(02) Back on the Dance Floor

[koobaa]

It's simply the fact that it doesn’t matter how well and overloaded something is produced.. when the material is weak it will shine through and all the layers seem like a disguise.

I kind of feel the same about GOYS which proved to be really cool when performed live at BBC in a stripped down manner. However, in Back on the Dance Floor everything works for me including the synths. I love its late DS feel and groove.

Interesting to read other folks opinions and how different our reception of MK music can be.

[Love Expresso]

Indeed and it's very important that we are able to state our different opinions here. After all THIS is the place to talk about it. If I cannot give maybe opposite or strong opinions here about him, then where would that place be? No doubt we are spoiled by 40 years of great production, so our demand is high.

LE

[border_reiver]

Listening to it right now and having Guy's sentence from today in my mind "If we don’t play it live I'll leave the band.."

It struck me that it really could be a title track on a Guy Fletcher solo album, soundwise, with MK guesting on the guitar. And it would be the best track on the album for sure. It's just not Mark.

Yup!

We agree on so much right now that it's scary. 

[Love Expresso]

So what's it about? What's the setting? Poker? Striptease? Lots of clothes and shoes are mentioned. What people dress up like this, with a skull cane and these kinds of hats? Las Vegas?

LE

[quizzaciously]

So what's it about? What's the setting? Poker? Striptease? Lots of clothes and shoes are mentioned. What people dress up like this, with a skull cane and these kinds of hats? Las Vegas?

LE

On the dance floor?

[dmg]

So what's it about? What's the setting? Poker? Striptease? Lots of clothes and shoes are mentioned. What people dress up like this, with a skull cane and these kinds of hats? Las Vegas?

LE

On the dance floor?

What?  With his bad back! 

[jerryb]

I don't know how a new Dylan album will sound. I don't know how a new McCartney album will sound. I don't know how a new Paul Simon album will sound. But I know exactly how a new MK album will sound. And yet I'll buy it as I have all the others and enjoy it. It's almost as though now I buy a new MK album not for the whole album but just for the one or two killer songs on each album.

[hunter]

Going by Rail king's and JF's reviews, I'd say it seems there's something for everybody.

[Fletch]

I know that Ian Thomas is a highly recognized drummer, but I also find his drumming a little uninspiring at times. Maybe he was told to play that way by Mark? I honestly miss Pick Withers at times...

This comment made me smile! It's been a long 36 years has it? 

[stratocasteph]

Shame because I really had high hopes for this song. They had Imelda May and they came up with this?

I totally agree. I really liked the last Imelda May album, produced by T Bone Burnett, so I was curious to hear her on a Mark's song. But put the amazing voice of Imelda in Guy Fletcher's hands, and he will make her sound like a poor 80's backing vocal. Such a shame !
So sad...

[dustyvalentino]

I don't understand people saying it sounds like "late Dire Straits".

Late Dire Straits to me is On Every Street.

Not one song on that record sounds like these two new songs.

Maybe people are hearing what they want to hear.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

Either are equally possible.

[quizzaciously]

Listening to it right now and having Guy's sentence from today in my mind "If we don’t play it live I'll leave the band.."

It struck me that it really could be a title track on a Guy Fletcher solo album, soundwise, with MK guesting on the guitar. And it would be the best track on the album for sure. It's just not Mark.

Yup!

We agree on so much right now that it's scary. 

A lot of genuine wisdom in this thread. I agree on many points and have one of my own — why there’s a TAB for that song in the box? Tablature and sheet music to play what? Or they thought since it has a lot of chords, you got to include it? Anyway...

[TJ]

So what's it about? What's the setting? Poker? Striptease? Lots of clothes and shoes are mentioned. What people dress up like this, with a skull cane and these kinds of hats? Las Vegas?

LE

On the dance floor?

I believe the "dance floor" in question is metaphorical, like "back in the game". Hence the reference to a "comeback".

I really dig this song.  Kind of lukewarm on GOYS, which I think is weak lyrically and not well sung.  If the rest of the album is in the same vein as these two I will be pleased. Not that I don't like the folk-roots stuff, but I'm ready for something different.

[zigner]

I like the chorus singing with Guy's background vocals very much by the way. Shake em all down..

LE

If the credits posted here are correct, the backing vocals are not Guy's, but instead Danny's.

[koobaa]

I don't understand people saying it sounds like "late Dire Straits".

Late Dire Straits to me is On Every Street.

Not one song on that record sounds like these two new songs.

Maybe people are hearing what they want to hear.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

Either are equally possible.

I'm not sure, maybe it's the overdriven guitar sound that is a bit more crunchy than most of what we heard recently (Pensa?). Plus this laidback singing manner, plus lack of pipes and fiddles, plus the groove... It's an overall feeling that makes this tune fitting more in the OES era than MK solo era. I think JF was spot on when he tried to describe the vibe of this song.

GOYS is another story that I don't quite dig