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Kicking Against the Pricks, 1986
Written by Roger Greenaway & Roger Cook, 1966
It's Contraction Week!
This being a covers album, I was hoping this might be some sort of adaptation of Dylan's "Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart," but no. This was originally written by a professional songwriting team and recorded by a British pop duo called David and Jonathan in 1966, then another musician I don't know, Gene Pitney in 1967. So, a pop aria, turned into dark cabaret vamping. But not very dark; this isn't the dour Cave of Let Love In. Yes, the atmosphere is somewhat haunted carnival (he says "You smile and I am lost for a lifetime," but somehow he doesn't seem super happy about it), but Cave treats the material gingerly. The piano lines are beautiful.
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