CanuckAmok
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:19 AM
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Elvis Costello fans: Obscure question... |
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On Blood and Chocolate (the CD version), there's a Spanish guitar-driven song called "Big Nothing", which is basically a story about a clockwork cowboy toy. It's Track #17 if you want to get specific.
Is the singer on that track Barry Adamson of the Bad Seeds, or is it someone else?
I say it's Adamson.
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SouthoftheBorderPaul
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:25 AM
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1. I'm a big Costello fan |
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but I have NO earthly idea. This is not one of my favorite albums though.
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CanuckAmok
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:31 AM
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2. Nor was it mine.... but it's been in constant rotation around here lately |
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It's really growing on me... it only took, like, eighteen years.
I still don't like his ersatz-Motown production, though.
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:41 AM
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3. I think this tune was also on the "Straight To Hell" soundtrack... |
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So, could it be: Shane MacGowan? Pray For Rain? (worked on all the Alex Cox films). Joe Strummer?
Damn fine trivia question. Adamson's a good guess tho...he's right in there with all the above. Check your liner notes, doood...
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:42 AM
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4. Unfortunately, I lost the liner notes. |
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I think progmom stole them.
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:53 AM
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7. Regardless who's singing it, |
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...it's become one of our all-time favourite campfire tunes. Ya know, sitting around late at night up in the mountains in the Kootenays, raging drunk and high, grizzlies and mountain goats rustling in the bush: Make up yer own verse, then..."Big Nothing..."
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:50 AM
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:53 AM
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One of the desperados in "Straight to Hell"
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:56 AM
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8. So, I was on the right track...good trivia question, bud... |
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