jadis

That's beautiful. Easily one of my favorite Fall songs from the later years.

rostasi

I've always found that the lyrics at that point in the song just didn't seem like something that would come from him -
too lucid and too self-effacing, so I, later, discovered that it came from a monthly magazine that Virgin provides on
their trains in the UK. It doesn't raise my plagiarism hackles up (unlike Dylan) because I think of it as an objet trouvé.

Marie Monday

sure, it's more like the Beatles' Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite

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jadis

One of those "how the hell was it not a worldwide smash" singles

rostasi

I guess so. (I know very little about The Beatles).

Siouxsie, on the other hand, ...
"The Staircase (Mystery)" actually did chart pretty high when it came out -
even tho it didn't have the grab of something like "Hong Kong Garden" during that time.

DianneW

i think when the song came out it was too early for that era..come the the 90's then they made it...

rostasi

There was only about a 6 month difference between those singles in the late 70s and both were very popular in the clubs.
... and considering that something like 10 of about a dozen of their albums came out and charted before the 90's,
I don't know how it can be said that they were too early for their time (???)
Superstition and Rapture weren't all that great and they decided to hang it up after those.

Flip side of that single has that T-Rex song too.

rostasi

jadis

That's interesting, how does someone as knowledgeable as you achieve this?

I remember being vaguely turned off by their ubiquity and canonicity, but then many of the artists I liked paid tribute to them or referenced them etc that I had to take a closer look... To find out I absolutely love The White Album for example.


What I was trying to say is "it's so catchy to me that I feel like it should've been a Police-size New Wave smash". Not that this pointless counterfactual deserves any thought, I'm bored with it already.

Yeah I wouldn't bother with "one of the quintessential New Wave groups should've been active in the 90s instead"

jadis

This is as good as it gets for me. I treat myself to it occasionally.