Friday, December 04, 2009

Music for strange doings in the woods

Every Clinic song is a mini-soundtrack of a witch's sabbath or some occult happening or druids dancing at Stonehenge or ancient man dancing all together or maybe an awesome Indian dance around the campfire. (This is probably because every Clinic song sounds the same and every album sounds the same. It's true! There's a song on Visitations that is exactly the same as a song on Walking With Thee just with different lyrics!) Anyway, as I listen to these songs, I just have these awesomely choreographed moves popping in my head. What we really need is someone who does all those R+B videos to make a video for the Clinic, with people dancing around a campfire, dressed in druidic robes, doing all sorts of awesome circular dancing and scythe waving. Below is a smattering of Clinic tracks and you tell me if this isn't just a modern version of the fifth movement of Symphonie Fantastique.

(I got this from Wikipedia on Berlioz's program notes for the fifth movement: "He sees himself at a witches’ sabbath, in the midst of a hideous gathering of shades, sorcerers and monsters of every kind who have come together for his funeral. Strange sounds, groans, outbursts of laughter; distant shouts which seem to be answered by more shouts. The beloved melody appears once more, but has now lost its noble and shy character; it is now no more than a vulgar dance tune, trivial and grotesque: it is she who is coming to the sabbath… Roar of delight at her arrival… She joins the diabolical orgy…" Yep, that sounds like what I'm imagining happening during every Clinic song.)

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Yeah, Berlioz was way ahead of his time.

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kyality said...

From Clinic to Better Than Ezra... you, my friend, are a musical enigma to me.