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15th Jul 2021, 2:42 PM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 253 Points	The Super Furry Animals track is another great find at Paul's CD's!! I just popped into the store one afternoon after a Dr. appointment nearby and spotted this interesting looking album in the Just Released rack. As it wasn't sealed, I decided to open it up and take a look at it, maybe get SOME clue of what it sounded like. None was available!! It was a double album and I slid out the first record and saw 3 to five tracks per side, okay, a good sign. I pulled out the second album and saw pretty much the same but, what's this??? Side three plays from the label outwards!!! Okay, that practically made my decision to buy it! Well, the cover was a triple gatefold and, while moving it around a bit in my hands, I noticed there was still something inside moving around in the center gatefold!!! I had to pull one of the albums completely out to access it. Out slides this 7" single with a completely white label on both sides and a white sleeve. I pull the record out of the sleeve and one side is completely blank!! The other side is, too, except for one single locked groove in the middle of the side!! HOW could they have cut that into an acetate?? I contacted them to ask them how, but I have yet to get a response!! Now, I HAD to buy it!!! I get it home and play the locked groove and there's a PERFECTLY TIMED 4 bar groove!! I mean, there's no way to tell exactly where the recording starts or ends!! It's a PERFECT loop!!! Even beat-wise!! The ONLY way I can think of that they could've done this was to have had it laser etched!! The groove was taken from a follow up single B-side called, "All The Shit U Do" but, this looped version sounds more like a kind of disco beat. "Yesterday Holds On" (as well as the Sagittarius track before it) is a REALLY nice tasty psych track. "Laugh In My Faces" sounds a LOT like one of the early tracks on Autumn of The Beau Brummels. Another really cool psych track!! The Girls Who Paint Designs, is a kinda spooky dark psych track and, as far as I know, is done by The Strawberry Alarm Clock before they chose that name. Somehow, I never noticed this until about 5 years ago but, "Space Mood" was actually a souped up instrumental version of the A-side of this single! In the next town over, back in the `60's, there was a kind of anything-you-need shop called, Authenwright's. There were two of them in this area and one of them eventually became a Murphy's 5 & 10 (no relation to my grandparents!!). Well, my parents had me down there one day while they were looking for whatever it was they needed and I just gravitated over to the records section, as usual. I think it was the title, "Space Mood" that intrigued me so, I bought this record for a WHOPPING 10 cents!!! The A-side is basically a straight ahead standard ranch stash northern soul record and the flip side, as I said, was the same song with no vocals and some occasional spacey effects. Each side was listed as by a different artist! The A-side is, "Walkin' By" by The Boss-Four. Okay, I guess that'll suffice for this installment. Edited by Break-In Master on 17th Jul 2021, 10:35 PM