One of the most influential and awesome dance tracks of '04..and still bears playing today. Rumored to have been written during a flight from Amsterdam to the US, the title certainly supports the idea.
Rolling bassline, tight and hard kick and an amazing array of drumwork compliment a very simple and yet gracefully full-on melody (Tiesto's signature in my opinion). As with most of Tiesto's production work, an excellent track and well put together, displaying an awesome talent for a wonderful genre...Trance.
Possibly The Smiths' most famous moment, contains the wonderful lyric 'and you go and stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry and you want to die'. Excellent and unusual guitar work from Johnny Marr, stands out amongst The Smiths catalogue.
from Meat is Murder available on CD - Hatful of Hollow
25 Sep 06 ·leonthedog: I can't believe it took so long for someone to post this song! (So why didn't I, right?) Is it too trite to call this an anthem? Anyone self-(dis)respecting teen who heard it in the mid 80's played it over and over and over. Yet you can grow older and not be embarrassed to have cherished it.
The first 1 minute and 23 seconds of this are beautifully adapted from the main theme of Morricone's "Once upon a time in America" ("Deborah's theme"). Well, the first line of the vocal melody of this is actually directly lifted from Morricone's first line, but we won't over-emphasise the point. (I just hope Ennio got his royalties!). The vocal performance of Shane McGowan of the Pogues is something one can either see some merit in or not, but it has a certain musical expressiveness.
The same "Deborah's theme" is used again repeatedly in the second half of the track, particularly the instrumental fade, but nowhere with the effectiveness of the first 1:23.