Inspired by Wardy, I’ve cranked up Garage Band for the first time – it says here – in two years. Now I have rather less than no musical talent, though I can just about play the gramophone. But that hasn’t stopped me trying to make bloody awful cover versions of tracks off the first Human League album, Reproduction. It’s a synthesiser album from 1979, and it’s still my favourite album in the world ever. I love the weird noises, I love Phil Oakey’s fragile vocals, I love his mad lyrics like:
I spent a bad day yesterday
With a man and a picture of himself
The tape was running and the tv turned…
…fading into a news report of Jim Callaghan leaving office.
Come on then, post it!
I will when I finish one; as I say I have no musical talent so I’m doing it bar-by-bar trying to find the notes on the computer’s keyboard. So it’s a slow process…
Maybe I should get one of these: http://www.timkaiser.org/Sonic.html
Oh damnation and curses. I always wanted to go into business making things like that. It just goes to show. Don’t dream it, be it, as the painted sage said.
Yes. Indeed.
Listening to Reproduction some more – this one turns into a cover of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” and haunts me still:
Don’t talk
Close the door
You’ve been here before
Your shape dim
I’m an old man now
The air’s thin
The walls very damp now
And if I don’t go
I’ll always be stuck here in this poor little room
With a view of the corner
I don’t forget
The light growing weak now
Experience is useless
Unless you can learn
And I’ve never met anyone
Who used their knowledge
To avoid those mistakes made again and again
And if I don’t go
I’ll always be stuck here in this poor little room
With a view of the corner