"one of the broken" is so good. a simple piano ballad that would be on the radio all the time in a better world
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Hell yeah, but Paddy had a way of inverting the pop song so that it wasn't as accessible as it seems on the surface.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
prefabsprout.net has rumors of one or more albums imminent. One can only hope. And selfishly, would love to see another in the _I Trawl the Megahertz_ vein.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
isn't he deaf?
― mizzell, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like he's fixed his eyesight issues, though has a bit of double vision, and he's lost bass frequencies from his hearing. There's a good article linked off that website where he talks about his health problems.
And more interestingly, the various projects and songs he's got squirreled away.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
the question is always whether those songs that he's always talking about actually exist. but then the last release had glimpses of things he has mentioned in the past. this record sounds so extravagant and luxurious but surely he didn't command much of a budget. did 'king of rock and roll' make him indispensable and deserving of record company largesse? or is it all down to thomas dolby?
― keythhtyek, Friday, 23 September 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
"scarlet nights" is the best song ever
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 7 December 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
I tend to forget that track due to its spot on the sequence, and always feel a surprised "how could I have forgotten you?" when it plays. "All the World Loves Lovers" is another top one on that disc.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
I might be crazy but I think Machine Gun Ibiza is my favorite track on this
― calstars, Sunday, 27 November 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
I'll chime in with classic as well. Honestly, I never understood the Steely Dan comparisons (well, because I hate Steely Dan) until I heard 'Machine Gun Ibiza.' Great song.― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, June 24, 2005 10:07 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ah, that's what it is
― calstars, Sunday, 27 November 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was my fave off it for the first few weeks after it came out.
you guys should check this out, it's excellent http://www.sodajerker.com/episode-53-paddy-mcaloon/
― piscesx, Sunday, 27 November 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
Machine Gun Ibiza is the song I've been looking for since 1990 or 1991 when I heard it on college radio. I spent a few years asking for the Machine Gun Beaver song. I'm so happy to have randomly found it because of this thread.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 28 November 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
i love them all but
"scarlet nights" is the best song ever― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, December 6, 2015 7:19 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, December 6, 2015 7:19 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2016 02:52 (seven years ago) link
actually sometimes my fav is "one of the broken" which is weird bc i was allergic to the god side of this album for at least the first few months i listened to it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
"End of the road I'm traveling I will see Jordan beckoning!"
― calstars, Monday, 28 November 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was my fave off it for the first few weeks after it came out. you guys should check this out, it's excellent http://www.sodajerker.com/episode-53-paddy-mcaloon🔗/
you guys should check this out, it's excellent http://www.sodajerker.com/episode-53-paddy-mcaloon🔗/
Awesome, thank you! 🙏
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 28 November 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
Machine Gun Ibiza va Glamour Profession
― calstars, Monday, 28 November 2016 02:59 (seven years ago) link
jesse james bolero
― ciderpress, Saturday, 16 October 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Speaking of which in "Jesse James Symphony" why does Paddy reference Elvis with the lines "Well the zip code may read Vegas / But the heart beats Tupelo"? Is he comparing Jesse James to Elvis in terms of a wayward life?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 11 December 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
Excerpt from Melody Maker, summer 1990 by Simon Reynolds
Jordan The Comeback was originally intended as a double album, and three of the sides are suites of thematically linked songs. One suite addresses the "bad boy" myth, using Jesse James as archetype of the spoilt mothers boys, who goes on the run from domesticity. But, grins Paddy, they're all really about Elvis.
Paddy: "The title track is Elvis as Howard Hughes on the top floor of his hotel in Vegas. I wanted to get an Elvis imitator to sing it, but then decided it was bit gimmicky. It's an Elvis monologue, him looking back at his life and saying 'I didn't do it right, but if I come back it'll be gospel music all the way and sod this 'Wooden Heart' crap. 'Jesse James Symphony' and 'Jesse James Bolero" came about when I was trying to kickstart my writing again, and I thought: 'what if I was writing something for someone like Streisand or Presley?'. I decided to write something that would have appealed to Elvis' own self-image. He liked to identify with mythic things, you can see that in his 'American Trilogy'. So I wrote something that dealt with him in those mythic proportions: the image of the outlaw, and all the sentimentality that allows the singer. The idea of his mother looking at him in the cradle, and then he ends up as this big fat guy onstage in Vegas that half the world wants to go to bed with. He's gone from from wearing your nappy, to wearing a nappy again, cos he's incontinent in your bed, which he was at the end. Finally, "Moondog" is about... if he came back, where would the Colonel have him playing?. There's only one place big enough, the moon. A satellite link-up."
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 12 December 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link