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[music, songs] Wednesday, 5. March 2008, 23:28 There is a song on Loveless I never warmed up to: To Here Knows When. It sounds like a tape being played on a crappy tape deck which cannot hold a constant speed. Like when my old Saba cassette recorder from 1975 tried to play classical piano music. I have become rather allergic to that sound even more than to half-boiled potatoes which I can't stand neither and I prefer that musicians leave the whining to the dogs. They are better at it. More authentic, if you know what I mean. Another thing which bothers me about the song is that I cannot hear a tune. Just annoying melody bits covered in a muddy production. Bilinda Butcher's soft hushed voice doesn't save it at all, its unobtrusiveness even aggravates the dullness factor. I can say two positive things about the original version by My Bloody Valentine though. First the lyrics - don't laugh - and second the coda. The lyrics could be about this great thing called sex (after a long abstinence?), just have a look at the second verse: Slip Your dress Over your head It’s been so long Move On top Because that way You touch her too The coda sounds rather neutral and serves perfectly to rise the tension. It is a phantastic interlude before the next song. During its minute or so in my head I anticipate the blasting start of When You Sleep, my fave song on the album, a glorious, kicking wake-up song if there ever was one. Why all this talk? Because I heard a version of To Here Knows When - by a band that covered the whole MBV album - which reveals the hidden beauty of that song. It is calm and reserved. The cello which takes the part of Bilinda Butcher's voice to me sounds like a child cautiously caressing a wild animal. The dead original is resuciated into a fragile and sensitive being. The coda isn't as good though and the next song is a pretty boring cover of my fave on Loveless. But that's okay with me. Like REM they come from Athens, Georgia and not so like REM they can often not hide a certain penchant for country music. |
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