I love both, but I'm moving towards "Babe" after Marcello cited it. its failure to actually be Xmas number 1 is the 356,592nd reason to hate Noel Edmonds, obv
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)
"Do you remember last Christmas, when we were here? We never thought there'd be an end..."
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)
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― the pinefox, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
The outro of "Babe" bleeds desolation and dystopia; the middle eight is wonderfully redolent of Imagination's "Body Talk". It captures the feeling of late '93 / early '94, a time when I could see, literally, NO FUTURE. For some reason, I always link it to Martin Jacques' essay on the disillusionment in society and the antiquated nature of our party political structure (Sunday Times 16th Jan 1994); though wildly different, both encapsulated a feeling of "where next?", absolute knowledge that the old certainties were over, but no idea of what was to replace them.
And then came "Angels" (and, forgotten though it is, "Love Won't Wait", the first NuLab number one) and we realised what had become The New Orthodoxy. Williams' solo career epitomises for me all that is frustrating about the Blairite cultural middle ground; did Brian Johnston die for *that* in January '94?
"Pale Movie" should have been number one. So should "Like A Motorway" and "Happy Land" and "Kingdom" ...
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)
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― man, Thursday, 19 December 2002 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)
But then Williams is a particular curse for me. Nobody else in the last five years embodies so much unpleasantness. Not even Coldplay, because they don't pretend to be Great Pop Stars.
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 20 December 2002 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― the pinefox, Friday, 20 December 2002 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)