Walk Me To The Bridge Unofficial reactions

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by bachelorette

Totally agree about Tristesse!
The German part seems to be about movement, escaping something and, beautifully "running further away from life" (Renne weiter weg vom Leben).
But WHO translated the lyric for the Manics? The German is too good to be by them, grammatically and stylistically.

they would've been idiots not to get it checked out by someone They've spent a fair amount of time in Germany.. they're bound to have friends there.

[bachelorette]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

they would've been idiots not to get it checked out by someone They've spent a fair amount of time in Germany.. they're bound to have friends there.

The funniest thing is that Nina Hoss seems to unconsciously (or deliberately) adopt an English accent. She sounds like the lead singer in a Rammstein-tribute-band from New Jersey. (not necessarily a bad thing! )

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by bachelorette

The funniest thing is that Nina Hoss seems to unconsciously (or deliberately) adopt an English accent. She sounds like the lead singer in a Rammstein-tribute-band from New Jersey. (not necessarily a bad thing! )

If she sounds like a lrammstein tribute band member from new jersey that would be an American accent, not english

[bachelorette]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

If she sounds like a lrammstein tribute band member from new jersey that would be an American accent, not english

Good point well made! But you get my drift.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by bachelorette

Good point well made! But you get my drift.

pedant is sometimes my middle name

[bachelorette]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

pedant is sometimes my middle name

It's a certain German-ness, from Europe going through you presumably.

[Dac X Lee]

Originally Posted by Porco

The only physical release which is announced is the album. We don't know what they are planning. Arguably they don't either!

That's one more thing that makes the Manics so charming - improvisations and surprises.
They're unpredictable.

[FacelessSenseOfVoid]

Just as a side note as we're on about Nina Hoss. Her spoken English is really good, which is why her accent on the song sounds a bit more "non-German" during the English bits.

[wireobsessed]

[QUOTE=Porco;2597491]Ok, I'll repeat myself too if you like, the only physical release which is announced is the album. We don't know what they are planning.

No we don't and as we saw previously even plans go tits-up despite the planning. I think the bans will have a pretty good idea of what they want to hapen, is it does is another thing, life means things go wrong.

[wireobsessed]

Walk me to the Bridge promo on eBay, up to £10.00 now and a day still to go. So maybe?

[Nikolai]

Musically this song is Holy Bible era Manics on the verses and Simple Minds on the absolutely massive chorus: a genius combination and a total ear-worm of a tune. I think it's frickin' fantastic.

I'm not sure just how much I'm believing Nicky that these lyrics are mainly focused on himself and the Øresund Bridge rather than Richey, though! To be fair to the Wire, I think he probably tends to subconsciously write about Richey a fair bit of the time, even if that's not always his intention. It's rather sweet either way.

Love the video too. As cliche as some people think it is to reference, Run Lola Run is a fantastic film and my cat was actually named after Franka Potente's lead character from that flick

Going by what we've heard from it so far, I think Futurology has the potential to be one of my favourite Manics albums.

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by Donkey

well...ok...I'll try to be more specific.
Of course I don't know what's in their heads. But...
at the moment the only planned Manics physical release with Sony Music is the album.

if you're expecting for example 7" vinyl single before the album release, then considering vinyl production leadtimes at the moment you can simply forget about that even if they come with a plan of eating sweets right now.

and this is the last explanation from me, either you find it useful or not

I'm afraid I must take it back today. But no promises either. Just if I said nothing. Well - it seems I was not very clear anyway so

[Donkey]

Originally Posted by Nikolai

Musically this song is Holy Bible era Manics on the verses

[Nikolai]

Originally Posted by Donkey

I don't mean that the verses are as heavy as fuck or anything like that! The guitar and bass parts on the verses are very, er, Holy Bibley in their sound, though

[bachelorette]

Originally Posted by FacelessSenseOfVoid

Just as a side note as we're on about Nina Hoss. Her spoken English is really good, which is why her accent on the song sounds a bit more "non-German" during the English bits.

Yes, and I also think it is a common phenomenon that the way people around you speak rubs off on you. So the fact that she was using German while being around English-speakers is the most likely explanation - I'm afraid it happens to me as well sometimes.