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Re: The Fall: Are You Are Missing Winner ¨C album reissue review
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThat¡¯s tended to be the assumption, although I don¡¯t know that MES was ever forthcoming on the issue. ? The ¡°You Must Get Them All¡± blog carries a quote provided by Ben Pritchard: ? ¡°There was an article at the time about the national lottery, someone had won and didn¡¯t come forward to claim the prize. It¡¯s as simple as that. Mark took his inspiration for lyrics and titles from anywhere he could find. Are you ¡®our¡¯ missing winner, he just spelt it wrong.¡± ? ? It¡¯s on my list of things to find: if it¡¯s out there I will track it down eventually. ? It was always known, of course, that MES inserted ¡°found¡± material into his lyrics.? What perhaps wasn¡¯t anticipated is quite how important a part of his writing process the use of such sources would actually turn out to be. ? ? Those of us who contribute to have uncovered a huge number of examples over recent years (as well as more speculative things).?? ? There¡¯s also a list of borrowings here, which I think I probably need to update with some recent discoveries: ? In fact, that goes as far as record artwork ¨C Tina Prior¡¯s cover for Dragnet, for example, borrows from the opening titles sequence of the Roger Corman-directed ¡°The Haunted Palace¡±, which was on TV at about the right time (() ¨C and of course another Corman film, ¡°Premature Burial¡± (also shown on TV at about the right time, and starring Ray Milland) was the source of the ¡°those flowers, take them away¡± lines in ¡°Spectre vs Rector¡±. ? Florence out of Dry Cleaning is a good current example of someone who uses a not completely dissimilar approach to writing lyrics, but it doesn¡¯t seem that there are many who have. ??It¡¯s not easy to do well, it seems. ? Dan ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? From: tom wootton
Sent: 21 July 2021 18:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FallNet] The Fall: Are You Are Missing Winner ¨C album reissue review ? wasn¡¯t this something he saw in a newsagent¡¯s? (if my v dim memory recalls correctly).? On 21 Jul 2021, at 17:58, David Bivins <dabivins@...> wrote:
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