Wednesday, August 03, 2005

I'm Still Standing...Or Sitting

I'm positive there is an Elton John song called I'm Still Standing and since that is what I've decided to entitle this post it will contain (at long last) the answers to the clues I placed in my April 27, 2005 post. I'm also sure that by now I've lost my one and only reader but try, try again I will.
"All those weeks ago," an easy one which references All Those Years Ago by George Harrison from his Somewhere In England LP. "How Do You Work This Thing," easy in that it is a direct quote and the title of the song, difficult in the fact that it is from a somewhat obscure (although he shouldn't be) artist, Robyn Hitchcock. That song from his Groovy Decay/Groovy Decoy (you Hitchcockians will know what that means) LPs.
"Oh Well Parts I & II." Sometimes called simply "Oh Well" by Fleetwood Mac. But an older, bluesier Fleetwood Mac that would probably make most Stevie Nicks fans. . . no, make that all Stevie Nicks fans, tilt their heads to the side as does Nipper when he hears his masters voice. From the 1969 LP Then Play On. Sung by Peter Green shortly before his religious conversion, drop-out-of-society-freak-out and become an obscure gardener, which I guess isn't really much worse than being an obscure white blues guitarist in a relatively unheard of white English Blues band, even if they were arguably the best unheard of white English Blues band.
And finally, "You Might Think I'm Crazy" which was the accidental reference, as I'm not a Cars fan, but I do recall that lyric in one of their songs and I'm sure it was also the title of the song. I should look that up on the internet along with the Elton John chompy.
There was a band from England (where else?) in the 80's, the 90's too actually, called the Chameleons. Because of contractual BS, namely an American band with the same name, they ended up having to call themselves the Chameleons U.K. Founder, bassist and songwriter/singer Mark Burgess' little brother has a band called the Charlatans U.K. I don't know if they had the same contractual difficilties or if they were just taking the piss out of Mark's absurd forced compromise, the latter I suspect.
Anyway, back to the Chameleons. Their first proper LP Script for the Bridge is must listening for all you introspective types out there. For all you guys who really relate to the Seth Cohen character from the O.C. but would never admit it. It strikes the chord the early Cure tried so desperately to hit but never could with efforts like Pornography, before they switched gears having given up trying to convince the public they were true doom and gloom and admitted to being the crafty, poppy outfit they were all along.
Just because you wear all black and sport smeared mascara underneath your messy do, doesn't mean you really have something to cry about. Besides, everybody knows boys don't cry.

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