Always a fan of Donna Summer and only just discovered she spent a decade in Germany prior to hitting it big, so in a sense “I Feel Love” is the biggest hit Kraut Rock never had. No way she hadn’t heard and seen Kraftwerk, I mean just check out the dance moves.
coughs in Giorgio Moroder
Something a bit different.
Disco
Timeless
A like for Alan Parsons (but not the disco one)
Love is not in you!
I like them both. Even though disco is far from my fave music genre, this track was different and hummed along sweetly.
Can’t legitimately put these in songs I haven’t heard in years, even though they’re all old as a very old thing.
I picked up a US 12” of Original Sin the other week. As well having the extended mix and regular album version on the A side, the flip side has Stay Young and Just Keep Walking, making it a very cool listen.
Love that.
The 12” of Burn For You was in my cart for a while (I can’t afford as much as I used to).
Don’t really know why. Some things you just want.
Interminable rant.
Why I think Everything’s Ruined is Faith No More’s best song.
First thing’s first, it’s from their best album. With their best line-up.
Clearly. No argument.
We’ll start with the hook, as we should, because it opens the song.
It’s a child learning piano. Anyone who has ever learned piano has learned some variation of that hook.
So, simplicity…yes.
Immediate recognition…yes.
And we get the opening line…
‘Things turned out different than we had planned…’
I’m not going to go too far into the lyrics, because I don’t need to. But that draws you in.
I don’t care if it’s pop, or poetry…that makes you ask questions.
That’s a killer opening line.
But back to the hook…at the start of the song it’s played like someone learning piano.
I’ve long since accepted that such things from great songwriters aren’t accidents.
And then we get the riff.
And it’s one hell of a riff.
It’s a blow your socks off kind of riff, enhanced by the fact they embrace the synth. That they’re not afraid of it, even though they’re metal.
And they are.
The melody.
The melody is so sweet and lovely, at this point you need to seperate the vocal from the melody.
It’s beautiful.
It starts off atonal (I got in an argument with my bass player once…he said it’s a choice, things are either tonal or atonal and I said STFU you boring wanker…but…you know…we were fine) but as melodies go…it segues into the most lollipops and daydreams melody line you could ever write.
And already I’ve skipped past the intro and ignored the start of the song.
Sliding bass into the riff, classic.
And They Make That Metal Riff Work with the childlike piano hook.
All of them.
Bass, guitar, synth, drums.
All together, tight AF. And we’re barely twenty seconds into the song.
They’re…they’re friggin’ good.
They’re tight.
And you know what I Really love about this track?
There is Nothing here you couldn’t do live.
Seriously, I mean you.
Yes, okay, you’d need a particularly sympathetic mixer, but still…this exact track could be played live by anyone.
And the menace!
The menace that the bass gives to the child piano primer…and we’re 48 seconds in.
But let’s not forget the drums because they’re not…insignificant.
The double kick groove…(random thought…can drummers sue for copyright?).
Theeeen we get into the couplet of true metal.
And it kicks because of course it does.
The guitar and angry vocal working perfectly together for exactly two lines.
And then….sweetness.
The melody is so…so sweet when he starts to sing…
omg, I haven’t even talked about when the synth takes over in the pre-pre-chorus, and how everyone else on the band is on board, and that moment of silence before they continue.
It’s a great, great song.
And I’m not even half way through describing it.
It’s their best song and I will fight you.
Encore. wheres part deux
Part two, the lead break is sympathetic and ignored and awesome.
It throws back to the eighties but it…transcends that.
And it works…before going back into the dirty riff.
People talk about great riffs but never ever that…but da-dun da-dun da-dun de-daaaaaa….
That’s a friggin good riff.
By the way…this is my podcast.
One song.
45 minutes.
Just find lots of people that are passionate about it.
Sure. If you can, get anyone involved to talk.
But you don’t need to.
It’s interesting, people that are mad about it, but the social dynamics are also interesting.
I’ll take 0.1%.
People want to be validted.
Whether it’s Blue Hawaii or Everything’s Ruined.
Seriously…
I hear Tool…I do…
But have you heard Ashes to Ashes?
Edit: I mean…
Math-rock…cool.
But…feel does it better.
I’m sure SP thought Ava Adore was better than Zero.
It’s really really not, though.
Feel free to stop me at any time.
