http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/05/21/finn_sorkin/ Music matters as if music mattered Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/05/21/finn_sorkin/comment-page-1/#comment-69 shacker Thu, 24 May 2007 05:39:05 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/05/21/finn_sorkin/#comment-69 Neil Finn... there's a name I haven't heard for 25 years! In the early 80s I bought a copy of "True Colors" from Cheap Thrills, took it home, pulled the LP from its sleeve, and watched the light dance prismatically off the laser-etched vinyl. I've never seen another LP use that etching technique, which is surprising unless the process was prohibitively expensive (but more expensive than picture discs, which there have been hundreds, if not thousands of?) I did love the record at the time for more than the dazzling vinyl - it's a tight period example of pop/new wave at its apex - but I had assumed Finn had sunk beneath the waters of the 80s along with Styx and 38 Special (not that I'm comparing them). Not that any of that has anything whatsoever to do with television - just reminiscing out loud. Neil Finn… there’s a name I haven’t heard for 25 years! In the early 80s I bought a copy of “True Colors” from Cheap Thrills, took it home, pulled the LP from its sleeve, and watched the light dance prismatically off the laser-etched vinyl. I’ve never seen another LP use that etching technique, which is surprising unless the process was prohibitively expensive (but more expensive than picture discs, which there have been hundreds, if not thousands of?) I did love the record at the time for more than the dazzling vinyl – it’s a tight period example of pop/new wave at its apex – but I had assumed Finn had sunk beneath the waters of the 80s along with Styx and 38 Special (not that I’m comparing them). Not that any of that has anything whatsoever to do with television – just reminiscing out loud.

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