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“Like, I enjoy spending time here, in London, although it’s got so depressing. People seem so depressed here, compared to San Francisco. I mean, I love London, really, but if you’re alone here it can be hard. I was alone here for two months in 1992, didn’t speak to anybody. I took the Tube all the time, everywhere. I can’t even sit on the Tube now because I get really paranoid about people. You sit facing somebody and they don’t look at you and you don’t look at them, or else they are looking at you, which can be worse.” | “Like, I enjoy spending time here, in London, although it’s got so depressing. People seem so depressed here, compared to San Francisco. I mean, I love London, really, but if you’re alone here it can be hard. I was alone here for two months in 1992, didn’t speak to anybody. I took the Tube all the time, everywhere. I can’t even sit on the Tube now because I get really paranoid about people. You sit facing somebody and they don’t look at you and you don’t look at them, or else they are looking at you, which can be worse.” | ||
Even allowing for the new musical experimentation evident on ''[[Mercury]]'', no-one listening to the album for the first time will fail to be struck by the seeming incongruity of the penultimate track, "[[More Hopes And Dreams]]". Two minutes worth of barely audible electronic bleeps possessing an elusive and strange melody, it can be either maddening or soothing, depending on your mood. No matter how you react to it, it clears the palate for the similarly hushed and intimate finale, "[[Will You Find Me]]". So the risk pays off, ultimately, although what it is that’s emitting this curious musical sorbet remains a mystery. | Even allowing for the new musical experimentation evident on ''[[Mercury]]'', no-one listening to the album for the first time will fail to be struck by the seeming incongruity of the penultimate track, "[[More Hopes And Dreams]]". Two minutes worth of barely audible electronic bleeps possessing an elusive and strange melody, it can be either maddening or soothing, depending on your mood. No matter how you react to it, it clears the palate for the similarly hushed and intimate finale, "[[Will You Find Me?]]". So the risk pays off, ultimately, although what it is that’s emitting this curious musical sorbet remains a mystery. | ||
“That’s a power station in San Francisco,” says Mark, satisfying my curiosity. “I think it’s a systems check, to say that all the systems are going well. Me and Vudi were out there one night taking pictures and we listened to it and thought ‘This is it! We want this on the album’. We weren’t sure how we were going to use it, we just went and recorded it.” | “That’s a power station in San Francisco,” says Mark, satisfying my curiosity. “I think it’s a systems check, to say that all the systems are going well. Me and Vudi were out there one night taking pictures and we listened to it and thought ‘This is it! We want this on the album’. We weren’t sure how we were going to use it, we just went and recorded it.” | ||