Updates 4

As usual I took a number of these albums on holiday with me to listen to on headphones, and you might not be surprised to hear that two of them were the recent U2 and Bruce Springsteen albums. U2 was pretty good, but I just felt the gap between the first two tracks could be a few seconds shorter, and I've trimmed the beginning to 'Smile'. Springsteen was pretty much perfect, but the extended coda I had to add to the end of 'Reason To Believe' had some noticeable joins, so I've smoothed them out.

The only other album that I felt could do with an upgrade was 'I Need A New Adventure 'by Television, where I've trimmed the beginning to 'Last Night', and also to 'The Dream's Dream', as well as removing the acetate surface noise at the beginning, and giving it a better ending. 

Most of the others sounded fine, but I haven't actually listened to all of them yet, so if I do find anything wrong later I'll upgrade them and let you know. 

Lastly, Paul over at albumsthatshouldexist has found an extra couple of tracks that I could have included in my recent post from Sade, so I've added those in to make a more acceptable 49-minute album. 

All post are updated on Soulseek, and new links for all four posts are in the download folder.

Television - I Need A New Adventure (1978)

Following the unexpected (but totally deserved) success of their debut album 'Marquee Moon', Television had the unenviable task of recording a second album that wouldn't disappoint the fans. Convening at Bearsville Studios, the band recorded a number of songs that they were considering for the album, which was to be called 'Adventure'. They later moved to The Record Plant and Soundmixers Studios in New York and started again from scratch, and those were the versions of the songs that made it onto the finished record. Surprisingly, the title track was one of the Bearsville recordings which was left off the album, although the ones that did make it were all worthy of inclusion. It's generally agreed that, while never being able to live up to the reputation of it's predecessor, 'Adventure' is a great album, with some of their best songs tucked away on there. I ran across this CD online, which contains the tracks recorded at Bearsville, and includes alternate versions of songs that were later re-recorded, a few instrumentals, some of which later had vocals added, and that elusive title track. The original CD had sixteen tracks, but there were a couple of duplicate takes of the same song, and some instrumentals that didn't really work without the vocals, so I've trimmed it down to include just the best of the out-takes for a concise 47 minute alternative 'Adventure'. The full CD is fairly easy to track down if you want to hear the whole thing, but you aren't really missing much. 

Track listing

01 Ain't That Nothing

02 Adventure

03 Careful

04 Days

05 Up All Night

06 Glory

07 Last Night (The Piano Song)

08 The Dream's Dream

09 Grip Of Love

10 The Fire