Archive for May, 2010
May 28, 2010
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iPad robbery and smuggery
By Ash in RandomSounds to me like the staff are all chanting “Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick! Dick!”
May 23, 2010
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[Download] Unsound – Everything For A Reason
By Ash in Musical Murmurings
Some time between 1998 and 2000, I worked with Dan Harvey on the Unsound album. To some extent, we thought it was going to be the making of us. I don’t know how we ended up making music together, but we did. It was a mostly stoned affair, with a good deal of travelling and learning in between. If anything, the album shows how talented a programmer Dan was. He probably still is but, like most of my musical sojourns, Unsound resulted in an acrimonious split. I went on to form rubbish rock group after rubbish rock group and lost touch with Dan altogether.
What Everything For A Reason represents is a recorded musical snapshot of our teen years spilling into early twenties. Many of the faces adorning the insert of the CD had made significant impact on our lives.
So, a decade has passed and much has changed. There was to be no ‘Ten Year Anniversary’ digipack edition of our only album. No pundits have lauded over its ingenuity, depth of songwriting or sense of adventure. No, hundreds of CDs went unsold; gigs went unheard; opportunities went unseized. We played a gig in Switzerland. It was mostly a mess. There’s probably a recording of it somewhere in the country – on minidisk.
Well, here is the whole album available for download in whatever format you choose. Yes, it has dated. But you can still hear a raw, confused passion for music in there. I remember the day I got a response from James Endeacott at Rough Trade asking to hear more. We sent the whole album and never heard back again. I remember calling up labels asking what they thought of the album and getting one response that simply said, “Disgusting. It’s terrible.” Hard times.
After cashing in my dole cheque in Selly Oak, I’d frequently walk over to Dan’s with nothing but bad news, afraid to share it. Our dreams fell away, as did our friendship.
So, seeing as no-one else cares about the album, here’s my track-by-track listing as I imagined appearing in that glorious digipack:
