S01 E73
Happy Music, Dark Words
Your nan turns to you as you sit on the sofa, watching Tom Jones singing “Delilah” on the televised festival for OAPs (Glastonbury). “Isn’t that a wonderful song, darling. But I’m sure I heard something about a knife”, she says as she passes you the tin of Sainsbury own-brand non-alcoholic lager. You search the lyrics: aha. It’s a song about MURDER. But, it’s so much fun! HOW COULD THIS BE?
Lyrics, for lack of knowledge of a better word, tend to be somewhat onomatopoeic. As in, aggressive songs have aggressive lyrics, happy sounding songs have happy sounding music, and sad songs have sad sound music. How much this is project due to the lyrics, or projection on the lyrics due to the music, is no doubtful fascinating, but not for this discussion. What about when a song feels good, but the lyrics are telling you its not a good thing what is being sung about?
This week, Andrew and Sam are back spouting nonsense as they skip, hand-in-hand, though upbeat songs about murder, domestic disquiet, teenage prostitution, amongst other things. Mostly murder, though.
Riffs of the week
Dr Sam’s Riff
- Ekko Astral – baethoven (0.45)
Andrew’s Riff
- Wormwitch – Rayonnant banners (2:53)
Dr Sam’s track choices
- Hank Williams – Move It on Over (opening)
- Sublime – Wrong Way (0:03)
- The Cure – Close to Me (0.55)
- Hall & Oats – Diddy Doo Wop (I hear the Voices) (1.48)
Andrew’s track choices
- The Stone Roses – Bye Bye Badman (2:17)
- The Beatles – Maxwell’s silver hammer (0:26)
- Barry Manilow – Copacobana (1:04)
- Lou Reed – Perfect day (1:46)
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Here’s that Imperial Triumphant track with Kenny G on it:
https://youtu.be/ywcshfrpO3A?si=LL8RO_e_Y2nuQwpu
The Beatles put a copyright block on our video on these timestamps
0:39:38:29 to 0:40:16:15
0:40:24:29 to 0:40:40:13
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