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Music + Memory: A Personal Photography Project

Music, words and photos are important things in my life. This ongoing project is a way of trying to show the special memories that  specific music has for me and talking a little bit about them. I'll also try to make a photo that captures some of what they make me feel.


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Barbra Streisand - Wet

May 07, 2016 in Music + Memory Blog

WHAT Barbra Streisand - Wet
WHEN Glascoed Royal Ordnance Factory Social Club - Summer 1980
 
Endless summer nights at 'the Club'.
Coke in classic bottles. 
Pub crisps.
And it felt like this tape was playing all the time.

This was the end of an era. It was the final summer I spent in our tiny village primary school (70 pupils) before transferring to the much larger comprehensive school (1100 pupils). We also moved that summer from the Factoryโ€™s on-site โ€˜married quartersโ€™ (population 200) to the village (population 2000). New house, new school, new friends, new music.

Listening to it 36 years later is, predictably, a mixed bag. The UK might have been punk for three years but that hadnโ€™t reached Streisandโ€™s Malibu bunker. It has the sticky sheen of West Coast music biz glossy excess plastered over it. You donโ€™t have to call in Time Team to date it. 

A concept album based around water? OK! A soft porn hot tub album cover? Yes! Car crash arrangements of flabby disco being choked by wigged-out guitar solos and sickly string sections? Uh huh!  The version of โ€œSplish Splashโ€ is excruciating. Butโ€ฆ   โ€œWetโ€, โ€œKiss Me in the Rainโ€ and โ€œNo More Tearsโ€ (with Donna Summer) can still hold their heads up. A decent cover version by the likes of Feist or Rhiannon Giddens could rehabilitate them for less decadent times. 

Parts of this album are still scored deeply into my brain. If you say to me โ€œItโ€™s raining, itโ€™s pouringโ€ฆโ€, my follow-up line will always be โ€œmy love life is boringโ€, not โ€œthe old man is snoringโ€. Thanks Barbra. Who knows what other pinko liberal mantras sheโ€™s planted deep in my subconscious?

Now the Glascoed Royal Ordnance Factory Social Club is shuttered and decaying. Barbraโ€™s tape looks like itโ€™s gone through the wars. Time moves on.

Tags: Barbara Streisand, Wet, Glascoed
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