valis

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Member Since: 12/28/2001
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Expecting To Fly

Artist Song
Dodgy  Intro 
Nirvana  Wings Of Love 
Buffalo Springfield  Expecting To Fly  
Family  Face In The Clouds  
Sapphire Thinkers  Let Her Come In  
The Low Road  Letter Never Sent 
Marjorie Fair  Silver Gun  
The Czars  Killjoy  
The Spinto Band  Oh Mandy  
The Arcade Fire  Rebellion (Lies) 
Golden Smog  Until You Came Along  
The Essex Green  Lazy May  
Oyvind Holm  Wait My Time Away 
Silver Sunshine  When She Wakes Tomorrow  
Brian Stevens  Far From Happy  
Supergrass  Low C  
The General Store  Think I'd Best Forget You (One Last Time) 
My Morning Jacket  Wordless Chorus  
Sugarplastic  Hecate 

Comment:

"Now he would leave them, and take the left-handed staircase to the roof of his mind, and fly away across the free skies of his inner space."
Many thanks to: the French Connection, for Marjorie Fair; Oyvind, for his own;Kiara, for the Sugarplastic;MB for the Buffalo Springfield; and Gerry Mc' for a passle...
This one's for a lady in Dubai, if she'll have it.(I expect it to fly.)
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hemizen
Date: 11/10/2005
What lady could refuse this?
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musicgnome
Date: 11/10/2005
Nice.
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Round Pin
Date: 11/10/2005
Wonderful! :-)
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glassonion8
Date: 11/10/2005
I would certainly fly to Dubai to have a listen to this.
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French Connection
Date: 11/10/2005
Soaring high with this mon ami. Madame G. will love this I'm sure.
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bufo alvarius
Date: 11/10/2005
Lovely stuff, my friend. I've always dug that Buffalo Springfield track and the rest looks up to your standard of greatness.
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Dom1
Date: 11/10/2005
Super duper Sir Valis & gorgeous cover art.
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 11/10/2005
Beautiful.
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Salman1
Date: 11/10/2005
Superb. Love that Essex Green pick. There's not enough Essex Green in this place.
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 11/10/2005
Who wouldn't want to fly away with this.
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Dead Man
Date: 11/10/2005
Wow. Looks great.
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Orchid
Date: 11/10/2005
A very elegant mix, and the inclusion of Dodgy is a pleasant surprise! So let me go far....
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G-Sphere
Date: 11/11/2005
This does look wonderful.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 11/11/2005
You bet I'm ready for take-off . . .
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Mixxer
Date: 11/11/2005
The explorer again returns with treasure.
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gobi
Date: 11/11/2005
I know a young lady in Dubai who is tickled pink that you thought of her and who is shaking in anticipation . . . .
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Moe
Date: 11/12/2005
Flight of Fancy? Byrd. Flew? And now this? I think someone here has no fear of flying. Sign me up for this eight miles high club!
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Sean Lally
Date: 11/13/2005
Wow. This looks wonderful! Nice to see the Low Road here.
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Dead Man
Date: 11/13/2005
Looks wonderful!
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p the swede
Date: 11/16/2005
How could I missed this one
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les_autres
Date: 11/29/2005
Valis - good mix, but you knew that. re: Locksley, their site is at http://www.bandoflocksley.com/
they're really pretty good!
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joey de vivre
Date: 12/26/2005
Hey, that's a very different "Nirvana" than the one I was thinking of! & this mix takes me to a different Nirvana too. (Fortunately it's the same Morning Jacket that I was expecting for that wordless chorus near the end . . .)
A dreamy soaring gliding flight, without any of that frantic wing-flapping I usually have to do to keep aloft . . . loving that arcade fire / golden smog / essex green stretch - oh & I notice you did a little wordplay there on tracks 5 & 6, & let her get a letter - subtle!

There's a haunting regretful undertow on some of these, maybe like the last butterfly of summer?
Well, I'm cocooned in my winter caterpillar phase right now, but this mix reminds me there'll be other times ahead, & I'm expecting to fly.
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gobi
Date: 2/3/2006
Cher Valis, this is fantastic - we've been listening to it a lot, but today while out dune bashing at Ras Al Khaimah it seemed utterly fantastic.Highlights are loads, but it reminds us of being back in Australia (Golden Smog) or maybe back in a bar in Dublin (Essex Green)?Great feel good material . . . thanks again.
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gobi
Date: 3/12/2008
we listened again today . . . still getting repeated air-time chez gobi ! still enjoying. Thanks.