It's high time for something lively, wouldn't you say? Howzabout some Golden Brown? Notoriously naughty in their heyday, The Stranglers were as uncompromising a seventies punk band as you could find. Much like their colorful contemporaries X-Ray Specs, Buzzcocks, and Adverts, the Stranglers were volatile and snide, but with a smart sense of humor and (occasionally) had something to say besides "sod off". Penned well after punk heard the dirt hit its coffin lid, it's odd that this harpsichord-driven waltz would turn out to be their biggest commercial success. What say you, good listener - an ode to a beautiful girl, or to heroin? Perhaps a bit of both? (Incidentally, it's always been my opinion that this could easily pass for the first-born son of Quicksilver Messenger Service's Gold and Silver recorded 13 years earlier. Hmmmmm.)
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Stranglers - Golden Brown / Quicksilver Messenger Service - Gold and Silver
It's high time for something lively, wouldn't you say? Howzabout some Golden Brown? Notoriously naughty in their heyday, The Stranglers were as uncompromising a seventies punk band as you could find. Much like their colorful contemporaries X-Ray Specs, Buzzcocks, and Adverts, the Stranglers were volatile and snide, but with a smart sense of humor and (occasionally) had something to say besides "sod off". Penned well after punk heard the dirt hit its coffin lid, it's odd that this harpsichord-driven waltz would turn out to be their biggest commercial success. What say you, good listener - an ode to a beautiful girl, or to heroin? Perhaps a bit of both? (Incidentally, it's always been my opinion that this could easily pass for the first-born son of Quicksilver Messenger Service's Gold and Silver recorded 13 years earlier. Hmmmmm.)
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ReplyDeleteThe genealogy of Golden Brown starts with Dave Brubeck's Take 5 the rhythm of which I read somewhere the composer Paul Desmond based on the sound of a horse clip clopping. Quicksilver based Acapulco Gold and Silver (to give the tune its uncensored name)on that and then the Stranglers Golden Brown followed that. So it started and ended with horse.
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