Mansun - the outsider band

"We would have to import from Japan, mdm. It will cost 57 dollars."

"What? 57 for an EP? EP?" I repeated several times. The poor HMV guy blinked a few times.

"Yes, mdm. But no guarantee we will receive what we order."

"huh? what do you mean?"

"we have never ordered it before. sometimes the CD never come."

Sigh.........

"No more UK version?"

"No more, mdm. Only Japanese version."

I was trying to get a copy of Legacy EP by Mansun. The band which has been easing the souls of loners like me.

"It was an 'outsider' thing. The kind of 'outsider thing' that has lost souls into the dark labyrinths of obssession throughout the decades....

It was that defiant radiation-burst of savage individualism that often defines a band as a 'cult' and its fans as 'devotees'. The kind of a "outsider thing" that gives the misfits some place they can fit......

But even alongside rock's length parade of eccentrics and non-conformists. Mansun stood out a mile. Mansun - poor Mansun, doomed to be crushed beneath the stampede of their own inventiveness - were the most 'outsider' band on earth......

.....but they offered a sinister, Tim Burton-esque warping of the fabric of rock that seemed irresistible when all around were suggesting we roll with it, do the white line and feel aaaaalright.

So the poets, the loners and the dreamers flocked to Mansun for catharsis and companionship and Mansun repaid them with their own strange devotion."

Now now, where can I get the Legacy EP? From UK?

Ah yes! I know. Didn't someone before going to UK say that I can get him to get me anything I want from there? heh heh. If he can find that EP for me, I will marry him, believer or not! What would that make me? Esau. Yes. I am selling my heritage for a bowl of red stew - for a CD. D, You are useless!

Listening to Legacy by Mansun....

If you feel transition to your other life
Don't need money to be there
Leave behind your money just to prove your worth
Won't be here so I don't care
If you strap your conscience to your vision thing
Won't be here so I don't care
Prove your worth to people that you can call your friends
Won't be here so I don't care.....