A Mark In Time
Previous Albums => Privateering (2012) => Topic started by: Jarle on September 05, 2012, 09:15:15 PM
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Hi, all!
Listening to Follow The Ribbon, I really can't justify why Mark for instance included Blood and Water on the album and left this one out. It would make a perfect ending as the final track on CD2... I suppose Mark and I don't have exactly the sam taste after all, although I love the album :P
J
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Exactly my thoughts - apart from that I think Blood & Water is a bad tune! :lol
LE
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Exactly my thoughts - apart from that I think Blood & Water is a bad tune! :lol
LE
LOL! I actually edited that sentence out, because I had to admit to myself that I don't really like that song... It dosen't have that "part of Mark" that I want in his songs. It is just a song. Follow the Ribbon is Mark - without doubt. It really dosen't make any sence to leave it out.
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I'm just listening to Follow The Ribbon at this moment and I'm sure it would make a fabulous closing song! :P
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Any idea what's it about? Some people are wandering through the night obviously for a long time....
What kind of people? Any hints? Soldiers, refugees? Slaves?
"don't care if they like it, don't care if they don't"... these lines seem to be central - who are "they"?
Questions...
But this thread is called "Follow The Ribbon", so best place to ask this!
LE
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I'm just listening to Follow The Ribbon at this moment and I'm sure it would make a fabulous closing song! :P
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yeah, Follow The Ribbon would definitely be a great closer, much better in my opinion than After The Beanstalk, but Blood And Water is great! one of the outstanding tracks imo, with that "Les Pauly" outro.
How different are we! ;D
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I like Blood and Water, has the same chords as one of the Wag the Dog songs, the last track I think, but I don't have it handy to check.
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yeah, Follow The Ribbon would definitely be a great closer, much better in my opinion than After The Beanstalk, but Blood And Water is great! one of the outstanding tracks imo, with that "Les Pauly" outro.
How different are we! ;D
I rather think it's the ES335 here, like Baloney again or Behind with the rent
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Could be my memory failing, but wasn't BWTR a Gretsch?
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I like "Blood and water", but I agree that Follow the ribbon is an absolute beauty, definitively should've made it on the album! It's a "Piper to the end", great to end a wonderful CD!
Edit: I agree, "Follow the ribbon" is instant MK :) IMO a bit of Bob Dylan influence too...
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Could be my memory failing, but wasn't BWTR a Gretsch?
No, the ES330 (I was not so far ;))
confirmed on Mknews (see pic)
I compiled all these infos here :
http://www.mk-guitar.com/gear-on-all-songs-for-all-albums-wiki/ (http://www.mk-guitar.com/gear-on-all-songs-for-all-albums-wiki/)
about BWTR :
http://www.mk-guitar.com/gear-on-all-songs-for-all-albums-wiki/gear-on-album-kill-to-get-crimson/#Track%209%20-%20Behind%20with%20the%20rent (http://www.mk-guitar.com/gear-on-all-songs-for-all-albums-wiki/gear-on-album-kill-to-get-crimson/#Track%209%20-%20Behind%20with%20the%20rent)
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"don't care if they like it, don't care if they don't"... these lines seem to be central - who are "they"?
He's talking about the record company guys, the music journalists and the fans, of course! :lol
Seriously: He must have had that in mind when he came up with that line. Such a great song, this.
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This is a really lovely song, if Mark only ever wrote songs like this I'd be very happy. It would have been a wonderful album closer, in the vain of In The Sky, but maybe they considered it to long. Still, it makes a lovely bonus song. And I really like Blood and Water, great guitar solo.
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I've made a CD with my favourite Privateering songs, and Follow the Ribbon is the last track; the perfect closer..
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Any idea what's it about? Some people are wandering through the night obviously for a long time....
What kind of people? Any hints? Soldiers, refugees? Slaves?
"don't care if they like it, don't care if they don't"... these lines seem to be central - who are "they"?
They are critics and fans--he writes for himself. I think the song is autobiographical. He's on a tour bus and following the ribbon, as in driving endlessly for a life time. The ribbon is the white painted lane divider, "a line unwinding through the night." Up in the high country=celtic music, down where the river flows=the Mississippi delta. He's said that his music comes from where the Mississippi meets the Tyne.
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Joined this site on the back of this song. I cannot believe this didn't make the album! What's even more sad is that, secure that I had all the songs from Privateering on the Deluxe Edition, I didn't even know of its existence until I stumbled upon it on this site whilst checking out set lists for the current tour. It's a beautiful song, and a lot better than some of the songs that did make Privateering, so really bemused as to its exclusion. Also, absolutely criminal that only purchasers of the Super Deluxe Edition got the opportunity (in theory) to hear this track. Does anybody else hear the melody of 'Old Man River' in the long, melodic, play out?
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You're not alone bobfan, all the Privateering 'bonus' songs should've made the record! Hope you've also heard River of Grog & Occupation Blues? Welcome to AMIT!
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I haven't heard Occupation Blues. I'll have to try and track it down.
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so true, most of his solo bonus songs were often better then the main album
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I haven't heard Occupation Blues. I'll have to try and track it down.
It is a brilliant song :thumbsup Could be from a soundtrack to a WW2 film.
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I haven't heard Occupation Blues. I'll have to try and track it down.
It is a brilliant song :thumbsup Could be from a soundtrack to a WW2 film.
It has become a favourite of mine since I heard MK play it Live at Chalke Valley......
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Any idea what's it about? Some people are wandering through the night obviously for a long time....
What kind of people? Any hints? Soldiers, refugees? Slaves?
"don't care if they like it, don't care if they don't"... these lines seem to be central - who are "they"?
Maybe I'm only scratching the surface, but to me, it sounds autobiographical as he describes life on the music road with all its difficulties, battles, and challenges. It's a metaphor for life as a single day, as he sings about getting older and time passing by - like a day ending.
"The day's been a while fading
Seems like we have slowed
My eyes are getting weary
Can barely see the road".
The second verse sounds to me like the typical challenges we encounter in life. It's sung in the context of battlefields just to make it bolder - the fights and battles we must endure.
The ribbon symbolizes something free, something wild that flows wherever it should. He just has to follow it, wherever it leads. It's his compulsion to write music and be on the road.
as Rail King wrote before me, "Don't care if they like it" simply refers to labels, critics etc.
He's talking about the record company guys, the music journalists and the fans, of course! :lol
My favorite verse is the last one:
"I'm just living with the ringing
Of tomorrow's ancient rhymes
The road ahead may be shorter
Than the one we left behind
If there's whiskey in the bottle
Leave some for me
I'll get to it, eventually"
I just love how simple and truthful it is.
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For me, this ribbon has always meant an inner voice that is always worth following. It's always worth being yourself.