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My White Album
6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008
Long, Long, Long
George reconciles with God, with a rattling wine bottle on Paul’s Hammond and a final unearthly wail.
Colin Newman (Wire): “I made up an iTunes playlist of 38 favourite Beatles songs to give myself a starting point, and in the end I chose Long, Long, Long because it was the song that emotionally grabbed me the most.
“It’s a Harrison song, and in the pop shorthand of Beatle hagiography he is the “shy overshadowed one” – alongside the “godlike tortured genius” of Lennon, the “stoner whimsy” of McCartney and “Thomas The Tank Engine” of Ringo. This is of course nonsense. Harrison was less prolific than Lennon or McCartney but his compositions are certainly not ignored in their placement on the albums. Think about Revolver kicking off with Taxman.
“I’m not sure if The White album is my favourite Beatles record but it certainly has the most interesting atmosphere. It’s restrained and sad, yet at the same time on the edge of being seriously unhinged. In that way, Long, Long, Long is like the album in microcosm. The tune is achingly beautiful and somehow underperformed. A lament for a long-lost love which ends with a ghostly freak out. All over in 3 minutes & 4 seconds.”
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008
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I am recently discovering Wire and i was glad getting a glance to this.
I sure did know Long Long Long though!
This is one of my favourite Whitey songs, Harisson just soft speaks his soul. And it ends in a nightmare lament, haunting, more than everything else in there, more haunting than Manson's madness.
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