Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Relax (Sex Mix)
(ZTT, 1983)
Frankie 12" brings the full 16 min 24 of filth.
With the expert guidance of Paul Morley, Frankie Goes To Hollywood's records delighted in confounding their listeners - see the "Edith Sitwell shoulder bag" they sold, or the instructions to read Kierkegaard and Nietzsche while listening. But these weird-out-the-teens moves were modest compared to the experience of listening to the original epic 12" 'Sex Mix' of super-rude global smash Relax. Here the building blocks of the single version - a bass drum, cowbell and handclap Linn pattern that producer Trevor Horn likened to "an English square dance", a bass spank possibly played by sessioneer supreme Norman Watt-Roy and various Fairlight-sampled squelches and squishes, plus voices commanding "hit me", "hey!" and "do it" - were re-assembled into a repetitive, libidinous throb that was equal parts drugged disco, trance, warped rock and studio hands hitting keys at random. By about 12 minutes in, with singer Holly Johnson freeforming lines including "I refuse to live on the same planet as you... the streets are paved with gold", it arrives at something like the hit version, but still disorientation reigns. In 1994, Horn mused to Sound On Sound mag, "We got so many complaints about it - particularly from gay clubs, who found it offensive." A blizzard of remixes followed - the tamer second 12" was confusingly also called the 'Sex Mix' - but none quite reached the same levels of bizarre experimentalism as this.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/03/2010
Further Listening
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – War (Hidden) (ZTT, 1984)
Donna Summer – I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Megamix) (Casablanca, 1982)
The Flirts – Passion (“O” Records, 1982)
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