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ginally wasn t about long solos endless variation on the riff or even weapons grade amplification it was about rhythm repetition and above all simplicity a little virtuosity is acceptable but remember there is a song underneath all of that it s about feeling passion and the blues of course freddie king got that was that and that s why his taut version is the definitive one let me down and close that box car door yes let me down and close that box car door well i m goin back to chattanooga and sleep on sister irene s door posted by alessandro vitelli at 8 47 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 11 2015 walk away renee i was reminded of this song when trawling through a selection of music performed by linda ronstadt and it s taken me off on a tangent so much so that my ronstadt post will have to wait for as long as i can remember i have been utterly convinced that nobody no not even the original writer has recorded walk away renee completely correctly every version i ve heard falls short in some small but important way that fails to do justice to what i think is a monumental piece of music the original recording by the left banke including the 16 year old writer is just a little too jaunty and the lead vocal isn t up to the task of conveying the sheer emptiness and desolation the song requires the four tops were better in that they had the vocal part down but again the arrangement was just too upbeat southside johnny herman s hermits cyndi lauper linda ronstadt eric carmen and a whole host of others have recorded versions of this none of which really encompasses what the song is about ronstadt s probably comes closest of all these and there s a good version by wait for it john bon jovi but my favourite version is by a northern irish group called the adventures who came and went in the mid 1980s their take on renee was on a 4 track ep given away with the weekly record mirror magazine and i played it to death within a year happily someone else out there kept their copy in better condition there s also a version the adventures did for a bbc peel session but it s the muffled slightly echoey arrangement on the ep that seems to work best i can t think of any other song where i ve been left unsatisfied by the interpretations of even the writers i m reminded of warren zevon s hasten down the wind which while good is not nearly as heartbreaking as linda ronstadt s version but a cover version surpassing the original is not as rare in my experience posted by alessandro vitelli at 8 45 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 24 2015 doot doot back in 1983 we had pretty much fully digested the corpse of punk rock and had more or less put to bed the real proper experimental first flush of the new romantics it felt like music was at a loss for direction to put things into perspective punk rock as a genre really started when the sex pistols played their first gig in november 1975 the clash released should i stay or should i go in 1982 pretty much everything punk happened in between those dates new wave came very quickly on the heels of punk a more acceptable label for bands who were just that little bit more together consumer friendly or ambitious by 1983 though punk and new wave had both been overtaken by the new romantics who kicked off around 1979 and had their commercial heyday from about 1981 to 1985 tubeway army s are friends electric was the first new romantic hit quickly followed by the likes of visage spandau ballet and duran duran before long any of the novelty we might have associated with eyeliner lipgloss or unabashed indulgence had gone and new romantics had become more or less mainstream later of course would come the guitar backlash of britpop but for a brief while in the early to mid 1980s we really didn t have a great deal of direction i remember 1983 principally for the tears for fears debut album the hurting which i found confusing and entrancing in equal measure and for the final descent of roger waters and pink floyd into the abyss of middle class irrelevance with the final cut though much of that album is close to my heart for strange unaccountable reasons and i remember 1983 for this little treasure i think i may have heard it first on the same west london pirate station that had first introduced me to the normal s warm leatherette and industrial music i had no idea who freur were and i had no idea why they d think to title a song doot doot i loved the gentle rhythmic intro the fantastic orchestra of synthesizers and the wondrous overlaid vocals and i still do but best of all i discovered not long ago that in 1987 freur became underworld who gave the world the terrific born slippy in 1996 as well as the utterly mesmerising music for the opening ceremony of the 2012 london olympics it makes perfect logical sense that a whimsical song that so ensnared me in 1983 should be the grandfather of the music that gripped me so tightly in 2012 posted by alessandro vitelli at 9 17 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 20 2015 information there are many ways to measure progress a lot of people would point to tangible signs of mankind s advances the internet travel post industrialisation you name it but how have we as little insignificant humans moved on from the group of hirsute neanderthals huddled around a fire to the rag clad plague infested hominids of the middle ages to the sharp suited masters of all we survey of the 21st century is that progress too i don t buy any of that that s merely circumstance and not particularly insightful into the way we live interact love associate and grow i like to think that our development as a race and as a society can be measured in the way we nurture our young how we prepare them teach them and equip them for their own adulthood back in the day children were brought up to respect revere and in some cases fear their elders father s word was law and that was that mother dried the tears and bandaged the scars when we decided to learn the hard way for the most part that s old school i caught the tail end of that in the 60s and now that my kids are teenagers i m only rarely interested in that kind of autocracy i say only rarely because there are time s you know times when our children just want a little too much leeway don t you find and when things get to that level what are the options well back in the beatles heyday you just left home you packed a bag and climbed out the window or tiptoed downstairs in the wee small hours like the girl in that song forty years on it s more likely that teenagers or young adults don t have to push all that hard to get themselves a little extra leeway parenting has moved on from simple autocracy to a more consultative democracy privileges and permissions are negotiated or in some cases annexed so when the rainmakers sing do you know your daughter well and do you know she s dreaming you know as well as i she stays higher than the moon they re reminding us that in this age of parenting as partnership we still have a duty to curb excesses point out the straight road and sometimes even pick up the pieces which lately it seems we re in danger of forgetting w hen a father kills his daughter b ecause she consorted with the w r o ng kind of boy what message is he sending is he saying that she should never be a llowed to make her own mind up seriously in this day and age the beatles seem to hark back to a time when parenting was a pretty inflexible thing and that there was no wiggle room no leeway and certainly no room for negotiation the rainmakers seem to be telling us that there s no point bolting the stable door after the 60s but look all around and you ll see that accepted norms have shifted in almost every facet of our lives what was seen as harmless fun 40 years ago is now pounced upon as racism sexism homophobia harassment or abuse and expectations have shifted too our children demanded it once and now they expect it if we don t listen and consult we re sidelined and that s perhaps even worse so we walk an ever tightening line of consent and goodwill and we rely increasingly on innate good sense combined with whatever lessons we can pass on at an ever earlier age parenthood becomes a higher stakes game than it has ever been posted by alessandro vitelli at 9 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday march 11 2015 personal jesus i found this moody wonder hidden away in a dark corner of my ipod last week and it s been on repeat a fair amount ever since i d forgotten what a shock this was when i first came across it around 1990 how different it was to everything else i d heard from depeche mode and just how good they d suddenly become it s about relationships about dependency of a sort and how we look for redemption in a partner maybe it comes from a nagging worry that we i you aren t worthy unless we re saved by a relationship that consecrates us validates us and that s slightly worrying in a sense i m sure we ve all been told that relationships are supposed to be a meeting of equals where strengths and weaknesses are complemented and where neither partner holds the upper hand the moral advantage so it must be a shock when some of us reach adulthood and realise that we re not necessarily strong or brave or whatever the adjective is to approach a relationship without uncertainty a lack of self confidence and the resulting feeling of inadequacy and dependence as if by magic i d just written the paragraph above when the relationship between pierre and marie curie popped into my head both were scientists in the 19th century he worked on the properties of magnetism while she pioneered the study of radioactivity together they won the nobel prize for physics in 1903 she won a second in chemistry in 1911 they came together through their studies and recognised in each other an equal no personal jesus there rather a corresponding pair of intellects and interests but are they the exception rather than the rule look around at the never ending parade of public marriages for they re the ones we get to observe on a daily basis and they re often out of balance one partner is more prominent successful fulfilled the other tends to be a background figure the power behind the throne or a happy soul that feels no need to find balance in superficial things look around at your friends we re more likely to be equals we find a balance in the things that each partner does well all of which is to say that while depeche mode obviously saw the dependence and imbalance in elvis and priscilla presley s marriage it may not be something we all feel doesn t stop this being a cracking song though for a start it s a depeche mode song with real guitars a simple powerful riff backed by a stamping beat that kicks off with real intent slide guitar and synthesiser filigree decorate the simple marching rhythm and the whole song is wrapped up in a sense of menace that s hard to place and hard to describe it s menacing like the polyphonic spree s version of lithium but without the added diabolical glee enjoy posted by alessandro vitelli at 7 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday february 26 2015 sunset grill i m looking forward to leaving the city i m probably wrong and someone out there will wheel out some statistics to prove it but i d say very few of the changes that i ve witnessed in this city over the last 25 years have been for the better round about the time i began to spend more time traveling to in and through the city of london margaret thatcher unleashed the earthquake deregulation of banking that brought forth a tsunami of crass wealth that plagues us to this day this had happened long before in the united states full disclosure i m a beneficiary to some extent of that earthquake since i make my living writing about things like markets and trading markets and trading two words that you couldn t better to describe what started to happen in the 1980s banks no longer forced to operate like comfortable old gentlemens clubs no longer required to behave sensibly and prudently suddenly developed a bad case of chrome and glass hiring young ambitious kids who didn t give a fig for convention or the way we do things quickly finding that the long established markets were booooring the kids started coming up with new and fun ways to buy and sell stuff salaries and commissions soared as everyone started to clock on to the fact that the lunatics had been given the keys to the asylum i can see a lot more meanness in the city it s the kind that eats you up inside hard to come away with anything that feels like dignity hard to get home with any pride any sort of sense of noblesse oblige if it had survived the death throes of the empire was washed aside by golf gtis padded shoulders mobile phones and conspicuous consumption the 1980s were a truly awful decade in many ways but their offence was mild compared to what followed what the 80s encouraged in terms of greed and naked grasping cupidity was as nothing compared to what we have today if london is the alpha city of the u k then the city is the alpha district competition is that much fiercer the rewards are that much greater and the temptations are huge the news headlines are full of scandals where city traders work around the rules to bend the percentages in their favour and it s almost as if the keys to the jewellery box were lobbed into their lap respectable little murders pay they get more respectable every day certain vital parts of the global financial mechanism which operated just fine back in the day when gentlemens agreements had some value were hijacked by a troupe of wised up kids who calculated that they could pretend to be the same gentlemen while acting very much unlike the same gentlemen and pocket large gobs of cash in the process hey presto libor fixing scandal and this sickness this financial cancer spreads far and wide a whole multitude of millions now exist to service the needs of these wealthy few they re forced to compete with each other to lower their prices and wages in order to get each precious contract the rules of retail are rewritten to include contracting workers on an hourly wage but not guaranteeing them any hours why because profit is all these days a man makes you something and you never see his face there is no hiding place on my increasingly frequent trips out of the city i find it s easier to catch one s breath to pause and think and to drink in a sunset or two with real appreciation here in london the best sunsets i ve seen have been from the train as i head home and that can t be right it can t be right that i hear students kids talking about how they re going to leave london as soon as they can looking for something 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