Roses debut album too? Whatever about such indulgence on a triple album, it seems unforgivably so on a single, unless there's something daring and creative about the Stone Roses version that I'm unaware of. Nor did it seem to have much negative effect when it came to the critical reception of the album.

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Marky Dread wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:34am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:20am
Think I forgot Lose This Skin.
I understand anyone who doesn't like "Lose This Skin" as Tymon's vocals are an aquired taste. However I really like this track a lot. I wonder if it would have more takers as an instrumental?
The fact that I laboured the impression it was a female vocalist for some time notwithstanding, I like Lose This Skin a lot. I think some kind of instrumental variant would have been a trillion times preferable than that Mensforth Hill atrocity.

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Low Down Low wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 10:35am
Marky Dread wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:34am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:20am
Think I forgot Lose This Skin.
I understand anyone who doesn't like "Lose This Skin" as Tymon's vocals are an aquired taste. However I really like this track a lot. I wonder if it would have more takers as an instrumental?
The fact that I laboured the impression it was a female vocalist for some time notwithstanding, I like Lose This Skin a lot. I think some kind of instrumental variant would have been a trillion times preferable than that Mensforth Hill atrocity.
A number of people I know thought that. It always sounded like a higher pitched male voice to me.

I really like Lose This Skin.
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I'll be honest and say I'd forgotten Lose This Skin had a male vocal!

Yes, I do know who Tymon Dogg is. For some reason I've been 'remembering' it as being Ellen Foley!

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I've liked Lose This Skin since I bought the album in 1980, Tymon's voice is good for the song

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Marky Dread wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:29am
Wolter wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 1:37am
Heston wrote:
09 Sep 2017, 6:29pm
MarkyJacobs wrote:
09 Sep 2017, 6:04pm
Heston wrote:
09 Sep 2017, 4:25am
Sorry, I really don't understand how anyone can sit down and listen to Mensforth Hill. The only time I've heard it used effectively was in Westway to the World as a soundtrack piece.


3 card trick: Mensforth Hill; Junkie Slip; Kingston Advice...

Works superbly. You need music to makes you feel uncomfortable sometimes.

In fact, when you add Charlie Don't Surf as an opener and Street Parade as a climax, it's a sublime side of vinyl.
The other songs you mentioned are real songs, not some self indulgent piffle. I like a lot of "uncomfortable" music but just playing a song backwards and adding some chatter isn't great to me.
Oh shit. I'm agreeing with Heston again.

The only time it really ever worked for me was also on Westway.

Yep I guess as it was written for an imaginary Tv theme that's how it would work best.
I'd use the term "written" very loosely. ;)
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Heston wrote:
11 Sep 2017, 2:41am
Marky Dread wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:29am
Wolter wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 1:37am
Heston wrote:
09 Sep 2017, 6:29pm
MarkyJacobs wrote:
09 Sep 2017, 6:04pm


3 card trick: Mensforth Hill; Junkie Slip; Kingston Advice...

Works superbly. You need music to makes you feel uncomfortable sometimes.

In fact, when you add Charlie Don't Surf as an opener and Street Parade as a climax, it's a sublime side of vinyl.
The other songs you mentioned are real songs, not some self indulgent piffle. I like a lot of "uncomfortable" music but just playing a song backwards and adding some chatter isn't great to me.
Oh shit. I'm agreeing with Heston again.

The only time it really ever worked for me was also on Westway.

Yep I guess as it was written for an imaginary Tv theme that's how it would work best.
I'd use the term "written" very loosely. ;)
Did I say "written" sorry I meant "weed break".
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Did BAD ever play I-Beam? It seems a lot of *cough* 'new wave' bands of that era did when they visited San Fran.

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MarkyJacobs wrote:
27 Sep 2017, 10:31am
Did BAD ever play I-Beam? It seems a lot of *cough* 'new wave' bands of that era did when they visited San Fran.
I don’t think so, but Joe did.

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I realised the other day why I had never researched the 'I-Beam closet scene'. I think I always heard these lyrics as 'how mean does it seem?'

For some reason my mind was then transported back in time to the school playground and dubious re-workings of Kool and the Gang's 'Get Down on It'.

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Marky Dread wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:34am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
10 Sep 2017, 9:20am
Think I forgot Lose This Skin.
I understand anyone who doesn't like "Lose This Skin" as Tymon's vocals are an aquired taste. However I really like this track a lot. I wonder if it would have more takers as an instrumental?
Lose This Skin is one of my favorite tracks on the album. I just think it sounds quite mad but then the whole album is quite the trip.

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bazarboy75 wrote:
24 May 2022, 4:21am
Lose this skin instrumental

https://mega.nz/file/Gc9w0J5Q#6iKNBZxnj ... egHFqxXcYc
Thanks BB. :approve:
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Marky Dread wrote:
24 May 2022, 5:04am
bazarboy75 wrote:
24 May 2022, 4:21am
Lose this skin instrumental

https://mega.nz/file/Gc9w0J5Q#6iKNBZxnj ... egHFqxXcYc
Thanks BB. :approve:
My pleasure
don't hesitate if some want more stuff like this
for lose this skin it works pretty well but it's unfortunatly not always the case it depends of the original mix (where the vocal is "in the mix frequency")
but we can always try !

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