Sad nobody's commented much the Triffids' section, and even sadder there's only one album up. I'll work on this if I can...
This song is incredible in both its incarnations: as 'Tender is the Night (The Long Fidelity)', and 'The Long Fidelity (Tender is the Night)', which has the same lyrics, but is all a duet between David and Jill. In this version, just the final two verses are sung with male accompaniment.
It's a freakin' gem, though. In an album full of songs about losing loves, it ends with a small victory in the form of a companion who's just as weary and guarded and tired of the same old shit. You feel they're together because their situations just allow them to feel empathetic enough to tolerate one another.
BSD does sort of play out like a concept record, if you consider the suicidal female (Jill) singing on "Tarrilup Bridge" meeting up with the despondant male (David) that sings on the other eight album tracks getting on together in this song.
David must have been thinking "What pitiful souls these two are. Let's put them together, so they may commiserate."
Sad nobody's commented much the Triffids' section, and even sadder there's only one album up. I'll work on this if I can...
This song is incredible in both its incarnations: as 'Tender is the Night (The Long Fidelity)', and 'The Long Fidelity (Tender is the Night)', which has the same lyrics, but is all a duet between David and Jill. In this version, just the final two verses are sung with male accompaniment.
It's a freakin' gem, though. In an album full of songs about losing loves, it ends with a small victory in the form of a companion who's just as weary and guarded and tired of the same old shit. You feel they're together because their situations just allow them to feel empathetic enough to tolerate one another.
BSD does sort of play out like a concept record, if you consider the suicidal female (Jill) singing on "Tarrilup Bridge" meeting up with the despondant male (David) that sings on the other eight album tracks getting on together in this song.
David must have been thinking "What pitiful souls these two are. Let's put them together, so they may commiserate."