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PS: What a lovely dress, too!

Lovely to hear this one in stereo at LONG LAST! I've only ever heard it in mono on the radio, and thought that must have been how it was recorded. It's his best track by a very long way - far more creatively written and enduring than the 2 tracks that were his biggest top 10 hits - yet it barely ...

@gibbonduder182 Well it's in stereo for a start. So many official videos are in mono. Why the f*** do they do that?? Morons!

This theme was composed and played by Paul Hart, although not credited on the BBC CD that was issued at the time. Paul Hart also played the brilliant theme for the 1986 season of programmes for the arrival and departure of Halley's Comet. If anybody has that track, please post it on YT. I have th...

@davidwrightatloppers The track Communication is available on the CD Open Channel D, which is still listed on Amazon.co.uk.

Many thanks for that, Ruskin1999. I looked on Amazon, and couldn't find a copy - but I did manage to find one on e-Bay for a nominal amount, so I'm very happy to have found the origin of this track at last. I wouldn't have thought of looking amongst Elvis Costello's stuff for a Lush version of on...

...in 2004, I imagined that if it did exist in stereo, that would be where I'd find it. Sadly, every track on The Laughing Cavalier album was in stereo but... Daydream!! So I assumed that as was so often the case in the 60s, the first recording by a new band was just an experimental taster record...

Can anybody explain why I cannot find the ORIGINAL hit single mix in stereo? History seems to have been rewritten. When this was a hit in '68 (on a mono 45), the opening 16 seconds was followed by the DAAANCE TO THE MUSIC!! chant several times. But ever since then, whenever I hear this on the rad...

@64abcxyz Why did you let that spiteful, mentally-deformed bully intimidate you into withdrawing your comments? I don't know what you said, but if it was in any way inflammatory to him (or her?), then good. Let him/her consume him/herself with the vile cesspit of his/her own selfish, evil twatter...

Weeeeell... I dunno - definitely sounds like John's voice, the drumming is pretty much the Ringo sound, the production is the sort of thing George Martin would have done (and even now, that's hard to replicate), and it has all the hallmarks of the late 60s Beatles stuff. It's not Jeff Lynne, it's...

@MrSKINFLICK ...and they also recorded a version of Wire's Mannequin which was at least it's equal, if not somewhat superior. Sorry to have a differing viewpoint - but we're all wired up differently. 'Bye!

@rogermelly44 There's a good clue near the start: printed on the side of a bin is the name BORA BORA - this is one of the islands in the French Polynesia group... doh!! I was lookin' at the bin when something that sexy was in full view - what was I thinkin' of? 8=))

@ShenmueAtheist I prefer this version to that on the Split album - they nailed it here, and it needed no update. Yes, it should have been on Spooky. Just as an exercise, try sequencing the following tracks, to get an idea of the kind of album that should have followed Spooky: Scarlet (Gala demo ...

This track was released as a single only on a limited edition vinyl 7". Is this why it was never the massive monster no.1 hit it certainly deserved to be? Sing-Sing were a great little band who blossomed briefly (well, OK, about 7 years) out of the wreckage of Lush, and should have been given way...

Thanks for posting this one at long last. Still got this on a 3-track mono Marmalade single, along with What On Earth and Look At Me I'm You. Very Beatley. Great to hear it in stereo after all these years - it reveals so many more layers in the mix.

@Sailormarinero Thanks for the speedy reply! Yes, I did get Buried Treasure, and it was nice to get some of those tracks. But the fact that nobody has ever issued both those albums in their entirety on CD is beyond belief. Dressed For Drowning hangs together as an indivisible entity in my mind. I...

Yes!! Yes!! PLEASE put the A-side up here!! I've been looking for it in any form for years - 7" vinyl, LP compilation (was on Deram Dayze, but long gone), CD (would be ideal, but nobody seems to have done it), or even tape (Brian Matthew hasn't ever played it on Sounds of the 60s, as far as I kno...

I didn't think there was anybody in the world who actually remembered this song, let alone loved it for it's sheer macabre creepiness. It was the entire reason I diligently searched out and bought Manfred Mann - The Fontana Years, a very hard-to-find and expensive 2CD compilation a few years back...

Pure poetry ;=))

@chicoisthebest10 No offence intended, but I actually think Brazilian Portuguese is waaayyy sexier than, er, Portuguese Portuguese. Very likely something to do with the fact that in the mid-70s I had a Brazilian girlfriend who was sheer sensuousness personified, and our relationship was pure unbr...

@daz580 There are several copies being sold on e-Bay.co.uk for not too much.