When I was living in Fitzroy everyone I know was into Magazine. Personally I couldn't stand them. Well mostly it was Howard Devoto's voice I didn't like much. The first single Shot By Both Sides was magnificent of course but after that I wasn't interested. It was all a little depressing. And you couldn't get away from them. I was doing a Little Murders interview on 3CR with Michael Lynch and he kept going on about Magazine too and their latest album. I had to check it out because this love of Magazine was doing my head in. And I found this single on it. And it was totally brilliant. I didn't buy the album . I bought the import single. Basically for almost the same price as the local version of the album. I was going through a phase of just having singles and pruning the albums. I was singles mad. If I could find all the singles off an album I would buy them and sell the album. I guess I got a little too excessive in my pruning and I've since bought many of those albums again when they came out on CD.
I loved my singles. Once I went down for a holiday at Lorne at my girlfriend's beach house. Along with clothes I loaded up two boxes of singles and a portable record player I bought from school. Loaded them into the back of her Valiant. That night after spending the day avoiding sunburn at the beach we sat around playing records and drinking wine. Brilliant!
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