Coming across this release (All Going Out Together 12", Maxi) made me want to resurrect this blog and post up the archived content from way back before I had put it up and updated it in Yahoo! 360° and then failed to copy it off their before that went away. Well, this Blogger thing seems a pretty durable edifice to hitch my pony to...
So this 12" 45 rpm 4-track single (a good example of a failed model on fixed and variable costs for my algebra students...) has on Side 1's runout groove: "ANOTHER TRICKY COLLECTORS ITEM". Doesn't seem that complicated to me...
What really got my interest was Side 2: "THE DOG ATE THE 'CLUB MIX'" A nice jab at the remix craze popular when this record came out in 1987. Side 2 is my favorite side, featuring a "goofy sound collage" created by guitarist Gary Waleik which includes a 10 second snippet of Shonen Knife covering Big Dipper's "Faith Healer"
Of course, this makes me look at the band's album's runout grooves even more than I normally would. Side A of Boo-Boo offers "THE RECORD AS A WHOLE", a sentiment seemingly apt for this ringtone and 99 cent MP3 era. The flip side says "IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER". I rather like "LET'S WIN ONE FOR THE DIPPER" on Craps but I am confused by the inscription on the other side: "WHAT'S THE PLANET METER READING?". Maybe I am reading it wrong, Does anyone know what it means, if anything?
Well, they expected my searching and on their big, 199p Epic release Slam it says "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING HERE FOR?"
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