Finally got my CD and listened to it the first time last Friday... It was worth all waiting
I’d like to say that the fact that it’s not a new album, the fact that I've already known the songs for the past fifteen years, I already had a strong emotional bond to them: that’s exactly what made the experience of listening to this redux extremely intimate. Like, sorry for being vulgar but you know, like someone you’ve known for years is suddenly fumbling with your private parts in a whole new way?
Anyway, I put my headphones on and pressed play...
Water... And it happened to be almost full moon outside... I was spaced out for half a minute with a wide grin on my face and then simply burst out laughing. The purifying laughter of positive disbelief. It sounded ridiculously great. The bass and drums....... I probably wore this stupid expression of pure awe, while I kept bursting out laughing. I cannot remember what made me feel so happy last time.
It must be all the layers of old memories being dug out from dry clay, but this time the soil was suddenly fresh. It was rather a purely sonic experience. Some serious, spontaneous archaeology was ongoing somewhere deep. With
Red Earth... the sound was just too much, I found myself suddenly bawling like a child and couldn't stop. I had to stop the album for a while and finish my crying-like-a-baby -session. After, I managed to behave move civilized for the rest of the album.
First I was a bit sceptical that the song order had also been changed instead of just leaving it as it was and put the extra songs to the end... But no, this has been properly thought through.
What an emotional roller-coaster ride.
