― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 19 July 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
i guess ive always considered it to be like - we're all so fixated on "making it real", but whats really real is whats really going on, like poor dumb rednecks rollin logs, twisted children killin frogs, etc.
in that way, i guess i think it of as an expression of exasperation and frustration at not only the problems of society, but at the affectations and contradictions of some people who try to change it.
i gotta admit, ive never understood that song fully, either, but i think of it as a really really sophisticated song, as it points out all of these contradictions, but it knows that it just cant figure out what the real answer might be. thats why i love the flack album in general - there is some really complex emotional stuff in it.
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
it's pretty easy i think to look back at countercultural music from the 60s and read some auto-critique into it that's not actually there. i was really disapppointed by danny ben-israel's "the hippies of today are the assholes of tomorrow" when i realized he wasn't actually critiquing the hippies at all!! he was just sarcastically calling his parents out for not being radicals or visionaries in their old age.
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
i mean, she obviously has SOME problem with straight society, but maybe she also has some problem with the radical reaction to straight society.
i mean, YOU ARE 100% CORRECT, vahid, about us superimposing ourselves and era and situations onto all this. but i dont usually feel as resonant with stuff as with first take.
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't find it so amazingly understated, her vocals can get kind of overembellished at times. she does have a tendency to blur chord changes and such so the melodies don't appear as strident as in the originals, that can be a plus and a minus. in the case of the goffin/king song i think it's both.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
i like the brian auger version but the dude doesn't really have any anger or fire in his version. he's just going through the motions, but the song is so strong it somehow works.
― omar little, Saturday, 6 October 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
it's about 8 2/3 minutes.
OH HO HO DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 6 October 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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― omar little, Saturday, 6 October 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think it's basically "trying to make it real" ie trying to be taken seriously, trying to get somewhere, trying to live the right way etc, but compared to WHAT? Given all this upheaval as well as just good old-fashioned corruption and hypocrisy, what standard am I being judged against exactly? "God dammit!"
Granted I haven't listened to it too closely and don't know most of the words, but that's what I've always gotten out of the title line...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 January 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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"Sometimes people say that my head is too big for my body, and then I say, 'Compared to what?!'"
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 August 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Why did I never pay attention to "Invitation to Openness" before? It's outstanding!
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link