meegannie
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Article - The one track that Ed Harcourt thinks the rest of the world ought to hear...
From Word Magazine, April 2004
Kangaroo by Big Star
Ed Harcourt: Penned by the great Alex Chilton when on the brink of collapse, if not already immersed in it. It's so neurotic and a bit scary but so fucking sexy too! And what's with the cowbells?! It confuses the hell out of me but in a way that only makes me more obsessed with its origin.
I heard that he recorded it late at night with his girlfriend at the controls of the mixing desk; I also heard that heroin was involved (what a surprise).
It seems that quite a few bands discovered the downward spiral after the swinging '60s- free love and all that. After Altamont and Vietnam, people joining cults, unhappy and strung out on drugs, the '70s seems like such a desperate time. There is a Jeff Buckley version of this song which has that trademark dissection that he does so well, but I haven't heard anyone else cover it. If I ever write a song as mad and beautiful as this I'll be happy.
Article - The one track that Ed Harcourt thinks the rest of the world ought to hear...
From Word Magazine, April 2004
Kangaroo by Big Star
Ed Harcourt: Penned by the great Alex Chilton when on the brink of collapse, if not already immersed in it. It's so neurotic and a bit scary but so fucking sexy too! And what's with the cowbells?! It confuses the hell out of me but in a way that only makes me more obsessed with its origin.
I heard that he recorded it late at night with his girlfriend at the controls of the mixing desk; I also heard that heroin was involved (what a surprise).
It seems that quite a few bands discovered the downward spiral after the swinging '60s- free love and all that. After Altamont and Vietnam, people joining cults, unhappy and strung out on drugs, the '70s seems like such a desperate time. There is a Jeff Buckley version of this song which has that trademark dissection that he does so well, but I haven't heard anyone else cover it. If I ever write a song as mad and beautiful as this I'll be happy.
That is one of my favorite music themed sketched ... that and the sketch where all of the dead musicians like Jim Morrison and Louis Armstrong form a band with Jesus as the producer
Gotta love more cowbell.
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