hold it

tin tin – hold it

three young lads sharing the seat of a small scooter, riding late through a cold winter night from provo, utah to a place called club max (?) in salt lake city.

sort of a truth or dare...in that neither of the three lads dared face their own truths at the time. yet somehow, convinced each other that it was okay to check out a gay club forty miles away.

(i went to the trouble of verifying this memory with a friend who doesn't specifically recall the scooter, but does remember us marveling at the third lad's dancing ability to madonna's "lucky star". i tend to make up memories, but this one is real.)

did they play this song, tin tin's "hold it", at the club that night? i don't remember...but it's the sort of record that i would have hoped to hear.

dreamy to the max

dear project leader:

i was exploring the amazon, when it was recommended to me that i purchase stephen tintin duffy's, the ups and the downs. awesome recommendation by the amazonians...ups and downs is an album this alien thoroughly enjoyed during the decade i first landed, the 80's.

the graphics on the album packaging were a little better thought out than most, with sparse graphics on the outside sleeve (b+w photo, typeface set just-so), and a splatter of big pink dots on the liner sleeve. it was an import album (import to my land, that is), so the quality of the pressing and packaging was better than most of my collection of the time. it was also much more expensive than many LPs in my collection.

what initially drew me to the album (back then) was a reworking of "kiss me", originally released as a club single under the artist name tin-tin. the album version was really good...not an improvement, per se, but different enough and really good. (the new digital collection includes another tin-tin single, "hold it", which those of the era will recall was a FANTASTIC track, as well as other remixes that weren't readily available back then.)

the other tracks on the album play well together, and there's not a "miss" in the whole lot. dreamy to the max, agreed...but is it art? a masterpiece! this alien believes in him.

stephen tin tin duffy - hold it (remixed)