I love this song...it's one of the few TP songs, I believe, that's actually about him. The music shop in Gainesville has been slightly fictionalised as Lillian's (it's really Liphams), and I'm sure it's significant that there's a verse about happy memories of his mother but nothing about his father.
The whole song is infused with nostalgia and the arrangement complements this. It took me quite a while to come to terms with the orchestral settings of many of the songs on The Last DJ, but hey - if we never tried anything different we'd stagnate, wouldn't we? Here the setting is perfectly appropriate for the song, and the feelings it inspires in me are all about how we romanticise our childhood and youth, looking back - and about whether or not this is a good thing. (No, I don't know the answer.)
I love this song...it's one of the few TP songs, I believe, that's actually about him. The music shop in Gainesville has been slightly fictionalised as Lillian's (it's really Liphams), and I'm sure it's significant that there's a verse about happy memories of his mother but nothing about his father.
The whole song is infused with nostalgia and the arrangement complements this. It took me quite a while to come to terms with the orchestral settings of many of the songs on The Last DJ, but hey - if we never tried anything different we'd stagnate, wouldn't we? Here the setting is perfectly appropriate for the song, and the feelings it inspires in me are all about how we romanticise our childhood and youth, looking back - and about whether or not this is a good thing. (No, I don't know the answer.)
Thank you, moonshadowbird396! I love your username btw.
Thank you, moonshadowbird396! I love your username btw.