Old Enough to Forget

This was a watershed album for me. For a couple of years from '81 through '83 I listened to a lot of Christian music. Some good, some really good and a lot of really ... really questionable stuff that was truly awful. At the time I played Colours a lot ... I mean, A LOT. Even at the time despite my desire to like everything on it, the album was felt wildly uneven but I ... did ... not ... care. I loved this record. I'd first heard Resurrection Band in the spring of 1981 (sometimes memories do have a time stamp) when a friend played the opening track to their 1978 album Awaiting Your Reply. "Waves" sounded like Led Zeppelin, which at the time wasn't actually a selling feature for me. People may not remember but there was a time not that long ago when music like this was controversial. Many of the televangelist talking heads proclaimed this was THE DEVIL'S MUSIC. What Resurrection Band and their contemporaries were doing was truly out of the ordinary for Ch...

I have one album in my collection that is actually new, not old new, NEW new. This is it. It's an  album I got because I took part in a fundraising campaign to help Jeff realize his dream of putting out an album on vinyl. I also got it because I felt guilty for making fun of his desire to release an album that was recorded digitally and then put it out on plastic to have that "warmth" only vinyl can deliver. He took offence at this (and rightly so) and defended his desire, proceeding to outline how it was recorded, and mixed specifically to enhance the vinyl experience. Incidentally quite a number of my favourite albums decades ago were full digital recordings that sounded awesome on record - yeah, I'm specifically thinking of In Transit by SAGA- it was also one of the first CDs, so there. He may have a point, or it may just be an ear placebo. What REALLY enhanced the experience was having a big old album cover to hold on to, with a nice insert. I also have the CD...