Picked my TPK mirrored sleeve edition up today from the Royal Mail sorting office as missed the attempted delivery yesterday. Driving across town at midday on a Saturday is not my idea of fun.Still, i won the battle in the end. The mirrored sleeve and clear vinyl are ace

May be of interest whilst people are revisiting LL.
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I did a very quick and dirty reconstruction of the vocal version of Let's Go, using the vocal extracted from the bootleg version over the new instrumental mix

I'm sure someone could do a better job than me, but it's such a shame that a vocal didn't survive

https://file.io/6qhHUXKGZGhe

Hmm - try this
https://filebin.net/r80nm8lzem68w8mb

Worked just fine... and you did a nice work, thanks for sharing!

Oh i see what you mean. Just watched. Yeah that sprinkling of sparkles in the picture? Weird. Reminds me of times i've bent down to pick something up and then got back up too quickly and got a bit giddy and seen white dots swimming in my vision for a few moments.

Anyway, Gillian's knitted top in the video though..surely an iconic fashion sensation!

I’m out at the mo, but looking forward to hearing this. Will check out tomorrow.

Fucking hell. I've just now noticed I have two DVD 2s and no DVD 1.

I should have inspected the contents more closely last night. The only weird thing I picked up on initially was that the record, while in its clear plastic sleeve, was not in the inner picture sleeve (w/ Barney and Hooky). It was just at the bottom of the stack.

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Ah ffs. I can try rip and share to you DVD 1 in the meantime while you sort out getting a replacement box?

Yes, the vinyl was in the see through sleeve and the picture inner slipped in empty.

Just listened to this. Nicely done. Thanks for doing it.



You know, thinking about it, one of the main reasons that the band abandoned the track as a 'song' might've been their inability to play it live. It's very guitar-heavy and a lot of the guitar is where the vocals would be. As we know, Bernard isn't the best when it comes to singing and playing at the same time.

Leaving it as an instrumental allowed them to play it live. And if they couldn't play it as a song live, maybe they just thought 'what's the point' when it came finishing the song off (especially if they weren't really satisfied with the lyrics).

Just a thought...

I read the new interview in the book.Though it's implied in the credits some of it was lifted from Steve's book and Hooky's Inside New Order one? Steve mentions how he'd like to make a documentary using the footage he recorded with his video camera during the 1984 German dates.That'd be fab.Think he said this in his Fast Forward book.

Gillian says they'd really wanted to play The Perfect Kiss at the Radio 1 Rock Around The Clock thing but the segue with Blue Monday they'd programmed at the B&B in Cornwall the day before wouldn't load when it came to showtime.Steve said this in his book too.They'd been really excitedly looking forward to play it on the TV.I don't quite get why they couldn't have just played TPK anyway but just without the segue into BM.Was it that the programmed segue wouldn't play ball and load or the programming for TPK itself wouldn't load?

Hooky talks about how Bernard encouraged him to rip off the "walking bass" from Beat It on Sub Culture.Yeah i can hear that now! Never connected it before.


Hooky talking nonsense again about how the sleeve had to be destroyed to get to the record.Bollocks did it.The image on the back of the sleeve of Gillian always reminded me of the cover to The Cure's Pornography album

I noticed a strange thing in the vinyl grooves on the LP version of Sub-Culture

I'm used to seeing the concentric grooves going lighter and darker according to the volume of the music, but I've never seen a track look like this before
Almost like a repeating diagonal saw tooth pattern throughout the track.

I'm assuming that this is present on all the new pressings, but in theory should be on all the previous vinyl pressings too if it's down to the nature of the audio?

Hopefully you can see what I mean in the picture

Ah good point - the time between the bass drum hits will stay the same, but as the grooves get shorter with each revolution, it's appearance in the wax would move ever so slightly further each time - so cool, can't believe I'm 50 and never saw that before in a record!