COVER TO COVER: Eighties Fan – Camera Obscura
I’m back after a month of woolgathering and preoccupation with things not related to music. The stress of managing a record label during the past eight months has been too much, denying me of artistic time freedom, sometimes forcing me in a state of mental and physical collapse (I maybe exaggerating a bit). Although I very much love what I do, the self-imposed vacation was a welcome reverie.
This week’s cover was inspired by a couple of bands who played during The POP Shoppe! last Saturday at Route 196. An all-female band called Dress and Lilystars’ very own The Gentle Isolation both covered songs from a band I totally adore — CAMERA OBSCURA. They’re from Glasgow and has been playing since 1996 with four excellent albums under their belt. I chose to cover the first single from their debut album “Biggest, Bluest Hi-Fi“. The album and the music video featuring a young Tracyanne Campbell was produced and directed by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian.
You know it really wont surprise me
If you’re a wreck by the age of fourteen
The way you look
The way you look is fine
So often colour coordinated
your sister she’s an Eighties fan
But that’s alright
Have I told you so is mine
You say your life will be the death of you
Tell me, do you wash your hair in honey dew?
And long for all of them to fall in love with you
But they never do
Drinking vodka on the fly
Your mother has a watchful eye
So look out kid
She’s onto you this time
Run away to a bed and breakfast
Console yourself with the Reader’s Digest
Ringing the Yellow Pages all alone
You say your life will be the death of you
Tell me, do you wash your hair in honey dew?
And long for all of them to fall in love with you
But they never do
No they never do
I’m gonna tell you something good about yourself
I’ll say it now and I’ll never say it about no one else
I’m gonna tell you something good about yourself
I’ll say it now and I’ll never say it about no one else
About no one else
The track below is a product of rainy evenings and the usual crude laptop recording. Impromptu violin section by my brother Edmond, who was down with the flu during the time of recording, but painstakingly obliged using a cheap instrument he bought in Sta. Mesa.
Eighties Fan – Camera Obscura
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One Response to “COVER TO COVER: Eighties Fan – Camera Obscura”
I console myself with Reader’s Digest! hahha
nice cover Sir Clem :) i love it..