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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Q: A favourite track for the end of a tape?

Read 'tape' here as a metaphor for every limited space for conveying music, and most compilers have a mental list of tracks for the last 40 or 50 or 60 seconds left on the reel, a no-brainer, subconscious, vegetative reaction reach. Songs filed under 'short', but also under 'punctuation', as they need to work as a comma between two halves, or as a period at the end.
I used to use 'Down Around O'Connelly Corners' by the Doobie Brothers, when I still liked the Doobies, because it was exactly that, a walk around a corner, passing buskers, ambulate from block to block, or to walk out of the picture altogether. Maybe I'm just older and slower now, but now I like a tea break, a cup o' rosie with crumpets or cuke sarnies, and I put in 'Tea' by Sam Brown (from 'Stop', the great white hope of '88). A flourish of eccentricity, a display of operatic scales, and, incidently, an example of why the great white hope didn't work out. She could not choose between the forest and the sea, between conventionality and unconventionality.
(Also, incidently, another great tea track, and a don't-miss is 'T.U.S.A.' by the Masters Of Reality, Ginger Baker's lament of the bag floating in lukewarm water-milk emulsion)
Enjoy.

A: Sam Brown – Tea (from stop, 1988) - [buy]

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