RE: Blueplanes top 12

["Nathaniel Mumford" <nathaniel.mumford@no...com>]

good call...but: What about the other model for the opening track? The one 
that seems, on first listen, oddly unengaging & suffers by comparison with 
the album's highlights ('Huh' or 'arriving') or on one occasion just plain 
clumsy ('Coats') but then grows on you until it dawns that it is 
deliberately there as a signpost to the mood of the whole record?
 
Philip - the model plane one = daughter movie!!! I'd love to be able to 
tell you that you had heard it wrong & it was actually about oysters or 
something but you're right this time....

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Rush [mailto:philip_rush@ye...fsnet.co.uk]
Sent: 30 April 2003 18:37
To: blueplanes@st...net
Subject: [Blueplanes] Blueplanes top 12


Dear All,

I think we're going about this the wrong way.  We should be designing the 
best ever Blue Aeroplanes album which isn't the same as the 12 best tracks.

Track One
The incredible four-guitar riff one;  Wojtek dancing like a road worker on 
a pneumatic drill during an earthquake:  that one.  Great first line.
eg Detective Song

Track Two
The Gerard Langley lullaby lyrics/ melodic chorus by second guitarist.  
You know, that other one.
eg Sugared Almond

Track Three
The acoustic chordy one with the sentimental use of Bm.
eg Love Come Round

Track Four
Loud, in your face;  shouty chorus;  use of phatic spoken English in 
gorgeously literary context.  That one.
loads of these

Track Five
An under-rated poem from the mid-twentieth-century recited to a wall of 
sound.  Or a trellis.
eg The Applicant

Track Six
The experimental one with the ethnic instrument or with the guy from the 
session next door depping.
eg Anti-Pretty

Track Seven
Another incredible four-guitar riff one.
eg Jacket Hangs

Track Seven
It sounds like a diary written spontaneously (but some time ago);  the 
guitarists sound like they're playing chords they're making up 
spontaneously (or remembering something they did some time ago).
eg the one about shipping the model plane and the Mexican kid

Track Eight
Strummy guitars, engaging mood, summer.  A cynical grin?
eg Your Ages

Track Nine
Big, chromatic riff that you can never quite get right without listening 
to the record again;  big guitars;  Wojtek's shirt's off.  That one.
eg ...and Stones

Track Ten
Short, scrap-booky one which seems to have been recorded with one mike or 
perhaps over the phone.  You're beginning to question the exercise, and 
then it suddenly stops.
loads of these:  does that thing on Long Player count

Track Eleven
The cover version you really didn't expect.
eg Boy in the Bubble

Track Twelve
The long one you don't know why they bothered with, until later when you 
realise it's the point of the whole thing.
eg Cat Scan History

Now, once we've sorted out the most popular title for each category we 
have the track list from heaven.

Philip