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Playing Against Type
Posted by Humphrey Plugg on 4 February 2012 - 9:59pm.
Every so often a band or artist will come up with a song that is so unlike their normal style that in some cases you can't believe who it is:
Exhibit 1 - how could this late night jazz be the same band who did White Riot?
Exhibit 2 - a romantic and tender song that captures that excitement at the beginning of a love affair, from everyone's favourite bus-station drunk
got any other examples?
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Black Sabbath
Was reminded of this after watching "Classic Albums - Paranoid" on BBC4 on Friday.
So the album starts with 'War Pigs', followed by 'Paranoid'. Your mind is now set to heavy riffing and bombast, and then 'Plant Caravan' pops up as Track 3
(Track 4 is 'Iron Man' and headbanging heavy riffage is restored)
In fact they had a habit of sticking an acoustic tracks on their albums. Witness 'Orchid' from Masters Of Reality, or 'Laguna Sunrise' from Volume 4
Bill Is Dead
That's an interesting reading of Bill Is Dead, I must say. I've always had it as a sarcastic musing on Smith's chaotic life at the time (Dad dead, wife left...skint).
maybe i'm being too literal
But I've always seen it as "my life was a mess...but then I met you" (whoever 'you' might be). I'm not enough of a Fall expert to know but I always assumed it was about meeting someone significant after Brix. And it was the mellow and slightly melancholic music as much as the lyric, far removed from the normal Fall garage/punk sound, that made me suggest it.
The Cranberries go RAWK
I imagine quite a few were taken back when they heard the lead single for the band's second album.
The 'Oo
Ironic
Nick, I once heard this song described as ironic but I can't hear the irony in Pete's vocal. Got any clues?
I think the irony is,,,
...that Pete was about 2 bottles of Remy Martin a day away from the bucolic lifestyle he claimed to have in this song...
The rest of the Who by Numbers LP perhaps gives a more accurate view of Townshend's life at this point. The song is certainly a million miles from its accompanying tracks.
Bad Manners
These delightful slices of instrumental pop reggae.