I think you’ve dramatically underestimated the amount of whine employed by many musicians.
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…yup…just for the sake of the overall argument…
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I was just wisecrackin on your spelling :0)
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…red red WINE…stay close to me ee eeeH…
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Have drugs lost focus as a form of recreational fun?
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But can you hear music in drugs?
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…basics…some drugs can help u focus…others can help u to spread ur mindset…
while others just warm and relax ur brain a little…
like with everything else again…it aaaaalways depends…
and each 'n everyone needs to find the right balance…
creating 'n consuming…hand in hand or back to back…
I don’t know them, but I think you are right - I see it as a metaphor too.
I really liked the playfulness of their first album. I like their second and third album as well, but they never got that playfulness back.
Anyway, just speculating here.
They used up a lot of Liam’s creative energy on the first three albums, for sure, but what a fucking trilogy they are.
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I remember an interview with Liam when he said that after Charly they could have never done another silly cartoon remix, because they would have been pigeonholed as artists that sample cartoons. There are other ways to be playful, of course, but I’m not surprised their sound evolved
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Some lovely guitar work driving this track. Dunno if Hazel was high or not but it sounds like he was.
Generally, I don’t think I could tell for sure either way unless I read it somewhere/signposted. People make all kinds of weird, dark and wonderful stuff and people’s brains go through all kinds of states with and without drugs, how can you tell the difference…
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TBH I think they have always been a pop/rock band that borrows from underground dance music, when Charly came out there was a bunch of other “cartoon techno” which for a lot of people signalled the end of the UK underground rave scene and a more commercial club centric scene.
By 1991 dance music was big business with the likes of Prodigy, Guru Josh, Utah Saints being on TOTP. Key to the Prodigy finding an audience on such a scale I think is that they were very USA friendly due to the rock influence in their stuff. I mean listen to Breathe and then listen to Chicago’s I’m a Man - pretty similar, (play it back at 1.25 speed) and easily palatable for the US market.
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Exactly right. It’s shorthand for how much a nation spends on military defence vs civilian goods
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While it would be wrong to say you can spot drug use, what kind, when, and who just by song or style - some are so obvious it undeniable.
Hallucinogens (probably LSD)
Lennon claimed it was about his tough upbringing, but it’s obviously mushrooms
Marijuana
Marijuana
Marijuana
As opposed to a strict diet of organic vegetables, humanely sourced salmon, and 200,000 year old limestone filtered glacier water…
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I think they went more “punk” instead of macho.
I’ll vouch for that, as an MTV watching teenager in the USA who was totally into alternative rock. Breathe by Prodigy and Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin were like gateway tracks into electronic music for me in my little small town bubble world.
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Yeah and I think it is safe to say they influenced a lot of US rock/metal acts too, which in turn became very popular over here.
Beat me to it!
I’ve taken adderall for work, but I’ve never taken it for a creative task.
It would possibly help with blockers of “doing the work”, but I’d certainly be curious to hear others’ experience.
Getting a demo track out, getting instruments recorded, or building a pattern out into a full song would be a good use case.
Mixing / arrangement / polishing probably wouldn’t, but if I was trying to get work done, maybe it would…
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Back then I had a very naive understanding of electronic music and particularly techno, just thought it was all bass drums, glow sticks and popping pills