2000: Ian Anderson, Broadcast, Geddy Lee, Pram

Due to the success of the last two "One in and one out of PA" released in the year 2000 polls (any poll that gets a response is a success to me) here is a related other. One had Ian Anderson's titular (a tit is a bird) song "The Secret Language of Birds" paired with Pram "The Owl Service" (a hooter is an owl), and the other paired Broadcast's "Unchanging Window" with Geddy Lee's "Window to the World". That last poll was actually a little [window] paneful and not met as the joy to the world I had hoped, therefore I decided to go again, this time with four different songs from the same four albums while not basing it on similarities in song title.

Ian Anderson - Postcard Day



Broadcast - Papercuts



Geddy Lee - Slipping



Pram - Bewitched



Hopefully various of these choices meet approval from various of those who are already liked album these are off. That would hav been my Ian Anderson choice before had I not gone with the avian theme (and you can get papercuts from postcards had I paired Anderson and Broadcast). I'm least confident with the Geddy Lee choice.

Logan wrote:   That last poll was actually a little [window] paneful and not met as the joy to the world I had hoped,

Lewian wrote: Logan wrote:   That last poll was actually a little [window] paneful and not met as the joy to the world I had hoped, Maybe that has (at least in my case) to do with firing off polls a little too quickly, not enough time to go through all these and do them justice (meaning listening to those I don't know). I hadn't even yet seen that one. You're a pretty safe bet to come up with at least something I like or I'm interested in, but I just can't do them all if they come at current speed.

Really an excuse for a bad window pane pun. When I was in a relationship with my future wife (26 years ago, and for most of that time I have been at PA, how time flies), I wrote a terrible poem with the last line "If you should ever leave me, you would shatter me like window, pain." A future poet laureate I was not. And the Geddy Lee song was Window to the World, thus the Joy to the World song reference.

This poll came very soon after the last and was done in response to JD's response, or more like as an excuse to do another. :) His post genuinely made me laugh. I had gone for some humour with the poll and he upped that quotient, but he wasn't pleased with my selections, especially the Geddy Lee pick. I hoped he'd prefer this one. Surprisingly as it may seem to some sometimes, I do like to please.

I just went with that "Window" song to have a song from the albums that share a word in the title. I was planning to do the Broadcast versus an artist in PA and thought, "Hey, I wonder if Geddy Lee did an album that year?" I looked it up and lo and behold, that year was his only album. I knew he had made an album and probably remembered deep down that it came out at the time.

See: Windows 2000: A Geddy Lee Broadcast

I agree with you above on your choice of selection and regarding the Pram track.   That Pram track is enjoyable enough, but a bit dull to me. I was influenced by a review I read at rateyourmusic some time back for the pick. The Owl Service is my favourite from that but I haven't listened to the whole album much knowing earlier ones more (especially having listened to Helium quite a lot).

Edited by Logan - October 09 2021 at 07:39