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Durutti Column - The Guitar and Other Machines LP and Cassette (Venture) 1988



^Earlier this Summer I was in Milwaukee digging at Bullseye Records, and I saw the sealed cassette (shown upper left) for a mere 99 cents. Knowing I'd never find the record I was ecstatic to find it for barely under a dollar in any form.

This album was released in 1987 on Factory records and then reincarnated a few times for worldwide distribution ever since. In my neck of the woods, finding this on CD and tape is easy but finding it on record... good luck! Well, along came the luck of the Irish and I found it online nearby for a great deal on wax only a month after buying it on tape. That's the way the ball bounces, sometimes when it rains, it pours.

Oh yeah... the music, well if you don't know Durutti Column they dropped the infamous album killer, which had a sandpaper cover designed to destroy other covers that slide against it. Rock on!

The band is fairly impossible to put a basic description on them overall. However, this album is as the title minimally describes, ambient sounds over guitar jazz and rock. It's really free-form and surprisingly sweet at times. There's some moments of 80s synth that are a bit dated, but really, it's an impressive example of how versatile the guitar can sound. These guys as a band are impressive in many facets, but their range, their creativity from album to album is what I love about them the most.

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I'm a huge fan of the Durutti Column, but that is one of their albums I don't have. I highly recommend the first three albums, as well as the album "Vini Reilly". Most of these albums have been reissued in one form or another over the years as well, so they shouldn't be too hard to find if you look around. Whatever you do, don't buy the 4 Men with Beards/Plain editions of those.

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The Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column

Here is my vinyl copy of the album. This was a fancy reissue done by Factory Benelux a year or two ago, complete with a redesigned version of the sandpaper jacket.

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The The - Mind Bomb

Not sure how to describe this...artsy pop music of the highest order. If you like this type of thing, you definitely need a few albums by Matt Johnson/The The in your collection.

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The Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column

Here is my vinyl copy of the album. This was a fancy reissue done by Factory Benelux a year or two ago, complete with a redesigned version of the sandpaper jacket.

That's the version I have too, the one that came with a bonus 7" and the sandpaper jacket. It's a wonderful album.

As cool as the sandpaper cover idea is, it's easily gotta be the most difficult to deal with design. First off, I know it's supposed to rub up against other record covers to destroy them, that's why it's called the album killer, but yeah, no thanks says my other albums on either side. And small amounts of sand is coming off the thing which as you can probably deduce, it's not good for vinyl when it gets on the grooves. So I put the sandpaper cover all alone by itself in a glossy plastic outer sleeve. Then I put the records in a separate plastic outer sleeve that holds the cover's outer sleeve which keeps the vinyl away from the sand completely.

I thought Kanye West's cover on "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was a pain in the ass, then I got the RZA - Liquid Swords Chess box which was the new pain in the ass album cover, and then this came along and said fuck you I got sand on me so it is my new most cumbersome cover. Yet despite that I gotta say I still love the album. I think I would have been just as happy without the sandpaper cover though but then I wouldn't have this story to tell so who knows.

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