May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Oh, imagine seeing them for that price?! Hell! I wish! #TBT #Simpleminds playing #UEAgigs at the K Block – £1.25 advance 1979 – be there or be square 🙂 pic.twitter.com/bwgCWwzc9K — UEAgighistory (@UEAGighistory) August 24, 2017
A fabulous synth intro from Mick, then a fabulous classic rock riff from Charlie. And then….like the crashing elevator within the chorus, in comes Jim with such stilted and stark lyrics…getting straight to the point of it! It’s bleak. It’s dystopia! Industrial. Gritty. In a pea-soup fog. It’s a Lowry painting. It’s Fritz Lang’s Metropolis….
It’s that little riff at the beginning. So basic, but so right for the song. And that little jangly keyboard. Jim writes “traditional” verse and chorus lyrics. I find the lyrics intriguing. And there is some…sexual ambiguity going on within “but I’ve got something on my mind / I want you here, I want you…
Someone in my Facebook timeline shared a clip of Bowie performing Boys Keep Swinging on The Kenny Everett Television Show – but the best bit was cut off! So here is the full clip. Something to chase away the Monday blues 🙂 “You know, I was in the war…but I didn’t see YOU there. I…
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This, as predicted, having now taken in the full study of the lyrics and working on the art piece for it has now been in my head for days. It was even the first song played on shuffle mode this morning as I listened to the boys when going (or trying to go!) to sleep.
Lyric of the day Song: Citizen (Dance Of Youth) Album: Real To Real Cacophony Year of release: 1979 Words: Jim Kerr
Lyric of the day Song: Special View Album: x5 (originally a B Side to the Life In A Day single) Year of release: 2012 (x5 album release – original release, 1979) Words: Jim Kerr
Lyric of the day Song: Calling Your Name Album: Real To Real Cacophony Year of release: 1979 Words: Jim Kerr
Song: Scar Album: Real To Real Cacophony Year of release: 1979 Words: Jim Kerr