Stones are so unique
People get bored by being unable to find two the same
And anyway the differences are superficial
Though the stones don't think so
In this way, stones are a bit like people
Except they think more and say less
And don't complain
God bless stones!
You could build a whole way of life, a weltanschauung if you will, out of those few lines. And maybe alternative philosophies from other pieces on this album. But those are my favourite lines. It makes you wonder if nuclear annihilation mightn't be such a bad idea after all, as the wisdom of the stones would live on. Not that Ivor would have endorsed that inference. The back of the album says "Vote Ecology Party" and "Porritt for P.M." I may well have bought this album during the one year I was a member of the Ecology Party, as it was still called then, at the end of which I left because I thought it was too hierarchical, comrade. Jonathan Porritt remains, I think, the only person I've ever stalked. I spotted him on Trinity Street just before he was due to address a meeting of the Fabian Society. I followed him into a newsagents and saw him buy a tube of strong mints, then I followed him out again and into the meeting. Actually I may have spoken to him between shop and meeting; I can't remember.
Anyway, this record is very much rooted in that time. Of course, I came to it via John Peel's patronage, though Cutler was unusual in those far off days for being featured on Radio 1, Radio 3 and Radio 4 (I'm not sure about Radio 4) — nowadays anything goes, and no network is guaranteed free of NWA or Burial.
Bizarrely I can't find anywhere on the net that has this album available for sale. Let me know if you can.
Now I know you've been on tenter hooks since I teased you last summer at the end of my entry about Electric Phoenix concerning the other album that Phoenix-member Linda Hirst would appear on. I hope you agree it's been worth the wait.
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