This year I’m aiming to release a new song every Sunday (well, mostly new songs. There’ll also be live tracks, new versions of old songs etc.).
Here’s number 4, a return to the steampunk themes I wrote about for my first 2 albums. It’s called Mother’s Been Talking To Ghosts Again.
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No offence but it might be better the other way around: “The ghosts have been talking to Mother again.” Straight away we’re in Psycho territory. I’ve worked a lot in mental hospitals, nursing homes you name it.
Rarely does the individual create a correspondence or communication with the ‘other side’ it’s much more common that the ‘voices in the head’ become more and more annoying until the persecuted one yells out: “GO away from me !!!!” or similiar.
Surely, mother can respond to the ghosts but and here’s another point, she won’t be having a discussion; it’ll be more like a ongoing, low grade, hostile and barely understood conversation.
She’ll be listening to ghosts and arguing with them. I know this is way off the point but nobody ever has hallucinations which are pleasant. You’ll never get ‘voices’ saying: “Gee whiz Tom that colour really suits you, brings out the colour of your eyes… are you losing weight? Sure do look sharp today Mr Slater!”
All internal voices are by their nature — as fractured off parts of the ego integration process — lost and lonely bits and shards of a personality.
Anyway I’m taking your stuff to the the first meeting of our society and will keep you informed.
Tony C
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Ah, but we are not talking about real hallucinations of ghostly encounters, we are talking of cynical con artists! The song was partly inspired by the hoaxes of the Fox Sisters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters
Ok got me there.
Have you seen Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit” series? Good on this. But if we are going down the route of cynical con artist and ‘hysterical sisters’ how about “Our Lady of Fatima”?
Also, as a convinced materialist, I would have to point out that at the same time as the Fox Sisters were ‘rapping and a cracking’ a wide spread Revivalist fever was spread across the USA.
Both these phenomena had their roots deep in the break up of old USA agricultural economy and it’s post Civil War industrial domination.
The ruling class in the USA had learned much from the UK masters of imperialist hoodwinkery and deception and distraction of the masses and welcomed any means by which their attention could be taken off matters political and instead be focused on matters spiritual.
Not a lot different from the ways of the ruling classes operate in our period.
Only problem is they never had so many serious artists determined to uncover the truth of society and then “.. go tell it from the mountain..”
And this site contains not a few of this ‘uncovering and telling’ sort.
Must admit though, I didn’t pick up the Fox Sisters. John Edwards yup!
Regards
Tony C
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These are older tracks of mine — forget the vocals, a guy we roped in, intonation yes, emotional understanding no — and I think we are ploughing adjacent paddocks.
My latest bunch of songs are about a couple of mentally ill people getting their injections, a kid who goes bersek at school, life’s great questions — VI How do you know where you’re going to if you don’t know where you’ve been? How can you know what you’re looking for if you don’t know what you’ve seen. Chorus: All you can do is to take a long view and trust what has previously proved to be true and hope you know yourself better than you do. VII How can you know what a heartaches for until you’ve heard a sigh?
How can you feel that you know what’s true If you’ve never heard a lie? — , etc
Presently I’m attempting to put music to: “We are global citizenry, planet Earth is our nationality, Acting together we are history, so brothers and sisters sing along with me: Workers of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains, what is more we have a world to win, where everybody gains.”
And it struck me that the drum sound and your vocals are rather lovely.. OK then I’ll get back to it.
But I do want some fresh sounding vocals like yours.
Tony C