Murray Head.Sounds really odd when you just here the vocals, do you know who the cover star is by any chance?
As in one night in bannock!!Murray Head.
Sounds really odd when you just here the vocals, do you know who the cover star is by any chance?
According to Wiki - The cover of the single is a picture of British actor and singer Murray Head from a still of the 1966 film The Family Way (a movie that would also be the source of the photograph on the cover of "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish")
Perhaps or he just happened to spot the link to the venue when he last played there, he always has some local knowledge that he slips in wherever he plays but that was particularly clever.I always thought it had spooky serial killer atmosphere - like he was disappearing into fog. I wonder if it was the precursor of Jack the Ripper?
They're missing the point though, tonight isn't about whether it's as good as TQID.
I'm always surprised when people hate on Death At One's Elbow. I have a soft spot for it, I LOVE the gory lyrics in combination with the weird "country"/rockabilly/psychobilly vibe. It's Strangeways' Vicar In A Tutu.I always thought it had spooky serial killer atmosphere - like he was disappearing into fog. I wonder if it was the precursor of Jack the Ripper?
I, personally, find that rockabilly riff completely unremarkable on Elbow. A pedestrian effort, and perhaps starkly so given the lushness of other tracks.I'm always surprised when people hate on Death At One's Elbow. I have a soft spot for it, I LOVE the gory lyrics in combination with the weird "country"/rockabilly/psychobilly vibe. It's Strangeways' Vicar In A Tutu.
Maybe it's because I'm also a big Misfits fan and thematically it always reminded me of something they could have done (the fact that M sings it as a warning to "Glenn" probably helped, although that's obviously just a coincidence.)
The click track and sound effects at the beginning are such a great kick-off. It's also the only song Johnny did backing vocals on. "His tremulous quaver on Death at one’s elbow is a honeyed flow, although he insists that he cannot sing."
Bit of background on the lyrics from Mozipedia:
"It was significant that the song’s title was taken from the diaries of 60s playwright Joe Orton, beaten to death with a hammer by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in 1967. Returning to his home in Leicester the day before his mother’s funeral on 28 December 1966, Orton wrote: ‘As the corpse is downstairs in the main living room it means going out or watching television with death at one’s elbow.’"
This is where you and I agree most. I recently expressed the exact same sentiment in another thread. Meat is Murder and the debut feel the most like proper, cohesive albums. All songs coming from a similar place emotionally and tonally, the production (for better or worse) giving them all a unified sense of place. I've always felt like TQID and Strangeways were sort of wobbly, uneven collections of songs that don't particularly feel like "albums."Elbow and Birthday are the clunkers on the album for me too. And I’ve never much cared for Never Had No One either.
Meat Is Murder is the flawless masterpiece, I feel. And only the production lets the debut down—otherwise that’s perfect too.
I'm always surprised when people hate on Death At One's Elbow. I have a soft spot for it, I LOVE the gory lyrics in combination with the weird "country"/rockabilly/psychobilly vibe. It's Strangeways' Vicar In A Tutu.
Maybe it's because I'm also a big Misfits fan and thematically it always reminded me of something they could have done (the fact that M sings it as a warning to "Glenn" probably helped, although that's obviously just a coincidence.)
The click track and sound effects at the beginning are such a great kick-off. It's also the only song Johnny did backing vocals on. "His tremulous quaver on Death at one’s elbow is a honeyed flow, although he insists that he cannot sing."
Bit of background on the lyrics from Mozipedia:
"It was significant that the song’s title was taken from the diaries of 60s playwright Joe Orton, beaten to death with a hammer by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in 1967. Returning to his home in Leicester the day before his mother’s funeral on 28 December 1966, Orton wrote: ‘As the corpse is downstairs in the main living room it means going out or watching television with death at one’s elbow.’"
Well, you clearly won’t be convinced but that’s what I love about Dog: It holds together really well, I feel, as a start to finish listening experience.This is where you and I agree most. I recently expressed the exact same sentiment in another thread. Meat is Murder and the debut feel the most like proper, cohesive albums. All songs coming from a similar place emotionally and tonally, the production (for better or worse) giving them all a unified sense of place. I've always felt like TQID and Strangeways were sort of wobbly, uneven collections of songs that don't particularly feel like "albums."
Funny thing. For a band that doesn't really have a single bad song, their albums aren't all that great. In my opinion, with the exception of Kill Uncle, the first 10 years of Morrissey's solo career functions better in the album format than the recorded output of The Smiths.
I know what you mean. I once had four straight days of raging indigestion that also held together as a cohesive sort of experience from start to finish.Well, you clearly won’t be convinced but that’s what I love about Dog: It holds together really well, I feel, as a start to finish listening experience.
Well, coming from you I’ll take that as a ringing endorsement of my opinion. I thank you.I know what you mean. I once had four straight days of raging indigestion that also held together as a cohesive sort of experience from start to finish.