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Re: James Megalist
by Hobb Wed 18 Sep 2019 - 16:42
James SPOTLIGHT
The final line about dolphins is the key because it references Bowie's similarly themed 'Heroes'
And you ... you can be mean.
And I ... I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that
I ... I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day
The theme is alcoholic men and crazy women in bad relationships yet there is a moment of optimism amongst the ruins and chaos. And in that delusion there is a universal aspect of all our meager lives and the absurdist faith needed to live them.
Getting Away With It \ It's All Messed Up
Are you aching for the blade? That's OK, we're insured
Are you aching for the grave? That's OK, we're insured
Daniel's saving Grace, she's out in deep water - Hope he's a good swimmer!
Daniel plays his ace, deep inside his temple he knows how to serve her
Daniel drinks his weight
Drinks like Richard Burton, Dance like John Travolta (now)
Daniel's saving Grace, he was all but drowning - Now they live like dolphins!
Are you aching for the blade? That's OK, we're insured
Are you aching for the grave? That's OK, we're insured
Daniel's saving Grace, she's out in deep water - Hope he's a good swimmer!
Daniel plays his ace, deep inside his temple he knows how to serve her
Daniel drinks his weight
Drinks like Richard Burton, Dance like John Travolta (now)
Daniel's saving Grace, he was all but drowning - Now they live like dolphins!
The final line about dolphins is the key because it references Bowie's similarly themed 'Heroes'
And you ... you can be mean.
And I ... I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that
I ... I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day
The theme is alcoholic men and crazy women in bad relationships yet there is a moment of optimism amongst the ruins and chaos. And in that delusion there is a universal aspect of all our meager lives and the absurdist faith needed to live them.
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Re: James Megalist
by Reb Thu 19 Sep 2019 - 2:43
This was the song that recently got me back into James
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Re: James Megalist
by Hobb Wed 25 Sep 2019 - 0:24
I have recently listened to a 'best of' albums for James and basically none of the songs above are on them. ['All Messed Up' was released in 2001]. It was weird...
I can't stand Bowie's Heroes but this song is getting played multiple times a day.
We are all drowning, all aching for the blade ... and our solutions are becoming were-dolphins, serving in deep temples and dancing like an (elderly) John Travolta.
Thats OK.
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That's The Living
wikipedia wrote:The Best Of (James album)
Released 23 March 1998
Genre Alternative Britpop
"Come Home" (Flood mix) from Gold Mother (1991 Re-release)
"Sit Down" from Gold Mother (1991 Re-release)
"She's a Star" from Whiplash
"Laid" from Laid
"Waltzing Along" (single version) from Whiplash
"Say Something" from Laid
"Born of Frustration" from Seven
"Tomorrow" from Whiplash
"Destiny Calling" Previously unreleased
"Out to Get You" from Laid
"Runaground" Previously unreleased
"Lose Control" from Gold Mother (1991 Re-release)
"Sometimes" from Laid
"How Was It for You?" from Gold Mother
"Seven" from Seven
"Sound" from Seven
"Ring the Bells" from Seven
"Hymn from a Village" from James II
http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_dot-jun01.html wrote:
"Saul: "It is getting away with it. When you listen all the instruments are out of tune and time with each other and I'd like to say that was deliberate but it wasn't. That song came out of one of the earliest recording sessions, a session to see what we had. We then worked on that song quite a lot, spent a lot of man-hours on it but we couldn't better the first time we played it."
"Tim: "We never saw it as a single. We're not very good at judging and this one came back with people saying they couldn't get it out of their head which is the definition of a virus as much as a single. We're very ramshackle. Decisions get made in very chaotic ways just as songs get written in that way. We did masses of work on it and came back to the original. Lyrically it reflects the mess too. There's a story in there of a guy called Daniel saving a woman called Grace from drowning but he doesn't realise that in saving her he's really saving himself."
more bits and pieces wrote:
The lines "we're insured" sounds like a pointed reference to a conversation between bandmates: "Oh, you feel you need to off yourself but you can't be so selfish because then we couldn't finish the album? You think that's the ONLY reason we care about you? Fine, go ahead. We're insured." or "If you want to die, then that's fine because I'll still get all the money from life insurance."
On Tim's performance on 'GAWIT ... Live' he points to his upper left forehead while singing "Deep inside his temple, he knows how to serve her" ...
The song was originally called "Daniel's Saving Grace"
The use of the biblical words/names Danial & particularly saving grace/Grace, do arouse ambiguous lyrical parallels.
I can't stand Bowie's Heroes but this song is getting played multiple times a day.
We are all drowning, all aching for the blade ... and our solutions are becoming were-dolphins, serving in deep temples and dancing like an (elderly) John Travolta.
Thats OK.
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That's The Living
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