Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home
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"Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home" is a song by Scottish Post-rock band Mogwai, which opens their their 1997 debut album, Young Team.
Musical structure
It begins with a passage from a Bergen Student Newspaper, read by Mari Myren, a friend of the band.[1]
...Erm, 'cause this music can put a human being in a trance-like state, and deprive them of the sneaking feeling of existing, 'cause music is bigger than words and wider than pictures. Erm, if someone said that Mogwai is... are the stars I would not object. If the stars had a sound, it would sound like this. Err... this... the punishment for these solemn words can be hard. Can blood boil like this, at the sound of a noisy tape that I've heard? Erm, I know one thing, on Saturday, the sky will crumble together, or something? Erm, with a huge bang, um... Er, to fit into the tape.
At (0:54), a calm melodic bass riff begins, and is joined at (1:09) by a soft drumbeat and gentle guitar tones, based around the chord of A major. At (1:31), an alternate melody is played by the Guitar and Bass, before returning to the main melody. This is repeated at (2:00) and (2:16). At (2:32), the drums gradually fade out and the guitar plays harmonics based around the chord of A major. At (3:11), the bass joins in with the drums, and they build up to a creschendo, erupting into the guitar noise Mogwai are famous for at (3:42). Stuart Braithwaite plays a solo over the distorted chords of F# minor, D major, and A major. This is repeated several times, until (5:09), after everything has faded out except for the looped feedback of the guitar. From (5:27), the Backmasked Glaswegian voice of Barry Burns (who was not a member of Mogwai at the time) can be heard.[2]
What? Start speaking now? When I shag a bird you'd think Antarctica had defrosted on her bed. Sometimes when I'm puffing hash I get a bird to suck my dong. Often when I don't clean my knob I get my sister to lick the cheese off my helmet. Everytime I put my arse off I smell shite all day. Once I was eating and I had to shoot my spunkhole so show us your head you slag! I used to run about, you wee guys know that but I never touched them, right?!
This backmasked message ends with Mogwai laughing.
Trivia
- The song was originally titled "New Dom", most likely referring to Dominic Aitchison, Mogwai's bassist.[3]
Notes
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