You Set The Order
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 6:37 pm
Jac Holzman has always maintained that placing "Alone Again Or" as the first song was essential to introducing the rest of the selections for FC. It is a valid viewpoint but not the only one. For fun, here is how I would place the running order of FC. Feel free to offer your own vision.
Side One:
1. Live and Let Live- Lyrically a jarring start to the album. What better way to get your attention right off the bat.
2. Old Man- After the previous jolt here is a softer vision, but still keeping the bleakness up front.
3. Andmoreagain- The uneasiness continues, cloaked by the orchestration.
4. The Daily Planet- More disharmony with the tempo picking up.
5. Good Humor Man- Winding down side one with Arthur's fairy tale painting (or is it a horror story).
6. Wonder People- Side one ends with an up beat feel, maybe promising something positive on the next side (even though it wasn't originally issued you can't keep it off simply because it is too good a song to exclude).
Side Two:
1. Red Telephone- The most disturbing song and clearest vision of what Arthur's frame of mind was destroys any of the previous good vibes.
2. A House Is Not A Motel- The electric war anthem keeps the bad times going.
3. Bummer in The Summer- Not as disturbing as the first two but no real relief from the dark.
4. Clark/Hilldale- Finally some lyrical relief set to perhaps the most exciting piece of music on the album.
5. You Set The Scene- Is it sacreligous not to make this the album closer? Perhaps, but I found it perhaps too upbeat a way to conclude the album.
6. Alone Again Or- A total group effort and perhaps in a way the most bleak song. A proper way to conclude the collection.
Side One:
1. Live and Let Live- Lyrically a jarring start to the album. What better way to get your attention right off the bat.
2. Old Man- After the previous jolt here is a softer vision, but still keeping the bleakness up front.
3. Andmoreagain- The uneasiness continues, cloaked by the orchestration.
4. The Daily Planet- More disharmony with the tempo picking up.
5. Good Humor Man- Winding down side one with Arthur's fairy tale painting (or is it a horror story).
6. Wonder People- Side one ends with an up beat feel, maybe promising something positive on the next side (even though it wasn't originally issued you can't keep it off simply because it is too good a song to exclude).
Side Two:
1. Red Telephone- The most disturbing song and clearest vision of what Arthur's frame of mind was destroys any of the previous good vibes.
2. A House Is Not A Motel- The electric war anthem keeps the bad times going.
3. Bummer in The Summer- Not as disturbing as the first two but no real relief from the dark.
4. Clark/Hilldale- Finally some lyrical relief set to perhaps the most exciting piece of music on the album.
5. You Set The Scene- Is it sacreligous not to make this the album closer? Perhaps, but I found it perhaps too upbeat a way to conclude the album.
6. Alone Again Or- A total group effort and perhaps in a way the most bleak song. A proper way to conclude the collection.