{"id":4688,"date":"2023-01-23T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2023-01-23T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:05:13","slug":"gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to overdo the “old goth music” thing, honest, but I felt that the re-release of Gift<\/a> was worth mentioning as I’d waffled about First and Last and Always<\/em><\/a> recently.
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The Gift<\/i> cover. It’s black.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I’d fancied a copy of Gift for the last few years, but it hadn’t been produced for some time: the last official release being in 1994, and a bootleg in 2009<\/a>– and copies were changing hands for far more than I was prepared to pay- rarity pushed prices up. The album is, after all, quite short, and is what amounts to a fast release to claim an advance (and probably upset Wayne Hussey).<\/p>\n

So it was nice to see Cadiz Music, a company that really need someone to look at their website<\/a> (Wix, FFS?), re-release it, for just over a tenner (prices seem volatile- just after I got it, it dropped to under \u00a39, but is currently selling for \u00a314)<\/p>\n

As it is: it’s an interesting point in between First and Last and Always<\/a><\/em> and Floodland<\/a><\/em>, and you know what? It’s not bad. Colours<\/em> we’ve almost heard before, on CD releases of Floodland, and Giving Ground<\/a><\/em> is obviously the single (even in this over 7-minute version with an obvious jump about 6:30 in) and given that<\/p>\n

\nThe reviews in the music press were unanimously negative\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

but I can’t help but agree with what Andrew Eldritch said:<\/p>\n

\nThe Sisterhood album was a weapon in this corporate war. That’s why I called it Gift. [in German: poison] […] But I still like the record. It’s weird but it’s fine. I see it as a techno record. Or what I thought to be techno at the time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weird but fine does the job. Not to everyone’s taste, but an interesting snapshot and not a bad listen. I’d probably have been disappointed at \u00a360, but for a tenner I’m good. Andrew Eldritch there again, distancing himself from Goth \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Interestingly, it doesn’t feature Mr Eldritch singing, as otherwise WEA would have retained rights, and we’d probably have seen it before now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to overdo the “old goth music” thing, honest, but I felt that the re-release of Gift was worth mentioning as I’d waffled about First and Last and Always recently. I’d fancied a copy of Gift for the last few years, but it hadn’t been produced for some time: the last official release … Continue reading Gift<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pointless-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}