07-12-2004, 10:30 AM
So I am driving home from Calgary to Drumheller, listening to my B-sides CD and Get Back Again comes on. Now I love this song, it is #3 on my top ten after only Nautical and Escape, but something about it just hit me right then. I got the usual chills and goosebumps when Paul sings the backing vocals and you can hear his dylanesque voice so clearly, and when the lines "If I'd never seen you, I could always dream that, I'd be better off alone" are sung, but it really got me thinking.
We (my brother and I) met the boys at the Queen E in 2002 and we actually had a chance to talk with Paul just him and us, and I'd have loved to let him know how impressive I think his voice is. I'd always hoped he might take a larger role in the singing, such as turning up his backing vocals or even duetting as he did with Gord on Get Back Again. It kills me that I never took the opportunity to let him know how much I love his vocals.
Thinking about that made me even sicker that this song was never recorded and released. This is an amazing song, and how they thought it didn't fit is beyond me. The vocals are beautiful, the guitar work is great. To me, its simple yet complex very much like Scared.
I want to know what everyone else thinks...to me this is the biggest tragedy of all for hip fans that this never saw light on an album. I know Blonde Solid and Montreal are frickin amazing too, but to me this is the one I'd pick of all the B-sides that should have made an album.
Let me know what you think, if I knew how to run those poll thingamajiggers I'd ask which B-side you guys thought should have been on an album, but until a computer person can set that up, let me know what you think in here.
Stickboy (aka Jesse)
We (my brother and I) met the boys at the Queen E in 2002 and we actually had a chance to talk with Paul just him and us, and I'd have loved to let him know how impressive I think his voice is. I'd always hoped he might take a larger role in the singing, such as turning up his backing vocals or even duetting as he did with Gord on Get Back Again. It kills me that I never took the opportunity to let him know how much I love his vocals.
Thinking about that made me even sicker that this song was never recorded and released. This is an amazing song, and how they thought it didn't fit is beyond me. The vocals are beautiful, the guitar work is great. To me, its simple yet complex very much like Scared.
I want to know what everyone else thinks...to me this is the biggest tragedy of all for hip fans that this never saw light on an album. I know Blonde Solid and Montreal are frickin amazing too, but to me this is the one I'd pick of all the B-sides that should have made an album.
Let me know what you think, if I knew how to run those poll thingamajiggers I'd ask which B-side you guys thought should have been on an album, but until a computer person can set that up, let me know what you think in here.
Stickboy (aka Jesse)
cratch:
the recorder!!!!!!