Talking of mix differences, I only recently noticed how different the orchestral parts were on To The End (album version) and its counterpart with Françoise Hardy singing. Not only the ending of the song: the orchestration on the latter is muuuuuch richer, a whole orchestra playing, whereas the form...

I've always liked Graham's solo work, and I find it very difficult to "rank" his albums. I reckon each of them has its own particularities. Maybe you could group the first four (and still, they're quite different from each other), then you could say Happiness and Love Travels form a pair, then The S...

Bowie has always fascinated me in his way of twisting the harmonic progressions in veeeery weird way, e.g. on Rock 'N' Roll Suicide : the song starts as a basic 4-chord sequence in C, nothing too far-fetched, but then there's this build-up where you don't really understand what's going on, and event...

Grrr. One of the answers is wrong. Or the question is poorly worded. They've actually headlined Glastonbury 3 times, but they've only counted the 2 Main Stage ones. This reminds me of the quiz that was once on the official website (to win the 21 boxset or something), with this question: " Song 2 fe...

I agree that both All The People and Parklive have an apalling sound quality. If my memory serves me well, on the footage of Parklive you can see Alex changing his bass in the middle of one of the first songs (broken string?), and the sound is so muddy it's not even noticeable that the bass has gone...

Does anyone have an idea what Damon mumbles in the middle of Advert? Between 2'51" and 2'59"... I'm trying hard but cannot clearly understand (and there's a delay on his voice which doesn't help).
Thanks!

I think 'Chicken & Fries' is probably what became 'Don't be'. Given the song starts with Damon repeatedly saying "chicken and, chicken and, chicken and friieess". Well spotted! It makes perfect sense. I just don't know how I remembered this unissued track title, it was something I must have read so...

Yeah, I've been trying to do that some time ago, but without much success... (1) is obviously Ambulance . :P (6) should be Caravan ... For (5), if I remember well, there was an unissued track named Chicken & Fries , could be that... I thought there was one with an obvious character falling into a ho...

Has anyone of you ever cut/pasted Her Majesty into its normal/original place in the medley? It was supposed to be after Mean Mr. Mustard (hence the opening chord of Her Majesty , which is in fact the ending of Mustard ) and before Polythene Pam (hence the brutal stop at the end of Her Majesty which ...

Neal Zeal wrote:What's the time signature? Sounds a little like a waltz but not quite...

It's indeed 3/4, though the rhythmic patterns of the different instruments make it not so obvious.

It writes with a K, apparently: "Damian LeGassick". I had already read somewhere else about this guy's involvement in the production/engineering of 13 (though I remember quite well his name was mispelled in another way, as "Damien Le Gassic" --> I was immediately misled to think he was a Frenchman. ...

Worth noting that Terrapin was recorded with an acoustic guitar and a Telecaster unplugged but with a mic on it. A very bizarre recording technique, but one that was also used for "You're so great" on Blur. I didn't know that was used on You're So Great , but incidentally, a few weeks ago I listene...

The Kinks - Arthur

Did they ever mentioned any closer songs or an album? I think, though not sure, that one of the B-sides of Leisure (was that Berserk ? an instrumental one in any case...) was described by Graham as a kind of mash-up of Barretty guitar tricks. As for Barrett's albums, there are just two of them: The...

I've read that before somewhere.
I've known both songs for quite a long time, and the comparison never sprung to my mind. Now listening again, I can see how one can hear similarities. I still think the two songs have somewhat different atmospheres though.