Cardigans to Kevin Ayers, RR regular Abahachi finds his direction and puts songs from last weeks topic in order
Imagine (suggested Friedrich Nietzsche) that a demon suddenly said to you: You will have to live your life, exactly the same, again and again. Would you gnash your teeth and curse him? Or have you ever experienced a tremendous moment that would make it all worthwhile, even to live through again the point when you realised quite how crashingly disappointing The Second Coming was, so that you would praise him as a god?
Judging by this weeks suggestions, the majority of musicians fall into the first category: most songs about reversing are suffused with regret and the wish to return to the past in order to change it. The Cardigans want to erase and rewind, Toni Braxton wants someone to unbreak her heart, Richard Butler wants to undo everything, from every bed he made to every step hes ever taken, and Frightened Rabbit are walking backwards, not for Christmas but because theres nowhere else to go but back to her, again. Of course its all an impossible fantasy, and the singer knows it; we realise the mistake we made only when its too late to take it back or throw the gears into reverse.
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by Neville Morley via Electronic music | The Guardian
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