OFF: Porcupine Tree/iTMS

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> Though the point about only wanting given tracks is well taken.  I dig
> that Hendrix "Ezy Ryder" track from First Rays, but dunno if I'll dig
> the rest of the album (I like Hendrix well enough, but I'm not a crazed
> fan or anything).  I'd pay 80p to get that track (though I haven't,
> yet), but I'd rather pay a pound for a CD-quality audio file (though,
> yeah, I listen to homemade 128kbps AACs all the time and they sound all
> right).

        Speaking as a crazed fan, I think you should definitely get the
whole album because it's got some great stuff on it, most especially the
title track but a bunch of others too. It's very much as if the Hendrix
family gathered up all the posthumous releases, put the best stuff onto
that disc (_First Rays of the New Rising Sun_) and then piled the rest
onto _South Saturn Delta_ for the hardcore fans only. There is some
interesting stuff on the latter, but it's in no way the coherent album it
sort of looks like, and a significant portion of it is variant versions of
stuff on other discs. _New Rising Sun_ however is probably a fair attempt
at putting together the _Electric Ladyland_ follow-up it was supposed to
be.

        But you as I recall don't have _Axis_ and that's something you
should really sort out first! :-) Yours,
                                         Jon

ObCD: Farflung - _Nine Pin Body_
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