I just remembered my dad's first auto-reverse tape deck. I sort of miss that slightly sickening fluttering sound as the machine repositioned itself and stop-started.

My idea was to have them as a pair of brothers with a pool cleaning business and they compete for the affection/attention of Tilda Swinton, who is staying at a local hotel with her husband Jeremy Irons.

I want Cronenberg to make a movie with Peter Weller and James Woods as rivalrous brothers. 

It used to creep me right the fuck out as a kid.

Sleepwalker's Woman is one of his best songs, it must be said.

Cue.

" Farmer in the City" for its beauty
"Cue" for being one of the most wonderfully horrifying things ever committed to a recording. It's like a little film all to itself.

Have you heard Cue? That song actually made a friend of mine jump out of her seat.

Actually, brickwalled music sounds even worse on earbuds than big hi-fis.

Much hype was made about the so called "Audiophile" mastered option that they were making available to counter the stupidly brickwalled loudness war mastering of the standard release.

Angels of Light's "The Garden Hides the Jewel" - http://www.youtube.com/watc… - is based on Duchamp's Étant donnés  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I can't think of a way it's heavier than Filth.

That laugh adds so much to the album.

The Prog label was a bit of a catchall at the time. Pink Floyd were definitely Prog in their era, but have escaped the association over time. There's also German Prog which is absolutely nothing like Anglo-American Prog. I think at the time it was really just used as a complimentary adjective for rock that was making…

America is weird.

I hunt down earlier pressings and (occasionally) Japanese copies to avoid the loudness nonsense where possible.

I think it's her slightest album. Lacks her usual edge, and the production is compressed to a wall. This Is Love is amazing, though.

Too many, but I'd have to say the most out-and-out breathtaking for me is "The Mountain".

The dynamics on that album are terrifying; if you set the volume at audible for the opening, the chorus just tears the room down. Feels like a live performance on good speakers. Nobody masters discs like that now.

It's quite spectacular. The ending is spinechilling.