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
The The
Soul Mining
(Some Bizzare, 1983)
Matt Johnson's self-excoriating - but tunepacked! -classic.
When East End publican's son Matt Johnson released his UK Number 71 single This Is The Day - a gospel-tinged rumination on lost time and how money can't buy it back - he'd reached the grand old age of 21. The song's melodious singability and mood of fraught introspection set the tone for his first album as The The. Rhythms and tunes are robust and infectious, with afro-drums and synth pop flourishes, but the songs find their narrators stuck in tight spots in varying stages of self-loathing (examples: being covered in leaves hiding in someone's garden; tied to a chair in the desert; and, best of all, "floating down a tunnel in a little wooden box" on the title song). There is a fascination - explored on the red-eyed Uncertain Smile - with the love affair gone wrong, and a certain relish for self-abasement, as on housebound lunatic song The Sinking Feeling, when he declares he's "a symptom of the moral decay that's gnawing at the heart of this country". The LP hit Number 27 in Britain and Johnson would go on to more toxic diagnoses of the world's ills with '86's Infected LP, and later worked with his old pal Johnny Marr to plumb further depths of isolation on Mindbomb and Dusk. He's been most recently heard of doing the soundtrack to British serial killer movie Tony, directed by his brother Gerard - though others might prefer to remember him via this fresh but twisted music that's pop enough (oh, the irony!) to soundtrack adverts for M&Ms.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 16/03/2010
Further Listening
The The – Infected (Epic, 1986)
Soft Cell – The Art Of Falling Apart (Some Bizzare, 1983)
Talking Heads – Speaking In Tongues (Sire, 1983)
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