![]() They had a small selection of CD’s for sale, primarily Japanese Enka music, but some budget best-of collections such as the Four Seasons, The Beach Boys and, of course, ABBA. ![]() They mostly sold stereo equipment and various brands of blank cassettes. On the same trip, and in the small town in Kyushu, I found a copy of The Honeycombs on CD in an electronic hardware store. It’s opera but set in a 3-minute pop song format. ![]() Moreover, the sound Meek attained on The Honeycombs’ recordings is remarkable: compressed and echoey, generating emotional hysterics in an aural landscape full of sensuality, dread, and romance. Being a record label reader-in order to glean the most esoteric knowledge of every recording-’Joe Meek’ stuck in my brain because it is such an unusual name.
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