My Spyro Gyra collection, because I have 31 CDs, is in constant rotation - usually 2 of them in any week's playlist.
But most of the time, I play them at low volumes or on a mini boom box that doesn't have good separation. Today, for the first time in a long time, I played it cranked up, but I only got to Capetown Love.
Some fresh observations:
Bump It Up - still a very, very cool song.
Extrovertical - I'll get back to you on that one.
Big Dance Number - still has me visualizing 1930s costumes and "the Charleston."
Film Noir - still my favorite song on the disc and one of Jay's coolest compositions of this decade.

A note about two that I haven't played yet:
Funky Tina - love it, love it, loooooooove it!
Getaway - I don't like this one as much as I did when it was new. I remember someone here saying it was impossible to play this song on the highway without speeding. That might have influenced me. It's nice, but since the newness wore off, I've always thought to be kind of sappy.
Now, back to Extrovertical.
I saw the group a few months after OC was released at House of Blues, New Orleans. I was with Donna, a former MagicIslander. I think her ID was smjazzfan. The first half of the set was 6 tracks from OC. When we were chatting with the guys after the show, Donna asked why they didn't play Extrovertical. Schu looked at her like she was crazy, and said, "That song is wack'." Scott said the same thing.
At the time, it was funny. In our minds, Jay had written a tune so challenging that the guys didn't want to mess with it outside the studio.
If that's the case, I now understand why.
There's a lot of stuff going on beneath the surface of that song. I get the impression of Jay having an Edgar Winter "Frankenstein" moment as he composed it.
It's different. It's out there.
It's great!!!

Original Cinema is one of my favorite Spyro albums. Haven't played it recently though, but I'm going to revisit it so I can refresh my memory and adequately address specific songs.

I do know that "Extrovertical" is a favorite of mine on that CD. I would love to see them perform that one live. "Big Dance Number" and "Film Noir" are right up there as well. Also like the South African flavored "Cape Town Love."

Not that crazy about "Funky Tina."

Like I said, I'll need to revisit this CD and probably edit my comments later.

Trivia question:

What was the original name of Capetown Love? Spyro played some new material in advance of Original Cinema's public release (something that they staunchly refused to do prior to the release of Down The Wire. That decision will likely result in some areas losing the opportunity to see the Down The Wire material performed live.)

At least one of the tunes introduced during the pre-release live performances was introduced with a title that ended up different once the album was actually released. Can anyone recall the title that was given to Capetown Love during these performances? I was actually looking forward to the original title making the album. I thought it would have created an interesting mental image that I believe that most people don't think of when thinking of Capetown.

I have the answer. I'll let yinz chew on it for a few days...

I have this thing for "dream sequence" and "film noir" that's very, very addictive!!! So dark.....so smooth!!

Great CD. Love it!

I do not care much for "Down The Wire" but have been apprehensive voicing that here as I keep thinking it is me???

No guesses yet? Was I the only one who saw these shows?

Apparently, Gary, haha. I sure missed them.
Having listened to the rest of the CD, I'll add that my appreciation for Handheld is much greater than before. It ranks about 8th out of the 13 tracks, but that's not saying much considering that 2nd-7th seem to always be changing. Is Capetown Love really my 6th favorite song on this release, or am I just so hooked on Film Noir, Extrovertical, Bump It Up, Funky Tina and Big Dance Number, that nothing else gets a fair rating?

I saw them, I just can't remember the original title. I suffer from CRS sometimes!

Here's the only hint I'll give:

It might be the subject of a Currier and Ives product if they were to make one about Capetown...

Gary: Are you suggesting that they should've replaced the actual current title "Cape Town Love"? Also, I'd be interested to know what you mean when you say what "most people think of" when thinking Cape Town.

No incense, just a thought dude. Most South Africans are always at some point left wondering what impact the decades of isolation our country has had on the image created in the "Western world" over the years.

My impressions were that this title was appropriately labelled shortly after they had toured South Africa, which I was fortunate to catch. If my memory serves, the album was released shortly after that visit. By them naming the track as such gave me and all our SG fans here quite a warm feeling of what it meant to them when performing here. As you may well know, SG has graced our soil on several occasions.