I like the above (title) mentioned features of some songs by "the fall", I am reminded of the "alluvials" mentioned by kerouac in some letter or something gone missing sorry. I mean when the song is fairly ended but a spoken almost line or two extra is added and seems to encapsulate the something or other essence of said song aforementioned capped, or possibly it is a snippet of one performance happily recorded when a reaching past the usual limit was attempted, duende-style -- I am not generally interested in lyric content all that much so dislike often "singer-songwriter" peoples but here is a lyric gloop that acts physical with the musical thing like a particular gaah-ガ~~ moment and so it is like a shred of important nonsense.
examples: from "paranoid man in cheap shit room":
"sky calendar bar home -- speculates[w.chuckling]" -- this is not on the peel session version. Has many lyric highpoints:
"serial number 5 4 1 2 9" "his neighbours now / are listening to this" "goes down to the dance / very clever" "puts his head down / when girls pass in the street" "on trips mental inertia" "just like I told ya / refers to karaoke" -- are just some I hastily transcribe with errors almost guaranteed.
the stunning wry last seconds of "weather report 2":
"never mind / ??/ what about sex sounds/ recording of lost london / you don't deserve rock n roll" +[intake of breath as if to say something else but instead it ends there] (and end of album too)
and lastly "he pep" which may be current most-favoured song by "the fall":
"you had the best summer / and now it's wearing off / no more excuses / for your traitorism" -- and in its peel session version it ends extended alluvially as follows:
"... to the old guard / in the cold dark winter / on the 17th of December"
meander tail-off mithers (or add ons) in fall songs (or supplements)
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I like the vague noises (throat clearing or phlegm sounds or instructions) at the ends (or sometimes beginnings or even middles) of tracks. In addition to the added lines to which you refer. Like links to other areas, but not what actually follows perhaps.
ReplyDeleteThe Pixies have an actual track named after one, which fucks up the track ordering / listing somewhat in some ways I can't quite remember on some versions.
"You Fuckin' Die...!" 0:45 Pixies Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
Somehow I had been thinking of "you fuckin die" recently.
ReplyDeleteI think on wikipedia it explains what that is about.
Also one about hockey players, "he was into hockey players" ? and lots of "like" american punctuate usage, and then :
"and the next thing you know"
and the song starts.
I remember getting that cd, and immediately becoming fond of "bone machine"
and the later songs, which are the earlier songs, about incest and spanish stuff, or something...
Also, at the very start of Hail To The Thief, Radiohead's 5th album, you hear a guitar being plugged in with attendant noise, and Thom muffling "That's a nice way to start"...which is funny and left in deliberately probably because they received a lot of flak for following "The greatest album ever made"TM, with Kid A and Amnesiac: both criticised for a distinct lack of guitarage. But from memory, I don't think you like Radiohead at all, no?
ReplyDeleteI think Jawbone and The Air-Rifle is my current favourite Fall track. How I Wrote Elastic Man and Totally Wired being all timers, but those two tracks are their big hits that everybody knows...
(P.S. I hope Japan win the Women's World Cup. Is there much excitement about it over there? It would be good if they beat the USofA. Apparently one of the players had a part time job at the Fukashima plant, and left in March. So now there is a human interest / country wide regeneration aspect to the match...)
"Last orders half past ten..."
ReplyDelete"This is a groovy number, owwwwwww"
Rowche Rumble, fuckenGEnius...
6th Album, not 5th.
ReplyDeleteFucking Pedant that I am...
(though Kid A / Amnesiac could have been / was originally intended to be a double album... I think the company said NEIN!)
I don't hate the radiohead, just don't get very excited about them. Maybe if they got rid of the song format.
ReplyDeleteThere is a fushitsusha album without any guitar. It confused a lot of "fans" -- but it is remarkable.
Maybe there are too many people in the radiohead band, and they don't have any clear purpose. Sort of bland fuzzy brand nature.
Or i am just mean.
+ yay nippon. they defeated the imperialist american dogs with great charm/
ReplyDeletequite moving ;_;)
"jawbone + the air rifle" among other things discussed vibrantly here: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/009039.html
ReplyDeleteInteresting article. You do unearth some far out things in your internet trawls. You gave me Hex. I still have it with me, on iTunes, which whether hated or not, has allowed me to 'bring' over 200 albums with me to this scorched island, as the physical CD's lay boxed and silent in a Tranmere loft.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard not to read that article without thinking that Smith himself would snort derisorily at the whole thing...Apparently his recent autobiography was ghostwritten, probably because he couldn't be arsed.
'hey there fuckface!' is very funny. And I had always wondered about that 'obligatory' n-word line.
Yay Nippon indeed! Dumass Yanks missed 3 penalties. Nippon goalie a national hero - saved 2! Also captain Suwa, top scorer in whole tournament. This was a nice football story - and there are so few of these anymore.
quite like this cover by radiohead of joy division song "ceremony"
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/euzbd8_h0Q4
but I like the beginning of the song rather than the end.
I like the "I'll break them down, no mercy shown"
I think the original was only available as live recording sort of mushy. But the melody is intact through all fuzz etc.
I think afterwards, I will listen to "the headmaster ritual" but probably the smiths original first, then check if anything interesting happens, later.
I will be seeing you then.
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