all my vinyl is finally all in one place again and man i’ll tell you it feels….well, a bit underwhelming to be honest.

what was once the single most important thing in the world is now a nice looking backdrop to the living room.

absolute favourites have long been duplicated, first on cd, then a file.  others in the collection will be, jesus, digitised eventually.  the rest may never even be touched again, but they’re going nowhere.  simply can’t be done.  someday may come an urge to dig in, rediscover that one-off, weird mix, forgotten buy, unloved freebie.

but at last they’re all together again.  as yet, no cataloguing or arranging, just quickly unboxed & banged on the shelves yesterday.

while doing that i did pull out a few i’d been thinking off recently.

here’s my first ever vinyl rip then:  a 1999 nude promo 12″,  from ‘head music’ by suede – that tricky 4th album.  there was a lot of promo activity on the album but that there were suede remixes at all is still surprising;  a shark-jumping rollo remix just seemed plain weird and/or lazy.  unsurprisingly it sounds of the time (of about 3 years before actually) and does nothing different to any other rollo mix. it all comes together though and bretts vocal works brilliantly. it kind of laid the path for future twd-ish productions and anyway,  i’ve always liked it – back then partly as it antagonised a few end of-their-tether brett fanboys, now because it’s a nice old toe tapper.

suede, everything will flow (rollo’s vocal mix)