The Cult - Love Removal Machine.
As I said below, what a way to start. I stuck my headphones on and the volume turned out to be HIGH! That's how I'd recommend listening to this track. It's a great, dirty, no-technology, raw noise and I love it! It took me right back to my teenage years - my friends listening to The Smiths in a darkened room (nothing against The Smiths - they were great) and me rockin' out to this on my Boots Audio tape player.
Here's the back of the 'cassingle':
I seem to remember that The Cult started off as more of a Goth band but I could be wrong. LRMachine is certainly not Goth stuff - just straight ahead rock, complete with squiggly guitar solo, wailing vocals and obligatory tempo change near the end. This was after 'She Sells Sanctuary' - which is why I bought this one. Interestingly and a bit of a sell-out maybe, if you look closely this was produced by Rick Rubin... Def Jam and all that.
Trivia - The Cult used to drink with the fans in the pub after gigs.
Now, I'm not going to risk legal action by uploading any of the digitised music so instead here's a link to this track on You Tube. Brilliant 80s video action! Check out those mullets!
The digitising was 'interesting'. It turns out that if you keep cassettes in hot places (i.e. sunlight) and then cold places (i.e. the loft) they go a bit odd - not really a surprise. This one worked as far as the end of track 2 and then started to squeal - the casing of the tape itself. So I stopped it and gave up.
The proof that I did Digitise This is here:
Audacity actually coped really well combined with the decent tape player.
Great stuff - I wonder what will be next out of the old cardboard box?
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