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October 20, 2004
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McLusky - She Will Only Bring You Happiness
Speaking as I was, the other day, of a lactose sea (two entries below this one), this track from McLusky's third LP, 'The Difference Between You and Me is that I'm not on Fire', features the lyric 'all the sea was coal', which I'm fond of, for various reasons. Although, I have to say, that line is by far the most orthodox turn of phrase in the entire song (when compared to the call and response harmony breakdown of 'our old singer is/a sex criminal'), which as a whole is somehow simultaneously joyous and spiteful. Not an easy mix.
'She Will Only Bring You Happiness' was touted as McLusky's soft song, but it exceeds some of their conventionally harder work by virtue of lead singer Andy Falkous' word choice, and the fact that you can actually hear what he's saying (kind of a rarity with their stuff)- I love the way his self-exhortations at the start to 'be erect by half past ten/be strong/be proud...' are couched within such a repetitive and oddly comfortable guitar line, and punctuated with a snare and cymbal explosion. McLusky is an extremely talented band- witty, agile, and capable of making perfect little songs like this one. If you want, you can buy their albums HERE.
Posted by matt at October 20, 2004 08:00 AM