Robyn Hitchcock-Storefront Hitchcock-Music From The Jonathan Demme Picture (1998)

 



Artist: Robyn Hitchcock

Title: Storefront Hitchcock-Music From The Jonathan Demme Picture

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: CD

Cat #: 9 46846-2

Year of Release: 1998

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1998 Promo

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 4/10/21

Sell Price: $3.49

Discogs Last Sold: 2/18/21 $3.00

Low: $1.75

Median: $3.00

Average: $3.16

High: $4.49

Current low price: $2.75

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20

Have/Want: 244/7

Where Sold: Washington, DC

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: Sounds NYC St. Marks used promo when released

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No

Not my favorite Robyn Hitchcock.  It's not BAAAD, some hits etc.  I haven't seen the movie so I can't comment on that.  I've seen Robyn a handful of times in different Boston settings.  One time was a surprise solo gig at the Rat in around 1989, and that summer after at Berklee Performance Center with the Egyptians.  I kept up on his releases throughout the 90's in "play once, file away" fashion, dropped off and caught up in the half.com era through the mid aughts.  This particular release I saw in the used CD bin around the time it came out.  I never knew until today that the vinyl version was a double with 5 extra tracks not on the CD.  A reversal as the download era was not quite upon us in full force and the compact disc was the prefered medium.  The other thing that makes me scurry for the studio versions is the tepid seated venue response of the audience between tracks.  Rapt and adoring and seemingly well heeled even if you hear an ecstatic "Yeah!" or polite applause.  Do I really want them in my Robyn Hitchcock experience?

So anyway, I attempted to do a bedtime listen with headphone around midnight and lasted 3 songs in (including narrative intros).  I awoke at 2am, headphones on issuing silence.  The rest played subliminally.   Thus, I am writing this after listening to it again from the start including the 3 songs I heard last night, none of which rang a bell from the past.  I did remember them and their accompanying intros when I didn't need to rehear, but wanted to experience that CD version (as track 1 proudly exclaims) in all it's start to finish glory as ripped in 320 kbs on my desktop.    The opening "1974" also on A Star For Bram (bought in the mid-aughts for 75 cents on half.com in a 5 cd Hitchcock catchup frenzy of that eras releases) was a nice tribute to the year.  I was 4 then so I don't remember it quite the same way.   

"The Yip Song" from Respect, the first Hitchcock album I didn't buy upon release  when I decided I liked him hearing I Often Dream of Trains and decided around Globe of Frogs I had to have everything he released in my collection. That feeling lasted until Eye, but I kept checking in another 10-15 years until I stopped caring about the illusion of completism.  Funny that Moss Elixer I thought I ignored completely, but my favorite track "Alright, Yeah" was indeed on that.  

In 1986,  I had a problem with Hitchcock and Teardrop Explodes/Julian Cope.  Syd Barrett disciples that sounded nothing like Syd Barrett!  Heresy! 

 I got over it, and learned to love them both. 


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