tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post4541358074744849647..comments2024-03-28T07:12:20.028-04:00Comments on Fragments of a Cale Season: The Man Who Couldn't Afford to OrgyInverarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838650110847975337noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2367859846495854541.post-58625717110378914022008-01-22T00:13:00.000-05:002008-01-22T00:13:00.000-05:00I'm very grateful to have found your site, and loo...I'm very grateful to have found your site, and look forward to rooting around. But I must take issue with a couple of things in this post. It is <I>not</I> just a novelty number. Lyrically, it's very much in the same vein as "The Gift" from <I>White Light White Heat</I>. Both songs are about the dissonance between the sensible approach to finding love, versus the desire for romantic abandon, roughly after the classic "superego vs. id" motif. The sensible side is saying "can't afford to party" where the girl is calling him on, saying "take a chance cowboy," if you will. <BR/><BR/>In both songs, the comic aspect is a way of analyzing the errant ways in which we explore our longing for intimacy. The music serves as either anesthetic for the biopsy or a drink for the party, take your pick. I find the dissonance between the "oldies" piano triplets and Phil Manzanera's ripping guitar solo to amplify the underlying conflict motif. <BR/><BR/>As to "why was this the single?" I'm thinking that they saw this as the most "Bowie-esqe" of the set; think of whimsical songs like "Kooks" or the "said she had to squeeze it" line in "Suffragette City." Bowie was selling records by the stack in those days, and don't discount the nostalgic feel of the music that ran through a lot of the glam-related scene.<BR/><BR/>Finally, however, let me sound a note of agreement. Judy Nylon sounds like the siren call I will hear right before my unanticipated but ironical death. It wouldn't be the worst way to go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com