The lyrics reflect the push and pull of being very connected through technology while at the same time being the most emotionally isolated group of humans to ever walk the planet and fun stuff like that. Quicksand Lyrics Verse 1 I'm closer to the Golden Dawn Immersed in Crowley's uniform Of imagery I'm living in a silent film Portraying Himmler's sacred realm Of dream reality I'm frightened by. "To get something going vocally I started singing in an English Niel Nausea kind of vibe (Nausea are a peace/squatter punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan). "The music to ‘Inversion’ was very squatter punk at first," frontman Walter Schreifels says. This new song does the same thing it feels like classic Quicksand but it also feels new and exciting.
Those releases were the reunited band's first new music since the '90s, and they found Quicksand in fine form, picking up where their classic records left off but pushing forward as well. but deeply in myself, I was euphoric.”įollow Far Out Magazine across our social channels, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Quicksand had been teasing something for Tuesday, April 13, and now that day has come and they've released a new song! It's called "Inversion," and it's their first new music since their 2017 album Interiors ( which we just started selling on orange vinyl) and their 2018 EP Triptych Continuum. I left a message on his answering machine: “I’ll call you back, I’m not sure”. As my phone number is not listed, nobody knows it, I thought it was a joke from a friend. He left a message on my answering machine. “I was really moved to play with him for his 50th birthday in New York. Thus, Bowie might have been a formative influence for Smith but he also picked him back up later down the line. “But when I heard Earthling in 1997, I went back to Bowie,” Smith explains. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?” As Bob Dylan, the man who pretty much started the engine said, “The highest purpose of art is to inspire. San Song wanted to move, but he felt as though he was trapped in a pool of quicksand. In the end, to challenge our fans is to love them, even if it means losing them.” You could say the same for Bowie and Smith too-whether they’ve dropped you off or are carrying you to terminus, they’ll have made their mark along the way and that is pretty much the pinnacle of art. I can only say that I am truly grateful to have been a part of their journey, and that they have been part of ours. It was a feat of his ability that his evolution moved things along.Īs the equally ever-evolving Nick Cave would put it: “With each new record, almost inevitably some fans will move on. The punk movement began in 1975-76 and that’s what attracted me.” In a strange way, that proved that Bowie’s job was done. It was covered by Rainbow Arabia, Max Lorentz, End of Fashion. It was weird, like questioning your own parents. The song Quicksand was written by David Bowie and was first released by David Bowie in 1971. Comment below with facts and trivia about the song and we may include it in our song facts Comments. The song was performed by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
In this regard, Bowie made the world more bohemian and soon kids were able to come up with their own corroborations on his singular design. “And then, I bought Heroes and I criticised it because I began to have my own opinion. Quicksand was the 97 song in 1964 in the R&B charts. The best way to fully understand all of this is to illuminate some of the lines. The implications of what he's read and what he's thinking are too much, too heavy, and he's not sure he can escape before drowning. When David Bowie appeared on Top of the Pops a generation of youths wondered: Who was this creation and what kind of monster bore it? Smith was one of the fellows scratching his chin with wonderment. With 'Quicksand,' Bowie is sinking into the madness of spiritual epiphany and occult awakening. When you strip away the specifics, the arc of this tale is akin to another music hero who faltered in the world of mime trying to make it big before weaving a string of avant-garde, mainstream-defying influences, that captured a massive alternative audience. In this unnatural spotlight, they managed to influence the influx of alternative bands that lay ahead and like Van Helsing on holiday, they managed to grab a legion of followers in this foreign commercial land.
And yet, like the world’s strongest baby, Robert Smith and his cohorts in The Cure defied all expectation and went from shuffling about shoegazing, crept out from a darkened corner of dark wave and captivated a fair chunk of the mainstream. A fumbling goth hit machine seems like a dichotomy as profound as an igloo in the desert.
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