Reply To: Community Chat – A Place for Weary Flingers

[Brian N]

Has anyone ever listened to I Trawl the Megahertz by Prefab Sprout?(Originally went out as by Paddy McAloon as he didn’t want to alienate the loyal Sprout fanbase).The reason being it’s a massive musical transformation from anything he’d previously attempted.Personally I find it mesmeric but be warned the title track opens the album and comes in at over 20 mins.(Being a fan of prog rock @desperate-dan I’m sure you’re used to that kind of malarkey).

Not quite as big a musical jump as that made by Scott Walker who went from You’ve lost that Loving  Feeling to recording something as avant-garde as The Drift(from tender love song to tenderising meat(he recorded a percussionist bashing a rump steak).This transformation didn’t happen in a oner but a critic said:

“Imagine Andy Williams morphing into Stockhausen.” Oh how we laughed.