Track of the Week - 7 May 2017
It's alright, I haven't gone blind. I had planned to save this until my eyesight got worse but something happened that means I need to bring it forward.
If you're a music lover you'll appreciate how it can tap in to your mood or even change it. Yesterday music made me happy.
Scrolling through my Twitter timeline on Saturday @TheFallDaily put a link to a Nike advert about their attempt to run a marathon in less than two hours. It's here:
I have no attachment to the product nor am I that bothered about the marathon record but I love the music that's running behind it.
It's an edit of Blindness by The Fall from their excellent 2005 album, Fall Heads Roll. It's one of my favourite songs of the last 15 years.
The 'Blind Man' in question is believed to be former Home Secretary David Blunkett, with lyrics about curfews perhaps relating to his attitude on civil liberties. There are also possible references to masonic initiation. That's not important, just turn it up loud and let that bass line power through you.
(I haven't been able to find the album version used on the ad so have the John Peel Session version which a lot of the Fall cognoscenti think is better.)
The Fall have previous with their music in tv adverts. Blindness was used in the US in an ad for the Mitsubishi Outlander (2007) while Touch Sensitive was used in the UK in an ad for the Vauxhall Corsa (2002).
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