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My iPod #227: Billy Talent – Cut the Curtains

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I just completely messed up my dinner by leaving it on the cooker for too long. I am a bit depressed now. I had to throw it in the bin; there was no way it could be salvaged. I had the same thing to eat yesterday and it was so good…… 😦 ffs. I think that cooker is too OP, I didn’t even have it on a high flame…. I’ll just cook it tomorrow.

It almost the end of the C section on my iPod, and it is getting to the year anniversary of when I actually first started this thing. Expect the ‘D’ (hehe) next month sometime. Late Feb.

“Cut the Curtains” is a track from Billy Talent’s self-titled debut album. The ninth track on it to be exact. I first listened to the track many years ago, when I wanted to hear all the songs the band made after I’d seen them on the television when I was eight or so.

Even then it was only thirty second samples of it because I didn’t know any downloading sites where you didn’t have to pay. I did eventually get it as a present for my tenth/eleventh birthday, I am not too sure.

After all these years, I still enjoy this album just as much as when I first got it. “Cut the Curtains” isn’t the sole reason why, it is one out of twelve songs that never diminishes on energy, volume, and overall awesomeness.

This track is quite different to the others. It uses a riff, one which I think Ian D’Sa referred to as a chicken, that is practically repeated throughout the song (intro, verses, choruses and all). It probably contains the only part on the album when a track goes quiet for a few seconds. It’s not as quick and pacy as the others, but has a menacing tone and smoothness about it that you still have to move about to it. It’s cool.

The subject matter…. Artifice in a relationship? Maybe? Just a guess.

My iPod #227: The Who – Cut My Hair

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“Cut My Hair” is the fourth track on The Who’s sixth album and second ‘rock opera’ “Quadrophenia”. It is sung by the main songwriter and guitarist Pete Townshend with lead vocalist Roger Daltrey providing melodies in the chorus.

“Quadrophenia” got me through some lonely times. Hearing it in Summer 2010 and being bored due to staying in my house all the time made me take pointless walks around the local area. Sometimes I would go to the shops or go to my aunt’s house around the corner and just chill there until I felt like I wanted to get back home again.

Weather-wise, I distinctly remember that summer not being very great. Rain or slight overcast that turned into dark and gloomy clouds, and I would sing this song all the time when I went on my excursions. It got me through it.

Townshend decribed the song as: “A domestic interlude. The boy recalls a row with his folks that culminated in his leaving home. We also hear a news broadcast mentioning riots in Brighton between Mods and Rockers, events at which he was present the previous week.”

I can say I cannot relate to any of that, I like my family a lot. The latter relates to the concept/context of the album which I won’t go into. It’s too much.

But yeah, the song’s good. Have a listen. I’ll be back tomorrow. 

My iPod #226: The Fratellis – Cuntry Boys & City Girls

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And that’s not me being vulgar. That is the title of the track.

You’ve gotta love a bit of wordplay. The boys are from the country, but are also obsessed about the the female sex organ, you see.

What it’s all about is basically all in the title name. Girls from the city goes to the country, boys see them and are attracted, girls find themselves ‘strangely’ attracted to them…. good times occur.

I honestly can’t sing along to this because the lyrics aren’t embedded in my head, even though I’ve had “Costello Music” for yeeeears so I have to come to the conclusion that I put it on my iPod because it sounded really good.

Americans probably don’t know the song because it was removed from the US version of the album, probably to censor the rude word within the song title, so here it is! After seven years of it being released I am very sure that you’ve heard it anyway.

My iPod #225: The Beatles – Cry Baby Cry

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Uni work starts again from tomorrow until April. Can’t wait. Early wake ups three times a week and sitting through two hour lectures on a Friday. What could be better.

Never mind. Life goes on.

“Cry Baby Cry” may be another track out of the many on “The Beatles” that some consider to be filler. On the contrary I think it has as much worth as “Dear Prudence” and “Glass Onion” on the track list, even if it is not as highly regarded as the former or as continuously questioned as the latter.

“Sing a Song of Sixpence” always comes to mind when I hear this song, seeing as many words in that nursery rhyme are found in the track. A king is there, a parlour is mentioned, a queen and so on and so forth. But this track does not have a cheerful melody like that rhyme. In fact, this is the total opposite of what a nursery rhyme should be.

The descending phrase from E Major to G Major within the verses mixed with some minor chords along the way, John Lennon’s light and barely double tracked vocal and that harmonium in the introduction make this track very moody and quite saddening to listen to. It makes it even worse knowing that it’s the last time you hear Lennon’s voice on the album.

The actual track ends before it switches to Paul McCartney with a guitar singing “Can You Take Me Back”, which makes it even weirder and creepy. Then the next track “Revolution 9” starts and it goes all over the place from there.

My iPod #224: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic

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“Crosstown Traffic” is a track from The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s third and last album, “Electric Ladyland” in 1968. I did listen to the album. That was a while ago. Like in late 2012. So I’ll probably have to listen to it again, to see whether I like it or not.

The only reason I know “Crosstown Traffic” more than any of the other songs on the album is because it is the only one that has a music video, a video that I’ve seen at least four times on the television.

The song is a huge metaphor. Jimi travelled a lot, and was probably hit on by lot of women along the way. Probably be with one and then it would be on to the next one. So he basically compares them to traffic, because he needed to be somewhere else. To entertain the masses of fans he had.

The track is groovy, but pumping too. It sounds like a theme tune to a seventies, undercover police show. I get that feel from it, I don’t know why. Someone did go a bit crazy with the panning though, instruments move from one channel to the other multiples times. I don’t know if that’s really needed. But it’s a minor thing. The song is still good.