A Salty Dog
Spoilt Victorian Child schreibt heute:
... But the song that haunts me is the title track of their 1969 album. The fact that it was a single blows my mind. Nowadays, such a sound would be put in the employ of a lyric that over dramatises (or lies) about some relationship, or the mutterings of a sensitive soul recently out of university and making the most of it before the deal vanishes and they have to retrain as a social worker. I shouldn’t blame Radiohead for this, but I do. I digress.
This is not what we have come to expect from pop music. We get an unsettling lyric from which we can infer that the Captain is quite mad and the crew are not far behind, all of them following a path from demented melancholy to unhinged euphoria and back again. Verse/Chorus/Verse.
If you want a comparison, go to Scott Walker and “A Farmer In The City” from the album “Tilt”. And that was definitely not a pop album.
... But the song that haunts me is the title track of their 1969 album. The fact that it was a single blows my mind. Nowadays, such a sound would be put in the employ of a lyric that over dramatises (or lies) about some relationship, or the mutterings of a sensitive soul recently out of university and making the most of it before the deal vanishes and they have to retrain as a social worker. I shouldn’t blame Radiohead for this, but I do. I digress.
This is not what we have come to expect from pop music. We get an unsettling lyric from which we can infer that the Captain is quite mad and the crew are not far behind, all of them following a path from demented melancholy to unhinged euphoria and back again. Verse/Chorus/Verse.
If you want a comparison, go to Scott Walker and “A Farmer In The City” from the album “Tilt”. And that was definitely not a pop album.
gebattmer - 2005/10/21 23:05
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