Ohhhh....This is one of my favourites - if not my favourite - in "Rudebox". I can see its related to "Ghosts" of "Intensive Care" and I adore it. It shares the same feeling, maybe less bitter. Seeing again that person that was so important to you so long ago...it moves you. Makes you wonder, "what if?", "Could it be?"...The spoken part, when he talks about wounds that simply don't heal, it sounds so sincere and made me burst in tears the first time I heard it. I love how Robbie manages to share that melancholic and a bit regretful side of him, it makes it so easy to us to relate. I'm still bleeding from a very old wound. Robbie, you broke my heart once again.
In Robbie's words: "When I was writing and recording Intensive Care with Stephen Duffy, "Louise" by the Human League kept on being the centre point on what I wanted to achieve with the record. With Louise I remember when it first came out, and then I didn't listen to it for ages until the middle of the 90's. When I heard it again, it kind of broke my heart thinking of a period of time I had back when I wanted to make an album that would hopefully break a few hearts in 10/15 years time. Louise was the template for the Intensive Care album, so it seemed the natural next step to play homage to it and I think we've done a good version of it. I'd always wanted to work with William Orbit, I love my ambient melancholy."
Ohhhh....This is one of my favourites - if not my favourite - in "Rudebox". I can see its related to "Ghosts" of "Intensive Care" and I adore it. It shares the same feeling, maybe less bitter. Seeing again that person that was so important to you so long ago...it moves you. Makes you wonder, "what if?", "Could it be?"...The spoken part, when he talks about wounds that simply don't heal, it sounds so sincere and made me burst in tears the first time I heard it. I love how Robbie manages to share that melancholic and a bit regretful side of him, it makes it so easy to us to relate. I'm still bleeding from a very old wound. Robbie, you broke my heart once again.
In Robbie's words: "When I was writing and recording Intensive Care with Stephen Duffy, "Louise" by the Human League kept on being the centre point on what I wanted to achieve with the record. With Louise I remember when it first came out, and then I didn't listen to it for ages until the middle of the 90's. When I heard it again, it kind of broke my heart thinking of a period of time I had back when I wanted to make an album that would hopefully break a few hearts in 10/15 years time. Louise was the template for the Intensive Care album, so it seemed the natural next step to play homage to it and I think we've done a good version of it. I'd always wanted to work with William Orbit, I love my ambient melancholy."