- The melody. Gotta love the chutzpah involved in writing a melody that puts the dominant chord against the tonic chord throughout most of the verse, plus that gorgeous dissonance at the end of each phrase where the singer is on the ninth just makes me swoon.
- The mantra. Yes, it's deeply-pilled and "OH MY GOD MY HAND HAS STARS IN IT" but I still cannot get enough of it. Chanting "The wind cannot hear" in that wispy, forlorn voice over and over lends a creepy, forlorn overtone to the song that puts it over the top.
- The flute sample. Every dance track should sample a pretty flute glissando.
Also, every time I hear the song I think of the video, which features the attractive elf who sings the song dancing underneath her fairy tree. How could you not love that?
You know, I take back my original statement; "It's A Fine Day" is "I Talk To The Wind" The Prelude. This track just kicks ass.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
Also, how many times should one use "forlorn" in a sentence?
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
i totally forgot about this track but i do remember liking it at the time of its release - i'll have a fresh listen if i can find it
also, while we're on the subject of Opus III can someone confirm that 'Its A Fine Day' was a cover version?
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 26 April 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 26 April 2003 15:07 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
Yes it was a cover. This is the original.
― David (David), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 26 April 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 April 2003 21:05 (twenty years ago) link
― and what, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Dan's judgment on this song is sound.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
what was the original? why do people have to answer questions on a board that keeps threads for as long as this one does, with links that will be gone weeks after the post?
― mr. me too (rockapads), Thursday, 23 July 2009 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Wikipedia says:
Their debut album, Mind Fruit, produced the track "It's a Fine Day", a cover of a 1983 single by Jane & Barton
Always thought this sounded naggingly familiar, but I have never heard of Jane & Barton. Still love this (early 90s cheese-rave lol)and "I Talk To The Wind" a ton.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i love this Crimson track so
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
The original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI6kL64xdsA
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
(The original "It's a Fine Day," I should say.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
And what the hell, the original "I Talk to the Wind":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ghKS5UxmM
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
looooool I am listening to the King Crimson original for the first time right now
looooool
xp: SYNERGY!
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a9ZNHNMhNI
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I had definitely never heard the Jane original. That's really beautiful.
Double wow, Dan you'd never heard the Crimson track?
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I spent a good portion of my life actively avoiding bands like King Crimson and Jethro Tull with varying degrees of success.
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG I really am getting old. I'm actually enjoying a King Crimson track.
My 16 self would be SO disappointed.
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I know what you mean! lol
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought i was aight for liking king crimson when i was sixteen... wouldn't have touched this opus stuff with a ten foot pole tho. it's ok now.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"It's a Fine Day" finally turns up on Kompakt - the vocal shows up on Coma's "Raindrops".
― with hidden noise, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i.. did not know that back in 1992 a guy called gerald did a remix of the jane and barton original of "it's a fine day":
http://youtu.be/LY_4gWVzxTU
― brimstead, Friday, 27 February 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link