You Would Love To Know

Probably like a lot of people, I still own a bunch of CDs for releases that only came out only on CD. These days they are stored in a box in the junk room and I don't even have a CD player set up anywhere, so they are basically just kept for collection purposes, although unlike my records (which, come to think of it, I also don't really play) I don't even have them out or easily accessible. They're basically junk waiting for me to become comfortable with disposaing of.

Twenty five years ago or so I owned a few of my favourite releases on CD as well as vinyl for some stupid reason, but I got rid of most of those years ago. So all that I have left are releases that I like but which were sadly only available on CD. But slowly over time it seems that they are finally being committed to vinyl, so in theory I could probably dispose of even more of the CDs.

The latest example of this is 'You Would Love To Know' by Long Island band Silent Majority. This was originally released by Initial Records around the turn of the century (Discogs lists it as being released in 1999, but the band say it was released in the year 2000) as a 5 song CD EP, which I bought back then because I loved the band's full length ('Life Of A Spectator') that had come out a couple of years earlier.

I'm not quite sure why this has been pressed all these years later, but I'm more than happy that it has been. The band have released it themselves (as a split beteen 'Miles To Go' and 'Uncle Tony Records') and pressed it on three different colours of vinyl. This is the 'blueberry cream' and is the second most limited colour out of 317 copies). All copies are one sided with a screen print on the flipside.

Silent Majority is one of those bands who I feel flew under the radar when they were around, but who have then grown and grown in popularity in the years after they called it a day. There have been some bigish bands come out of Long Island in the 00s, and all of them cite Silent Majority as a hugely important influence on them. I remember when I got their records back when they came out that I had no idea who they were, but I could tell from the records that they were doing something new and different. This 5 song EP was, to me, a step forward from the previous album and it suggested that they were gonna be huge, but instead they just stopped. Oh well. But at least I can finally own this on vinyl and put it on the shelf next to 'Life Of A Spectator', rather than just have it hidden upstairs in a box.