Re: Everyone's someone and with the [cardboard box]

[Lisa Ash <chipaway@th...freeserve.co.uk>]

Wey hey!  Blue Aeroplanes discussion!  Fantastic... You don't see THAT every day!

Rough Music - don't know, never played it much (Sorry Gerard and Paul2, can't lie to ya!  For me it's a bit like the B-side of the Yellow Submarine album -   You know you SHOULD play it, but sommin always makes you put on Revolver (Swagger!) instead!  And I really do know that this ain't a popular opinion [honest - I REALLY do!] and I probably sound like I'm talking arse, but better that than trying to say why I like it when I don't... :) - then my CD got nicked (in BRISTOL of all places!) and I haven't replaced it (guess that's an answer in itself!).  I know - tut, tut - baaaad Blue Aeroplanes fan, I shall go to my room and recite Dylan Thomas til morning...  (And do I get an award there for most bracketed sentence of the year?!)  I WILL replace it though and when I get the opportunity, will ramble on in my usual fashion about what I think 2nd time round (although, I gotta admit, if I'd have liked it as much as Beatsongs, Spitting Out Miracles and Swagger, I guess I'd have played it more in the first place, huh?)...

Cardboard Box into My Hurricane?  GENIUS!!  You've just taxied gently down the runway with Cardboard Box, My Hurricane is the take-off!  (In a bloody great big, mad, technicoloured Harrier!).  It jets you back into life and I love that!  (Doesn't HAVE to be in the bath by the way!).  Or - Cardboard Box is gliding in a clear blue sky, My Hurricane is kicking the engines in and doing figure of 8's and free-falling ... either way, the thing flies!

Is Cardboard Box really about something as mundane as politics?  That would make sense and I've just played it again and that DOES make sense!.  It was the first Blue Aeroplanes song I ever took any notice of (its what made me fall in love with 'em!), so maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see - but Death of the Author means that I will still always see it as someone trying to explain to another person who they are, what they see, why they see it and how it makes them feel...  Thank God for rock n roll.

I could draw it, paint it, sing it and send it to you...
Lisa
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On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 09:49  pm, Drdaeve@ao...com wrote:

> Hey Friendsloversplanes....
>
> Rough Music is a cracker in my 'umble op...always get a laugh out of Sugar'd Almond 'drest in pastels smooth & sweet, kind of good for you, kind of not, sugar'd almond...'
>
> ...best way to listen to the Blue Aeroplanes is to copy your CDs to your PC. I use Windows Media Player...create a playlist with all your Blue Aeroplanes tracks in it & set the thing to play at random, indefinitely...Dixons do a little lead for about a tenner...comes out of your speaker sockets on the PC into the back of your hi-fi. Ideal.
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> I've never got to grips with Bop Art though. Bit too avante garde maybe. I love Bagpipe Music from the Art Objects days as much as anything by the BAs
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> You realise, of course, that Gerard/BAs will never be appreciated during our lifetimes or theirs, but in centuries to come they'll be regarded like Van Gogh...setting the standard for rock and roll as an art form...by the way, my two children (g11; b9)know all the words to all the songs and sometimes make me cry with joy when they sing along in the motor....
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> ...& does My Hurricane really 'break the mood' created by Cardboard Box. Beatsongs was recorded primarily for vinyl and the tracks are on the same side...our Greatest Living Englishman  you to hear My Hurricane just after you've heard Cardboard Box.....but as wherever I am becomes a mosh-pit as soon as My Hurricane kicks in I avoid it when I'm in the bath....
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> it's not our country we just live here
>
> signed under fire
>
> DrDx

Love. Always.
Lisa
xxx
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