Take your music groove-inscribed
for a multi-sensual all round experience.
Hear the opening Claptonic bars of White Room,
picture that black Polydor label spinning.
Know Who and Hendrix rode the transition
from black to blazing red Polydor.
Kinks get you going partly because you see
the brash bright yellow and black Astor label,
also home to fire-lighting Jim’s Doors
and Matchstick Status Quo men.
Billy Thorpe‘s Aztecs, most people know,
went crazy on orange Havoc records
and Sabbath sucked you into their Paranoid
maelstrom on black and white Vertigo Swirl.
The Bobster and Simon and Garfunkel,
The Man in Cash and Carlos Santana
all shared the apricot glow of dignified CBS.
Stones Blue Decca’d before Sticky Fingering.
Beatles grey/black Parlophoned almost
matching their suits before Appling up.
Shocking Blue Venused on Penny Farthing
Tamla Motowns all glowed deep black.
Select from Spotify, tunes descend
from the ether with no such associations.
Select The Selecter on 2 Tone Records
with the ska trilby and zoot suit image.
Grab hold of record covers. Sniff.
The years of spin still available.
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