w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

I know - it's taken me nearly four years to buy it.

But you know, don't you, when you hear the first few bars of the first track of a previously-unheard album, that you are going to love it.

Vintage, classic, unmistakeable, trademark stuff. It arrived just as I was leaving to visit my parents and expecting 90mph performance*, I fed the CD player's slot and pulled off the drive. Barely half an hour later, a vaguely familiar track kicked in.

Had I not picked up on a released single that hadn't registered its source with me? Nah, impossible, I'd recognise 'em from 5,000 miles away. Glancing down at the display, I noticed that Track 1 had made a surely premature reappearance?

Yep, a CD that lasts 32 minutes and 33 seconds. Now guys, you used to be able to manage two sides of a vinyl album back in the Seventies, so that was 40 minutes worth.

And I know that if it was played at normal speed, it might be a 45-minute CD; but then it wouldn't be you and it wouldn't be fun.

But 32 minutes? Good job there's not a duff track on it!

A very kind 'stranger' has left some helpful instructions on how to reconcile my banner problems, so I will try my hand at this HTML stuff and see how we do. Whether I succeed, or whether I don't, thank you again for the considerable trouble you took to help me out.**

* Me and The Band (sorry, Officer)

** Update: That's very close to what I was after. Merci, mam'selle. x