Track of the Week - 15 November 2020
I've decided to make one of my rare forays outside of my own 'diary of a no-name' format this week. (I had another eye check-up but as I have to go back in six weeks I can bore you with another eye song then.)
There was pretty big news about a possible Covid-19 vaccine this week so I thought I'd go down that route. There are three reasons for choosing Porcupine by Echo & The Bunnymen:
2) The lyric "You know how to hope for something to hope for" seems apt
3) As is the lyric as the song fades out - "I'm beginning to see the light"
Wait. Four reasons:
4) It's fantastic.
Porcupine is the title track of the group's third album which was released in February 1983 and reached number two. I didn't realise that the album had to be re-recorded after the record label rejected the first version as 'too uncommercial.'
I do remember that it wasn't critically that well received at the time. There are some stand-out tracks on it but the second side of the record (that's right kids, music used to have sides) was felt to be disappointing.
Nothing disappointing about this. Ian McCulloch is on top of his game vocal-wise, it's a couple of songs in one, there's a bit of lyrical word-play... one of the great title tracks?
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