crafty hols post
2008-08-19 by Kevvy K
Patti Smith – Piss Factory
Sorry folks for prolonged radio silence on my part. Between running around like a blue-arsed fly at the climate camp for more than a week and then almost immediately running off on much needed hols, I haven’t had the time to devote to the old blogarooney.
But before I did bust a move from the not so green and pleasant land, I did have the presence of mind to upload 3 songs that I have had on fairly heavy rotation of late, with the intention of blogging them proper from a crafty Iberic cyber-caff, which is I am now. The problem is with this first track, is that I hadn’t taken into account just how incongrous the song is with my current mood and surroundings.
The song – everyone’s favourite proto-punk poetess gets all free-associative and consciousness-streamy on the degrading futility of Mc-Wage Labour in the rather unpleasnt sounding Piss Factory, over very jazzy, driving piano shenanigans that somehow give me great plasure.
And me – ensconced in bourgie pleasure in a flat overlooking the beach, swimming twice a day, taking in obscene amounts of sun, reading trashy paper backs, drinking icey beers all day and being fed by two octogenarian Spanish matriarchs who manage to effortlessly dispell by attempts to induce more equitable gender roles in the kitchen.
They don’t quite go together… I can’t actually listyen to it anyway, so I hope it might have more immediate resonance or meaning to some of you out there. My hols are only for the two weeks so will be seeing you all back on the Piss Factory floor soon enough.
According to wikipedia, this was the b-side to the first single released by the Patti Smith Group and “describes the helpless anger Smith had felt while working on a factory assembly line and the salvation she discovered in the form of a shoplifted book, the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations.”
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What a tune! It's blown the cobwebs away this morning, that's for sure.
Thanks a lot man. Hope you're having fun in the sun ..
Wow. That is very, very cool…