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The 80's revival starts here!
So, Dick Langford and Richard Marris posted a wonderful 80's-feel track called Motorcycle Girl a while back, and I asked to sing on it. I also suggested Alex Weiler get involved as he's a whiz at electro-type stuff.
My initial idea was to cover Dick's song as a cross between 'Abba and Kraftwerk'. Alex did a remix which sounded like this, but also sounded like it could be a hi-energy disco anthem, so we moved on.
Anyway, Alex worked away at the tune and it evolved so much that I didn't think the original lyrics quite fitted, so ended up writing some new ones.
So, this song is basically Dick and Richard's 'Motorcycle Girl',(Richard wrote the track and played guitar) with the music revamped and remixed by Alex, and lyrics rewritten by me.
Check out the original on Dick's page.
Lyrically, this version is about people using nostalgia to sell stuff ... a personal loathing of mine is Sandi Thom's song 'I wish i was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair', because it takes something very precious to me, misses the point, and sells it as a breezy pop song,
Hmmm, so there's some irony that this sounds very 80's!
thanks to Dick and Richard for letting us mutilate their baby, and a big thanks to Alex for working so hard on this collab.
steve
So, Dick Langford and Richard Marris posted a wonderful 80's-feel track called Motorcycle Girl a while back, and I asked to sing on it. I also suggested Alex Weiler get involved as he's a whiz at electro-type stuff.
My initial idea was to cover Dick's song as a cross between 'Abba and Kraftwerk'. Alex did a remix which sounded like this, but also sounded like it could be a hi-energy disco anthem, so we moved on.
Anyway, Alex worked away at the tune and it evolved so much that I didn't think the original lyrics quite fitted, so ended up writing some new ones.
So, this song is basically Dick and Richard's 'Motorcycle Girl',(Richard wrote the track and played guitar) with the music revamped and remixed by Alex, and lyrics rewritten by me.
Check out the original on Dick's page.
Lyrically, this version is about people using nostalgia to sell stuff ... a personal loathing of mine is Sandi Thom's song 'I wish i was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair', because it takes something very precious to me, misses the point, and sells it as a breezy pop song,
Hmmm, so there's some irony that this sounds very 80's!
thanks to Dick and Richard for letting us mutilate their baby, and a big thanks to Alex for working so hard on this collab.
steve
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Lyrics
Always someone who was never there
Wants to suck out the cool.
Take the money, fake a punk commercial
Sell the best part of your youth.
Second to second, the love will slip away
77, 30 years today.
So
Take the flowers from your hair and
Put 'em back in the trash.
You change the weather, make the ending better
But nostalgia rapes your past.
Second to second, the love will slip away
77, 30 years today.
Do you remember when the song meant something?
Junk poets tapping all your wires.
Take the kid, say his name,
it all sounds the same.
Shining magpie takes the jewel
Steals the better part of you ...
Wants to suck out the cool.
Take the money, fake a punk commercial
Sell the best part of your youth.
Second to second, the love will slip away
77, 30 years today.
So
Take the flowers from your hair and
Put 'em back in the trash.
You change the weather, make the ending better
But nostalgia rapes your past.
Second to second, the love will slip away
77, 30 years today.
Do you remember when the song meant something?
Junk poets tapping all your wires.
Take the kid, say his name,
it all sounds the same.
Shining magpie takes the jewel
Steals the better part of you ...
five_extra_arms
What a groovy work of art!
I'm sure you've heard it a million times before, so I'll say it again, your vocals are so amazing and Alex's brilliant "Martin Gore Ate Florian Schneider" sound has just blown me away. And I thought Motorcycle Girl was as good as it gets!
Phenomenal!
You copy that?