Excerpt from the 32 page booklet with "Recollected", featuring essays by Chris Adams, Richard Adams, John Clyde Evans, Andrew Johnson, Odd Nosdam, David Hemingway and Scott Heim.
Pre-Order
"Whilst my peers were partying, “finding themselves” and generally having the time of their lives, I was whiling away the precious summer between 6
th form and University working at a balloon warehouse. Every day my walkman (noise reduction off, bass boost on, chrome tape function used as required) would repeatedly play to me the sketches which would become “Rustic Houses”. I’d take the scenic route to the industrial estate listening away in the hope that the inspiration would come. Before I knew it we’d been whisked away to Bristol to flesh out our half baked ideas. In Bristol I felt everything really coming together. I remember sitting on the step outside the studio hearing everyone clattering away and proclaiming loudly to no-one, “we’re the goddamn Velvet Underground”. I’d failed to twig at such a young age that Lou Reed probably didn’t have the added responsibility of having to send a crate of novelty balloons to a village fete first thing on Monday morning."
.....continued..........
About richard
hood and declining winter guy.
Excerpt from the 32 page booklet with "Recollected", featuring essays by Chris Adams, Richard Adams, John Clyde Evans, Andrew Johnson, Odd Nosdam, David Hemingway and Scott Heim.
Pre-Order
"Whilst my peers were partying, “finding themselves” and generally having the time of their lives, I was whiling away the precious summer between 6th form and University working at a balloon warehouse. Every day my walkman (noise reduction off, bass boost on, chrome tape function used as required) would repeatedly play to me the sketches which would become “Rustic Houses”. I’d take the scenic route to the industrial estate listening away in the hope that the inspiration would come. Before I knew it we’d been whisked away to Bristol to flesh out our half baked ideas. In Bristol I felt everything really coming together. I remember sitting on the step outside the studio hearing everyone clattering away and proclaiming loudly to no-one, “we’re the goddamn Velvet Underground”. I’d failed to twig at such a young age that Lou Reed probably didn’t have the added responsibility of having to send a crate of novelty balloons to a village fete first thing on Monday morning."
.....continued..........
i might of bought this 10 years ago when i cherished owning everything you put out on vinyl or cd, but in the digital age i already have all this transferred on my iPod and can’t see the point. please put out some new music!
nope, no point at all if you already have it. apart from for the packaging, booklet & the unreleased tracks unless of course they’ve leaked already which wouldn’t surprise me at all. not too much point either in putting out new music partly due to that very reason ; )
wow…i love that:)
I ordered my box set as soon as I heard it was available. Why would I do that, when I already have all of Hood’s albums and eps and singles and nearly all of the previously unreleased tracks? Well, because this is/was a truly great band that brought me hours of pleasure and years of introspective discomfort and beauty.
This is a band I dearly respect.
I never got to see Hood live (I live in New Mexico, USA). But I would gladly have paid $30 or more to do so. I own one Hood t-shirt that I ordered via the post, but I would have certainly bought another t-shirt or a hoodie or whatever I could afford at a concert to help support them.
The box set is lovely and the remastering is fine and the whole package is well worth the $$$. The bonus songs (for those of you who never tracked down these goodies on various blog sites) are mostly splendid and a half dozen of them are indispensable to any Hood fan. And now they sound perfect (or perfectly imperfect, as has always been the case with Hood).
When I look at my iPod it shows that I have 245 Hood tracks in all. A treasure trove, if you ask me.