Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
- Heston
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
I love this song, sincerely and non-ironically.
Inder, the guitar intro is great.
Inder, the guitar intro is great.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
After the lyrics to Dirty Punk made me cringe, and WATC almost made me stop my cassette player...
Are You Red..Y sounded pretty good.
Are You Red..Y sounded pretty good.
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
I think if they had released it with the live arrangement it would have been amazing.Heston wrote:I love this song, sincerely and non-ironically.
Inder, the guitar intro is great.
But I think the CTC version would be a fun and funny "alternate" mix if that had happened.
The single could have been:
A Side: "Are You Ready For War"
B Side: "Are You Red..Y (Clash Audio Dynamite By Nite Mix)"
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
The guitar intro doesn't make any sense!Heston wrote:I love this song, sincerely and non-ironically.
Inder, the guitar intro is great.
What the fuck is diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-ratatatatatatatat-diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuun supposed to mean! It has no relevance to anything, doesn't appear anywhere else in the song, isn't a recurring theme, is just incongruous, superfluous and HORRIBLE!
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It means they were keeping it real, yo.Inder wrote:What the fuck is diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-ratatatatatatatat-diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuun supposed to mean! It has no relevance to anything, doesn't appear anywhere else in the song, isn't a recurring theme, is just incongruous, superfluous and HORRIBLE!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
I've been on jobs where the person in charge has no fucking clue what they're doing. So everything always ends up rewritten and wheels always end up being reinvented. It's inevitable.Flex wrote:It means they were keeping it real, yo.Inder wrote:What the fuck is diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-ratatatatatatatat-diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuun supposed to mean! It has no relevance to anything, doesn't appear anywhere else in the song, isn't a recurring theme, is just incongruous, superfluous and HORRIBLE!
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
And if you're weighing the live and studio versions of this little ditty, you'd have to conclude that...somewhere along the way...the reinventon went a trifle pear-shaped.
Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
Was listening on the way in this morning. The keyboards on this song are actually pretty well done with some interesting bits throughout. Same for the guitars.
The intro is a bit suspect as noted above, but otherwise, Heston might be on to something.
The intro is a bit suspect as noted above, but otherwise, Heston might be on to something.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
It sounds okay live and didn't sound bad as a demo. It doesn't sound very good after Bernard Rhodes got his hands on it. Backing track sounds like it could have been used in a 1985 Radio Shack commercial. The music (as does most of the music on CtC) sounds like it was powered by "D" batteries.
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- Heston
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
That'll be the frenetic disco sheen I once referred to. Inder is wrong about the intro, I love the Sea Shanty vibe, it is most excellent.
Great song.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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It could've been a contender.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
Got plenty of time for this one, love the chorus and the do do do do do do do do do keyboard after, my favourite bar the obvious top 3.
Re: Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread
Is this song better that One Emotion? Maybe.
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