the avalanches - since i left you

(because it's good.)

Plus it's ridiculously dense and labyrinthine - I hear at least 5 new things every time I listen to it, even if I'm only marginally concentrating on it. New snippets of voice (of which there are MANY) that add mystery and complexity to the ambiguous but strongly felt (by me at least) narrative of the record.

because its a summertime cd for the winter

because its zany

because that womans voice on the title track makes me want to scrump

And Andy, though your point is interesting, I don't necessarily agree. I think the Avalanches' compositional skills are always underemphasized - this is SUCH a meticulously crafted record, but unlike a lot of "turntablist" records, it doesn't come across like a meticulously crafted record. You don't hear the sweat, which is a magnificent feat for such a complex, detailed album.

explain.

the album really works remarkably well driving around in the late summer, through the relatively unpopulated backroads of suburban pa. windows down, etc. etc.

(note: please subsitute yr own backwater for suburban pa.)

1. The day I bought it, Saturday after I had finished school forever, it was very sunny and I walked through town with it on my discman. Then I got home and went for a drive with my friends with it playing some more. Later we drank beer in my garden and listened to it again, it was a good day all round.

2. The day I was due to leave Prague and go to Paris when I was on holiday last year. We had about 5 hours to kill so we decided to go back to the Marquis De Sade, this bar we had been to alot during the week. It's a cool place, with a big high ceiling, it looks as though it used to be a theatre about 200 years ago. Anyway I gave it to the girl behind the bar and asked her to put it on and she did. So we had a few beers, and it was nice and quiet and a good way to end our holiday.

I should probably add that I find after the first few times I listen to something I'm just vainly attempting to recapture what I liked originally.

i think that's most of us.

Now, the fun part is: I have this tape.

kids these days! ;) that's be "Like A Rolling Stone".

Mark - possibly. I can't remember everything that's on side 2. I'll check.

On the way to university earlier this week, I was listening to a mix cd I made last year that had "Frontier Psychiatrist" on it (I made this disc about half a year before actually buying "Since I Left You", incidentally.) When it ended, my brain starting playing "Etoh". When the next track came on, and it wasn't "Etoh", I felt so dismayed and frustrated that I had to switch the radio off. So that made me realize that I'd obv felt more strongly about this stuff than I had previously imagined. So I listened again tonight, and what I heard was rather fucking gorgeous. When I finally did reach "Etoh", I almost had to turn the player off, because I was thisclose to breaking down and sobbing, something I haven't done in years. (Which maybe says more about my current emotional state right now than the album, but that's music for you.)
Secondly, why do I seem to only catch on to ILM favourites months after the fact?

https://devonrecordclub.com/2016/10/21/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you-round-96-toms-selection/

I'm amused to learn that i didn't know "Like A Rolling Stone" in 2002.

I was amused to learn that too!

Is that a Nat King Cole piano sample on "Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life"?