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Hello, "nice to meet you" ZgredZgred wrote:Hello Mr B. !! Almost the same story happened to me! I have started my adventure with Chris with the same album, and the first song that has leaded me to him was "Josephine" I heard on radio. I looked for and found a "The Best of Chris Rea" cassette containing this song.
Man, I know what are you talking about and I suppose everyone here does - that feeling after first listening... nothing remained the same, true mental shock :mrgreen:
Respect for your stepfather, you see that he had a good taste... And what's bad with being late starter? Enjoy the music, now you know what is good...
Welcome to the forum
Nice story you got here too Let´s say "The Man works with mysteries ways"COLB-UK wrote:Thought I might as well give my story to Chris Rea.
Although being a bit older than most of yourselves (only a bit mind )
I first heard Chris while having a lift to work each morning back in 1988.
My colleague who use to pick me up had the NLTOW tape playing in the car & it was On The Beach which I first heard.
The following weekend I bought NLTOW. After reading the inlay card I found these where all revamped tracks of previous work.
I had to have it all.
I set out on a mission to find all the back catalogue All 10 previous Albums. Some where hard to obtain then. The usual places had obviously stoped selling the older ones, but I found them.
There is a mixture of music now from the blues & soul sounds through to the techno' style of Road to Hell 2.
I do think his lyrics are great, there must be a dozen or so tracks you can relate to. When my wife was in hospital last January with heart problems & this perticular day she was bad. When I left to come home that night the first track that came on (& it wasnt set up) was I Thought I Was Going To Loose You (B-Side of Julia). To say a tear came into my eye is an understatement. Anyway lets not get too emotional. My wife is fine now after the operation & back to full health.
It does show you can find a track from Chris which does relate to your life at any given time.
Keep listening to the Man & keep smiling
Dont start or we will all end up with tearsMr_Blues wrote:Yeah, we all got those songs on which we can relate.
One example from me: True To You (single b-side). I got cd´s with b-sides when I was 18. Just that time me and my girlfriend broke up and those cd´s came to me as a great consolation. One time "True To You" brought tears to my eyes as I was staring outside from my window. It was just turned to winter and first snow was falling down. Pain of losing one of the first loves which I´ve ever had. I bet everyone knows what I´m talking about here
Heh hehCOLB-UK wrote:
Dont start or we will all end up with tears
Mr_B how is the listening going.
You still transfering your CDs to PC
I can´t wear out anything by Chris, just can´tZgred wrote:Anyway I think Chris would not be offended if you wear out the album and buy another copy :D;)Mr_Blues wrote:I don´t want to ruin that beautiful book by opening it all the time
Heck... two of the releases I'm gonna buy once again just gave them as gifts.
Yeah, but some things can be worn too much and the result is getting bored with it, I was meaning that it can´t happen when it´s about ChrisZgred wrote:When something is worn, it means that it has been well used
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