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| Kevin Ayers – Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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This is a song with very straightforward lyrics, but it still conveys a sense of mixed emotions. On the ‘June 1st 1974’ album version Kevin changes the “musical ladies” and “crazed young men” part of the second verse to: “Well we all live for pleasure/ And some find it in pain/ And we all let our treasure/ Slip right down the drain.” So it’s bleaker, and the whole track has got a decidedly eerie feel to it. But it’s still a very beautiful song.
There’s maybe a sense of wonder in there - at how overwhelming those emotions can be. Also a sense that this stuff keeps happening, and there’s nothing we can do about it when it does... he doesn’t call it a Blues song for nothing! |
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| Sex Pistols – Satellite Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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JR is virtually foaming at the mouth by the end of this one. Yes it’s a diss track but all that sound and fury is more of a blast at the attitudes he thinks are common in the satellite towns around London, than at the woman herself. It’s anti-complacency, anti-hypocrisy, anti- aspiring to a comfortable lifestyle, anti- people pretending to be what they’re not. I was growing up in one of those towns at the time, was a Pistols fan, bought ‘Anarchy’ when it first came out etc, and now think he had a point but was only half right. It’s still one of my favourite Pistols tracks though... it’s relentless!! |
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| Robert Wyatt – Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Yes there is irony and humour there at the end (the 'Robin Hood' track with Ivor Cutler). About moles - Wyatt was briefly - post Soft Machine - in a band called Matching Mole, maybe was with them when he had the accident I refer to in my comment. Also he was a Communist Party member during the Cold War, (when asked in an interview what profession he would have liked if not music he replied "A Postman") and I believe Marx refers to the workers' revolution as being like a mole, lots of hard work going unseen then it pops up where no one expects it:) |
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| Robert Wyatt – Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I love this song tho find it almost unlistenable! As I see it its about the pain Wyatt went through after the accident that put him in a wheelchair. The next track is about coming out of it, still drugged up, his partner Alfie (Alfreda Benge) is there with him. The album title 'Rock Bottom' is a pun on both hitting an all-time low and his lower-half paralysis. I can see how the final track could send you in an 'animals' direction...I see it as Wyatt the hedgehog (hedgehogs being the classic roadkill victims) getting his own back! 'Bursting the tyres all day' etc.But less sure about that.'The Garden of England' is Kent, where he grew up, went to Canterbury Grammar with Kev Ayres (RIP), Mike Ratelege, Hugh Hopper, and the guys from Caravan.
The accident seems to have made him reflective, sent him back to his childhood. And inspired some beautiful music, but you can't be glad it happened, can you? |
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