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Old 09-10-2013, 17:36
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Anyone got any idea what the song is actually about? My first thought was that is was a lament on the death of the art of songwriting but the words 'take this-it's yours' and the idea that composition rights are no longer such a glittering prize makes me think that maybe it's about people downloading stuff without paying. Dunno what that Paris and St Petersberg is all about though.
The phrase composition rites is a synonym for funeral rites. James wrote this song after listening to a discussion on some radio program about whether a song can still have a world-shattering impact in this day and age. Apparently James' conclusion was that that's not likely, so he wrote a song about how it is futile to try and change the world with a song. Originally the song was to be called Composition Rites, Wire wanted to change it because he thought no one would know what the phrase means. I think the Paris etc. stuff is James' grieving that he lost the one thing that he felt was worth striving for (which, as he has later admitted, may be a wee bit over-dramatic). I'm basing this interpretation on various interviews with James over the past few months.
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Old 09-10-2013, 17:43
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Whenever I hear this song I see a 'big band' style video, with the band in tuxes and a synchronised swaying brass section behind them. I discussed it on Twitter with Shug a few weeks ago and she agreed, so it's not just me
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I wanna see the video

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Old 09-10-2013, 21:01
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Old 09-10-2013, 21:06
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No no, the song's about inheritance.

"Now ashes bone and splinter, what was once the glittering prize/the composition rights (to Michael Jackson's lucrative back catalogue, sunk by pirates off the coast of Jamaica)"
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The phrase composition rites is a synonym for funeral rites. James wrote this song after listening to a discussion on some radio program about whether a song can still have a world-shattering impact in this day and age. Apparently James' conclusion was that that's not likely, so he wrote a song about how it is futile to try and change the world with a song. Originally the song was to be called Composition Rites, Wire wanted to change it because he thought no one would know what the phrase means. I think the Paris etc. stuff is James' grieving that he lost the one thing that he felt was worth striving for (which, as he has later admitted, may be a wee bit over-dramatic). I'm basing this interpretation on various interviews with James over the past few months.
Hmm perhaps but I thought it was a play on the words 'composition rights' surely funeral rites have always been 'ashes, bone and splinter' (whatever splinter is) and never much of a glittering prize.
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Originally they wanted drummer corr, violin corr & smoldering corr on the album but blokey corr was driving and got lost. Simples.
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Anyone got any idea what the song is actually about? My first thought was that is was a lament on the death of the art of songwriting but the words 'take this-it's yours' and the idea that composition rights are no longer such a glittering prize makes me think that maybe it's about people downloading stuff without paying. Dunno what that Paris and St Petersberg is all about though.
This was my take on it.
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Great album track but not an inspired choice for a single. This will sink faster than the Belgrano.
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Great album track but not an inspired choice for a single. This will sink faster than the Belgrano.
We shall see!
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We shall see!
Some of us don't need to wait to see how this is going to play out.

On a semi-related note, here are some Spotify figures.

This Sullen Welsh Heart - 111,350
4 Lonely Roads - 54,360
Anthem For a Lost Cause - 50,170

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Old 14-10-2013, 18:27
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Old 14-10-2013, 19:29
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Some of us don't need to wait to see how this is going to play out.

On a semi-related note, here are some Spotify figures.

This Sullen Welsh Heart - 111,350
4 Lonely Roads - 54,360
Anthem For a Lost Cause - 50,170

Who dares wins.
perchance they want to hold back sullen so that peeps buy the album. They've forgots that we are in the download age
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