I just want to thank you guys ever so much for On Fire. Such a wonderful album that meant and means so much to me. I bought it on cassette as soon as it came out in the UK and loved it from first play.
Thank you for reposting this, I missed it the first time around. On Fire was my first Galaxie 500. I didn't have the split between the sides. A zine colleague had put it on one side of a cassette for me; Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha on the other. Every weekend, winter/spring '92-93, it got me over the mountains between classes in Denver and family on the Western Slope. I drove a little white Audi Fox with a cassette player resting on the back seat. They all carried me and my toddler to art school in Oregon. The tape was replaced in '97 by the cd box set (only box set I ever bought, RIP Django's, Portland).
Such a great piece. I bought On Fire in December 1989 from Offbeat Records in Hull. Later that night, G500 played at the Adelphi Club across town. Life changing stuff.
For years, I had it in my head that Side 2 was actually Side 1 because I liked to start listening with Decomposing Trees. It was only when I bought a CD years later that I remembered I’d changed it round. Happy days!
One of my favourite ever albums - there is just some kind of magic there, it's hard to explain. A wonderful, atmospheric listen that I never get tired of. I may just put it on right now!
Another Day still makes me cry every time I listen. thank you for this revisit to an incredible album that has never gone (and will never go) out of rotation.
I tried to get my guitar teacher to teach me Isn’t It A Pity. I failed. And gave up guitar. It’s one I sing along to very loud, but it sounds like I’m singing pair day. I didn’t know the Harrison original at the time. I very much prefer the G500 version, it seems like it ends with with desperate frustrated emotion, like there’s some quiet anger of how we all mess everything up
I just want to thank you guys ever so much for On Fire. Such a wonderful album that meant and means so much to me. I bought it on cassette as soon as it came out in the UK and loved it from first play.
Thank you all very much once again.
Cassette may have more hiss than hush between tracks, but it’s got the crucial split between sides!
True! But I agree that the silences are almost as important as the music.
I was never one of those people who fetishises cassettes, they were just more practical in my circumstances.
Thank you for reposting this, I missed it the first time around. On Fire was my first Galaxie 500. I didn't have the split between the sides. A zine colleague had put it on one side of a cassette for me; Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha on the other. Every weekend, winter/spring '92-93, it got me over the mountains between classes in Denver and family on the Western Slope. I drove a little white Audi Fox with a cassette player resting on the back seat. They all carried me and my toddler to art school in Oregon. The tape was replaced in '97 by the cd box set (only box set I ever bought, RIP Django's, Portland).
Such a great piece. I bought On Fire in December 1989 from Offbeat Records in Hull. Later that night, G500 played at the Adelphi Club across town. Life changing stuff.
For years, I had it in my head that Side 2 was actually Side 1 because I liked to start listening with Decomposing Trees. It was only when I bought a CD years later that I remembered I’d changed it round. Happy days!
Ha ha love it, I have albums I always play that way too!
One of my favourite ever albums - there is just some kind of magic there, it's hard to explain. A wonderful, atmospheric listen that I never get tired of. I may just put it on right now!
Another Day still makes me cry every time I listen. thank you for this revisit to an incredible album that has never gone (and will never go) out of rotation.
Great album, still playing it.
I tried to get my guitar teacher to teach me Isn’t It A Pity. I failed. And gave up guitar. It’s one I sing along to very loud, but it sounds like I’m singing pair day. I didn’t know the Harrison original at the time. I very much prefer the G500 version, it seems like it ends with with desperate frustrated emotion, like there’s some quiet anger of how we all mess everything up
one of the most meaningful records in my life
And you wrote my favorite essay about it!