In this room I call love
I bloody love hallucinations by the raveonettes.
There's a specific ten minute wrestling match between Chris Benoit and Steve/William Regal at the Brian Pilman memorial show, which some wrestling trainers love to sit their students down and watch. They use it as an example of how to make sure not a single move is wasted, and how given the limited ability of the wrestlers involved (i.e. they can both only wrestle one style - albiet one they're both phiniminal at, and it's not the style the crowd are interested in, at the beginning at least), and the shortness of the time they're allowed, how they manage to create something absorbing and much better than the sum of the moves involved.
To me hallucinations is like a perfect template of how to write a song. It's simple, the lyrics are perfectly decent, but nothing special, and like the most of the ravonettes songs, the music is remarkably simple.... and yet something that is created feel nigh-on perfect. It just feels crafted with such skill that noone would dare touch it. It's the simple things, like how they get the quiet louds bit right, like how they double the guitar at exactly the right moments to make the lyrics seem to be meaning something that they wouldn't it they were done acapella. Like how it feel like it's a much longer song, even though it's just over 2 minutes. Like how noone leaves it dissapointed.
The first time I'd ever heard a DJ play it was in 8mm in Berlin. 8mm is Lucy's favourite bar in berlin. We'd gone there on a saturday night, and had to pay £2 to get in in order to watch a dude who was the drummer in a band play a set of covers on a guitar that he couldn't tune himself. I'm not saying he was bad, in fact I've seen far far worse people on stage in my near 35 year lifespan, but he was the first person I've ever seen on stage where I've looked up and thought "I can do better than this". His own band left to go to the place over the road, before he went onstage, so it's not like those who knew him held him in high regard.
Anyway after he finished we got a song, and then we got hallucinations. After than we got another song, and then we got Sidewalking by the mary chain. After that we got 8 songs I used to dance to on the proper goth floor at slimelight in the old days, and then (strangely enough) we got a boo radleys album track.
I've been to worse bars, y'know
There's a specific ten minute wrestling match between Chris Benoit and Steve/William Regal at the Brian Pilman memorial show, which some wrestling trainers love to sit their students down and watch. They use it as an example of how to make sure not a single move is wasted, and how given the limited ability of the wrestlers involved (i.e. they can both only wrestle one style - albiet one they're both phiniminal at, and it's not the style the crowd are interested in, at the beginning at least), and the shortness of the time they're allowed, how they manage to create something absorbing and much better than the sum of the moves involved.
To me hallucinations is like a perfect template of how to write a song. It's simple, the lyrics are perfectly decent, but nothing special, and like the most of the ravonettes songs, the music is remarkably simple.... and yet something that is created feel nigh-on perfect. It just feels crafted with such skill that noone would dare touch it. It's the simple things, like how they get the quiet louds bit right, like how they double the guitar at exactly the right moments to make the lyrics seem to be meaning something that they wouldn't it they were done acapella. Like how it feel like it's a much longer song, even though it's just over 2 minutes. Like how noone leaves it dissapointed.
The first time I'd ever heard a DJ play it was in 8mm in Berlin. 8mm is Lucy's favourite bar in berlin. We'd gone there on a saturday night, and had to pay £2 to get in in order to watch a dude who was the drummer in a band play a set of covers on a guitar that he couldn't tune himself. I'm not saying he was bad, in fact I've seen far far worse people on stage in my near 35 year lifespan, but he was the first person I've ever seen on stage where I've looked up and thought "I can do better than this". His own band left to go to the place over the road, before he went onstage, so it's not like those who knew him held him in high regard.
Anyway after he finished we got a song, and then we got hallucinations. After than we got another song, and then we got Sidewalking by the mary chain. After that we got 8 songs I used to dance to on the proper goth floor at slimelight in the old days, and then (strangely enough) we got a boo radleys album track.
I've been to worse bars, y'know