This weekend sees the anniversary of the release of Bilndfolded as video on YouTube (uploaded to YT 4 September 2014). Seemingly it is not recognised as being a single release. Wikipedia deems Honest Town as the lead single release for the Big Music album – but the first new music I heard from SM when becoming a fan was Blindfolded.
When I look at Dream Giver Redux, Simon mentions that Blindfolded was played on Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable on BBC Radio 6 Music. I’m not sure if I listened in to the program. I get the feeling I must have. The video was posted on YT the same day, so I either listened to Lamacq’s show, or saw the clip. Either way, Blindfolded was definitely the first new music of theirs that I heard as a new fledged “diehard”.
And I fucking loved it! And I still do. And what an opener to the album! I thought that if Blindfolded was anything to go by, the whole album would be AMAZING!
I guess I chose to highlight this due to Jim’s post today (assuming it was Jim – there was no sign-off today…so who knows?) which seemed to be about fans finding SM again.
I’ve never really been too sure how to qualify my own fandom. Did I rekindle mine? That would make it sound like I was REALLY into them and then not. But it never felt like that. They always felt like one of my “other bands I like” kind of thing….you know? One of the ones you listen to when you’re looking for a change, or bored of your “regulars”. Lol. Now they ARE the regular and when I listen to something new or different it’s from feeling in a Minds rut. Not that I feel “in a rut”, as such. I think after 8 years of fandom, I’ve finally just….come to a nice equilibrium. It’s been a looooooong time coming. I genuinely thought it never would do.
I fell asleep listening to them every night….EVERY NIGHT…for a solid 7 years. I might listen to them now maybe two nights a week. That seems more – stable. Normal. Lol
As for Blindfolded itself? Holy heck! Charlie’s guitar work is just killer! I love the video too – it’s like Chemical Brothers Star Guitar meets Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi. You know what I’ll say next. Lol. The lyrics – I love the lyrics! That bloody Kerr…he’s not bad at this “writing lyrics” lark, eh?
As a side note, my very first trip to Scotland was to Edinburgh to see a screening of Koyaanisqatsi with an interview and Q and A with Philip Glass afterwards. Never dreamed back then that I’d be living here.
Funny how life goes…
Happy MMM.