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9. Riot Van
(Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, 2006)
Infinite weariness combines with beautiful blue chords. Is this a poignant meditation on love and life? No, it’s a tune about a night of boozy frolics ending in an altercation with the boys in blue (“Thrown in the Riot Van / All the coppers kicked him in…”). The Turner perspective – stoic, empathetic, with a glint of mischief: exactly what makes Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (the source of the band’s debut album title) so timeless – resonates throughout this terrific vignette.
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