Ed Gives Backstory to Backspacer Songs - New Article

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edited September 2009 in The Porch
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  • Tits.

    nice find
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  • thanks :)
    now if saturday at midnite would only get here!!!!
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  • TaftTaft Posts: 454
    Great read, thanks. Love the backstory to Unthought Known.
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    awesome article. thanks for posting.
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  • eldarion75eldarion75 Posts: 2,488
    oh, so Ed can talk about the songs but we can't?? :lol:
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    lol about ed talking about the songs but we cant. :lol:


    thanks for the link, good read.
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  • BeerBaronBeerBaron Toronto-ish Posts: 4,097
    Damn ... don't find great PJ-related articles in the Toronto newspapers too often :)
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  • eldarion75 wrote:
    oh, so Ed can talk about the songs but we can't?? :lol:

    :lol::lol:
  • Dr. DelightDr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    We now know that Distant Planet became Force of Nature.

    Great insight to The End as well.
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  • OkOk Posts: 2,144
    great find. thanks for sharing!
  • Great Read! Thanks for sharing!! :D
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    a-ha!
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  • great read but this isn't helping my pain of wanting to get my ears wrapped around backspacer. come on mailman!
  • Great article
  • nice find!

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  • boy does this make me really antsy to hear this record

    new PJ, YEAH!!! can't wait.
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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,297
    No, Eddie, No! Why did you do it?! It was so much fun to try to figure out the lyrics on the first listen, and then over time change my perception. :)

    I guess I'll need to forget what I read about the first couple songs, and then read the entire article after I've listened to the album a bit, and tried to figure it out a bit. It would be cool to see how close I am.
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  • very cool indeed.

    loved this quote, seeing how I am in the same place as him, wife and 2 kids:

    “There's never a dull moment on the road – every day it's something. Maybe that's why my goal is the dull moment. That's what this song is: It's saying, ‘Just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence – now that the kids are in bed.'

    and this on my favorite track, Unthought known:

    I got back late to my hotel in New York, and I pushed it that extra hour. I pushed the limits of how much you can drink and smoke, and this song came out of it. I think the thought of the song is that there are things that you know, and they're in us, but we just haven't thought of them. But they're there, and we base decisions on them.”
  • bump needed, still seeing to many is EV dying threads.
  • Tits.

    nice find



    that "new" expression for syaing something is great/cool....will never cease to amuse me. :P


    that said, great read!
    others have been culling info from it elsewhere on the board, first time i saw it in it's entirety. i really like his description/reasons for the fixer, so true.....just wish i liked the song more. and funny, i love, love, love elvis costello.....and yet, johnny guitar is one of my lest fave tunes on backspacer, i hear no costello in it, at all. odd how that all is. however, great to hear some thoughts direct from ed, love just breathe and his comments about it fit perfectly, yeeeaaaaa.....and unthought known, very cool! and hell, hanging out having late night drinks with ed, catherine keener.....THAT would be amazing!
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    I'd like to know what that book was that inspired Unthought Known. I did a little google search, but there are a handful of references. oh well.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Thanks for posting this. It was very cool indeed.
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    stone and supersonic - Stone, you rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    great article. thanks for posting. :)
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  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    Johnny Guitar the Movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047136/
  • Hey, that's now two songs that Ed has written about ... Me.
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  • JS51111 wrote:

    that was an GREAT ed interview!

    thanks for finding that :)

    twas searching threads about johnnie geetar, and that f'n rawkin geetar rift 1min into the song and this thread came up and just at a time when im getting there with the music part of backspacer and ready to jump into the lyrics, this weekend....soooo amazing timing for a song by song review by the man who writes alotta those words!!

    oh yeah...that johnny guitar song is just sooo f'n kewl omg
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