Broken Barricades competition
The Salvo reissues giveaway, August 2009
The very genial people at Salvo Records sent BtP this excellent album to give away. As with all BtP's
competitions, you simply had to read and enact a simple instruction, and send us a message
consisting of a number ... and this handsome recording could
have been yours! Click on the image to see what tracks
are on the album ... that's the info you needed
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As is our wont, we were asking you to listen carefully to some
music (of course, the real album sounds a whole lot better than our
compressed mp3 that follows)
Click here to
listen to an mp3
medley of the songs on the album (left).
You'll hear that some
songs are excerpted more than once, but no track has been used
more than once. And one track has been completely missed out
... so the number of that track is what you needed to send us.
Click here to send us the
number of the track that's missing from our medley representing
this Salvo re-issue album. The competition ended at 23:59
GMT on Tuesday 11 August 2009.
If your answer was correct we put your name in a hat, and conducted the draw
early on Wednesday 12 August – the glorious twelfth – and the
first name out of the hat won Broken Barricades ! |
Responses:
It has to be said, there were some mildly baffling answers to this conundrum. A
lot of people sent words, rather than a number (which risks
ambiguity when some titles occur twice on the album); equally, several
competitors sent a track number with a song-title that didn't correspond. So
although there were lots of responses – it's obviously a popular and covetable
CD – the BtP Homburg was relatively unburdened with correct answers.
What you actually heard: (diagram above)
10 Simple Sister (raw track with random guitar from Trower at the
start) • 8 Poor Mohammed • 11 Poor Mohammed (backing
track, no vocal) • 1 Simple Sister (complete with chattering
pianos ... therefore Track 1) • 4 Luskus Delph • 9
Broken Barricades (long fade, recognisable by the exciting and strange new
rhythm BJ sets up) • 7 Playmate of The Mouth (brass ending)
• 5 Power Failure (drum solo) • 12 Song For a Dreamer
(King Jimi) (backing track, no voices) • 6 Song For a Dreamer
(with singing) • 3 Memorial Drive (the end of the song)
Solution and winner:
So what was missing? The regular version of Broken Barricades ... so the
desired answer was simply '2' ... and the lucky winner from the hat was
Alan Matthews. Please send us your 'real' world address, and this delectable
item will soon be with you!
Congratulations to all the other proto-winners who were not selected, and
commiserations to the many entrants whose answers were 'differently correct' ...
hope you enjoy the album from some other source (suggestions
here)