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My liver has finally stopped aching from my weekend sojourn in Minehead. All who made the expedition had a splendiferous time at the Dirty Three curated ATP festival. Myself, rather blearily, included. Although owning a few of their records, I'd never seen the Dirty Three do their thing, and 'hazard!', I cried; they are bastard-well brilliant! If there were medals for sheer presence, a tidy row would be pinned across Warren Ellis' chest. I particularly enjoyed his twix song banter....this is a song about waking up in the morning, staring at the phone not ringing, finding you only have one piece of stale bread, no butter, but there is some rancid marmalade, and then thinking to yourself 'I should have gone out last night'.....or something like that - all delivered in a comically nonchalalant low melbourne accent. They were dramatic and subtle in equal measures. Beautifully eardrum-buggeringly loud too. Joy. Nick Cave's performances had us all with our arms in the air and our inhibitions left somewhere in the Somerset countryside. Bobby Gillespie made for a brilliantly hopeless tambourinist. Bill Callahan made me cry like a small girl.
Happy days.
One of my favourite songs of all time. An elusive, solemn number. Neil's songwriting is , for me, the perfect combination of early twentieth century styles. His crooning may not be for all, but it's suits me fine. This song has been covered many times. In my opinion, most successfully by Tim Buckley and, bless his socks for giving it a go, by Billy Bragg. I think Buckley's version may be it's exemplification, but Neil's is warmer and less pretentious. You'll probably know Neil's work as he was the writer of "everybody's talkin'" Harry Nilsson's hit from Midnight Cowboy. I think he was a brill building writer. I once heard, though I've never found the track, he wrote for Buddy Holly, incidentally, another of my biggest heros. I've bin searching........
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Wow...thanks for hipping me to his original work. 'Everbody's Talking' is always on my list when I get brave enough to attempt to compile a FAVORITE SONGS ever list!
So Tom, I don't mean to come off rude or anything, but who are you? I'm just intrested, thats all. Are you a singer, bassist, what? I'm ignorant of the whole thing. Please educate me. Again, I don't mean any disrespect, just I'm bad with words sometimes...
very cool....i'm a big fan of the Buckley version but i never knew where the song actually came from
I just saw, "be here to love me" the Townes Van Zandt documentary. If I have ever been more depressed by a film in my life, I can't think of it.
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I can only hope you didn't have to watch it by yourself. Musicians should have to watch it with a buddy.
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Think I'd really need to crank this up to get the "rancid marmalade effect"...but, alas, I'm in my cubicle, and the tweens (word of the day!) in Marketing already don't like me.
Proper stuff, tho.
it does sound like joy...
The toms and acoustic instruments go really well in the beginning. It's gets my blood pumping faster, like dance music. A lot of excitement. I love it when the violin comes in.