Post by TotalInformation on Jun 26, 2005 21:46:21 GMT -5
So the vinyl shop ws having a big sale. I picked up this 1977 Kinks LP and got a heavy PID vibe just from the cover art and track titles. It suggests artifice, masquerade, illusion, a dreamworld. The first track's title, "Life on the Road" echoed "Band on the Run."
Sure enough the first track gives Abbey Road a shout-out.
1. Life on the Road -- this is from the pov of Sir Golem MCCARTNEY,
2. Mr. Big Man -- the protagonist of this song (Davies?) shows disdain for the doppelganger in this song
3. Sleepwalker -- The doppelganger's POV
4. Brother -- in this song the protagonist, Davies, expresses sympathy for the fauxPAUL, his "brother" on the crazy world stage of rocknroll
5. Juke Box Music -- this is about the rock fans who think all they see is real, who fall for the illusion -- "She believes the things they say"
6. Sleepless Night -- the faux PAUL's POV again, his sleepless nights haunted by the legacy/ghost of the real Paul
7. Stormy Sky -- a play on the Beatles' metaphor of the sun being the emergent truth, particularly in re faux PAUL. We're stuck in a stormy sky, stuck in this cloud of lies.
8. Full Moon -- another form the faux PAUL POV. a "broken man" "going crazy" "the face in the mirror isn't you at all"
9. Life Goes On -- a thematic coda sung by Davies to the 'clone'
In the CD version out now, there are four other tracks recorded at the same time; all are also meditations on the themes of artifice, lies, secrets, and illusion in the world of rock:
* Artificial Light
* Prince of the Punks
* Poseur
* On the Outside
Sure enough the first track gives Abbey Road a shout-out.
1. Life on the Road -- this is from the pov of Sir Golem MCCARTNEY,
2. Mr. Big Man -- the protagonist of this song (Davies?) shows disdain for the doppelganger in this song
3. Sleepwalker -- The doppelganger's POV
4. Brother -- in this song the protagonist, Davies, expresses sympathy for the fauxPAUL, his "brother" on the crazy world stage of rocknroll
5. Juke Box Music -- this is about the rock fans who think all they see is real, who fall for the illusion -- "She believes the things they say"
6. Sleepless Night -- the faux PAUL's POV again, his sleepless nights haunted by the legacy/ghost of the real Paul
7. Stormy Sky -- a play on the Beatles' metaphor of the sun being the emergent truth, particularly in re faux PAUL. We're stuck in a stormy sky, stuck in this cloud of lies.
8. Full Moon -- another form the faux PAUL POV. a "broken man" "going crazy" "the face in the mirror isn't you at all"
9. Life Goes On -- a thematic coda sung by Davies to the 'clone'
In the CD version out now, there are four other tracks recorded at the same time; all are also meditations on the themes of artifice, lies, secrets, and illusion in the world of rock:
* Artificial Light
* Prince of the Punks
* Poseur
* On the Outside