Sean Barrett
David GerardDead Can Dance have released their complete catalogue on Bandcamp
bigiain@davidgerard I must now listen to Spiritchaser at “sharing with neighbours” volume.
rdm@davidgerard
Oh, have they now?
(Yoink!)
@rdm thought of you when I posted it, yes ;-)
@davidgerard
In light of my recent medical episode?
In light of my recent medical episode?
@rdm nah just on general principles of what you like
@davidgerard
Fair enough, and you are completely spot-on. Although it is pretty funny, having come back from the dead and all.
Fair enough, and you are completely spot-on. Although it is pretty funny, having come back from the dead and all.
@rdm well done on resurrecting!
If you absolutely must go into cardiac arrest, doing so in an ambulance is definitely the place to do it.
@rdm crikey! i am glad you're better!
@davidgerard
Yeah, last Wednesday I was making a cuppa, and then felt a pain in my chest, pain down my arm, and started sweating.
Just a couple of months ago, I'd done my first aid ticket, and looked at what was going on, and called 000.
Ambulance turned up 8 minutes later, and just as they were about to move off, I went into arrest. Leece had just got home, and had to watch the ambulance bounce as they did CPR. They got me back in a couple of minutes (and three shocks), and I got wheeled straight into surgery on arrival at Charlies.
I now have 4 stents, and badly bruised ribs and back.
Amazingly I feel really good (aside from the sore sternum and back).
spiegelmama@rdm That is awesome! Congratulations on beating back death. So scary. @davidgerard
Jake S.@davidgerard Nice. And it's not just DCD - looks like 4AD Records has put a big chunk of their artists' catalogs up there. Pixies, Breeders, The National, etc...
db Slava Ukraini@wettpaynt @davidgerard The National have been on Bandcamp for quite a while, not sure about the others…
there is beauty in simplicity
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@davidgerard i have that one CD with the hand that was ubiquitous in 1990s yoga classes ☺
Allen Brunson@davidgerard wow. i can remember a time when i had to pay nearly a hundred bucks on an auction site to get a copy of "the serpent's egg." not sorry though. if i'd waited until now, i would have lost about 20 years' worth of listening
Ian MalcolmEek! I had no idea it had become rare or hard to acquire - my CD copy was picked up from a used record shop in the mid '90s for about $8. 😬
@imalcolm @davidgerard 4ad’s distribution was poor and spotty over the years. they would let stuff go out of print, it would be more or less unavailable for like ten years or so, then they would refill the pipeline with a remastered version or something, ad infinitum.
Ah interesting. I got most of the 4AD catalogue I was into back then (DCD, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Bauhaus) from smaller indie record stores here in Melbourne, where stock seemed to go in and out of availability according to the movement of the planets or something anyway. 😉
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4AD distribution into Ireland was through whoever Beggars Banquet were using at the time.
The bigger 4AD acts were easy to find, the smaller ones not so much.
I got the Presages sampler LP (new, a few years after release) in the bargain bin of a small independent Dublin record shop that mostly sold Metal. The shop staff didn't know who any of the bands on it were; I only recognised one of them (but bought it anyway, as I was really getting into CT and DCD).
4AD distribution into Ireland was through whoever Beggars Banquet were using at the time.
The bigger 4AD acts were easy to find, the smaller ones not so much.
I got the Presages sampler LP (new, a few years after release) in the bargain bin of a small independent Dublin record shop that mostly sold Metal. The shop staff didn't know who any of the bands on it were; I only recognised one of them (but bought it anyway, as I was really getting into CT and DCD).
@allenbrunson @imalcolm @davidgerard
The earliest Cocteau Twins CD reissues pushed each disc's running time by adding relevant Peel Session and EP tracks to each album. The idea was to justify the higher costs of the shiny new Digital Audio Disc format (as compared to dusty old vinyl).
Now, the CD and the download are almost the same price, and the vinyl costs 2x as much.
The earliest Cocteau Twins CD reissues pushed each disc's running time by adding relevant Peel Session and EP tracks to each album. The idea was to justify the higher costs of the shiny new Digital Audio Disc format (as compared to dusty old vinyl).
Now, the CD and the download are almost the same price, and the vinyl costs 2x as much.
@dec23k @imalcolm @davidgerard i can think of one time they did that:
https://www.discogs.com/release/28515-Cocteau-Twins-Garlands
... but they also released "garlands" on cd without the bonus tracks. i am pretty sure that was the only time? i have all the cocteau twins records on the original 4AD CDs, and as far as i know, the track lists are the same as the original vinyl releases.
(i didn't get into the cocteau twins until well after CDs were common, so i never bought any of that group on vinyl.)
@allenbrunson @imalcolm @davidgerard
I bought most of their albums on vinyl first, as and when I could afford them, except Garlands. It had a simultaneous LP and cassette release, and the cassette had the Peel Sessions as 4 bonus tracks, so I bought that at the time instead.
I can remember seeing at least 3 of the 1980s albums on CD in a shop in the late 1980s (on a high shelf behind the counter, not racked where I could get my paws on them), with EPs from the same year as bonus tracks.
@allenbrunson @imalcolm @davidgerard
I bought that issue of the Garlands CD, just for the additional 2 bonus tracks (and I still don't have it on vinyl). When that went out of stock, subsequent CD remasters didn't have any bonus tracks.
I didn't bother buying any of those other Cocteau Twins 1980s CD issues, because I already had the LPs and EPs on vinyl.
I'll have to dig into Discogs when I have more time, but a quick skim shows that not all of the CTwins 1980s CD releases are listed.
Frederic Thevenet@davidgerard My own CDs (well, rips from them; I'm not a monster) got a lot of play time again at home a couple of years ago, when my then-11-yo started mastering games of DnD for his friends.
Happy to reports that this next generation of adventurers got to "sit at the Prancing Pony Inn when, suddenly, a shadowy figure approached them" to the sound of the Saltarello, as Tradition would have it!
Happy to reports that this next generation of adventurers got to "sit at the Prancing Pony Inn when, suddenly, a shadowy figure approached them" to the sound of the Saltarello, as Tradition would have it!
muddle@davidgerard Nice timing. Hot on the heels of the Ides of March, we saw sagacious Caesar next...
@davidgerard (oops... it seems I've muddled up my lyrics (no pun intended))
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deadcandance/howfortunatethemanwithnone.html
Excellent news! Still have their entire catalogue on CD (I just listen to the rips nowadays, but holding onto the physical artefacts cos nostalgia) but this will hopefully make them more accessible broadly. 😎
Keith Nasman@davidgerard This wasn’t what I was expecting and a pleasant surprise. Thanks for sharing!
J.D. MacLeod 🇨🇦@davidgerard God bless Bandcamp
Luke Dorny 
@davidgerard @db thank you both. Huge dcd fan.