May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This week I will be somewhat cheating, as I did a lengthy post about this song for MMM barely six months ago. I wanted to post about it last week, as the song was my earworm over the previous weekend and I was just feeling a lot of love for it. But Empires That Dance…
A post on SMOG from G Man about 5×5 Live and setlists and favourites and what not has me maudlin today. Forever lamenting I missed that tour. The photo he used for it – a montage of screenshots from an interview of the period looked like a piece of Kristen Whitehead’s montage work. Aye, it…
God…that opening synth! It could go on for minutes! I’d be very happy if it did. What a FAB drum and bass groove come in! Then…wow, such screeching awesome guitar from Charlie. Quite a nod to hero Mick Ronson, actually. Lyric wise, it’s all Kerr ambiguity and abstraction. The lines denote ANYTHING BUT a “Love…
That opening percussive beat. Such a a hook! A drum machine, I’m assuming? A “motorik” beat. Some hear elements of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn within it…but I hear more of Neu’s Wave Mother and La Dusseldorf’s Rheinita. Because I find elements of their music more…emotional. Kraftwerk certainly have an emotional element to their music they never get…
1/12 From the very first time I heard it as a 15 year old. It gave me goosebumps. I sat there stunned. I don’t think I had ever heard a piece so beautiful. I cried. It still makes me feel that way more than 30 years on. Thank you, David, for all the beautiful music….
2/12 “Open up your heart to me / show me all you are.”
3/12 “Don’t ask me! I don’t know any hallways.”
4/12 “Make love only once but dream and dream.”
5/12 “Research has pierced all extremes of my sex – call it a day.”
6/12 “I’m in tears again.”