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Created on Monday, 10th November 2008, 21:36
Change Submitted by Si Wooldridge
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• Change #1 - "ll. There are songs that I like on both albums, but they don't do as much for me as SOR onwards, although I only picked that up for the first time after Rage In Eden when someone gave it to me as a discarded birthday present when I was 14. I missed Foxx initially as I was living in Germany from 76 to 85 so could only really go from Smash Hits, Top Of The Pops and Tommy Vance's Top 40 programme, which I'm sure was a Top 20 at that point. I remember The Sun printing chart listings (again Top 20) every week, but I didn't really have the reference points to recognise a lot of the stuff I was seeing. Numan also got a lot of stick for copying Bowie if I remember correctly but the one thing he's been consistent about is name checking SOR as his biggest influence on his early music. I never really got into Metamatic either, maybe if I'd heard it at the time it would be a different story. Aside from a couple singles (Underpass and Endlessly), my first album exposure to Foxx was The Golden Section, which I still believe is the finest things he's done. I've bought a couple of his latest albums, not really into the ambient Cathedral Oceans series, and a lot of his recent stuff tends to be too long and drawn out techno-esque music at the moment. Which, talking about My Sex, reminds me of when I went to see him on the Crash And Burn tour in Glasgow back in '03 I think. I was near the front of the stage when Foxx started 'My Sex waits for me...', and a slightly inebriated young lady just behind me yelled 'Never mind my sex, just show us your c*ck!'. Very funny, Louie Gordon almost collapeThere are songs that I like on both albums (My Sex, Hiroshima Mon Amour for example), but they don't do as much for me as complete recordings as SOR onwards, although I only picked that up for the first time after Rage In Eden when someone gave it to me as a discarded birthday present when I was 14. I missed Foxx initially as I was living in Germany from 76 to 85 so could only really go from Smash Hits, Top Of The Pops and Tommy Vance's Top 40 programme, which I'm sure was a Top 20 at that point. I remember The Sun printing chart listings (again Top 20) every week, but I didn't really have the reference points to recognise a lot of the stuff I was seeing. Numan also got a lot of stick, for copying Bowie if I remember correctly, but the one thing he's been consistent about is name checking SOR as his biggest influence on his early music. I never really got into Metamatic either, maybe if I'd heard it at the time it would be a different story. Aside from a couple of singles (Underpass and Endlessly), my first album exposure to Foxx was The Golden Section, which I still believe is the finest thing he's done. I've bought a couple of his latest albums, not really into the ambient Cathedral Oceans series, and a lot of his recent stuff tends to be too long and drawn out techno-esque music at the moment. Which, talking about My Sex, reminds me of when I went to see him on the Crash And Burn tour in Glasgow back in '03 I think. I was near the front of the stage when Foxx started 'My Sex waits for me...', and a slightly inebriated young lady just behind me yelled 'Never mind my sex, just show us your c*ck!'. Very funny, Louie Gordon almost collapsed"

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Created on Monday, 10th November 2008, 21:33
First Submitted by Si Wooldridge