this month in music, or my musical phases are very phasy

[seperis]

One of the benefits of Amazon and iTunes slowly but surely expanding their musical offerings is stumbling over stuff I never knew the name of, who it was by, or when I heard it, but still have on carefully preserved tapes from junior high and high school. I don't actually own anything that can play a tape--hilarity--but I can't make myself throw

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[spuffyduds]

I think you win the "poster I am most likely to read excerpts of aloud to the husband" award.

[lovelokest]

I've been putting up some of my favorite stuff lately. Here it is in a locked post.

[lebannen]

I also recorded lots of music, most definitely including Return to Innocence, along with What's Up and as much REM as I could get, off the radio - mostly off Long Wave Radio Atlantic 252, which you could only get in the daytime, because at about sunset it went all swooshy and weird. I've only just found out why, by wandering over to Wikipedia; it was transmitting from Ireland, and sunset does weird shit to the ionosphere and its radio-wave-bouncing properties. Who knew.

A dozen or so years later I copied an electronic version of the whole album off a colleague who I then went on to have a month of clandestine and crazy sex with (it ended because we moved to different countries instead of living on the same corridor), so altogether, good memories.

... it has a video? I'm not sure I'd want to see it either.

I'll be following those links when it's not late at night in a house where someone is sleeping.