Two Words, One Answer.
Wave Ball
 Atlas Homewares 163-O 3-1/2-Inch The Classics Collection Ball/Wave Pull, Aged Bronze $8.70 ATLAS" BALL/WAVE PULL Length: 3.5" Width: 5" Projection: 1.25" Center To Center Spread: 3" Aged bronze Bagged  Welcome to the Wonderful World of Ed Ball $16.99 1. Give Me Some Love 2. Lundi Bleu 3. Colour Of My Love 4. Kiss Me 5. I Helped Patric McGoohan Escape 6. Manchester 7. Translucence 8. Another Star In Heaven 9. Sorry I've Written A Melody 10. Will Success Spoil Frank Summit 11. Losing My Grip 12. On The Peace Line (At The Astradome) 13. Baby Girl 14. We Love Malcolm 15. Cloud Over Liverpool 16. Palatial 17. Blue Fire 18. Finnegans Break 19. Ballad Of Georgie Best 20. No Love On Haight Street 21. This Is London 22. Up Against It 23. Snow 24. All I Want Is You To Care ----------- Thanks to the lack of album attribution, as well as inscrutable selection logic and mad sequencing by compiler (and Creation boss and one-album Times member) Alan McGee, novices won't be able to glean much more than a random sense of career highlights from the two CDs of Welcome to the Wonderful World of Ed Ball. As an introduction, it's a delightful journey that leads those not already familiar down a blind alley. The primeval "We Love Malcolm" (a 1978 rewrite of a Television Personalities song by the pre-Times O-Level) follows a 1993 dub track that mixes raggamuffin toaster Tippa Irie into a Scritti Politti song. Whoa! The Times' ingenious mod kernels (1983's "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" and "This Is London") are set next to more modern bits of whimsy (like 1989's scene-ribbing "Manchester" from the acid-synched E Is for Edward) and theatrical ambition ("Up Against It," the title track of an album based on Joe Orton's rejected script for a Beatles movie); among the stranger juxtapositions are a delightful (if badly pronounced) French version of New Order's "Blue Monday" next to eleven endless minutes of Love Corporation's club-pumping "Give Me Some Love." This hodgepodge won't encourage many converts from the vast audience segment that has never encountered Ball's amazing adventures in style, but those who have some idea of his unchartable course will find plenty of times to enjoy |
|
