Double 0 Soul

Im looking at an album as a body of work by that artist, of course not every track will be a banger but it’s a capsule from that era, a piece of tangible art, it looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful, the lingo, the expression the lyrics the musicianship all reflect thoughts and feelings which will inevitably change over time, to not appreciate it as a body of work is like going to a Picasso exhibition to see Guernica, and walking past the rest of the filler hanging on the walls.. But yes, most albums do suck but a lot of them only suck in comparison, when you have very few records, very few of your records suck, when you have 1000s most of them suck.. like you say, “7 or 8 of those tracks are filler” but you only consider them to be ‘filler’ when you have 1000s of better tracks at your disposal. I'd grown up in an era of the £16 CD, this was when i was earning less than £100/wk so my CD collection had to be very carefully considered, i only bought music from artists who i aligned myself with and even then.. i'd have to save up to buy their album .. the period following / when i had a larger disposable income coincided with the era of 2x CDs for £5 from Fopp so every Saturday i would rummage around Fopp for bargain CDs.. I'd come away with something like a random Lee Perry album and The Northern Soul of Philadelphia for instance.. was this because I aligned myself with these artists? No of course not.. they were 2x for a fiver I've since reduced my CD collection down from around 2000 to around 350, it was 300 but i've bought more to fill gaps.. ..but surely the beauty still exists in the lesser? .. like the aural pain of Black Angel's Death Song .. or to quote De la Soul.. "Sometimes the body needs to feel stressed to appreciate the joy"

The 'Live' photo is hillarious!

Got up this morning and Leonard had made a new friend ..made some coffee WH 506 drying on the line after it's annual wash ..rode up to Burbage ..stopped for a drink, wearing Odd Future Vans ..rode to The Surprise View ..this is where Porsche drivers plummet to their deaths.. y'know, not paying attention, singing along to Maroon 5 on the radio.. just picked the wife up from her bi-monthly session of lip fillers and anal bleaching, rushing to get to the golf club for a Cinzano.. when all of a suden "Surprise!" and you're off the cliff.. and here's you thinking Sheffield's only contribution to society was steel and synth-pop ..it's actually just over the border in Derbyshire but that doesn't quite fit my narative. ..can you spot the chalked out routes? .. Empty Rubicon can came in handy / Keeping Britain Tidy ..Rode through Hathersage to Hope and stopped to drink my coffee at The Adventure Cafe.. my bike was far too cool and aloof to mix with the others. ..lovely oak gate on the way to Edale Edale ..in the foothills of Kinder Scout ..up the back of Mam Tor ..down t'other side ..broken road 😍 ..home pottery in Castleton selling hand made ceramics ..Lady Cannings on the way home ..and when i got home after a 5.5hr ride feeling absolutely exhaused, my wonderful offspring had bought me a big bottle of Lychee Mogu Mogu ..the worlds greatest non-alchoholic drink

They look painted / printed to me.. just compare the uniform spacing of the arc stitch to the uneven spacing of the pocket stitch.

What’s he digging for Paul? I ‘sneaked’ us into Phonetics (only because I know the folks running it) last month to see Homeboy Sandman and Scratch Perverts which the boy loved.. .. still no interest in listening to the albums tho

Oh it def still is for our generation and gen y having rediscovered vinyl.. i just worry about the album format for gen z who've only known streaming.. my kid has a massive music library but owns zero tangiable media and the album format is almost alien to him.. this might change, his approach to film is the opposite, if he watches a film he likes, he'll note the director and seek out others.. but film is yet to be distributed in 10min shorts

Indeed.. my first Walkman had a ffwd button, but no rewind for this very reason

Will artists even bother to put out 'albums' in the future or will it just be a list of singles and collaborations..

I've never used a streaming service so i don't actually know how it all works.. i still download lots and i'm a massive fan of the 'mixtape' format for music playing around the house but for actual 'sit down an listen'.. i'm still using CD format and i'll play an album. The offspring grew up with this music environment.. he always used to ask "who's this? i'll add it to my Spotify" so i would say.. if you like that.. you'll like this.. and i'd email him mp3 playlist from my itunes library which he'd play and add to his Spotify playlist if he liked it.. i've also got a few old 30G ipods (the batteries are dead but they still work plugged in) which he picks through so his Spotify was built around strong foundations rather than generic playlists. Nowadays.. i hear stuff coming through his headphones.. yesterday it was an Mc Solaar track which i hadn't heard so it's me saying "who's this you're listening to? " .. it cuts both ways i suppose. . Solaar wasn't one of mine so Spotify suggestions can't be all bad.. but as i say, i don't know how it works so correct me if i'm wrong.. he just has zero interest in searching out albums or back catalogues..

My next door neighbour (who was born in Hackney) gave my son some 80s / 90s era vintage footy shirts a few months ago.. he's not really into football but he does like the attention.. he was walking through the park wearing a purple Tottenham Hotspur shirt from the 90s with a pair of baggy Levi's and some Jordans.. a runner ran past and shouted "Up the Spurs" to him. I'll tell ya' what, Spotify / apple et al.. have completely ruined the 'album' as an artform, my kid has had a pair of fancy headphones perma stuck to his head for the last year or so.. before that it was airpods.. he's never not listening to music.. evn when we're playing tennis, he's wearing headphones I hear a tune he's playing by whoever and say.. "Have you listened to any of their albums" "No, just this song and maybe one other" "I've got all their albums on CD.. check out such n' such album.. it's incredible" "Are all the songs as good as this one" "Well no, that's probably the standout track of the album, but it's a body of work by that artist, evn the track listing will have been carefully considered" .. "So it's 10 tracks and 9 of them are not as good as this one" "Yes that's correct, a couple of them could even be shite but that's not the point" .. "So then Dad.. with all the incredible music in the world, you want me to spend time listening to music which isn't as good as the music i'm listening to now, just because it's on an album?" "Yes exactly"

From my perspective Charlie, he just wouldn't appreciate them, he wants his jeans to be baggy af and look hella' fly.. beyond that he doesn't really care for the details.. he cares even less for Levi's or their associated history so to give him a pair of jeans which carefully reproduce this history is lost on him.. The equivalent would be a philatelist giving me a collectable stamp.. Ooh! look at this one from the postal union congress.. the perforations are simply exquisite! Pfft! I don't give a shit.. lick it and slap it on a letter for all i care.

Wow! what a hero .. even giving my jeans away to my only son ( a' la @Dr_Heech ) .. feels like a major trauma at this point What jeans were they?

Who else is a new kid on the block. @reubensangwich.. @PartTimeBarista.. you've already wasted $10 on your joining fee, you might as well waste 10mins telling us how you found us here at sufu-land.

It seems we've had a recent and very much welcome expansion to our group of online denim-misfits.. @okimoto @Lorcan @Well27 @TripicalMidbooster @LoneWolfWelding and others.. (a belated welcome to the forum) but i can't help but wonder.. this doesn't seem like your first rodeo, have y'all come here from other denim fora or have or just been lurking for the last decade?

Pollen Seeds

Damn! That’s even more of a quandary My next work jacket is a war model 506 with no flap, the only disadvantage will be the open pocket constantly filling up with wood shavings.. it’s the same with cuffs / turn ups.. they always collect sawdust. When I lived in the countryside.. i’d walk through meadows at this time of year and my cuffs would be full of seeds.. if it rained and my jeans got wet, they would germinate then die from lack of water.. I always fancied watering my turn ups and growing a mini, flowering meadow in the bottom of my jeans

Yep, you're right.. good spot! I don't mind the look of them.. but from a practical pov, pointy bits on workwear tend to catch and snag while you're working.. i'd be forever buttoning the pockets.. i have all on keeping my cuffs buttons fastened.

Can i just throw my hand on the table and say.. those Gardener 43s look great but that Typ2 looks incredibly uncomfortable with it's high collar and drop shoulders, the nipped waist is only going to push the jacket further up the body.. it'll feel like you're always having to pull it down to get the collar to sit on the neck, hence^^ worn with the top button open.. not to mention those square pocket flaps ..

Ikr! .. it's like the second summer of love.. we're living through a golden age people!.. i like to think we're a contributing factor. Nobody mention cash grab..

You've got that right.. the denim was still nice tho. If the 98 venture was an overwhelming success, they might not have returned to repro in 03 The denim landscape could have been oh so different.

Ha! .. no, all my tools live on my bench. I get a bit of damage to the opening of the front pockets from the tape measure clip but i nvr carry tools around in my pockets

Weird isn't it.. it came at a time of artistic licence in the SC timeline (1998-2003) after a period of strict reproduction when SC were being creative with their own interpretation of cuts / eras. Up to 98, it was strictly repro, 98-03 was the Interpretations.. followed by a return to repros in 2003 with their creativity focussed on their dying techniques and sugarcane blended fabrics rather than flight of fancy. In 1997 Sugarcane made an "anti-replica'" declaraion.. writing in the magazine "Jeans The Complete Edition" they announced their pursuit of originality.. it was known as their 'breaking away from replicas period'.. they noted that "we will only make jeans which reflect our own particular preference" The M11619 above was their interpretation of a 506.. ..and this M11400 ..was their interpretation of a 507

At least it hasn't got a hair on patch.. we wouldn't want to be splitting hairs would we?

M11619.. it's not very often you see these .. "Good!" some might say Especially this weird 'hidden button' detail.. which is the only reason for this post. ..and a closer look at the denim, my image on Pg1 isn't great