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Thank Heaven For Small Moments
Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:17This is a rough repost of something I wrote earlier this evening before Desperate Housewives. I believe it was an inspired work of great beauty and insight. Of course, you can only take my word for it.
It may or may not be a secret that there are some small moments in songs I latch onto. These are the moments which elevate songs above all others in my mind. These are the moments I latch onto and then listen to the song six times in a row just to hear again.
Like the line "Now I'm grown up and playing in a band/And there's a car park where the Palais used to stand" in 'Come Dancing' by The Kinks.
Like the way Richard Burton pronounces 'luminous' in 'The Eve Of War' in The War of the Worlds and somehow manages to draw it out into seventeen syllables. More of him later.
Like the "I'll burn it, I'll burn, I'll, I'll, I'll burn it down!" line in 'This Fire' by Franz Ferdinand, mostly because of the rhythm of it.
Like the way Philip Lynott sings "And when you arise/And red ruby rings circle your eyes" in 'Old Moon Madness. Or the way he always sings the word 'again', or the haunting way he talks about 'the boys' hanging down at Dino's, or the "ooh la la las" in 'Randolph's Tango' and a thousand other such Thin Lizzy moments.
Like the way Jim Morrison speak/sings in 'Love Street' and the way he smoothly makes his way through 'A Feast of Friends' and the way he growls his way through 'Love Her Madly' and a thousand other such Doors moments.
Anyway, this gets me to the latest of my moments. You may or may not (but more likely have) noticed that I have developed a strange, unexpected love of the Phantom of the Opera movie. You may or may not know that I have thus acquired the soundtrack and have been listening to it quite a lot- when I'm not listening to Franz Ferdinand or my dearest Philip. And here comes my new moment...
In 'Point of No Return', Gerard Butler sings "Now you are here with me/No second thoughts/You've decided/Decided." It's probably my favourite song in the film, but that isn't the moment. Here comes the madness: The way he sings 'here' sounds like the way Richard Burton used to say it. I listened to this song three times on the bus home tonight, all for a Burtonesque 'here'. A Scotsman singing like a Welshman. I think I must be slightly mad.
There was actually a point to this post hours ago when I originally tried to post it. I can't remember what that point was, but I'm sure it was something to do with madness, phantoms or something else totally unrelated. Ah well.
My dad's Christmas present- the complete Sharpe series on DVD arrived yesterday, after being ordered in October. Have got upto Sharpe's Gold and I'm currently feeling quite bad for taking the piss out of him so totally all these years- it's not even half as bad as I remember.
