The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver

sundaygirl · Last edited by sundaygirl on Tue 26 May 2009, 18:20; edited 1 time in total

Oh, it worked for me. Try again.

Fixed.

sundaygirl · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Mon 25 May 2009, 21:48

Try right clicking...

sundaygirl · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Mon 25 May 2009, 21:51

Hey, maybe I can email you the file...would that work?

rascalphoto · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Tue 26 May 2009, 04:20

Sunday girl..."doghouse?" Not sure. What is it? Or what was it rather?

sundaygirl · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Tue 26 May 2009, 08:30

Ooops...flicr gltich. Will fix later...

sundaygirl · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Tue 26 May 2009, 09:11

rascalphoto wrote:

Sunday girl..."doghouse?" Not sure. What is it? Or what was it rather?

Oh, the Doghouse was this 24 hour restaurant that was a favorite haunt of the Indie/Grunge crowd as well as the elderly groupies of "famed Seattle organist" Dick Dickerson. The place was MAD! Their slogan was "All roads lead to the Doghouse." Great milkshakes. Unfortunately it is now defunct and no doubt sadly missed. Not sure what happened to Dickerson though.

rascalphoto · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Tue 26 May 2009, 18:28

No, I never went there, but I did do "The Hurricane" once(quite dissapointed)..went back to frequenting the "five point" (motto:"Alcoholics serving alcoholics for since 19--") ...of course, that was when I was young, childless and drunk...many years ago

KoRoBeNiKi · newborn Number of posts: 2 Registration date: 2009-09-24

This is overall one of my favorite songs on the album, probably second most favorite after Mirrorball.

Great song, I liked the actual story behind it as well.

KingSwinger · Subject: Re: The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver Fri 25 Sep 2009, 20:56

For me, it's the heart of the album. Guy's voice aches with pain and passion; it all comes to a head with the line "Send up a prayer in my name". You just don't get such a perfect marriage of words in music in modern music any more, which is why - for me - Elbow stand head and shoulders above the rest.

The poetry and symbolism in the lyrics is bloody outstanding. And then you have such evocative playing from the rest of the band. I never cease to be moved by this song; it's the song that I play to people who've never heard of Elbow before (there's not many about these days!) to show them what all the fuss is about.

The story about Guy's sister wanting to get out of the TV industry is interesting. I'd always assumed it was about the character of the song, up there with his TV in his lonely tower crane, needing to get his head out of the TV and interact with the real world.