Juliette, Remember me, All the days of your life…
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The last one I posted on these pages was Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines who reckoned that Ashes To Ashes was the song that was the single biggest influence on him. (03.16.2006 NEWS: BOWIE BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON SECRET MACHINES)
This week actress and singer Juliette Lewis confesses that A New Career In A New Town is the song that changed her life. You can read what she has to say about this sublime instrumental track from 1977’s Low album in the piece above.
But, for those that can’t quite make out her comments, here’s an excerpt:
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“There’s this mystery and joyfulness to it, but it’s also kind of perverse. All of the second side of this album [Low] is instrumental, and this is the last song of side A, a sort of omen of what’s to come.
Brian Eno’s production is awesome
(Blammo note: Sorry TV, she said it, not me) – the drums sound really electronic, and there’s all these eerie synthesizer sounds. There’s something really happy about it, which is weird, because Bowie was in Berlin and going through quite a dark time at that point.”
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Actually, Bowie was at Le Château d’Hérouville, just north of Paris in France, but we know where you’re coming from, Juliette.
While I personally don’t find A New Career In A New Town happy as such, (I actually think it’s beautifully melancholic) it is without doubt a hugely uplifting track that still sounds like it belongs way off in the future somewhere. Not bad for a track, or indeed, album, that was recorded thirty years ago.