The Hippy Posed Engrossment

Those lovely people at Topplers Records have brightened up the end of my week by sending me a barrell-load of Steve Treatment CDs. I contacted them and bought a copy of '25 "A" sides + Your Friends Are In The News', a two CD set of all Steve's music from the '70s and '80s. It's on Hyped2Death Records and the blurb runs:

140+ minutes of brilliant DIY'n'roll from including all of Steve's singles (1977-1979), plus later highlights of his incredibly colorful career, including almost all of the songs that were headed for Steve's never-released LP. We couldn't afford the full-color 16-page booklet we were hoping to bring you, but it's all really handsome anyway. The bio, meanwhile, covers not just the music but also Steve's varied interactions with Marc Bolan, the Swell Maps, the Moors Murderers, Derek Jarman, and Paul McCartney's brother-in-law...among others. Essential DIY. "All my songs are 'A' sides."

Not only did Topplers send the CD but they added two more CDs for free - a CD-R of material Steve recorded for them recently and a compilation CD of their other bands from last year which includes a new Steve song. How nice of them!

It's all an overdose of Steve Treatment, really. The song I wanted and that's stuck in my mind for nearly three decades is 'The Hippy Posed Engrossment', 1 minute and 37 seconds of Bolan-inspired madness. I got Steve's first single - '5 "A" Side 45' when it came out in 1978 and it's nice to have those songs again.

Thanks to Topplers and, of course, to Steve.