OFF: Pink Fairies, 'Pleasure Island'

[Miikka Wagner]

Hi!

Consider this album, is there vinyl too or is it only CD? and where I can
get this (vinyl)? Help, please.



>Jonathan Jarrett writes:
>
>>         Ah yes - I have one by that line-up from 1997 called 'No Picture'
>> which is really really bad. There is one half-good track on it and another
>> that nearly makes it that far and the rest is pants. I've nearly sold it,
>> but it's a Hawkwind-connected album. This causes me Konscience problems.
>> When was 'Pleasure Island' from again, or does the sleeve not say? Yours,
>
>
>Forgot to check this but I'm fairly sure it came out last year which
>makes it 1998.    It's only fair to say that there are (I think) 4
>tracks on it of which the first three are, to say politely, completely
>uninspiring tracks and had these comprised the whole album I would
>have deemed it not worth a second listen and consigned it to my instant
>resale pile.
>
>However it's the last track that sells this album for me - a long
>20 minute (at least) instrumental jam that starts quiet and builds up
>into an extraordinary layering of guitar riffs and drumbeat that I find
>utterly hypnotic.  The guitar work is perfectly timed with exactly the
>right feel and flow to draw you in and the drumbeat is mixed far enough
>into the background to give the rhythm without overwhelming the rest of
>the sound.
>
>It's great last-thing-at-night-before-finally-deciding-to-go-to-bed
>music.
>
>jill
>
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Miikka Wagner
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