GREAT song. i absolutely believe this is one of their most underrated songs ever. it doesn't get much credit but it's awesome
Stunned by my own reflection, it's looking back sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again. Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down.
I was explaining to my wife how much I'd LOVE to make a video to this song. I went so far as to do a line-for-line, cut-for-cut description of it.
SETTING - Nighttime, city street<open> - you see MAN driving in his BMW/MERCEDES with a determined look on his face
CUT TO outside car, pulling into parking lot of a strip club. MAN takes a sip of wine or booze, then gets out and walks into strip club, makes his way to the front, sits down and watches.
He deals ‘em off, off the top, ties ‘em off CUT TO man thumbing through a thick roll of $100 bills, camera pans up to him counting money
Fills it up with his past, gets carried away QUICK FLASH of still photo of man and traditional American Family
Half his life, a hand-me-down, wasted away FLASH between PHOTO and scenes of them arguing. Camera quickly zooms to her eyes and
He fills it up with the love of a girl ZOOM OUT from eyes to reveal a stripper, (played by the same woman). Stripper dances, cut back and forth to show the man staring at her longingly, almost to tears
He left it alone, drilled the pain with money to buy MAN reaches down, grabs a bill, and stuffs it in her garter. STRIPPER continues dancing.
How he makes his getaway
How he makes his getaway Chorus has cuts of him kissing and making love to his wife intercut with the stripper, making the two seem very similar. Cuts of WIFE go in the more lull sections of the music, and the stripper shows up during the 'dirty' lead-guitar fast fade to black
He chose a path, heavy the fall, quarter to four Repeating same scene as opening here, quickly progressing through the parking and entering the bar. Man and stripper are both wearing different clothes; signifies it being a different day, driving home that it's something he does often. Stripper is dancing for him and he goes to grab a bill, but drops it
Fills his mind with the thought of a girl At this point, he stands up, looks her dead in the eye, and kisses her wildly, passionately. She seems to enjoy it
How he makes his getaway The two of them are kissing and grinding together, clumsily making it from the bar to the parking lot
How he makes his getaway she sits on the hood and lies back, pulling her on top of him, still kissing
How he makes his getaway they get in the car, and she's all over him, kissing his neck
Getaway scene continues, with cuts from the car driving back to the steamy interior. They arrive at the man's apartment, make their way to the door, still being frisky. She pushes him up against the door, and you see him sink into her kiss.. there are very short, quick flashes of the earlier flashes of his wife every few seconds. He turns around unlocks the door, and just as the lead guitar winds down, the camera pulls back... you see him grab her by the waist and spin her around in front of him, so that he's now facing the doorway. QUICK CUT to INSIDE APARTMENT. You see the man's lone sillouhette in the doorway. He turns on the light switch, revealing little more than a black easy chair, a coffee table, and TV.. no decorations, very bland. CUT TO outside, stripper spins back around behind him and pushes him through the doorway, then follows him inside. Camera moves into where the door would be, and you see her pushing him to the easy chair, leaning down to kiss him again, then running to the door and slamming it right at the camera... camera moves to nearby window, watching through curtains.. you see her from behind pull off her top, then cut back to man's face.. look of rapture and excitement, then you see his wife smiling at him, and then slow pull back and you see him simply sitting in the chair, alone. FADE OUT with music.
It's played at about the same tempo as the "Ten" cut of "Even Flow", but making use of minor chord sequences and melodies (in Eminor, actually). The song's lyrics are more imagistic that straightforwardly narrative, but on my level of interpretation (right or wrong) it's about a very young woman who, in a small town "has little chance to make good".... It's not obvious from the lyrics, but it reads to me to be about the fact that this young woman is a single mom and needs to make an escape from her surroundings. There's a slow interlude with pounding drums, where the young woman becomes the narrator, singing a lullaby to her child, "Hush now baby, don't you cry/you're my little apple pie"...because the song is in a fairly rocky kind of mood the sense of the young woman's plight and desperation come over. Ed sings it well.
It sounds to me a little like "Mamasan" in the way it was recorded, insofar as I bet that Stone or Jeff worked out the music and Ed put the lyrics over it.
It's a real piece of PJ history which I like, because people often hear "Ten" in terms of a finished product that just hit everyone's public consciousness in complete form. Here we hear a work in progress, at that initial stage: we can hear and the way PJ work very hard to be the exceptional band they are.
Said it before, will always say it----this song IS SOOOOO frickin SEXY!!!
*bows down repeatedly to Of The Girl*
Definitely a song that gently dives into you, a song to get lost in, a song that builds and builds sooo slowly and just pulls you along. AHHH! It just eases, the whole song. And never does it loose that groove and sex appeal. This song RULES! I can't get enough of this sexy stuff!
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"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
As an OPENER..HELLA sexy!!! Talk about almost fainting in SA when they played that. SHIT!! :eek: The bass drum and Stone's acoustic simply does build up and makes it THAT sexy!!
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~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
BUMP b/c a year ago on Monday (April 5th) was my FIRST PJ show EVER, after waiting 12 years to see this band live I FINALLY got a taste for what everyone else was talking about. The 3rd show on their U.S. leg and they opened up w/OF THE GIRL!! :eek:
I could NOT believe my ears when I heard the first few notes of that song. I was like "NO WAY, they are playing this song" it made this song even MORE special b/c it was a Stoney song at that!!
This song kicks SO much ASS!! Now I have to listen to my boot in a bit!:)
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~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
<----listening to OF THE GIRL from SA...my first show!!
Awww, listening to the beginning of this boot brings SO many EXCELLENT memories. 1 yr. ago, TONIGHT was the show!! Too cool!! To get this song as an opener really made me HAPPY!
Excellent Stone song, and this man can write about anything and make it so catchy. You just can't get away from those drums at the beginning of the song and Mike's guitar solo...truly a masterpiece!
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~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
They opened with this in Sendai my first ever show -- after waiting so long ,it was brilliant ,I didnt realise ---- it was seeing it live that made it so very special, I found the same with Bushleager to see it live was so very different but then all their songs are made for the live show ,I cant wait for them to come back again
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You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311
JEFF ROX MY SOX!
"Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~
"Chill out Kaddikat"
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SETTING - Nighttime, city street<open> - you see MAN driving in his BMW/MERCEDES with a determined look on his face
CUT TO outside car, pulling into parking lot of a strip club. MAN takes a sip of wine or booze, then gets out and walks into strip club, makes his way to the front, sits down and watches.
He deals ‘em off, off the top, ties ‘em off
CUT TO man thumbing through a thick roll of $100 bills, camera pans up to him counting money
Fills it up with his past, gets carried away
QUICK FLASH of still photo of man and traditional American Family
Half his life, a hand-me-down, wasted away
FLASH between PHOTO and scenes of them arguing. Camera quickly zooms to her eyes and
He fills it up with the love of a girl
ZOOM OUT from eyes to reveal a stripper, (played by the same woman). Stripper dances, cut back and forth to show the man staring at her longingly, almost to tears
He left it alone, drilled the pain with money to buy
MAN reaches down, grabs a bill, and stuffs it in her garter. STRIPPER continues dancing.
How he makes his getaway
How he makes his getaway
Chorus has cuts of him kissing and making love to his wife intercut with the stripper, making the two seem very similar. Cuts of WIFE go in the more lull sections of the music, and the stripper shows up during the 'dirty' lead-guitar
fast fade to black
He chose a path, heavy the fall, quarter to four
Repeating same scene as opening here, quickly progressing through the parking and entering the bar. Man and stripper are both wearing different clothes; signifies it being a different day, driving home that it's something he does often. Stripper is dancing for him and he goes to grab a bill, but drops it
Fills his mind with the thought of a girl
At this point, he stands up, looks her dead in the eye, and kisses her wildly, passionately. She seems to enjoy it
How he makes his getaway
The two of them are kissing and grinding together, clumsily making it from the bar to the parking lot
How he makes his getaway
she sits on the hood and lies back, pulling her on top of him, still kissing
How he makes his getaway
they get in the car, and she's all over him, kissing his neck
Getaway
scene continues, with cuts from the car driving back to the steamy interior. They arrive at the man's apartment, make their way to the door, still being frisky. She pushes him up against the door, and you see him sink into her kiss.. there are very short, quick flashes of the earlier flashes of his wife every few seconds. He turns around unlocks the door, and just as the lead guitar winds down, the camera pulls back... you see him grab her by the waist and spin her around in front of him, so that he's now facing the doorway. QUICK CUT to INSIDE APARTMENT. You see the man's lone sillouhette in the doorway. He turns on the light switch, revealing little more than a black easy chair, a coffee table, and TV.. no decorations, very bland. CUT TO outside, stripper spins back around behind him and pushes him through the doorway, then follows him inside. Camera moves into where the door would be, and you see her pushing him to the easy chair, leaning down to kiss him again, then running to the door and slamming it right at the camera... camera moves to nearby window, watching through curtains.. you see her from behind pull off her top, then cut back to man's face.. look of rapture and excitement, then you see his wife smiling at him, and then slow pull back and you see him simply sitting in the chair, alone. FADE OUT with music.
Too bad they don't do videos. :(
You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311
JEFF ROX MY SOX!
"Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~
"Chill out Kaddikat"
This is how I saw it one day: Insignificance at the Porch of Mankind
http://www.blogovanje.com/Storms_Of_Small_Ocean/komentari.php?id=17
This is how I saw it one day: Insignificance at the Porch of Mankind
http://www.blogovanje.com/Storms_Of_Small_Ocean/komentari.php?id=17
It sounds to me a little like "Mamasan" in the way it was recorded, insofar as I bet that Stone or Jeff worked out the music and Ed put the lyrics over it.
It's a real piece of PJ history which I like, because people often hear "Ten" in terms of a finished product that just hit everyone's public consciousness in complete form. Here we hear a work in progress, at that initial stage: we can hear and the way PJ work very hard to be the exceptional band they are.
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
Said it before, will always say it----this song IS SOOOOO frickin SEXY!!!
*bows down repeatedly to Of The Girl*
Definitely a song that gently dives into you, a song to get lost in, a song that builds and builds sooo slowly and just pulls you along. AHHH! It just eases, the whole song. And never does it loose that groove and sex appeal. This song RULES! I can't get enough of this sexy stuff!
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
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As an OPENER..HELLA sexy!!! Talk about almost fainting in SA when they played that. SHIT!! :eek: The bass drum and Stone's acoustic simply does build up and makes it THAT sexy!!
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
reminds me of my first PJ show last year...ooo, gives me chills thinking about it!!
Stone's guitar work at the beginning of that song, whoa!!!!!
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
I could NOT believe my ears when I heard the first few notes of that song. I was like "NO WAY, they are playing this song" it made this song even MORE special b/c it was a Stoney song at that!!
This song kicks SO much ASS!! Now I have to listen to my boot in a bit!:)
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
Awww, listening to the beginning of this boot brings SO many EXCELLENT memories. 1 yr. ago, TONIGHT was the show!! Too cool!! To get this song as an opener really made me HAPPY!
Excellent Stone song, and this man can write about anything and make it so catchy. You just can't get away from those drums at the beginning of the song and Mike's guitar solo...truly a masterpiece!
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
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Damn, how can one song feel sooooooooo good!!! Fuckin OF THE GIRL. It's orgasmic....bottom line.
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
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Whew! This song feels hella damn good. I just can't get over it.
~~~~> THANK YOU PEARL JAM
~~~~> THANK YOU STONEY
Leave it to the duckman to deliver the groove.
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
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OMG LYDIA!!
but I TOTALLY understand you girl. DAMN that song...DAMN that STONEY!!
Any verison is good, well, from the 2003 boots of course;) I swear, Stoney boy can do NO wrong!! You go DUCKMAN!!
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
Of The Girl
Thin Air
Rival
Fatal
should have been on the one album together.
Stone rocks.
The story and everything... wow.... amazement...
As someone else said, it's definitely one of the songs which benefited from the Binaural production.
I still can't believe that Eddie didn't write this song, along with all of the other Stone songs on Binaural.
ITS JUST TOO DAMN BRILLIANT!!!
Oh, and about the filmclip, wouldn't he be pov? "Half his life, a hand-me-down"
VEDHEAD27 and of_the_girl
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
*sniffle sniffle*
beautiful! just beautiful.
thanks nadi
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