Sinister: Listening to you I get the music, Gazing at you I get the heat

[jay]

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From: "Genevieve Wesley" <jiffy_popper at xxx.com>
To: <sinister at missprint.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:38 PM
Subject: Sinister: Listening to you I get the music, Gazing at you I get the heat


It has strengthened no much, compared to
> the little voice on Tigermilk's The State I Am In, but again, that could be
> because my tape was the baby of the baby of the baby (and so on) the of
> original vinyl. But still! It's pure and shining, served for me on a golden
> platter. I love when Belle and Sebastian say 'married' in their songs, it's
> always the third person in the song left out, some tragic love triangle,
> like in You're Just a Baby, the girl has to marry some nasty brute, you just
> know it, but at least she can have one last night with her true love.


i think you brought up his improving voice a while back, and i listened to "fold"
again and had to agree.  "tigermilk" stuart couldn't have pulled off that "my
friend came back..." bit.  just the way he says "my" is wonderful  :)

as for "you're just a baby", i've always read it as being much seedier.  he's
sleeping with this married woman and wishes she'd stop talking and just go to
sleep, and besides, i ain't gonna be around when you wake up, go to work, think of
your adultery, and break down with guilt, cause i've had it with your waffling.
maybe because it seemed so perversely unlike the rest of the songs.  stuart the
heartless stud.  i always took the title to be a putdown of some sort anyway.  i
suppose your interpretation is more likely though, and in that way reminds me of
"harvest festival" by xtc, with its story of "you know you and me got a good thing
goin' on if you'd let it, but i'll come to your wedding and be nice.....and after
all, you know it's still there between us".  and of course there's always "mother
of the bride" by billy bragg, which is a bit more bitter.

i don't think i've heard "summer wine" actually, but i do often think of "alone
again or" when i hear "dog on wheels".  the trumpet break seems to be a dead
giveaway, but i'm working with incomplete information.

as for the likelihood or lack thereof of east coast touring, i've gnashed my teeth
a few times this year over other bands who then miraculously came around to
setting atlanta dates, so i can't give up hope yet.  it *would* be quite a big
"fuck you" gesture wouldn't it?  "oh, one week's all we can take and then we'll be
exhausted......and go play everywhere else".  don't get me started on r.e.m.'s
non-tour, playing a damn free show in toronto and not even their hometown.  :)

jay

"come and find me, i'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches"


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