BookishBoy
Well-Known Member
Today's song in the A-Z is this one: a "lost" track which was released on to YouTube (I think?) in April 2018.
What do we think of this one?
And tomorrow we start on the C's!
Suggested to be from the glut of songs circa LIHS.I think I have only listened to this a single time before when released. Its simple, fanciful, light. I welcome it's discovery! I could however do without that little instrumental thing before the ending.
I could also see it being rockabill-ied a-la KROQ EP, with a standing base administered by Spencer. Stepping up the tempo perhaps.
Does anybody know the story behind why it was "lost" or excluded from consideration on any album or b-side? (haters - please save us from the obvious statements of, "'cause its not good" etc.
I think they'd need to edit out that terrible guitar 'break' towards the end. It's musically incongruous and of little musical merit.It's amazing how much more listenable this is compared most of the songs on LIHS.
It's not hard to imagine an alternative reality in which M hadn't said quite so many foolish things and Jeremy Vine would be playing the daylights out of this on Radio 2. It's got a lovely Tom Jones swinging vibe to it.
Lady Willpower. A very 60s sound for me, and enjoyable.Love this song and this version especially. Almost sounds like it could be a "California Son" bonus track.
My take is that it doesn't fit either thematically or musically with LIHS, which is a very political record, for better or (in most cases) worse. It's like one of the World Peace deluxe edition tracks, which gave us Morrissey being Morrissey instead of waffling about Allen Ginsburg or Irish prisons.Does anybody know the story behind why it was "lost" or excluded from consideration on any album or b-side? (haters - please save us from the obvious statements of, "'cause its not good" etc.
My take is that it doesn't fit either thematically or musically with LIHS, which is a very political record, for better or (in most cases) worse. It's like one of the World Peace deluxe edition tracks, which gave us Morrissey being Morrissey instead of waffling about Allen Ginsburg or Irish prisons.