Today's special double feature Song for the Day is two songs I often associate with each other.
Most likely because I am extremely tone deaf and the combinations of deep man voice and lovely lady voice just sounds nice.
Both these songs share a similar theme. Boy and girl meet. There is a hint of love found. They go somewhere romantic. Someone gets fucked over.
How can you not love that.
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Yet another one of those songs where it just sits in my head for days. I can't help but think of falling in love with some sexy Bo...
This is what Wikipedia has to say:
ReplyDeleteLyrically, "Summer Wine" describes a man, voiced by Hazlewood, who meets a woman, Sinatra, who notices his silver spurs and invites him to have wine with her. After heavy drinking, the man awakens hungover to find his spurs and money have been stolen by the mysterious woman; the subtext of which being they experienced intercourse and as repayment she misappropriated his "silver spurs a dollar and a dime". He then declares a longing for more of her "wine". Another interpretation, often cited, is that the song is an allegorical description of drug use (possibly heroin) and that the lyric "she reassured me with an unfamiliar line" specifically refers to cocaine."
The wild rose video;
"Minogue, as Elisa Day, is admired, then murdered by Nick Cave's character. The chorus of the song suggests either that she's come to be known as the "Wild Rose" rather than as Elisa Day by people who recall her murder or that her body has never been found, and her ghost lingers at the place of the murder, but people, seeing only the roses, talk about them, when Elisa Day believes they talk to, or about, her (e.g., "They call me the Wild Rose; but my name was Elisa Day; why they call me it, I do not know; for my name was Elisa Day"). Cave's character is entranced by Elisa's beauty and hates the idea of its fading, so he kills her in order to preserve the memory of her beauty forever. He visits her home, and becomes obsessed with her. The next day, he brings her a beautiful red rose, then asks her if she'd like to see where such beauty could come from. On the final day, he takes Elisa to the river, where he gives her a farewell kiss, then kills her with a rock. A small rabbit comes to visit her body. He then places her in the river where the wild roses grow, in the pose of Millais' painting Ophelia. A large python courses over her body, symbolising her death. He puts a rose in her mouth, and closes her eyes. The video was shot by director Rocky Schenck."