Waking Up to March
It dawned on me yesterday that March is one of my favorite months of the year, and not simply because it brings with it "March Madness". In the third month, the sickly grip of winter begins to loosen as cool showers give way to warmer skies and the occasional tornado siren. Earth wakes up, and in doing so provokes in me a few sporadic bursts of silly optimism, the kind that is brought on most easily by sunshine. I love me some late-winter/early-spring sunshine — the kind that warms your automobile’s inside, so that even though it’s only 46 degrees outside, it’s warm enough inside the car that you feel like cracking the window.
Today was such a day. And driving at lunchtime, I couldn’t get the string melody from Big Star’s "Stroke It Noel" outta my head. So after lunch I doodled on the internet — my phrase for surfing aimlessly — for a half-hour and listened to Sister Lovers, an awkward album to be sure, but one that I’ve always had a strange attraction to. Maybe it’s the inherent sense of awakening that radiates throughout these tunes — some of the best Alex Chilton ever penned — that leaves me dumbfounded even on the umpteenth listen. Anyway, upon listening, I was especially taken by "Kangaroo", which struck me as a worthy parallel to the month of March. Listen for yourself.
Interesting side note about "Stroke It Noel" that I absolutely love for the adolescent nature of the story, from the liner notes to the album:
"Stroke It Noel" was actually given a new set of lyrics, due to the atmosphere created by the string sessions. "It originally had a whole different set of lyrics. After we put the violins on, Alex [Chilton] came up with new lyrics, which were far superior," said [producer Jim] Dickinson."‘Noel’ is Noel Gilbert, one of the string players. … Alex was really enjoying the string sessions, when we finally got around to doing them, because he was just being the naughty little boy, and really getting off on it. That’s where the lyrics came from."
The Noiseboy
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