And that's not me being vulgar. That is the title of the track.
You've gotta love a bit of wordplay. The boys are from the country, but are also obsessed about the the female sex organ, you see.
What it's all about is basically all in the title name. Girls from the city goes to the country, boys see them and are attracted, girls find themselves 'strangely' attracted to them.... good times occur.
I honestly can't sing along to this because the lyrics aren't embedded in my head, even though I've had "Costello Music" for yeeeears so I have to come to the conclusion that I put it on my iPod because it sounded really good.
Americans probably don't know the song because it was removed from the US version of the album, probably to censor the rude word within the song title, so here it is! After seven years of it being released I am very sure that you've heard it anyway.
British punk rock at its very finest. Not much should have to be said about The Clash. I will assume you already know what it is, who the members are/were, the importance of their music. If you don't I can't elaborate enough on how much you are missing.
"Clash City Rockers" is... obviously a track by The Clash. It came out as a single in 1978, but was not originally released on an album. The United States sorted that out by putting it as the opening track on the country's version of the band's debut album.
The first and numerous following times I heard it was when it played randomly whilst I was playing the DS version of "Tony Hawk's Proving Ground". That's a good game. Very addictive. Got that for my 13th birthday. The DS version actually got better ratings then the previous gen consoles so don't judge me.
I always think of the track as the band's 'theme tune'. Even though they grew out of the 'simple' punk and went on to explore further sounds and influences, it just captures the whole essence of what the band is.
"City with No Children" came at a point in my life where I had no idea what my future held in store for me. I'll tell you more, I just have to state the basic information first.
Ahem... The song is on Arcade Fire's third album "The Suburbs" from 2010, and was released as a single too.
So as I was saying earlier, "City" came at a time when I was... quite depressed actually. I hadn't done so well in my AS levels but did well enough to get back into the second year of sixth form. Every day I went into school wanting to be somewhere else. It was not fun anymore. My friends were the only thing that made the sixth and three quarter hours bearable. I was always thinking towards the future because of uni and everything else. Times were bad.
I'd known the song was on "The Suburbs" and I downloaded the album right when it came out three years ago, but it was in September last year when I decided to listen to the album the whole way through again. The track was the one that caught me on that second listen, just because it was so calming and relaxing. It took me away from everything, you know? You know.
To a lesser extent, the song felt great as the seasons changed from autumn to winter. It seemed to fit the atmosphere perfectly.
I made another post about The Who a few days ago, so have a look at it if you want.
In that post I mentioned that Summer 2010 was when I began to listen to The Who, and recognised them for the ball of talent that they were back in the day.
However, I had only listened to a few songs by them. In order to get a sense of what their music was about, I would have to listen to one of their albums.
But which one? Where do I start?
Now, I knew that their 'magnum opus' was considered to be their album 'Who's Next'. It contains two of their most well known songs, and it is the one where each member had reached their peak at their positions. Together, there was no stopping them.
For me, there was something that prevented me from listening to it. I don't why. I think it's just because I had only heard of those two songs, and if people only liked the album for them then what was the point?
So what better way to start my Who experience.... than with their 1967 release, 'The Who Sell Out'? Seeing its article on Wikipedia, I saw the praise that it received (full marks by the ones listed), the whole radio concept thing amused me, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to listen to it.
It's probably their most under-appreciated album. It is their only release where a majority of songs are not written by Pete Townshend and not only sung by Roger Daltrey. Everybody gets to sing, I have the 1995 remastered version which features 'Jaguar' with lead vocals by Keith, and 'Girl's Eyes' which is written by him and sung with John Entwistle. It's really one of my favourite albums.
"DUUUUUH-DUH Monday........" is the first thing you hear when listening to 'Armenia City in the Sky', the first song of the album. The Who Sell Out incorporates radio adverts that were transmitted on a rogue radio station, 'Radio London', which would normally be broadcast from a boat in the middle of an ocean. This 'Days of the Week' interlude carries on until Sunday, which is when a weird backwards guitar fades in, and boom. The actual song begins.
Another unusual thing about the song is that it's not actually written by any members of the band. In fact Pete's chauffeur, Mr John Keen, wrote the song and is also singing it along with Roger Daltrey. Although it's hard to make it out, seeing as there is this weird pitch shifting effect that is used on the vocals. Maybe they didn't want people to know that someone who wasn't in the band was singing.
Listening to it with headphones is another weird experience. You basically have Keith and John playing the rhythm section in the left channel, whilst there are these backwards trumpets and hazey backwards guitars playing in the other. That along with the lyrics, for example:
'The sky is glass, the sea is brown, and everyone is upside down,'
makes this song one of the trippiest from the album.
I guess as it was 1967, this was supposed to a spoof of the psychedelicmaterial that was coming out, only because this is the only song on the album that uses that sort of drugged-up-on-LSD sound. The others are solid songs that don't try to sound like it at all.
The solo is backwards too, so that screeching bird-call in the middle is still a guitar. After two repetitions of the title, the band maintain the pace and rhythm, a weird insect-sounding voices says 'Freak out, freak out' and the song ends with an explosion that echoes into the next radio transmission.
All in all, it's a perfect start to a perfect album.
