never done time alone it even petrifies me now lyrics

Neil Ashman Adorable Sunshine Smile (Creation Records)ġ992 was a vintage year for music. The instrumental outro is an eerily ambiguous ending and also a strange and moving conclusion to ABBA’s recording career. Whilst the Smörgåsbord of electronic sounds suffuse the song with a foreboding atmosphere, the two-note synthetic flute hook is typically catchy and other subtle melodic embellishments are the trademark of Bjorn and Benny. The usual sense of ennui (“ I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half-past two and at the timeĪgnetha cuts a devastatingly lonely figure on vocals, Frida’s operatic wail appearing as a ghostly presence amongst the dense layers of synth which gradually envelope the metronomic beat. What happens that day is a mystery, but it’s life changing enough to wipe cleanĪny substantial recollection of the day before, leaving only the presumption that the standard routine was followed (“ I must have left my house at eight, because I always do”) and with Over six minutes a vocally restrained Agnetha dolefully recounts the banal daily grind leading up to the titular day. If you don’t already know almost everything ABBA touched was gold, but ‘The Day Before You Came’ is a different ABBA altogether golden in quality, sombre and grey in outlook. ABBA The Day Before You Came (Polar Music International) And if you've heard absolutely each and every of them, then congratulations - you’ve just won all the indie points.

Our hope is you’ll discover something worth cherishing with a back catalogue you can delve into for months to come. Then we put a fancy headline on their suggestions.īelow you’ll find essential songs from the likes of ABBA, The Clean and William Shatner. That’s right, DiS’ illustrious writing team have delved through the dark corners of their iTunes libraries to uncover the ditties time had thought forgotten. To countermand the deluge of SXSW hype, we’ve turned our gaze back towards the bands who should have made it but never did. Not even that one when The Kooks went hip-hop and everyone felt embarrassed for them.

Welcome to a special edition of DiS Does Singles, featuring no new songs or tracks to have been released in the last seven days.

Never done time alone it even petrifies me now lyrics