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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Narrative songs-- was Re: The Clientele |
| Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 16:50:22 -0500 |
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A lot of Stan Ridgway (original lead singer of Wall Of Voodoo) songs are
like that. The two singles from his excellent debut album, The Big Heat,
are two of my favorite story songs -- "Drive She Said" and "Camouflage". A
friend of mine got the chance to interview Ridgway, and I told my friend to
ask Stan if he was a fan of Red Sovine (best known for the country trucker
tunes "Phantom 309" and "Teddy Bear"). My friend did ask Stan that, and it
was a bullseye.
Mike Bennett
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>From: "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Narrative songs-- was Re: The Clientele
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:36:22 -0000
>
>One more post related to The Clientele from me.
>
>On "Strange Geometry" the final song is called "Losing Haringey".
>It's this nice song but instead of singing the lyrics, the vocals are
>more a narrative and spoken over the music. I heard the song a few
>times and really enjoyed it. THEN I listened carefully to the lyrics
>and just fell in love with the song.
> "Losing Haringey" seems to be a story of the narrator's looking
>back at a bleak time in his life ( snip--"Everything in my life felt
>like it was coming to a mysterious close. I could hardly walk to the
>end of a street without feeling there was no way to go except back").
>His wandering around, feeling worn out, sitting down and having this
>very fleeting but emotional moment in time, where the surroundings
>(trees, stars, benches) outside remind him of and in fact, in his
>fatigue, place him IN an old "underexposed photograph" taken by his
>mother from 1982. This time warp creates a nostalgic but palatable
>shift in mood, pre the current troubles in his life. The moment is
>sad but yet he hangs onto it for the short moment it lasts.
> I can't do it justice. For me, it's like trying to describe an
>ocean wave. Not able to really capture it. Anyway, it seems like a
>very well written and evocative (not pretentiously) song that hits a
>personal, emotional and quietly transcendent moment. And then it's
>gone.
>
> The first times I recall this experience was listening to The
>Velvet Underground and listening to "The Gift" for the first time and
>THEN really listening to the story as it's darkly humorous story
>unfolded.
>
>
>So, anyone else have songs that come to mind, that jump out for them
>on a disc, that are more like narrative stories being told over the
>music? Songs where once you really listened to the narrative in the
>story you were really taken away.
>
>Best,
>Steve D.
>
>
>
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