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Re: Pop Band, Three Letters, Not OTR...
> once upon a time, i had __Skylarking_ and i really liked it.
Oh, me too. Me *three*, if I might be so bold. "1000 Umbrellas" alone is
enough to cement that album to a best-of-all-time monument I might someday
erect.
> Then one day i ran out of macaroni and cheese and had to sell some stuff to
> buy more.
> So, i decided to sell my __skylarking__ cd back to the used cd store.
I decided to sell *Skylarking* after a long and agonizing wrestle with my
own conscience. *Oranges & Lemons* and the next one too, but *Skylarking*
was the quintissential problem. Why would I continue to keep an album with
"Dear God" on it? I made a tape of the album before I sold it, replacing
"Dear God" with "Mermaid Smiled," the track that originally existed there
before "Dear God" started hitting the radio stations off the b-side of the
"Grass" single.
> soonafter, i really missed it.
I did too.
> eventually i had to buy it again.
> could i find it used? no (it's too good). so i had to pay full price
> twice, and got 5 or 6 bucks for it. __skylarking__ therefore cost about
> $19 or 20 bucks.
I eventually had to buy it again, too, but I planned to all along. I
bought it on vinyl-- one of the first printings, before "Dear God" was
added. There's "Mermaid Smiled," printed right on the back of the sleeve.
One day I'll have a working turntable-- and I'll hear the album as it was
originally intended.
I'm still looking for a CD copy of the same. I have a feeling it's a lot
rarer.
That's *my* little *skylarking* story,
jnf
NP: the Rushmore soundtrack - Mark Mothersbaugh and a load of brits
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