The Mind's Tricks

[andrewducker]

By sheer randomness I'm having a flashback to my teen years and am listening to W.A.S.P.  (yes, yes, I know.)  The first track just finished (The Heretic) and my brain instantly started playing _something_ next.  Something which wasn't the next track - but was instantly obliterated by the actual next track (a cover of The Who's "The Real Me").

So I rewound, listened to the last 20 seconds of the track again, and this time recognised what my brain was expecting - the opening chords of Number Of The Beast.  Clearly, back in 1988(or so) I made a mixtape that followed up W.A.S.P. with Iron Maiden.*

Aaaah, them were the days.

*I wonder if I could use a similar process to put back together the entire album.  Sadly, I suspect that many of the linkages would by now have been entirely overwritten.

Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me.

I was listening to Bob State's 'In yer face' last week and was most confused when the next track wasn't 'Perfume' by Paris Angels.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Bob State ? :-)

(oddly enough, I had an urge recently to take the opening riff from In Yer Face and use it as a ringtone, but I haven't got around to it yet)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was having a pint with a chap I used to know at the time, and he went "Who's this Bob State bloke?"

"Bob State?"

"Yer. I saw him on Top of the pops playing a saxophone over some rubbish techno."

And thus the name stuck.