Singing about the sun (in other words, August re-posting begins) · Dec 22, 06:25 PM by Don
I spent the past week soaking up Andy Partridge’s Fuzzy Warbles box set. As expected, it features a one of my favorite Partridge tunes, “Prince of Orange.” I’d originally found the song on Napster (the good, old Napster, not the new, dumb Napster). Andy Partridge offers this about the origin of the song at John Relph’s stellar Chalkhills site.
“The yellowing track sheet of this seven (?) track recording has the date 3rd August 1994 and the heading ‘Automatic Writings’. I remember starting to put to tape random chord changes and disparate sounds, e.g., Ramones guitar, jazz piano, Giorgio Moroder synth bass, etc. Really things that were stylistically far from each other. I would then write the first things that came into my head, trying not to organise or make sense of them. What did I end up with? Well, in hindsight, it was high summer, I think I’m singing about the sun, its benefits (e.g., crop growing), and the court of Louis XIV, which I was reading about at the time, all smashed together. As for the crying, where did that come from? P.S. the other fruit of the automatic writings session was ‘My Brown Guitar’.”
mp3: Andy Partridge of XTC – Prince of Orange
Get a taste of Partsy’s sense of humor working overtime in this clip reel (in two parts) from MTV’s Post Modern MTV:
mp3: Robyn Hitchcock – Polly on the Shore [Andy Kershaw session 21.8.96]
mp3: Jonathan Fire Eater – The Search for Cherry Red
mp3: Ted Leo/The Pharmacists – Six Months in a Leaky Boat [Split Enz cover]
mp3: The Mountain Goats – Golden Boy
mp3: R.E.M. – Life and How to Live It
mp3: Thirteen-One-Eleven – My Bible is the Latest TV Guide
mp3: Thirteen-One-Eleven – Things I’d Like to Say [New Colony Six cover]
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July mp3 re-posting is done Ultimate revenge for disco (or, more August mp3's)
Dude, I’ve been looking for the J*F*E songs off that rockin’ EP for ages now. I had the CD a while ago, but it got stolen… and since it’s no longer in print, I can’t find it. Thanks. Those songs are the best ones they ever recorded.
— taylor Dec 22, 11:20 PM #
Yes, the Bill Berry single. Been outbid on ebay too many times.
Bruce K.
— Bruce K. Dec 24, 10:09 AM #