Jason And The Argonauts
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Album version, 6'03.
Recoreded at Manor Studios, Oxfordshire, in October 1981.
Produced and engineered by Hugh Padgham.
Released on English
Settlement.
andy - lead and backing vocals, semi-acoustic electric guitar, pro prophetV,
mini-korg.
colin-fender bass, backing vocals.
dave-electric 12-string guitar
terry-drums and percussion.
Andy: “Slightly out of chronological wack again, but we'll wave goodbye to early '82 with this wide screen, ocean going epic. If I think about all the songs I've written with a ships/sea/seaside connection, they really mount up. Perhaps I should have just followed my dad into the navy and stopped dreaming about it. All through our early career we were compared to the Talking Heads. I never saw the connection myself, but lazy journalists heard both bands' hiccuping vocalists and that was that. Trouble was, they were American art students from New York and were anointed ‘cool’. We were English council estate wasters from Swindon and anointed ‘naff’. The reason I bring them up is ‘Jason’ is the only song of ours that has anything in that might remotely sound like the Heads. It's the bit that goes, ‘And the more I travel, from the foam to the gravel, as the nets unravel...’ But that's it, and it's purely coincidental. Where's your lazy journalism now, when you need it?
“ps. Dear Mum, the long passage in the middle is not meant to be a guitar ‘solo’, but more of a hypnotic suggestion as to the expanse of the sea. You know, repetition, slight variation, big, broad, blue. It was even longer in the studio but we edited it down by a few nautical miles.”
BBC version, 5'42.
Recorded 14 January 1982 at BBC Studios.
Produced by John Sparrow. Engineered by Mike Robinson.
First broadcast 25 January 1982 on the David Jensen Show.
Released on 5 October 1994 on Drums and
Wireless in the U.K.
Also available on Transistor
Blast.
Andy Partridge - vocals and guitars
Colin Moulding - vocals and bass guitar
Dave Gregory - keyboards, guitars and vocals
Terry Chambers - drums
Andy: “You were supposed to get lost in the hypnosis of the middle section, in the mechanical repetitiveness of it. In this particular take though, we reined it in and didn't get lost.”
[Thanks to R. Stevie Moore]
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j a s o n a n d t h e a r g o n a u t s T TTTTT here may be no golden fleece but human riches I'll release T oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with T beasts I've seen, let me put my bag down and I'll tell you T it all right from the start. like the scarlet woman who T would pick on the boys she thought were green, and the two faced man who made a hobby of breaking his wife's heart. seems the more I travel, from the foam to gravel, as the nets unravel, all exotic fish I find like jason and the argonauts there may be no golden fleece but human riches I'll release. I was in a land where men force women to hide their facial features, and here in the west it's just the same but they're using make-up veils. I've seen acts of every shade of terrible crime from man-like creatures, and I've had the breath of liars blowing me off course in my sails. seems the more I travel, from the foam to gravel, as the nets unravel, all exotic fish I find like jason and the argonauts there may be no golden fleece but human riches I'll release. I have watched the manimals go buy--- buying shoes, buying sweets, buying knives. I have watched the manimals and cried buying time, buying ends to other peoples lives. jason and the argonauts there may be no golden fleece but human riches I'll release. andy - lead and backing vocals, semi-acoustic electric guitar, prophetV,mini-korg. colin-fender bass,backing vocals. dave-electric 12-string guitar terry-drums and percussion.composed by a.partridge |
© 1982 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
[Thanks to Gary Jedlicka]
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:57:06 -0400
From: Kevin <KB305 (at) aol dot com>
Subject: one more time
Message-ID: <960723175703_244054811 (at) emout16 dot mail dot aol dot com>
j a s o n a n d t h e a r g o n a u t s
(the basic riff for this song is G A B C# D C# B A,
in a wash of G Lydian mode-- there aren't really chords for that--)
There may be no golden fleece
C#5(no 3rd)(x466xx) C# b5(no 3rd)(x456xx)
but human riches I'll release
F#m
oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with
D D/C# D/B D/C#
beasts I've seen,
F#m D D/C# C
let me put my bag down and I'll tell you it all right from the start.
like the scarlet woman who would pick on the boys she thought were green,
and the two faced man who made a hobby of breaking his wife's heart.
B7sus4 Bb7sus4 A7sus4
seems the more I travel, from the foam to gravel, as the nets unravel,
all exotic fish I find like jason and the argonauts
there may be no golden fleece but human riches I'll release.
I was in a land where men force women to hide their facial features,
and here in the west it's just the same but they're using make-up veils.
I've seen acts of every shade of terrible crime from man-like creatures,
and I've had the breath of liars blowing me off course in my sails.
seems the more I travel, from the foam to gravel, as the nets unravel,
all exotic fish I find like jason and the argonauts
there maybe no golden fleece
C#5 (no 3rd) C# b5 (no 3rd)
but human riches I'll release
C G
I have watched the manimals go buy---
Bm C D
buying shoes, buying sweets, buying knives.
D/C C D/C G
I have watched the manimals and cried
Bm C G/A
buying time, buying ends to other peoples lives.
jason and the argonauts there may be no golden fleece
but human riches I'll release.
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