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V Deep

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40 years since this masterpiece was released I remember it well  the cover is very distinctive  and listening to it on a cold December night wish it had done better but hey that's how it goes



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Such a fantastic song. I recall Mike Read on Radio One being baffled when it was clear it had stiffed at 62. The sleeve was distinctively different (with the large Latin 1 followed by six cut out holes for the zeros in 1,000,000) but might have been a marketing error making the product hard to spot in the record shops.

 

Don't Talk To Me also great on the b side. You stitch me up and I'm tailor-made is a class line! Up there with Flirt with death but never kiss her, Justice isn't blind, it just looks the other way and Everybody tries, it's Dale Carnegie gone wild. 



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V Deep

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Yeh superb song naff cover bobs lyrics are and always have been sheer genius when you think of them in the songs

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I must say that I thought at the time that this would definitely be a top 10 hit. Peaking at 62 was criminal and weird. Also forgot about DON'T TALK TO ME which was a fantastic song too. What a great double and yet never did anything. Very strange and a great shame.

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I actualy like Charmed Lives than NIAMY.Bob sings well but the last 3rd of the song is way to boring to catch me.

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I've only heard two live versions of this. London Hammersmith June 82, and another one , possibly Glastonbury 85. Both are more or less straight reproductions of the record, no bum notes or lazy shortcuts, which is pretty amazing. I must look up other renditions of one of my favourite Rats songs. Probably played it on V Deep tour.



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I have it live on my phone but I have no idea how to post it here.

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Derek The Dane wrote:

I have it live on my phone but I have no idea how to post it here.


 

Link not working 




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I have a live version on cassette!!!!!! And I think on certain somewhere love this song my winter go to song on a cold novembernight

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Should say cdr not certain thanks spellchecker again

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Mike menzies wrote:

I have a live version on cassette!!!!!! And I think on certain somewhere love this song my winter go to song on a cold novembernight


 Where is your live version from Mike? I have London 82, and Sc_unthorpe Free Festival 85. Would be interested in obtaining any other versions, must check the bootlegs.

Got a free remastered version of the Tokyo 80 concert. Some guy has done up the sound.  

 



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Tracked down excellent quality Million Years from Milan, March 1982. Anybody who wants it let me know.



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Mines from London 1982 its on BBC recording for in concert I think I have the BBC LP of this

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