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For some completely unfathomable reason, "Watching the Detectives" did not appear on EC's debut album "My Aim Is True" in the New Zealand issue. We had to wait for it to appear on his follow-up, "This Year's Model".
I suspect they were hoping to get some Kiwi artist to cover it and generate a local hit before the original became known. This was a frequent bullshit practice to generate interest in local 'stars' without doing anything to generate song-writing talent.
Sometimes New Zealand can really piss me off.
I bought My Aim is True and I'm pretty sure that it was not on the UK version either.
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First Album Music... on 09:22 - Oct 2 with 673 views
I bought My Aim is True and I'm pretty sure that it was not on the UK version either.
I just looked it up. According to the 'My Aim Is True' Wiki page.
"Watching the Detectives", released in the UK as a single in October 1977, was not on the original UK release of the album, but was added to the US release as the last track on side one."
Not sure which one I bought first, but I guess in terms of an evolution of musical taste, Quo would be second. I was 13. I still think it's good. Don't judge me.
I just looked it up. According to the 'My Aim Is True' Wiki page.
"Watching the Detectives", released in the UK as a single in October 1977, was not on the original UK release of the album, but was added to the US release as the last track on side one."
Yes I'm sure that was the case.
It was the same with The Clash - the USA version added 'I Fought the Law' and 'White Man...'
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First Album Music... on 11:56 - Oct 2 with 598 views
Here's a tune from the first one I bought (Reel to reel cacophony). They were very new wave back then...
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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First Album Music... on 13:04 - Oct 2 with 574 views
Not sure which one I bought first, but I guess in terms of an evolution of musical taste, Quo would be second. I was 13. I still think it's good. Don't judge me.
I spy with my little eye - Carl "Kung fu fighting" Douglas if I'm not mistaken.
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Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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First Album Music... on 13:11 - Oct 2 with 558 views
I spy with my little eye - Carl "Kung fu fighting" Douglas if I'm not mistaken.
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Correct, well spotted. Stealers Wheel Stuck in the Middle and George McCrae's Rock Your Baby are probably the stand-out great tracks on there. Some fairly awful ones on there too!
Not sure which one I bought first, but I guess in terms of an evolution of musical taste, Quo would be second. I was 13. I still think it's good. Don't judge me.
If we're talking about great debut albums then this is easily my favourite. Could well be my most-played album ever, still sounds fresh and like "The Stone Roses" it heralded the arrival of a fully-formed band fresh as fugg, and fresh from somewhere none us had been before.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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