A Lark Ascending

I remember hearing the unbowdlerised version of that programme when first broadcast. Alan Barnes was fascinating. When I become Controller of BBC Radio 3 I'm going to broadcast all operas with the arias excised. Just recitative. 'I am going to kill him' 'What are you going to do?' 'I am going to kill him' Chorus off-stage 'He is going to kill him...oh no...he is going to kill him'.

It could only be... Bet she got some strange looks on the subway.

Might not have been what was common, even in 'progressive' circles, but hardly 'brutal'. Always sounds pretty lyrical to me. Now Elton Dean's 'Just Us' from a little later... ************* Is it possible to anthologise a decade where the participants are not here and where those who remember it were not there?

Bloody funny ladder!

You could always make the 300 physical run an 8 CD set with lavish packaging - 1 disc with the official album, 4 with the same music in different formats, a live disc and 2 of out-takes, in-takes or under-takes. Oh, and don't forget the secret 'reversed polarity' ninth disc.

I think your 300 CDs + Download option should work well. You have a loyal base here, many of whom like their physical CD. They'll probably snap them up on release. In the long-term I can't see the physical CD surviving beyond the sort of mega seller that might shift in a supermarket and special editions for collectors (a bit like vinyl today). Seems like you are adapting to that market with your Download + limited CD run model.

lamposts

Blue skies!

As a friend in Boston pointed out years ago, the obvious one missing from the gerund series was "Fuckin' With the Miles Davis Quintet." 'Pushin' to the Miles Davis Quintet'?

"iPod'n" "textin'"

Bizarre behaviour from strange ladies.

And many, many more 'we're too hip to sound our gs' album covers.

people in front of brick wall.

Cheeks! (please restrain yourselves from making the obvious comparison with the...ahem...'erect' trumpet bell end. This is a family site)