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My sister, who is getting married in October, decided she wants Bruce Springsteen's 'Jersey Girl' as the first dance at her wedding. She picked it out of an A4 sheet of paper that had about ten options and has since learned to love the song on her iPod. Hmmm. I dunno.
If I got married it would not be in a church. There probably would not be a lot of people there. Indeed, it would be under a tree, so people would not fit. A tree that sheds blossoms or brightly coloured leaves. And the music played would naturally have to be under-tree music. Something terribly weird and pagan, I think - like this perhaps...
What is this enigmatic song about? The postman? The beginning of the universe? Drug baloney? Would it work at a wedding under a tree?
Regardless, they'd be a great wedding band, probably able to switch up from a waltz to jig in a jif! <3 you Incredible String Band.
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Dr. G: I think this song would B an Xcellent choice 4 a wedding ceremony held under a big, scary old tree -- I always think of Halloween when I play this album.
My theory is that "Koeoaddi There" is a kinda twisted family history, or at least 1 young person's memories of childhood -- the 2nd & 3rd verses certainly Cm 2 bear this out: "A woman with a bulldozer built this house of (up?) now/Carving away the mountain/Whose name is your childhood home...." & "Born in a house with the doors shut tight/Shadowy fingers on the curtains at night/...A busy main road where I wasn't to go...." & more Bsides. My favrite line in the whole song is "Bridget and some people lived upstairs," just 4 the way it's sorta thrown out there w/o further Xplanation. I liked the ISB at 1st Bcos I thot they were so freaking funny. At 1st I thot HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER was a comedy album.
I think "Witch'es Hat" later on the same side is EVEN MORE pagan & weird, but I know what U mean: The ISB cer10ly had that Olde Rural Magic feeling. Cheers! -- TAD.
Man, I'm getting married to my darling fiancée (who else?) sometime over the next year and I am doing my damnedest to try and have some Nick Cave played at the ceremony. Not one of the sombre love songs, like Into My Arms and those, but maybe Get Ready for Love, or Nature Boy. I met a guy last year who said the only reason he and his partner got married was so that they could play Nick Cave in a church. They played Breathless, which would be a beautiful one to wed to - slightly lovey and cheesy, but joyously so unlike his more austere love songs. That's as good a reason as any to wed!
Dr Tad, you are spot on about the song and the subject matter, that is exactly how it makes me feel too. Come to think of it, this wouldn't be an ideal song, content wise, for a wedding ceremony. Let's just say, they'd be my ideal wedding band!
Wormbent - the only way Nick Cave would work is if you have a recording of the man himself. I couldn't imagine a wedding band/ musicican pull it off. But yah, it's the sort of music that would fill a church beautifully.
P.S. congrats on the engagement!
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