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Faris Badwan recommended City to City by Gerry Rafferty in Music (curated)

 
City to City by Gerry Rafferty
City to City by Gerry Rafferty
1978 | Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
5.7 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I think this might be one of my least favourite sleeves of all time. It's truly awful. That style of dodgy seventies graphic artwork is fucking disgusting. It almost looks like the side of a waltzer, but that actually makes it sound a little better because I'm a big funfair fan. To the point where I actually went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on my own once, but more about that later. I think this sleeve is really fucking horrible and the record only just about redeems it. ‘Baker Street' is the one everyone knows with the long sax solo, but there's another song called ‘Right Down The Line' which is really cool. It was actually Honor [Titus] from Cerebral Ballzy that introduced me to that song. There's a lot more narrative here than in most of my interviews."

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Around The World On A C90 Cassette by Dave Coppenhall
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Album Favorite

"This one I'm not sure I can have because it's in such short supply. It's by graphic designer Dave Coppenhall who designed Wire's Send sleeve, he's a wholly amateur musicologist. I have a tape that Dave made of ethnic music which he gave to me and about 20 or 30 other people in '82 - Brian Eno has one. It has the most minute handwriting on it, probably 50 tracks, all his research, his buying of records. It's one of the most valuable things that anyone has ever given me. All these other things are very westernised, really. This collection that Dave made is just extraordinary, it blows your brains out every time. Mouth organ music for the dead from Madagascar - yes please! Pygmy greetings, music which was functional. [gestures at list] This is all music that has been commodified."

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