She dropped a snowstorm. Smashed and broken on a cold stone floor.
Still, after all these years, one of my favourite opening couplets – so visual, so intoned with bitter-sweet sentiment (as, of course, is the rest of the song).
Hamish MacKintosh, who recorded this track under his Fuel moniker, is one of those obscure artists from from an equally obscure part of the world (hello Forfar) who never achieved the audience his textured, atmospheric confessions deserved. “Wildfire” was only ever released on the Volume series, a short-lived compilation CD + booklet thing that shifted minor units in the early'90's (and which I purchased solely on the back of a piano + vocal version of Suede's “My Insatiable One” – hmm). The Robin Guthrie production is unmistakable, but the track is far more than simple sub-Cocteau trickery...
It's a song that Hamish himself described as being “one night with somebody very special”, and with the evocative subject matter, sly wordplay and the soft lilt of the vocal that hangs in air, just the right side of twee, it's a song that's always made me happy, but also sad, in a wistful kind of way, depositing the listener back to other evenings now lost to posterity – with a tender smile.
Sometimes I hate the way I look, but I love the way I feel (I love the way you make me feel).
Exactly.
D
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: Fuel - Wildfire
Still, after all these years, one of my favourite opening couplets – so visual, so intoned with bitter-sweet sentiment (as, of course, is the rest of the song).
Hamish MacKintosh, who recorded this track under his Fuel moniker, is one of those obscure artists from from an equally obscure part of the world (hello Forfar) who never achieved the audience his textured, atmospheric confessions deserved. “Wildfire” was only ever released on the Volume series, a short-lived compilation CD + booklet thing that shifted minor units in the early'90's (and which I purchased solely on the back of a piano + vocal version of Suede's “My Insatiable One” – hmm). The Robin Guthrie production is unmistakable, but the track is far more than simple sub-Cocteau trickery...
It's a song that Hamish himself described as being “one night with somebody very special”, and with the evocative subject matter, sly wordplay and the soft lilt of the vocal that hangs in air, just the right side of twee, it's a song that's always made me happy, but also sad, in a wistful kind of way, depositing the listener back to other evenings now lost to posterity – with a tender smile.
Sometimes I hate the way I look, but I love the way I feel (I love the way you make me feel).
Exactly.
D
http://lazerguidedmelody.wordpress.com/
: Fuel - Wildfire
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1 comments:
I am glad someone else remembers this song. It was such a lovely track. Thanks for adding some context; the more recent (and better known) Fuel has made it very hard to find any info about this band.
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