| Peter Gabriel – San Jacinto Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"hey now... waka tanka" sometimes, heard when wind blows tree leaves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZhQgihUgk http://thequietus.com/articles/07003-peter-gabriel-interview |
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| Peter Gabriel – San Jacinto Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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where is the "hey now wakatanka" in the lyrics? PG talks about the song in this interview http://thequietus.com/articles/07003-peter-gabriel-interview |
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| Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| XTC – Dear God Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Anyone know if the line "diamond blue" has some symbolic meaning? From http://chalkhills.org/reelbyreal/s_DearGod.html#info (a website Partridge says on his website: http://www.ape.uk.net/links/links.php Chalkhills-- Hats off to John Relph for his interesting and vast site dedicated to XTC. Chatty and informative.) Andy: “A lot has been written and wrangled over with this song, and, you know, it hasn't deserved it. I just tried to wrestle with the paradox of God and the last dying doubts of belief that had hung, bat like, in the dark corners of my head since childhood. I'll just say one more time this song failed to crystalize all my thoughts on the subject in under 4 minutes. Human belief is too big a beast to bring to the floor in such a short time. “This tune had a few incarnations. It started as a kind of skiffle rag with a much bluesier melody but after several blacksmith like bending and bashing sessions (oddly, in my kitchen) it gradually morphed into its well known shape. “On the run up to the Skylarking sessions with Todd Rundgren, we congregated at Dave's tiny terraced house, in Swindon's Stanier Street, to record a few band demos on his four track reel to reel. So, awash with much tea and ginger biscuits, we tackled this and ‘Summer's Cauldron’, trying to get something presentable for Todd. Dave found a very ‘House of the Rising Sun’ arpeggio guitar figure to ornament my rather pedestrian acoustic strumming, while Colin anchored away with the Linn drum pretending to be a future Prairie Prince. The Mellotron had been living at Dave's for a few months (where he would tend lovingly its Heath Robinsonesque guts) so we decided this would supply the strings, I'd asked for something a bit Gershwin in the middle, a pinch of ‘Summertime’, a soupçon of ‘It Ain't Necessarily So’. You know, ‘Dat Ol' Debbil Be A Coming Missy’, orchestral blues bend. I remember that Dave's front room floral wallpaper seemed to gaze down at us with almost temperance meeting scorn, as we stirred up our sinful sounds that afternoon. “Surely, for this tune, we will burn in Hull.” Skiffle Version. Released in September 2004 on Fuzzy Warbles Volume Five in the U.K. Andy: “Found this a while back laying cowering in a corner of a cassette. It's pretty much me feeling-out the tune with blah blah type lyrics. Little did I know that this piece of brain blurt would be the tip of the iceberg to so much more acceptance for XTC in the U.S. Thank you God.” |
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