Pass the Distance

Pass the Distance

Track Listings

1. Very Close Friend

2. Courtyard

3. What a Day

4. Fades (Pass the Distance)

5. Jerusalem

6. Where's Your Master Gone

7. Laughing 'Til Tomorrow

8. Hiawatha

9. Patrice

10. Big White Car

11. Children's Eyes

12. Good Morning

13. Butterfly

14. Colonel Bleep

Tracks:

Very Close Friend
Courtyard
What a Day
Fades (Pass the Distance)
Jerusalem
Where's Your Master Gone
Laughing 'Til Tomorrow
Hiawatha
Patrice
Big White Car
Children's Eyes
Good Morning
Butterfly
Colonel Bleep

Customer Reviews:

Some Vaults' are best left undisturbed. .......2005-09-07

Having resurfaced in the early 21st century, Simon Finn (SF) created a VERY VERY good psych-folk cd in 2005 called 'MAGIC MOMENTS'.

Unfortunately, this resurrected offering from 1970 called 'PASS THE DISTANCE' has nothing going for it. If SF had a large body of work to compare this to perhaps the moniker "for completists only" would justify it's existance. Considering SF has only 1 other cd as reference (made 35yrs later!), well, you get the idea.

For some you'll find a track or two worthy of inclusion on some future anthology (perhaps), but nothing here struck my fancy. The listener has nothing really to relate to because the artist gives no insight, emphatic or otherwise, into his personality or musical intent, other than being "troubled".

I enjoy listening to the inner/outer musical musings of the most eccentric types, but without context who cares?
The music is unfocused guitar with minimal psychedelic back-up, passable vocals sporting lyrics which ramble with no discernable storyline (ie structure)and little rhyme, however strange.

You know something is amiss when extensive liner notes (written by David Tibet of Current93/World Serpent) about the artist's "sensitivity" spends it's ink praising Mr Finn's "vision(s)", trying to bridge the "comprehension" vacuum sucked dry by the music itself. The mysterious and sinister circumstances surrounding one of the tracks,'Jerusalem' only adds to my frustration, I don't need any HYPE, thank you! The actual cd just sounds like the work-in-progress of an inexperienced songster (sorry Mr Tibet).
I'm not surprised it had very limited release back then.

That being said, 35 years later, Simon Finn's 2005 'Magic Moments' is everything 'Pass The Distance' is'nt. Much much better (check out my review).

Many artists exist that make music born of strange orbits and psyche poetics, and do it much better with more consistancy. Check out Damien Youth, Copernicus, or Paul Roland for starters.

CD total track time: 54:39 minutes

incredible album.......2004-11-12

I don't know who Simon Fin is, but I really scare to listen Jurusalem in the midnight. It makes me cry and being wakeful. His emotion is so deep and strange that makes me cry. He is like to trying to play a broken instrument and sing the sadest voice with dreamy keyboard and steel guitar. You will feel yourself in a psychedelia. Is he crazy? Is he going to be heaven? When you fall in love with it, you will listen it all night.

Pass the Years.......2004-07-02

This is by no means a perfect album, but perhaps all the more captivating for its flaws, it is raw, it is real, it touches an emotional place that by and large psychedlic music doesn't touch. It is amazing how quickly this album has become a highlight of my collection, it is unfortunate it has taken so long to get the rerelease it has so greatly deserved. A must buy for any fan of pschedelic rock. This is a gem of a one time effort.

Average customer rating:

Pass the Distance +1
Simon Finn
Manufacturer: Beatball
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000KKCBS4

Product Description

Korean Exclusive Edition. The official legit re-issue of incredibly rare dark acid folk masterpiece. Four extra tracks, including the never-released track Dirty old river, are also included on this CD. The 4-page booklet, with full-color cover reproduction of the original artwork, contains all the lyrics to the album, photographs of the musicians, and extensive liner notes by Simon Finn, David Toop (who also plays on the album), Vic Keary of Mushroom Records, and David Tibet of Current 93. Digi-pak

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