Can't pick a favorite in Heaven. It's all even. Great stuff. I haven't even tried to play this music. My jaw is still on the Floor. How did I miss this music?
I used to work in the industry and shared a hotel room for a week once with a back-line tech while covering Elkie Brooks tour rehearsals (he also did drum tech for Right Said Fred). He had just bought the Sing to God album and played it constantly. When I got home, I bought, and still have, the limited edition CD version. Awesome!
*This* may not work as a link, but is the best vid remix I've ever seen of this... YT doesn't like things that go against the agenda? Anyone remember 'punk' before it got captured? th-cam.com/video/yZJFQAPQIEQ/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this. My musical training is basic. My listening experience is vast. I knew there was something special about "Dog Like Sparky" but couldn't express why beyond just asking people to experience it. I am only months into discovering Cardiacs. So late to the game. I will catch up. Subscribed. Be well. JT
Love sing to God, was even gifted my original double CD version thru Shane of Napalm death, as a friend was doing vocals on a side project of his and he knew that there was a large group of us in my home town of Walsall obsessed with them so gave him about t15 copies to hand around. That being said on land and in the sea is my absolute favourite always loved the big band days
I used to work in the industry and shared a hotel room for a week once with a back-line tech while covering Elkie Brooks tour rehearsals (he also did drum tech for Right Said Fred). He had just bought the Sing to God album and played it constantly. When I got home, I bought, and still have, the limited edition CD version. Awesome!
Is it me or are these all straight chords? I had the very great pleasure of standing in front of Tim at several gigs and watching him play, sometimes so close I could have touched the strings, and I don't recall one non-rock type chord. No 7ths, no extensions, nothing. Thats not to say he wasn't play and extension to the other guitar, bass or keys. I only have a diploma level music education, wish I could get as into it as you! Great video, please do more! :o)
Thank you for watching! Thank you also for the anecdote about Tim’s funeral - wow. Chord wise, I think Tim Smith focussed on simply major or minor chords - there’s very few added chords which you might find in jazz for example. I think the interest lies in the chord progressions- particularly in the unexpectedly resolutions into unrelated keys, many of which could happen in a short space of time!
Liked hearing your interpretation of lyrics in particular. I'm still fresh at getting into Cardiacs but the lyrics always stand out of particulalrly fascinating, really love some of the of little snipets that stood out to me like "put you hand on a holy bible and scream WANK!" and also just Fairy Mary Mag in general sounds like a dog's attack on religion. But then there's also the whole god/dog thing "If I was a bad dog you'd all be dead" makes as much sense if god and dog are interchangable. Fairy Mary is such a beautiful piece of music, the intro and melodies are just absolutely heavenly. It may be called "Sing to God", but it sounds like the opposite, like God singing to us. I know I've only just scratched the surface in terms of "getting" it, took a while for the hooks to get through to me. It gets better every time I hear it though.
One thing that I find awesome about Dog Like Sparky is that if you consider the parts that you called as C and D just one, the structure goes like AB ABCB ABCDCB A and finally B until your head starts spinning And then, all these individual parts works as well going forward or backward within the structure! I mean, I've never saw this type of symmetrical/reflective structure, that goes appending new ideas and then going full backwards, and I wish there was more music like that out there
Thank you SO much for this. What a gift. Regarding Manhoo, I've always had my own theory... You mention that it sounds sort of Britpop. Well... Oasis have always tried to emulate the Beatles, and Blur once did a song called Beetlebum which I always thought was a sort of a piss-take of Oasis, with whom Blur supposedly were supposedly at war. And Blur were influenced by, and once supported by, Cardiacs. So... More than a Britpop song, this sounds to me like a Beatles song, but more than that, it sounds like Tim Smith's idea of what a Beatles song might sound like if they were still around (as opposed to Oasis's songs, which sound more like a tribute act). My musical and listening skills are nothing like as advanced as yours, but I am almost certain that I hear direct musical "quotes" of Beatles snippets in there. In particular from I Am The Walrus. A later Beatles song Glass Onion, riffing on then-popular theories about what I Am The Walrus actually meant, includes the line "the walrus was Paul". Now here's an idea... what if the walrus was actually JON POOLE! My head hurts! (If you were ever to do another video on links between Manhoo and the Beatles, I would eat that up like a sparky little dog on wheels! NB Manhoo was for many years my favourite Cardiacs song, but not so much because it's mainstream as, prior to that, my favourite was The Duck and Roger the Horse, which is... not mainstream!)
Great comment - cheers! I love The Duck and Roger the Horse too - mad song! Apparently Tim Smith was a huge fan of the White Album - Cardiacs were definitely an extension of the experimental, psychedelic side of the Beatles.
Can't pick a favorite in Heaven. It's all even. Great stuff. I haven't even tried to play this music. My jaw is still on the Floor. How did I miss this music?
I love this. Very knowledgeable, very digestible content- all helps me understand and love the album even more.
Bravo! It’s a joy to hear a knowledgeable musician explain the inner workings of these brilliant songs. ❤
Thanks for commenting
Thank you so much for this video. I would have loved it if you would have gone way more in depth, but then we would have a 100 hour video course
I used to work in the industry and shared a hotel room for a week once with a back-line tech while covering Elkie Brooks tour rehearsals (he also did drum tech for Right Said Fred). He had just bought the Sing to God album and played it constantly. When I got home, I bought, and still have, the limited edition CD version. Awesome!
*This* may not work as a link, but is the best vid remix I've ever seen of this...
YT doesn't like things that go against the agenda?
Anyone remember 'punk' before it got captured?
th-cam.com/video/yZJFQAPQIEQ/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant video! Had not seen this before!
Thank you for this.
My musical training is basic.
My listening experience is vast.
I knew there was something special about "Dog Like Sparky" but couldn't express why beyond just asking people to experience it.
I am only months into discovering Cardiacs. So late to the game. I will catch up.
Subscribed.
Be well.
JT
Wow
Love sing to God, was even gifted my original double CD version thru Shane of Napalm death, as a friend was doing vocals on a side project of his and he knew that there was a large group of us in my home town of Walsall obsessed with them so gave him about t15 copies to hand around. That being said on land and in the sea is my absolute favourite always loved the big band days
I used to work in the industry and shared a hotel room for a week once with a back-line tech while covering Elkie Brooks tour rehearsals (he also did drum tech for Right Said Fred). He had just bought the Sing to God album and played it constantly. When I got home, I bought, and still have, the limited edition CD version. Awesome!
such a genius album
It really is incredible isn’t it?
Amazing work. You're great!Thanks
Great video and analysis! I'm a relatively new Cardiacs fan but Sing to God is quickly becoming one of my favorite albums by anyone
Yes it’s amazing- an album to get lost into.
Very nice analysis. Cardiacs can be extraordinarily hard to sing, but I think you did a decent job (Sitting down, too!)
Thanks for commenting
Very good analysis, been waiting for a video like this. Deserves more views!!
Thanks for watching!
Enjoying every minute of this. Subscribed. You're amazing. Thank you for this gift!
Thanks for the great feedback!
great video, after part 2, could you make one on on land and in the sea? it's my personal favourite.
I’ll add it to the list! Thanks for watching!
@@vincentsheehan3193 very welcome!
Part 2 of Sing To God up now
Beautiful video
Thank you
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Is it me or are these all straight chords? I had the very great pleasure of standing in front of Tim at several gigs and watching him play, sometimes so close I could have touched the strings, and I don't recall one non-rock type chord. No 7ths, no extensions, nothing. Thats not to say he wasn't play and extension to the other guitar, bass or keys. I only have a diploma level music education, wish I could get as into it as you!
Great video, please do more! :o)
Thank you for watching! Thank you also for the anecdote about Tim’s funeral - wow. Chord wise, I think Tim Smith focussed on simply major or minor chords - there’s very few added chords which you might find in jazz for example. I think the interest lies in the chord progressions- particularly in the unexpectedly resolutions into unrelated keys, many of which could happen in a short space of time!
Liked hearing your interpretation of lyrics in particular. I'm still fresh at getting into Cardiacs but the lyrics always stand out of particulalrly fascinating, really love some of the of little snipets that stood out to me like "put you hand on a holy bible and scream WANK!" and also just Fairy Mary Mag in general sounds like a dog's attack on religion. But then there's also the whole god/dog thing "If I was a bad dog you'd all be dead" makes as much sense if god and dog are interchangable. Fairy Mary is such a beautiful piece of music, the intro and melodies are just absolutely heavenly. It may be called "Sing to God", but it sounds like the opposite, like God singing to us.
I know I've only just scratched the surface in terms of "getting" it, took a while for the hooks to get through to me. It gets better every time I hear it though.
One thing that I find awesome about Dog Like Sparky is that if you consider the parts that you called as C and D just one, the structure goes like
AB
ABCB
ABCDCB
A and finally B until your head starts spinning
And then, all these individual parts works as well going forward or backward within the structure! I mean, I've never saw this type of symmetrical/reflective structure, that goes appending new ideas and then going full backwards, and I wish there was more music like that out there
Such an incredible song - and there’s something very playful about the structure.
Thank you SO much for this. What a gift. Regarding Manhoo, I've always had my own theory...
You mention that it sounds sort of Britpop. Well... Oasis have always tried to emulate the Beatles, and Blur once did a song called Beetlebum which I always thought was a sort of a piss-take of Oasis, with whom Blur supposedly were supposedly at war. And Blur were influenced by, and once supported by, Cardiacs. So...
More than a Britpop song, this sounds to me like a Beatles song, but more than that, it sounds like Tim Smith's idea of what a Beatles song might sound like if they were still around (as opposed to Oasis's songs, which sound more like a tribute act).
My musical and listening skills are nothing like as advanced as yours, but I am almost certain that I hear direct musical "quotes" of Beatles snippets in there. In particular from I Am The Walrus.
A later Beatles song Glass Onion, riffing on then-popular theories about what I Am The Walrus actually meant, includes the line "the walrus was Paul". Now here's an idea... what if the walrus was actually JON POOLE!
My head hurts!
(If you were ever to do another video on links between Manhoo and the Beatles, I would eat that up like a sparky little dog on wheels! NB Manhoo was for many years my favourite Cardiacs song, but not so much because it's mainstream as, prior to that, my favourite was The Duck and Roger the Horse, which is... not mainstream!)
Great comment - cheers! I love The Duck and Roger the Horse too - mad song! Apparently Tim Smith was a huge fan of the White Album - Cardiacs were definitely an extension of the experimental, psychedelic side of the Beatles.
For this you get a subscription from me! Cheers
Thanks for watching