7 for the song... +2 for the memories listening to it when this first came out, -1 because I cannot remember all those memories, time is cruel but it still gets an 8
I kind of like these guys in small doses, I appreciate the fact that they are not singing about placentas or people's juices (!?!) on this one. This is a nice song and it's getting a 7 for now.....
It has taken me many years to appreciate what these guys (in all of their permutations) were doing and this song make me wonder why... Better late than never I guess
Zac is a star in Quebec. First heard him on radio in the late 70' (he had a smash with a song called "L'Arbre est dans ses feuilles (the tree is in it's (own) leaves". All his stuff, either in french or in english is worthy.
I saw Zachary in Parc Jarry in 1978 at an all day festival called "Sur les Gazon, Sous Les Etoiles". I might have been the only Anglophone in the crowd but I had a blast with my Quebecois companions. Zachary lit the place up, and I have been trying to remember the name of that particular song for years... Just another way that RP pays off..... Thanks Dior
Btw this song is not his strongest work in my opinion.
Thanks Bill, this takes me back several years when I attended an all day festival in Montreal. I may have been the only Anglophone there that day but I didn't need to understand every word to get an idea of what was going on, besides, I had some lovely French Canadian company.... Zachary came on late in the evening and lit the place up. So what if you don't speak the language, don't let that be your handicap.
Listening to Bjork reminds me of what it might have been like to compete in Fear Factor, the song starts and I'm like "I can listen to this, I can do it... and sometimes I can, and sometimes I just bail, chicken out or simply barf up the unidentified critter parts that this song resembles.... maybe next time.
I attended a T.Rex concert in the Great White North (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) in 1973/74ish (it was all an "ish" in those days. Blue Oyster Cult was the main back-up band, and rocked the Field House! T.Rex came out and instantly sounded like a wild cat trapped in a metal garbage can. They were very loud and very out of sync. Almost half the crowd left (as polite Canadians tend to do), but the remaining stragglers booed and threw a few things at the stage after each screeching rendition. Then came the coup de gras, that is forever etched in my mind. Marc Bolan took the mic and spoke to the half-crowd, "C'mon Edmonton! Give us a break. Even us superstars are human, sometimes." Much as I like "Bang A Gong", I can never get past the arrogance of the cocky lead singer, who seemed to think he was a superstar. Was he that "out of it" that he didn't know the true "superstars" never played in Edmonton in those days?
I remember the show from that tour just down the road in Calgary... I don't think my T Rex albums ever came out of their covers after that.
Well, uh yeah... but you might be on to something. I like the song on the first go around, its a real change of pace from The Suburbs.
Zac is a star in Quebec. First heard him on radio in the late 70' (he had a smash with a song called "L'Arbre est dans ses feuilles (the tree is in it's (own) leaves". All his stuff, either in french or in english is worthy.
I saw Zachary in Parc Jarry in 1978 at an all day festival called "Sur les Gazon, Sous Les Etoiles". I might have been the only Anglophone in the crowd but I had a blast with my Quebecois companions. Zachary lit the place up, and I have been trying to remember the name of that particular song for years... Just another way that RP pays off..... Thanks Dior
Btw this song is not his strongest work in my opinion.
Marc Bolan took the mic and spoke to the half-crowd, "C'mon Edmonton! Give us a break. Even us superstars are human, sometimes."
Much as I like "Bang A Gong", I can never get past the arrogance of the cocky lead singer, who seemed to think he was a superstar. Was he that "out of it" that he didn't know the true "superstars" never played in Edmonton in those days?
I remember the show from that tour just down the road in Calgary... I don't think my T Rex albums ever came out of their covers after that.