I always had a problem with this song, even though I do love the screaming guitars. I think it had to do with the fact that I was a big fan of both XTC and Adam Ant (and the Ants) and thought the lyrics didn't capture anything true about either band's sound. Maybe there's something more to it that I would find clever if I were privy to the backstory. But like you say (and they say), there is no right or wrong. It feels like a melody in search of a point. But if there is no right or wrong, why bother posing the question?
One of my favorite songs that pairs two bands against each other is the great song by Metric, "Gimme Sympathy." It has the great lyric:
I think if I knew either artist really well, I’d feel the same sense of let down. Admittedly, the elements that I love about this song is purely music based. The topic could be anything at all.
It reminds me of "the day Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs got married" in that it sounds like neither artist it name-checks.
But last week I saw a newsblurb about some legal issue between the Federal Trade Commission and Amazon. The headline used the government body's acronym and I automatically sung in my head "FTC vs. Ama-ZON" and can't seem to banish that from my mind lately.
I always had a problem with this song, even though I do love the screaming guitars. I think it had to do with the fact that I was a big fan of both XTC and Adam Ant (and the Ants) and thought the lyrics didn't capture anything true about either band's sound. Maybe there's something more to it that I would find clever if I were privy to the backstory. But like you say (and they say), there is no right or wrong. It feels like a melody in search of a point. But if there is no right or wrong, why bother posing the question?
One of my favorite songs that pairs two bands against each other is the great song by Metric, "Gimme Sympathy." It has the great lyric:
Gimme sympathy
After all of this is gone
Who'd you rather be?
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
https://youtu.be/LqldwoDXHKg?si=vQBhnpstsunfzlv9
I think if I knew either artist really well, I’d feel the same sense of let down. Admittedly, the elements that I love about this song is purely music based. The topic could be anything at all.
It reminds me of "the day Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs got married" in that it sounds like neither artist it name-checks.
But last week I saw a newsblurb about some legal issue between the Federal Trade Commission and Amazon. The headline used the government body's acronym and I automatically sung in my head "FTC vs. Ama-ZON" and can't seem to banish that from my mind lately.