Dave Edmunds - "Slipping Away"

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   Another CD that I spotted is missing from the on-line database. Although now long out-of-print, this song's original 1983 parent album, Information, was issued on CD here in the U.S. in the mid to late '80s, on Columbia CK 38651. I don't have the CD myself, but have run across it once or twice over the last five years while out on my record-store travels. (Bought the cassette back when "Slipping Away" was still riding the charts - another forgotten gem!). Photos on Discogs: DAVE EDMUNDS - "Information" (U.S. CD) There also seems to currently be one copy on eBay, if the pre-filled "information" is to be believed: DAVE EDMUNDS - "Information" (U.S. CD)

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80smusicfreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: October 14 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 527	Post Options Post Reply Quote 80smusicfreak Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Dave Edmunds - "Slipping Away" Posted: September 30 2014 at 8:47PM
	Another CD that I spotted is missing from the on-line database. Although now long out-of-print, this song's original 1983 parent album, Information, was issued on CD here in the U.S. in the mid to late '80s, on Columbia CK 38651. I don't have the CD myself, but have run across it once or twice over the last five years while out on my record-store travels. (Bought the cassette back when "Slipping Away" was still riding the charts - another forgotten gem!). Photos on Discogs: DAVE EDMUNDS - "Information" (U.S. CD) There also seems to currently be one copy on eBay, if the pre-filled "information" is to be believed: DAVE EDMUNDS - "Information" (U.S. CD)

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: September 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2273	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 02 2014 at 7:44AM
	I used to own that Columbia CD. Aside: I'm a huge fan of the Rockpile-era Dave Edmunds/Nick Lowe solo albums, but I didn't really like most of Information. To my ears Information still sounds much more like an ELO album than a Dave Edmunds album. Still, anything that can get a top 40 hit for Dave Edmunds is OK in my book, and "Slipping Away" is a great single. For "Slipping Away", there's a differently EQ'd digital clone of Information on Sony's 2-CD Read The Hits (1994), which is a really fantastic collection and should be much cheaper than the Dave Edmunds solo disc. There's another differently EQ'd digital clone on Realm's 3-CD Greatest Hits Of The '80s Vol. 1 (1995), which has lots of overlap with the songs on Read The Hits. All of the above sound pretty good, considering that the sound on "Slipping Away" is really compressed to begin with. The sound of "Slipping Away" on Rhino's 2-CD Anthology is excellent, and I used Anthology for my own library, but the others are very close. Edited by crapfromthepast
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80smusicfreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: October 14 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 527	Post Options Post Reply Quote 80smusicfreak Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 02 2014 at 1:52PM
	I still have my original cassette of Information to this day - however, I admit I probably haven't listened to it all the way through in some 25 years, so I don't recall the overall vibe. :-) According to Wikipedia, Jeff Lynne was involved w/ only two of the 11 songs on the album: the title track and "Slipping Away". I have three or four of his solo albums on cassette (same w/ Nick Lowe), as well as Rockpile's Seconds of Pleasure, but don't yet have anything on CD. Overall, though, I generally liked Edmunds' stuff, and wouldn't mind adding the 2-CD Anthology to my collection - just wish it wasn't out-of-print! I'm pretty sure I do have the 2-CD Read the Hits compilation packed away somewhere...