Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Tears of My Track
Posted by Vernier Caliper on 19 May 2009 - 3:32pm.
I could weep every time - yes every time - I get to the end of the Zeppelin beat group's 'In My Time of Dying' and the wheels fall off the whole hurtling juggernaut with a shitty lyric change, a fake cough, a bit of cockerney rinky-dink guitar and exit everyone to go down the pub.
It last only a heartbeat or two but and shatters every scintilla of atmosphere the preceding 11 minutes or so builds up.
It could be the beginning, the end, or any of the bits in-between: which few seconds of what track make you bellow at the Dansette in a teary-eyed rage at a thing of beauty forever spoilt?
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The original CD re-issue
omitted the little breakdown at the end and I really missed it :-)
Really?
Did they just let it fade away, or was there a more definitive conclusion that I haven't heard - and should?
Not really... they just cut it off as
the last notes died away
"Won't you make up my dying, dying..." (but no "cough")
Me too...
I really love that ending... I don't have a problem with it at all.
Heads you win, tails you lose – That’s Life
One of my very favourite tracks is a relatively unknown piece of white boy 80s soul from Animal Nightlife – it’s called “Native Boy” and I really love it so…
…except for the fact that, in the instrumental break, the tune veers close to the theme music from the much loved magazine show “That’s Life” – the Ester Rantzen vehicle. Indeed, it veers so dangerously close that I cannot help singing along the words that I’ve used to title this piece in my head every time I play it.
AND I daren’t ever play it to anyone I know in case they jab an accusing finger and say “that’s the ‘That’s Life’ theme tune, that is!”
Not quite tears of rage, but...
One of my favourite Small Faces tunes is 'Long Agos and Worlds Apart'. It has a melancholy, slightly mystical quality that reaches inside and plays my heart strings like a stradivarius every time.
The trouble is the outro, where Marriot decides that what the song needs is a jolly-old round of 'hep hep, showaddy-waddy'. I'm never angered by it, but I just wish to hell it wasn't there.
Blasphemy, I know
What about the coda of Strawberry Fields Forever?
What about Hey Jude?
The hitmakers could easily have chopped it in half. Which bit to keep? Who cares.....
Don't speak
I'd prefer a lot of songs that contain rapping bits, without the rapping - like Gorillaz, often brilliant pop otherwise, and there are others. In fact, I'd also prefer quite a lot of records that contain nothing but rapping without the rapping.