![]() Another, more dubwise version by the same crew was nominated quite late in the day and caused something of a dilemma, but this won out in the end. The original was nominated, but I have to go for the Easy All Stars take on the theme. “Ticking away / The moments that make up a dull day” and all that. Where’s Smokey’s Nobel prize? That’s what I’d like to know.Īnd so to Pink Floyd. The perfect voice for soothing the troubled soul and lyrics from a man once called America’s “greatest living poet”. Lyrically inventive and vocally ethereal. There’s nothing dark about a classic Smokey Robinson song. ![]() It begins, charmingly, with chimes but soon turns rather dark – in a good way. That and the fact that it sounds so compelling. I’m relying on an online translation of the lyrics to justify its inclusion. Over to France for La Pendule by Ina-Ich. And if I’d known that he had, well I’d have challenged the bounder to a duel. I never had the kinds of thoughts about the Time Operator Walker expresses here, mind. A woman I was convinced was called Tim, because that’s what you had to dial back when telephones had letters as well as numbers. But Scott Walker is occupied with the speaking clock – the version I remember from my childhood. We’ve had our clocks and our watches and a sundial. A clock without hands and a calendar without any days so she doesn’t have to know how long he’s been gone. In this take on the theme, Della’s not going to count any seconds or stare at any wristwatch. This is another song about a lover who has departed. We need a wake-up call and can count on Della Reese to provide (a rather unusual) one, by way of her Clock That’s Got No Hands. An old-fashioned ticking of a pendulum-driven grandfather clock, some wordless vocals and a hypnotic sound that draws the listener into a world that seems – dare I say it – timeless. The next offering, Trellisaze by Slowdive, is devoid of lyrics and as abstract and dreamlike as anything they have recorded. I said when opening the topic that songs with the sound of clocks as well as clockwise lyrics would be in the running. “In the light of a city square / Find out the face that’s fair / Keep it by your side / When the light of the city falls / You fly to the city walls / Take off with your bride.” A boy from the country, loose in the city where even the chime of the clock seems different. How could I not list his lovely At the Chime of the City Clock? It’s good to be reminded of this eternally young man’s immense talent. But the song, with its slightly ‘Floydian intro, did worm its way into my affections.Īh, Nick Drake. Mind you, this Dukes of Stratosphear song, 25 O’Clock, is here partly by popular acclaim, nominated several times, with one poster even saying they would be “amazed if the Dukes don’t make the list”. “Each watch I smash apart, just adding to my power”. ![]() She doesn’t say anything about his money either. She’ll let the time pass “until I’m with you”. And whatever the clock tells her it’s time to do, that’s OK. Like Lightnin’, she’s Counting Down the seconds and minutes. Some have drawn comparisons to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.įar, far away from this sound and fury sits Nataly Dawn. Heavy rock began as an interpretation of the electric blues, and you can still hear the influence, but there’s little of the laid-back or the melancholy here. Or the strangeness of the ordinary can be revealed. Given enough of it, according to them, the ordinary can come to seem extraordinary. Or the true blues at least.Īussie rockers Wolfmother use a Sundial as a metaphor for the passage of time. “I’ll just wait until your money comes home,” he says. No money, but he knows what time it is and how much has passed. She’s gone, and all Lightnin’ Hopkins has left is Just a Wristwatch on My Arm. ![]()
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