Re: (TV) Reissue note

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

--- Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I could happily live without ever hearing the tinny
> run-through of O Mi Amore ever again.

Yeah. It falls into one of those tracks where if I knew it existed but it
wasn't included, I'd think it was a lost masterpiece. Now that I've heard it
once, I don't need to hear it again.

> The Adventure bonus tracks? The only worthwhile addition is, I think,
> the 7" version of Ain't That Nothin' which is great. Adventure... well,
> it's nice to hear it but I can see why it was thought it didn't have
> what was needed to include it on the finished album. 
...
> I don't think that the bonus tracks add
> anything much at all. I'd guess that anyone buying them 'unheard' on the
> strength of the great reviews they've been getting is probably going to
> hear the bonus tracks and think, "Well, so what?"

Well, to be fair, don't you think some of this might be because you've heard
the bootlegs before? In other words, if you only heard that there was a version
of "Glory" with completely different verses, or a studio version of
"Adventure", but neither had ever been bootlegged/released, wouldn't you REALLY
be interested in hearing them? I think your initial reactions would be a lot
different.

The alternate "Glory" is a curiousity - I don't listen to it often. But I
really enjoy "Adventure", as I've mentioned before, even I understand and agree
with their decision not to include it on the finished LP. Also really enjoy the
7" "Ain't That Nothin'".

> The seemingly-
> endless run-through of Ain't That Nothin' - well, you know... yawn. I'm
> just surprised they didn't turn the tape off earlier. 

I actually thought this was pretty cool to hear, especially the "I Need You"
riff popping up in there. This was one case where the bootlegs of the
instrumental "Ain't That Nothin'" had lowered my expectations prior to hearing
this track - I didn't expect it to be so enjoyable to hear Television
building-up a track in the studio.

--Philip


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