when i bought the recent re-press of the converge
compilation 'petitioning forever' from deathwish, i said that i was pretty
unhappy with the complete missing of any written words. i mean, ok, i can live
with the missing of the lyrics. that's shitty, sure, but if i really want them
i'll look them up on the internet. what really bothered me the most were the
non-existing song titles. if i can't read along to the lyrics, at least i want
to know what the names of the songs are i am listening to. that flat out sucked.
i am not too much of a fan of these pre-jane doe works of
converge, so the problem wasn't right in my face. but i said to myself, if
there was the opportunity to get an up-grade for reasonable conditions, i would
take it. after a while an ebay seller had this record right here for a twenty
bucks starting price up for sale. not unreasonable if it was going out for this
amount. i watched it but lost track on it and missed the end of auction. it
ended without a bid and the seller re-listed it.
the following seven days i thought about it whether to get
it or not, but then i reminded myself of my very own words. 'i would take a
reasonable priced up-grade'. and this was just that. so i put in my bid, which
was the starting price and hoped that again nobody else would want it. you
wittness the proof that i was the only one interested. now as i searched for pressing information i came across an odd incident. my version actually doesn't exist. it's of the second pressing and two different sources tell me, that it was pressed either on two split colours or on two merge colours, but not one split and one merge. so what the heck is this? has anyone but me such a version and this might be a false mix up by the label? or has this been a change the pre-owner is responsible for?
as mentioned above the music of 'petitioning the empty sky'
and 'when forever comes crashing', the two early releases this compilation
consists of, doesn't really knock me off my socks. it's interesting to hear
where they came from and how they developed in these early stages, but that's
it. really just interesting. but that's just my opinion, i know alot of fans
are really into the early stuff. way more than into the post-jane doe era.
anyway, the important thing is the little insert with all the song titles and
lyrics, which i reasured myself of by asking the seller before bidding. and yepp, it's way
more fun now listening to the record. lovely red and orange merge vinyl for
record one and beautiful white and blue split vinyl for record two. second
pressing. deathwish inc. 2007.
