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| ********************************************************************************************************* MOST RECENT ENTRIES -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Thursday, July 12, 2007 Set list & my personal top 10 OMD tracks Well, it's taken a while, but I've finally got the set list from the current OMD tour! Architecture And Morality Sealand The New Stone Age Georgia She's Leaving Souvenir Joan Of Arc Maid Of Orleans The Beginning And The End Messages Tesla Girls (Forever) Live And Die If You Leave Pandora's Box Talking Loud And Clear So In Love Locomotion Sailing On The Seven Seas Enola Gay Walking On The Milky Way Electricity The Romance Of The Telescope I didn't do too badly, with the exception of the A&M tracks! Ordered the A&M + DVD set from HMV on the 29th... after checkout I spotted that the first 2 albums and the 4th one are in the sale at the moment, at under a fiver each. So I ordered those too. They shipped on Tuesday of last week - but it was really wierd. They picked them in a wierd order and each item was charged separately, so when they arrived they were all individually packaged! What a waste of cardboard! How ironic too that the first should arrive on Saturday, Live Earth day! Even more strange was that the last item charged was the first to arrive! Anyway, they're all here now, and I've listened to them all. Out of the four, A&M is my favourite. Not just because of the live set, but because musically it does more for me than the others. There's an experimentalism there, but there's also a more cohesive sound. I simply adore the title track. It's instrumental, and it has a common grammar with much of the rest of the album. There are melodic hints of Maid of Orleans and Joan of Arc, and it's beautifully put together. No wonder I was blown away by it live! Came up with my personal OMD top 10 today - I did it a couple of weeks back, but some lovely person decided to hack the official website forum, and my account was lost. It took me a while, because I've been listening to so many albums recently, but I stand by this list (for the moment!) Number 1 is always number 1 for me... 2-4 stay pretty much the same, but sometimes they switch positions with each other, 5-10 are completely changeable! 1 - Souvenir 2 - Secret 3 - Enola Gay 4 - Southern 5 - Architecture & Morality 6 - Genetic Engineering 7 - Bunker Soldiers 8 - Maid of Orleans 9 - La Femme Accident 10 - Pandora's Box I make no apologies for having Southern in my top 4, even though it appears that I'm in a minority for liking that particular track! What made me chuckle was the post after mine: "That is such a bizarre Top ten Air. Nice one." Seems I'm one for being a bit different - what with playing Air synths (no prizes for guessing my username on the forums!) and my somewhat eclectic top 10! I've noticed that there is generally a commonality of periods for most people's top 10s. I've yet to work out what the common denominator is in mine! But I happen to adore all those tracks. I've decided that - with the exception of Southern as I don't have that on cd - I'm going to put that listing on my mp3 player to see how odd it sounds together, or if I can spot the common theme! Had a bit of luck yesterday too. I've been trying to replace Paul's VHS of 'The Best of...' for months now, I bid on a couple towards the end of last week, but got outbid both times. I finally got one yesterday - 99p + £2.25 p&p! Bargain! Can't wait for that to arrive... we used to have quite a laugh watching the videos... partly because you could always guess the year by Paul H's hairstyle!  Talking of 'Best of' and forums, on the unofficial forum there's an art thread. A dutch member posted a nice drawing of Andy on there, which actually inspired me to pick up my pencil and sketchbook and do something I've been thinking about doing for a while. A sketch of Paul H. I would say a quick sketch, but that's not the case when I'm doing faces! I've always had trouble with them. But this time I stuck at it and I'm pretty pleased with the result. It probably helped that I chose my absolute favourite photo of him to work from, so I wasn't at all bothered about sitting looking at it over and over! It still took me two days and 5 sittings to do though!Had a look around yesterday for something about the band that Paul H formed with Claudia Brucken from Propaganda, onetwo. Found the website of their record label there[there]. Wasn't too sure from the samples on there, but ended up on their MySpace and for the first time ever I could almost see the point of it! There were a good selection of clips which made me want to buy the album, and a nice photo gallery thing, which had links under it to the photographers - one of them, Daniela Vorndran has some fantastic live shots of them on her website. She's also got some lovely OMD shots there too!  I'm still in a bit of shock that I still have the hots for Mr Humphreys! I think it's got a lot to do with him being such a hero for me, but despite the fact he's put on a few pounds (haven't we all) and his hairs not quite what it was I still find him really, really attractive, and rather sexy! Still, I guess that's not a bad thing in some ways as it shows I don't just get attracted by skin deep beauty, but by a beauty from inside! Part of it's the music - he's still a genius with synths (and now uses emulators of some of the analogue synths he's used in the past! I want some of that!), part of it is that he has a lovely voice that's matured nicely and that I've always loved to hear singing, and then when I see pics like this one with his lovely smile I feel all warm inside! Whatever it is, he's definately still got it - at least as far as I'm concerened. Yet I daren't say anything to my Paul. I nearly did a couple of weeks ago, but his reaction made me have second thoughts. When your partner says "that's sick!" at the thought of you having a crush on a particular person you tend to shut up!posted by Unknown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // *END OF NEW ENTRIES* \\ |
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