{"id":178,"date":"2007-07-29T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-06-28T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:34:08","slug":"the-divine-comedys-cover-of-the-throwing-muses-hate-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/29\/the-divine-comedys-cover-of-the-throwing-muses-hate-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Comedy’s cover of The Throwing Muses “Hate My Way”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is somthing I owned for quite a few years before actually being able to hear it. It’s on a mysterious format known as vinyl… and my dad’s old turntable had long since bitten the dust.<\/p>\n

But then I was bought a USB<\/a> turntable to help convert vinyl into MP3s and one bored Sunday afternoon, I decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n

I own lots of Divine Comedy<\/a> stuff – Neil is a total and utter legend and anyone who says he isn’t needs to have their head seen to. With a hammer.<\/p>\n

Where was I… oh yes, I own lots of Divine Comedy stuff, lots on vinyl and this was the first one I chose to bring into the modern era<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a few reasons for this. It’s his only picture disc, it has songs that you can’t find anywhere else and I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s heard them in a good long while.<\/p>\n

On my first listen, which was after recording it from the vinyl because the software<\/a> won’t record<\/a> and play at the same time not even if I ask it nicely and tick the box that says it will, it was like hearing<\/a> a whole new world for me.<\/p>\n

You must understand that there’s little Divine Comedy that I haven’t heard and to have something come at you for the first time when it was recorded<\/a> so long ago and when Neil has been through different albums with different styles, is wonderful. There is no other word for it.<\/p>\n

I only wish that more people in the world could hear this music.<\/p>\n

OK, so it’s not the best quality recording in the world, it’s a little crackly – and I do understand that some people rant and rave about the ‘warmth’ of music on vinyl (something I can never relate to because I grew up surrounded by cassettes<\/a>, CDs<\/a> and now MP3s, but that’s another argument entirely) – but I’m bothered about the crackles, about the sound not being perfect. For me, hearing these tracks for the first time is like discovering a new book from the Bible<\/a>. To me it’s that significant.<\/p>\n

And I know that’s a really strange analogy for some of you reading… but I am kind of obsessed.<\/p>\n

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