{"id":48,"date":"2009-12-16T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-01-10T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:44:42","slug":"song-of-the-day-backwards-traveller-cuff-link-by-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day &#8220;Backwards Traveller \/ Cuff Link&#8221; by Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230; I&#8217;m surprisingly alert considering I literally raced around work from around 10:00 to 4:00.\u00a0 I mean racing literally&#8230; I had to get shit done.<\/p>\n<p>So I rewarded myself with another phone sex call.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to get into some more detail about how these things shake down in another post.\u00a0 The girl I talked to tonight is one of the best as a fembot that I have ever heard&#8230;. she says &#8220;Yes Master&#8221; exactly the same way every time she says it&#8230; and what a sexy voice.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m supposed to be talking about some music now, not my perverted fembot fantasies.\u00a0 So here goes.<\/p>\n<p>This song here&#8230; actually in two links <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GGHaiGsXr6o\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_-fYxmfdGY\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230; is probably the only thing off the otherwise lame album London Town that I actually like.\u00a0 Is Mull of Kintyre on that album?\u00a0 Let me check.<\/p>\n<p>(checks)<\/p>\n<p>No&#8230; Technically &#8220;Mull of Kintyre isn&#8217;t on that album&#8230; that 1978, straight in the fucking heart of disco and dreary &#8220;rock is dead&#8221; and &#8220;dinosaur&#8221; crap that ended up making the 80s so fucking terrible for so many bands and musicians.\u00a0 &#8220;Mull of Kintyre&#8221; is a better song than &#8220;Backwards Traveler \/ Cuff Link&#8221;, but it didn&#8217;t pop up on my iPod today.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed, if you clicked on those links, that one of them is a rough mix, a demo if you will.\u00a0 A tomato if you will, but if you will I won&#8217;t.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not the reason I like this song (hey, I know it&#8217;s two songs, but when I &#8220;Mikeify&#8221; my music, removing background tape hiss and EQing it, I join the stuff that runs together and is meant to be heard as one piece).\u00a0 The real magic is the &#8220;Cuff link&#8221; part.\u00a0 It&#8217;s little more than a synth groove.<\/p>\n<p>But being Wings, and containing Paul McCartney, they play it so fucking good.\u00a0 It&#8217;s another one of those simple repeating passages that gets stuck in my head now and then.\u00a0 And believe me, when it&#8217;s contrasted along with some of the other dreck on that album, it sounds even better.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, Paul embraced his sappy-romantic side a little to enthusiastically sometimes.\u00a0 Even when he was in that band before Wings&#8230; their name escapes me at the moment&#8230; hardly anyone has heard of them&#8230;. he came out with some real stinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Paul: &#8220;John, look what I got!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John: &#8220;It&#8217;s a turd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul: &#8220;No, it&#8217;s my latest song, I call it Honey Pie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John: &#8220;It&#8217;s a turd, Paul.\u00a0 Call it what you want Paul, it&#8217;s a lump of shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul: &#8220;Well if you&#8217;re putting Revolution N\u00ba 9 on the album, I&#8217;m smearing this particular lump of shit on it as well!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Epstein: (rolls in grave)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that was uncalled for.\u00a0 Those were private discussions between artists producing a recording, and I should not have divulged details of what they said.\u00a0 Also, I&#8217;m making shit up again.<\/p>\n<p>If you have clicked on those two links, and if you have listened to them, you are no doubt tiring of my schtick.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t blame you.\u00a0 Sometimes I am told to leave my schtick in the mud, but as I always say, my jokes are better than a schtick in the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not even making sense.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve looked back on some of the entries in this blog, and sure enough, sometimes, by gum, I MAKE SENSE!<\/p>\n<p>But not now.<\/p>\n<p>(bows goodbye like the Beatles, as four grown men in collarless grey suits)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230; I&#8217;m surprisingly alert considering I literally raced around work from around 10:00 to 4:00.\u00a0 I mean racing literally&#8230; I had to get shit done. 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