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i heard this for the first time today in headphones while looking at a basquiat/warhol book and oh the tears did come. like what is this song even!! does it have something to do with voodoo ray (which i adore)

― simon trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 29 September 2002 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i think thats the name of the song, i scrawled it down in sharpie so i would remember to start a thread about it

― simon trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 29 September 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

as in a guy called gerald's voodoo ray?

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 29 September 2002 07:02 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i dunno i heard that right after it dude

― simon trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 29 September 2002 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Huh. Was this the 24 Hour Party People soundtrack?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

ding-ding-ding!

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, simon you like the worst crap in Wider Culture!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, Jess, you are saying Durutti Column sucks? YOU ARE DAMNED.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

haha no, basquiat/warhol!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 September 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, thank you. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

trife did you buy the soundtrack?!!!

― artiste, Sunday, 29 September 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks for all your help you completely useless motherfuckers

― simon trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Simon is full of hate. More info -- "Otis" is from Durutti Column's album Vini Reilly, which got reissued a few years back but is out of print again. Good album indeed, but I'd say you also want to check out The Return of the Durutti Column and LC first.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i still dont get it though, are they a indie guitar band, are they a dance act, what the fuck!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

On the off-chance that you're being sincere about wanting to know more about this, simethan, the song's indeed called "Otis" and it's from the Durutti Column album Vini Reilly. I heard it for the first time on the 24 Hour Party People soundtrack and I realized that I have to get more...ANY Durutti Column. Ned should have answered this more fully, though you really should learn the joys of allmusic.com, because then you'd know what this was about. Quoth Ned:

Another full-on highlight is "Otis," with Pol's live singing and Connell's keyboards combining with a brisk synth loop, building Mitchell drums, an astonishing, uplifting Reilly guitar line, and the legendary singer Mr. Redding himself in a combination that needs to be heard.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned should have answered this more fully

I just did, you punk. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

DAMN YOUR EYES, sneaking in and posting that while I was posting. Dammit!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 29 September 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

And they're more typically an instrumental band with ambient tendencies, but guitar is Reilly's instrument of choice, yess. I wouldn't consider them a dance band.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the durutti column/disco inferno/piano magic guitar sound is my favourite guitar sound ever

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

it is a good sound mitch, but as piano magic have grown into it they have got worse. what about gnac/montgolfier?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 30 September 2002 07:02 (twenty-three years ago)

are they a indie guitar band, are they a dance act, what the fuck!
none of the above, although the records do come out on indie labels. The Durutti Column are basically one guy, Vini Reilly, although other musicians do play on his records

if you search for 'durutti' on this board, Alex in NYC's recent 'RFI: Durutti Column' thread is fairly high up the list. All the info you probably want is right there

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 30 September 2002 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

vini's sound is out of this world. 'otis' is definitely one of my fave tracks, but you should check out a rooooly yummy double lp release on his belgian label, les disques du crepuscule, called 'fruit of the original sin'. from memory i think it has about three or four of his tracks - 'party' and 'experiment in fifth' should be in there somewhere - but it also has some ker-azy sounds from bands like marine, the names, dna, the swamp children, 323, paul haig.... aaaargh! *drools on keyboard*

― mistersquiggle, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 06:19 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

i luv this song.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The only song to feature Tracy Chapman's voice (in the sample, "Another sleepless night for me", snipped from "Behind the Wall" from her first album) that I've ever been able to stomach.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

so hang on, does it sample both Otis and Tracy Chapman, or Tracy singing Otis?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Otis's voice is the "Come back, come back," I believe, from "Pain in My Heart."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Its a dreamy song.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

i just heard 'vini reilly' for the first time last night. man oh man!

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

indeed!

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

thread revived because I saw part of a documentary on TV last night about the last 'golden age" of Hollywood, 1965-75, pre-blockbuster era, when studios were totally disorganized and took all kinds of chances, didn't care about marketing, sequels, movies were more character-driven, etc...and they used the Vini Reilly album as background music...awesome!...was hard to concentrate on the interviewees...anybody else see this?...(the doc looked like it was made around 1992 or so)...

― henry s, Thursday, 7 February 2008 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

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