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poptimists*, one benefit of quaint canon-building exercises like playing an album from beginning to end on the radio is that they allow you to figure out when you've, uh, got the wrong mp3 of a song. As sometimes happens when 75% of an album washed up piecemeal on the shores of one's harddrive and one has no idea when or where the tracks were sourced... For the record we did buy it, okay. Eventually. This is an alternate Bernard Butler-produced version, released as one of those Japan-only deals; IIRC subdee thought it was rather... airless? The drums don't get dragged pell-mell by the guitars like in the album version, at least. XD;;
When people rep for this band's lyrics I generally get the urge to play devil's advocate and point out that they make no actual sense unless you internalize an elaborate system of assigned meaning, which OTOH makes them sound like Ezra Pound. Or something.
The Libertines - What Katie Did: came across a Muxtape where this was followed by Camera Obscura's "Books Written for Girls", an unsung act of mixmaking genius if ever there was one. XD Though I didn't know What Katie Did was a book until subdee reviewed it atbibliophages. By virtue of the Flow it cropped up directly afterward in an Angela Carter story I was reading, as part of the contents of Lizzie Borden's bookshelf. XD; From the writeup one can see why.
There are musical leitmotivs, as well. The album version of the song serves principally as a record of its disintegration, but the shoop-de-lang-de-langs** march on in lockstep, imbued with a kamikaze gaiety that the ghostly rendition of same in "Back from the Dead" echoes to truly creepy effect (okay I know minor key it's not rocket science but still). New Order, "Love Vigilantes": I've got to go home / I've been so alone you see.
DANGIT I HAVE ZOMBIES ON THE BRANE APPARENTLY
* Unless it was an imaginary comment; this happens more often than you'd think. >_>
** "Friscajoly" is the technical term provided by Foyle's Philavery (the other I found essential to discussion was 'kallipygian').
poptimists*, one benefit of quaint canon-building exercises like playing an album from beginning to end on the radio is that they allow you to figure out when you've, uh, got the wrong mp3 of a song. As sometimes happens when 75% of an album washed up piecemeal on the shores of one's harddrive and one has no idea when or where the tracks were sourced... For the record we did buy it, okay. Eventually. This is an alternate Bernard Butler-produced version, released as one of those Japan-only deals; IIRC subdee thought it was rather... airless? The drums don't get dragged pell-mell by the guitars like in the album version, at least. XD;;When people rep for this band's lyrics I generally get the urge to play devil's advocate and point out that they make no actual sense unless you internalize an elaborate system of assigned meaning, which OTOH makes them sound like Ezra Pound. Or something.
The Libertines - What Katie Did: came across a Muxtape where this was followed by Camera Obscura's "Books Written for Girls", an unsung act of mixmaking genius if ever there was one. XD Though I didn't know What Katie Did was a book until subdee reviewed it at
bibliophages. By virtue of the Flow it cropped up directly afterward in an Angela Carter story I was reading, as part of the contents of Lizzie Borden's bookshelf. XD; From the writeup one can see why.There are musical leitmotivs, as well. The album version of the song serves principally as a record of its disintegration, but the shoop-de-lang-de-langs** march on in lockstep, imbued with a kamikaze gaiety that the ghostly rendition of same in "Back from the Dead" echoes to truly creepy effect (okay I know minor key it's not rocket science but still). New Order, "Love Vigilantes": I've got to go home / I've been so alone you see.
DANGIT I HAVE ZOMBIES ON THE BRANE APPARENTLY
* Unless it was an imaginary comment; this happens more often than you'd think. >_>
** "Friscajoly" is the technical term provided by Foyle's Philavery (the other I found essential to discussion was 'kallipygian').
