@leejohnson lol, yes quite! (That lyric was the source of much amusement to my younger self as it turned up sampled by Nine Inch Nails in the mid-90's). This track has my favourite Mike Garson solo in it. And I do love the random-ness of the lyrics ;-)
Re: the lyrics, I believe he was experimenting with "cut up" - something he would do to quite a large extent during later years (the practice of cutting out individual words, jumbling them up significantly, and then trying to put them together into a set of coherent lyrics).
And a source of similar amusement to MY younger self (on the original release!), and much consternation from my mother, who looked aghast as she heard it for the first (and last) time!
@leejohnson yup, I know all about his burroughsian cut- up lyrics- although I didn't think he'd started doing that until Diamond dogs. Lots of my favourite tracks are the stranger ones lyrically- so much more resonant in their nonsense as we struggle to put sense to them. Wish he'd done more of that in the newest single (stars are out tonight) whose lyrics are a bit strained I think ;-)
@cherry_cinnamon Started in earnest with Diamond Dogs on the 'cut-ups' - but "Time" is a clear pointer to the fact that he had the method in mind before then, and toyed with it on this one. And it works brilliantly. The only bummer is that I would go round and round in circles in '74 trying to work out exactly what the hell the song was about! I gave up in the end, deciding that he had just constructed some kind of addled nod to the Sally Bowles-era German decadence (that's the mood he summons).
@leejohnson That's the fun tho isn't it? "What does it all mean?" Bewley Brothers is another great early example of Bowie's less than linear lyrics. ;-)
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leejohnson
Am I? Gee thanks Cherry... Too old for 'flexing' like anything, and 'falling to the floor', doing anything AT ALL, then!!!
cherry_cinnamon
@leejohnson lol, yes quite! (That lyric was the source of much amusement to my younger self as it turned up sampled by Nine Inch Nails in the mid-90's). This track has my favourite Mike Garson solo in it. And I do love the random-ness of the lyrics ;-)
leejohnson
Re: the lyrics, I believe he was experimenting with "cut up" - something he would do to quite a large extent during later years (the practice of cutting out individual words, jumbling them up significantly, and then trying to put them together into a set of coherent lyrics).
leejohnson
And a source of similar amusement to MY younger self (on the original release!), and much consternation from my mother, who looked aghast as she heard it for the first (and last) time!
cherry_cinnamon
@leejohnson yup, I know all about his burroughsian cut- up lyrics- although I didn't think he'd started doing that until Diamond dogs. Lots of my favourite tracks are the stranger ones lyrically- so much more resonant in their nonsense as we struggle to put sense to them. Wish he'd done more of that in the newest single (stars are out tonight) whose lyrics are a bit strained I think ;-)
cherry_cinnamon
@leejohnson Oh the Horror! lol!
leejohnson
@cherry_cinnamon Started in earnest with Diamond Dogs on the 'cut-ups' - but "Time" is a clear pointer to the fact that he had the method in mind before then, and toyed with it on this one. And it works brilliantly. The only bummer is that I would go round and round in circles in '74 trying to work out exactly what the hell the song was about! I gave up in the end, deciding that he had just constructed some kind of addled nod to the Sally Bowles-era German decadence (that's the mood he summons).
cherry_cinnamon
@leejohnson That's the fun tho isn't it? "What does it all mean?" Bewley Brothers is another great early example of Bowie's less than linear lyrics. ;-)