Jump Into The Fire

well, as and when Michele ever gets around to reading my blog again, i can see me getting a bit knacked for my activities today, but never mind!

i (ahem) obtained the full blown version of Harry Nilsson's magnificent Jump Into The Fire recently, and decided to load it up in the car CD shuttle. as is becomming rather usual for the CD shuttle in the car, however, it decided to refuse to accept that any discs were loaded and would not play anything.

it seems that whenever the CD shuttle decides not to do the job for which it was designed, the ipod decides to freeze up too. so all i was left with was the morning radio stations. these are, quitye frankly, a pile of crap in JHB. there's a talk radio station with an opinionated, contrite and rather proudly thick former Irish rugby player bewlideringly doing his thing, and then there's a station that plays far too much Phil Collins and has too many contrived, set up and scripted practical jokes. so i kind of pulled into the emergency lane with the hazzard lights on to successfully reset the CD shittle instead :)

Jump Into The Fire is one of the most class songs in rock history, if you are not immediatley familiar with it, when you hear the bass kick in (dum dum dumdum, dumdumb-ba-bah BAH! is the best i can do), you will recognize it from a thousand film and tv shows. sort of. the most dynamic use of it was in GoodFellas as part of the awesome soundtrack for Henry's last day as a GoodFella.

this morning was the first time i had heard the full 7+ minute version of it, and i think i have clocked something - going on the structure and sound of the thing, Mr Ian Brown and Mr John Squire had clearly heard it somewhere along the line, as in scope and structure, I Am The Resurrection from the Stone Roses all of a sudden sounds like a wayward child of the track.

sadly, Harry Nilsson is no longer with us. over the years i have never paid that much attention to him, instead opting for the likes of Warren Zevon and Springsteen. that could be changing, i think it's time to explore the catalogue of this clearly talented dude!

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!