Go listen to Preservation 1 & 2. What were you gonna spin? The Soft Boys? Don’t listen to the fucking Soft Boys. Have some respect for yourself, man.
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Or you could listen to the Kinks soundtrack album from the film “Percy,” based on the same-named novel by Raymond Hitchcock, father of the Soft Boys’ Robyn. Quite the cast. Quite the concept. Quite the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw6mxr8NOBY
(What’s wrong with my brain that I knew that, and that the connection occurred to me immediately when I read this post?)
I had actually been avoiding Percy because I thought it was like Queen’s Flash soundtrack, just snippets of background music. But it is damn fine.
I hadn’t heard it since the mid-’70s, but also gave it a full Youtube spin last night and, yeah, good stuff!
But I just can’t do much of Ray’s “music hall” concept album period. I think the compare/contrast is what made me like “Low Budget” and “Give the People . . .” so much when they came out.
30 years on , and still True philosophy, ‘only the stones remain’